(Minghui.org) The Taiwan Falun Dafa Experience Sharing Conference was held in Taipei’s Heping Basketball Gymnasium on December 10, 2023. More than 6000 practitioners from various areas in Taiwan, and also from South Korea, Hong Kong, and Japan, attended the conference. Eighteen practitioners shared their experiences on stage. It was a grand and sacred conference, and attendees were greatly encouraged by the sharing.
The attendees were of different ages. Some were practitioners who started practicing Falun Dafa with their parents in childhood and grew up under the guidance of the Falun Dafa principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. These young practitioners were very touched by the experience sharing and saw the distance between themselves and the practitioners who shared on stage. The sharing encouraged them to be determined to cultivate diligently.
Hope I Will Cultivate Myself at All Times
Lin Yuting studies Chinese at National Chiayi University. She started practicing Falun Dafa at the age of five with her mother. She said she was very touched by the practitioners’ sharing and was impressed by the practitioners who could look at everything from a practitioner’s perspective in their daily lives and look inward. She saw where she fell short. She was thinking about how she could improve herself.
Lin Yuting, a third-year student majoring in Chinese at National Chiayi University
One practitioner shared that she had been in a car accident. Yuting said she also easily became agitated when driving, like that practitioner had. Yuting dealt with it from an everyday person’s perspective instead of from a practitioner’s perspective. She didn’t cultivate her heart at those moments. The practitioner’s sharing reminded her that she should regard herself as a practitioner at all times in her daily life and cultivate her xinxing.
Through practicing Falun Dafa, Yuting was able to handle pressure and conflicts with a positive attitude. Dafa also opened up her wisdom. Modern people like to treat pressure passively or with a negative attitude. Yuting was able to treat it rationally and positively under the guidance of the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. She said that when she studied philosophy or different schools of thought at the university, she found that Falun Dafa had covered all the aspects in its teachings.
“Master has taught us about them from an easier and more holistic angle,” she said. Yuting was able to view theories from a higher and more macroscopic angle when she studied.
She studied Master’s three recent articles, “How Humankind Came to Be,” “Why Save Sentient Beings,” and “Cultivation in Dafa Is Serious,” and she realized how important human morality is. She said, “If every one of us can hold onto morality and do things well, society will become better and form a good and kind cycle.” She said that Master’s articles can guide us and help us do better.
Discern Good and Bad and Not Follow the Trend
Lu Huixin comes from Malaysia. She studies accounting management at National Sun Yat-sen University. She started practicing Falun Dafa with her parents in her childhood. After listening to the experience sharing, she realized that she didn’t do well in many minor aspects of her daily life. She had not been aware of these issues before. She said that she would pay particular attention to them and try to cultivate herself in those respects.
One practitioner had mentioned that looking down upon other people was a demonstration of jealousy. “This reminded me to find the root cause of the attachment,” she said. “The jealousy was caused by a showing off mentality and fear of losing face.”
Lu Huixin, is a fourth-year student at National Sun-sen University.
Huixin said that cultivation in Falun Dafa has improved her relationships with other people and she has done well academically. She started practicing Falun Dafa when she was in the first grade. She has learned to handle things with the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, consider other people first, and do her best as a student. She has changed her character for the better and gets along well with her classmates. Through meditation and studying the Fa, she has become calm and relaxed, and she completes her homework more efficiently.
She realized the seriousness of cultivation after she studied Master Li’s (Dafa’s founder) recently published articles. “It was not easy for us to obtain the Fa,” she said. “We have a mission so we should be strict with ourselves.” She said that she was lucky that she started practicing Falun Dafa when she was a child. “Morality slides downward rapidly. There is temptation everywhere. Guided by the Fa, I am able to discern good and bad and will not blindly follow the trends. I will cherish the opportunity to cultivate more,” she said.
Greatly Encouraged By Practitioners’ Sharing
Li Jiawei graduated from National Sun Yat-sen University with a major in mechanical and electrical engineering this year. He started practicing Falun Dafa with his mother when he was a child. He said that cultivation in Falun Dafa made him a better person. He can stay positive and optimistic when encountering tribulations. He always reminds himself that he is a practitioner. Thanks to Falun Dafa, he feels solid and assured as he grows up.
Li Jiawei, a recent graduate of National Sun Yat-sen University
“Every practitioner’s sharing encouraged me,” he said. “Everyone treats their cultivation seriously. They look inward and measure everything in their daily life with the Fa’s standards. They cultivate themselves and clarify the truth to people. Compared with them, I found that I didn’t cultivate as diligently as they do and I still pursue things in daily life. I have found my shortcomings and the distance I have with them.”
One practitioner shared that he didn’t realize his problem when he had a conflict with another person at work. He complained about it and ganged up with other people to deal with that person. However, he looked inward after he studied Master’s recent articles. He found his attachments and rectified them from the Fa. Jiawei said that he lived a hard life in a military environment and complained about people who didn’t do well or affected him. He was inspired by that practitioner’s sharing.
Jiawei realized the seriousness of cultivation after he read Master’s new article “Cultivation in Dafa Is Serious.” He understands that he made a pledge with his life before he reincarnated and thus could become a Dafa disciple. He must treat that vow seriously. He gained a deeper understanding of his mission.
Cultivate as I Just Started
Zeng Yulan is a postgraduate history major at National Cheng Kung University. She started practicing Falun Dafa with her family when she was in junior high school. The practitioners on stage shared how they kept cultivating as if they had just started and how they went through tests to overcome attachments to fame, personal interest, and emotion. Yulan gained a better understanding of how to cultivate as if she had just started.
Zeng Yulan studies in a post-graduate program at National Cheng Kung University.
Yulan was very touched by the sharing of a young practitioner who was the eldest daughter in her family. Yulan is also the eldest daughter in her family, and she had the same attachment of competitiveness as that practitioner. She always tried to be the best in her daily life and academically to prove herself and to set a good example for her siblings. She found that behind the competitiveness was her attachment to fame and fear of losing face. She always wanted to seek acknowledgment from others when she tried hard to perform her job. This was a display of seeking fame and personal interest.
Another practitioner shared that she had finished reading one Falun Dafa book every day when she first started practicing Falun Dafa. She said that this reminded her to consider whether she had been cultivating as she had just started and whether she understood the Fa when she studied it.
After reading Master’s recent articles, Yulan gained a lot. She said, “We have been waiting for this time after reincarnating for a long time. We should cherish this cultivation opportunity, cultivate ourselves, and awaken the people around us.”
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