(Minghui.org) The 2022 Canada Falun Dafa Cultivation Experience Sharing Conference was held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre on Saturday, July 16. Over 1,300 Falun Dafa practitioners from major cities in Canada, including Ottawa, Montreal, and Vancouver, and some U.S. cities, attended. Twenty-one practitioners spoke and talked about how they did what practitioners should do at this critical moment in history, cultivate themselves, and complete their mission of saving people.
Conference venue
Practitioners presented their cultivation experiences.
Promoting Shen Yun
Ms. Liu from Toronto talked about how she helped promote Shen Yun. A private school received a sum of money during the pandemic, and the principal wanted to use it to take students to watch Shen Yun. Ms. Liu communicated with the principal several times, and the principal purchased 36 tickets, even though she was under pressure due to objections from some parents from China.
After Ms. Liu’s efforts to clarify the truth, the school finally received consent forms from all the parents. When the show was over, everyone was smiling. The principal said, “Shen Yun’s beautiful performance impressed every student. After watching it, some students told me that they would encourage their parents to see Shen Yun.”
Placing Saving Sentient Beings as a Priority
For the first time this year, Ms. Wang in Toronto was coordinating the Shen Yun hotline and ticketing. From mid-November last year to the beginning of June this year, she and another practitioner, with the cooperation of more than 40 participating practitioners, undertook the hotline and online customer service for a total of 10 cities in Canada and the U.S.
She said that in the early days of taking over the coordination work, a fellow practitioner reminded her to put herself after her teammates, and to support everyone behind the scenes to do a good job.
“In the process, I went from initially not being able to put myself in the right position, feeling awkward and unbalanced, to letting go of my self,” she said. “Facing the arrangements calmly, I did my best to assist members of the team and help everyone solve all kinds of problems.”
She enlightened that the most important thing was whether she could always put the mission of saving sentient beings and the responsibility of Dafa disciples first, and not go to extremes.
She said, “This process is very difficult. Many human attachments and mentalities are also very complicated and subtle, but I realized this is my cultivation path.”
Danny Ha of Hamilton, who has his own food production business, has been busier during the pandemic with few days off. He said, “But practitioners still have to put saving people first.”
“We follow Master’s teaching to arrange the company’s affairs well, and everyone’s work is clearly assigned. I have more time to focus on spreading Dafa and saving people. Master saw our hearts to save people and everything was well arranged.”
In February 2021, the company hired two new employees, and a week later, they contracted COVID. He said the other employees were so frightened that he decided to close the factory and have all employees get tested for the virus. He also asked them to sincerely say, “Falun Dafa is good. Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.” All the employees tested negative, and three days later, everyone returned to work.
Shen Yun’s first performance in Ontario was in Hamilton. He said that while Ontario was in a state of lockdown at the time, “We all had strong righteous thoughts and believed that Shen Yun would perform successfully in Canada this year.”
He said that everyone reminded each other that Shen Yun was an important project to save people, and it has a powerful force to save people. “The Shen Yun show is held in our area. Everyone actively participates and participates unconditionally.”
“Under the arrangement of coordinating fellow practitioners, we jointly formed a team to promote Shen Yun,” he said. He had Shen Yun posters placed on two of his company’s large trucks to help promote Shen Yun.
Clarifying the Truth Face to Face
Ms. Cui from Toronto has been involved in clarifying the truth in Queen’s Park, the Chinese Consulate, and Niagara Falls.
She said that there are many tourists from China in Chinatown, a popular tourist attraction. When they passed by the practitioners’ venue to promote quitting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated organizations, most of them stopped to read the banners on the vehicle, six display boards and the other banners.
Practitioners do the exercises every day at City Hall Square and let people from all over the world know that Falun Dafa is good.
“There are many tourists who visit City Hall,” she said. “They like to take pictures there. When tourists see us meditating and doing the exercises, some give us a thumbs up. Some stop to listen to the exercise music, while others wish to learn more about Dafa and the CCP’s persecution. Some ask to learn the exercises.”
For three years, Ms. Cui went to Niagara Falls once a week. She said, “We practiced the exercises in a Niagara Falls park, distributed leaflets, and clarified the truth. Every time we gained a lot. Each group of people who wanted to learn the exercises were from different countries.”
“We went there to teach the exercises and clarify the truth. We feel fulfilled and happy,” she said. “It’s Dafa disciples’ responsibility to awaken people. I want to cultivate myself well, save more people, and achieve consummation.”
Walking an Uphill Cultivation Journey
A Western practitioner shared his experience of how to cultivate in the project he is involved with. He is the host of an English video program.
“After a few months of filming, my cultivation became quite difficult,” he said. When he was in front of the camera, he felt like he was climbing a mountain, and the camera became a mirror for him. His incorrect thoughts and attachments stood in front of him, trying to stop him. He said that negative substances attempted to distract him. When he made a mistake, he felt he was on the verge of a breakdown.
He said someone told him that in another dimension he had ridden a military tank out of a cave and he looked like he just survived a storm. He also said that this was how he felt when he stepped out of the studio, like he had just underwent a battle to eliminate evil.
He said every day he felt like he climbed a mountain. There was no way for him to clear the negative matter behind these attachments by himself. The higher he climbed, the more Master was able to eliminate these attachments.
With continued righteous thoughts and actions, his fears were slowly removed. He said the burden on his back as he climbed the mountain kept getting lighter. He could climb the mountain more easily now.
Young Reporter
Melissa, a young practitioner from Toronto, said that she grew from a shy little girl who did not know how to clarify the truth to a young reporter who can interview independently. In this process, Master’s blessing and the encouragement of fellow practitioners around her are indispensable.
“When I first started, Master would arrange for me to meet people with predestined relationships, so I always met some kind-hearted interviewees. To a certain extent I got rid of the deep-rooted fear. Sometimes I interviewed passers-by. Afterwards, they would say, ‘You have done a good job. You must persevere.’ I knew that this was a hint and Master encouraged me through their words.”
During the World Falun Dafa Day celebrations this year, a total of 120 congratulatory letters were received from elected officials of the Canadian three-tier government.
“In the process of helping to organize these reports, I had some intense moments,” she said. “During the process, I discovered a lot of attachments: the desire to do things, showing off, complaining about others, and so on.”
After adjusting herself, she realized that everything she complained about had a solution. “I was happy after the matter was resolved, because I knew that Master was using these things to improve my xinxing.”
She said that she was fortunate to be able to participate in a media project and found her own way of validating Dafa. “I am grateful for everything Master arranged for me. I am grateful for the encouragement and support of the practitioners around me.”
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