(Minghui.org) Throughout the month of October, Falun Dafa Assistance Centers across Indonesia hosted free nine-day classes for new and veteran practitioners. On each of the nine days, practitioners watch one of the video lectures given by Master Li Hongzhi in Guangzhou and then do the Falun Dafa exercises together.

Those who attended said that they gained deeper understandings of Falun Dafa’s principles through these lectures, which strengthened their desire to continue cultivating.

Batam City

The Falun Dafa Assistance Center in Batam City held a free nine-day Falun Dafa evening class for new and veteran practitioners from October 14 to 22, 2024.

Watching the video of Master Li’s lectures in Guangzhou

Doing the first Falun Dafa exercise

Indrawati, 50, has practiced Falun Dafa for several years, but she rarely participates in the local group Fa study or exercises. At the end of the nine-day class, she recalled that when she woke up on the seventh day, she had fever, chills, a cough, and a runny nose, but she was determined to make it to all the classes.

During the eighth lecture, she was covered in sweat. At home, there was interference from her husband as well. However, she was determined to complete the class. At the end of the class, she said she was grateful for Master Li’s compassionate arrangements to improve her character and remove her human attachments.

Zulkifli Ras, 73, started to have a problem with his left leg a few months ago, so he stopped going to the local in-person group Fa study. Although he still studied the Fa at home, without a group environment, he tended to slack off. When he heard the local assistance center was organizing a nine-day class, he felt he needed to make a breakthrough in his situation.

At the first class, the other practitioners noticed that he looked pale, but by the last day, he looked lively. He said, “By listening to Master’s teachings over the past nine days, my mind became purer. I got rid of some negative and complicated thoughts and gained a deeper understanding of the Fa.”

Achan, 41, said that, as he watched the video of Master lecturing, he felt a strong energy field and as if the energy was flowing and swirling around him from his lower abdomen to his head and from left to right. Master’s hand and body gestures on the video recordings helped him enlighten to some deeper meanings behind the phenomena mentioned in Falun Dafa’s main book, Zhuan Falun, such as the Heavenly Circuit and the Placement of the Mysterious Pass.

Bella, 28, started practicing Falun Dafa in 2018. She said, “On the sixth day, my stomach hurt on the left side, almost like I was being stabbed.” She felt it was a sign her body was being purified and did her best to focus on Master’s video. At the end of the lecture, the pain lessened considerably. She said, “Thank you, Master! By watching this video of Master’s lectures in Guangzhou, I gained some new understandings of the Fa.”

Several other veteran practitioners who hadn’t participated in the local group Fa study or group exercises for some time attended this nine-day class. Afterwards, they said they felt greatly encouraged to catch up, be more diligent, and cultivate as diligently as they did when they first began practicing.

Semarang City

Assistants in Semarang City planned to hold a nine-day Falun Dafa class from October 21st to 30th, 2024.

A Falun Dafa nine-day class in Semarang City

New learners practice the second exercise, the Falun Standing Stance.

Deki, a physician, and his spouse Rosa, who live in South Jakarta, traveled nearly 450 kilometers (approximately 280 miles) to Semarang when they heard a Falun Dafa nine-day class would be held there. As a child, Deki went to school in Semarang City. The couple heard about Falun Dafa and joined the classes during Lecture Three.

Lilik fell asleep as he was watching Lecture Two. At the end of the session, an assistant woke him up and asked if he was tired. He said, “I could hear everything Master Li was saying.” He later told the assistant that he had many things on his mind so he had difficulty sitting still, but then he fell asleep.

Arijanto had learned other qigongs in the past and treated people’s ailments. During the discussion after the first class, he said that when a friend invited him to come the day before the class, he vomited and wondered why that happened. While he was watching the video, he could sense strong energy and he again felt that his body was being purified during and after each class.

Heri learned Falun Dafa for the first time. When he did the second exercise he said he felt a breeze between his hands. “Very comfortable,” he said.

At the end of each class, the assistants encouraged the new learners to read Master Li’s main text, Zhuan Falun.

Classes in Other Cities

Assistants in other cities also held nine-day Falun Dafa classes. An assistant in Tabanan, Bali, said that two new practitioners participated in the class, and the assistant in Tegallalang, Bali, reported 10 new learners and five new practitioners attended their evening class.

Watching the video of Master Li’s Lectures in Guangzhou during the classes in Tabanan, Bali