(Minghui.org) Practitioners held the 5th Falun Dafa Cultivation Experience Sharing Conference in Bogotá, Colombia's largest city and the nation's capital, on November 6, 2022. 25 practitioners shared their cultivation experiences at the conference, discussing how they eliminated attachments, and how they assisted Master in the Fa-rectification.
The 5th Falun Dafa Experience Sharing Conference in Colombia
A practitioner talks about his cultivation at the conference.
The first speaker was a practitioner from Medellin. She spoke of her looking inward when facing illness karma. Her mouth had suddenly shown ulcers and sores associated with a fever, and it was difficult to eat and speak. This tribulation lasted for more than a month. After some time she realized that she had to find her attachments, but also the cause of the attachments, and work to eliminate it.”
By looking within and examining her behavior, she discovered that it had something to do with a fight she had with her husband, and that the root of the attachment was anger. When she realized where she had gone wrong, the ulcer/sores disappeared.
A practitioner from Tunja said that going through trials and tribulations, he gradually realized that as a practitioner, he should pay attention to improving his xinxing.
Another practitioner, also from Medellin, shared how he overcame an attachment that prevented him from clarifying the truth. He said that for the past few years, he focused on personal cultivation, and completely ignored the need to clarify the truth. When he realized the importance of telling people that Dafa is being persecuted in China, he decided to speak up.
“It was easy to bring up this topic at the time,” he said, “because the pandemic was just beginning, and everyone was talking about topics related to China. So it was not difficult to bring up this topic when talking to people,” he said.
At the group practice site on Sunday, he began to distribute brochures, and as a result, he was able to clarify the truth to some people. He continued, “I also began to participate in art exhibitions, where I was able to tell the truth on a large scale, because there was a lot of traffic.”
Although attachments such as fear, doubt, and comfort also appeared in his mind, he eliminated these attachments and insisted on letting more people understand the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) persecution and the Party's evil nature.
Some practitioners mentioned that they improved their dedication through weekly group sharing, and some local media teams and practitioners who participated in international media projects shared their experiences.
The conference ended successfully at 5:30 p.m. A practitioner from Sogamoso said it was an “impressive meeting, unique because they felt a very powerful energy. It was as if Master pulled us up and let us know that he was there. For my part, I felt an indescribable inner energy that shook me. Thanks to Master, I was able to attend the meeting after some difficulties. I felt so lucky.”
Group photo of meeting participants
The day before the conference, on the afternoon of November 5, some practitioners went to the Parque el Virrey in Bogota to send forth righteous thoughts and distribute informational Dafa materials about Falun Gong and the persecution in China to passersby.
Sending forth righteous thoughts
Background: What Is Falun Dafa and Why is the CCP persecuting it?
Falun Dafa (also known as Falun Gong) was first introduced to the public by Mr. Li Hongzhi in Changchun, China, in 1992. The spiritual discipline is now practiced in over 100 countries and regions worldwide. Millions of people who have embraced the teachings, which are based on the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance, and have learned the five exercises, have experienced improved health and well-being.
Jiang Zemin, former head of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), perceived the spiritual discipline’s growing popularity as a threat to the CCP’s atheistic ideology and on July 20, 1999, he issued an order to eradicate the practice.
Under Jiang’s personal direction, the CCP established the 610 Office, an extralegal security organization with the power to override the police and judicial systems and whose sole function is to carry out the persecution of Falun Dafa.
Minghui.org has confirmed the deaths of thousands of practitioners as a result of the persecution over the past 23 years. The actual number is believed to be much higher. Countless practitioners have been imprisoned and tortured for their faith.
There is concrete evidence that the CCP sanctions the harvesting of organs from detained practitioners, who are murdered to supply China’s organ transplant industry.
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