(Clearwisdom.net) On June 7, 2009, more than 5,000 Falun Dafa practitioners from five continents and over 40 countries gathered in the Westchester County Center in New York to solemnly hold the annual Falun Dafa cultivation experience sharing conference. At around 2:00 p.m., Master Li came to the conference to teach the Fa and answer practitioners' questions for two and a half hours.

When the host of the Fa conference announced, "Welcome our compassionate and great Master to teach the Fa for us," all practitioners immediately stood in ovation, emotionally and enthusiastically. The ovation lasted until revered Master gestured the practitioners to stop several times. The practitioners then sat down and listened to Master Li teach the Fa.

Master Li reminded all disciples not to slack off in their cultivation practice, to cherish the opportunity that won't come again in millions of years, and walk the last leg of the journey well as the environment becomes more and more relaxed and unrestrained.

Main venue of Fa conference

Main venue of Fa conference

As one venue could not accommodate the large number of practitioners, the practitioners were arranged in four secondary venues. The main Fa conference venue was solemn and peaceful, and the perfume of fresh flowers permeated the main stage. To the right on top of the stage was a big picture with Master's image; on both sides of the picture were images of a Falun Emblem with the words "Falun rotates endlessly," and "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance" at the bottom of each respective image. Nine large lotus flowers full of lotus seeds were placed on both sides of the venue. Opposite the main stage, were three characters reading "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance", and two images of the Falun Emblem were on each side of the characters.

A practitioner shares her cultivation experience

A practitioner shares her cultivation experience

During the morning session of the Fa conference, Ms. Wang Xiaodan, Trombonist of Tianyin No.2 Orchestra was the first to share her cultivation experience. Ms. Wang told of her ten-months of traveling with Divine Performing Arts Company on its world tour. She said that her performance skills on the trombone improved by leaps and bounds through persisting in Fa-study from her heart and remaining steadfast in her belief in Master and the Fa. After experiencing a heart-wrenching struggle, she let go of human emotions, and her compassion emerged. She took fame and profit in the human world lightly, walked the path Master had arranged for her, and traveled with the Divine Performing Arts Company to save sentient beings.

After that, a precious documentary film was showed. It was a recording of the Divine Performing Arts companies on their world tour performances from 2007 to 2008, and sincere cultivation experiences shared by members of Divine Performing Arts companies, including presidents, composers, directors, conductors, orchestra members and dance troupe members: taking saving sentient beings as the sacred mission for everyone in Divine Performing Arts companies, remaining steadfast in their belief in Master and the Fa, with Dafa's wonders manifesting in every one of them. Improvement of their artistry was complementary to the upgrading of their xinxing. Compassionate revered Master has given each of them many, many things, and only by striving forward diligently, and saving more sentient beings, can they return Master's grace.

Ms. Huang Yue, violinist of Tianyin No.2 Orchestra, opened the afternoon session. 19-year-old Ms. Huang began Falun Dafa cultivation with her mother at the age of four. She had personally experienced extraordinary characteristics of Dafa during ups and downs when she was in China. Last year, she came to New York to help with ticket sales for Divine Performing Arts performances, and understood that the Academy of Divine Performing Arts is the best academy in the universe, and she was no longer attached to prestigious universities in ordinary society. After overcoming her father's objections, she entered the Academy of Divine Performing Arts. She felt revered Master's enormous endurance in her karma-elimination process. On the world tour of Divine Performing Arts, she witnessed the diligent practice and experienced the mutual encouragement of members of Divine Performing Arts companies in order to save sentient beings.

After Ms. Huang's sharing, Gong Shujia from Washington DC and Wang Cheng from New York shared their cultivation experience in promoting Divine Performing Arts performances. Mr. Gong emphasized the cooperation with fellow practitioners, maintaining a compassionate heart and strong righteous thoughts of saving sentient beings. Mr. Wang shared his deep understanding of the significance of Divine Performing Arts that he gained from doing security work during Divine Performing Arts performances. He also talked about how he constantly strengthened his righteous thoughts, uplifted himself and fulfilled his mission in harmonizing Divine Performing Arts in saving sentient beings.

Master's Fa teaching was replayed before the end of the Fa conference.

The Fa conference concluded at 6:00 p.m. More than 5,000 practitioners will now return to their truth clarification posts, to strive forward diligently and take saving more sentient beings as their responsibilities.