(Minghui.org) The 2025 Falun Dafa Cultivation Experience Conference was held in the Palais am See in Berlin on December 27, 2025. Practitioners from Germany and the German speaking region in Switzerland attended the conference.
Eighteen practitioners spoke on their insights while practicing Falun Dafa. The speakers touched on how they constantly referred to Master’s teachings while working on respective truth clarification projects, reflected on shortcomings, maintained righteous thoughts and faith, let go of hard to break attachments and overcame tribulations with Master’s help.
The 2025 Falun Dafa Cultivation Experience Conference was held in the Palais am See in Berlin on December 27.
Practitioners from Germany and the German speaking region of Switzerland talked about their cultivation insights during the 2025 Cultivation Experience Conference on December 27.
Finding One’s Fundamental Attachment
Mr. Ye, who lives in Germany, has practiced Dafa for many years. He said he understood that Master’s article “Towards Consummation” in The Essentials of Diligent Progress II (published in 2000) was an important lecture on whether practitioners in the Fa-rectification period could succeed in cultivation. It was the first time Master mentioned “fundamental attachment.”
Many years after this article was published, and after going through heart wrenching tests of life and death, Mr. Ye said he finally found his fundamental attachment.
He experienced many tribulations while coordinating with practitioners, especially after Fa-rectification cultivation began. He discovered he harbored resentment, jealousy, and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) culture, but he couldn’t find his fundamental attachment. The tribulations got more intense until it got to where he could not study the Fa, do the exercises, sleep, or send righteous thoughts because thought karma kept interfering with him.
When he later promoted Shen Yun, Mr. Ye had conflicts with practitioners on other teams. In the process of looking within, the first attachment he found was jealousy. He discovered the knot in his heart was still there, so he continued digging. He then realized that, because practitioners did not handle things according to the human principles of loyalty and justice he was attached to, it stirred up his fundamental attachments such as resentment and CCP culture.
He said, “When I found my fundamental attachment and got rid of these bad thoughts, I felt as if I had just started practicing. I had a completely new perspectives on the Fa principles, on working as a coordinator in projects, and on manifestations in other dimensions.”
He said, “We’ve started to see large scale ordeals facing our spiritual discipline outside of China 26 years after the persecution began. Have these ordeals come about because we practitioners haven’t found, recognized, and eliminated our fundamental attachments?”
Learning to Persist and to Let Go
Ursula from Germany talked about how, by working with politicians, she finally succeeded in holding a screening of Letter from Masanjia in the State government after years of relentless efforts. The event was very effective in telling people about the persecution in China.
There were twists and turns, but she did not give up and was able to eventually schedule a screening for the movie. Yet, few people registered, and the event would be canceled if there weren’t enough people. She examined herself for her cultivation loopholes and discovered she was attached to deciding who should attend the screening, that, in her mind, she had a list of VIPs who should be there. She realized this was not the list arranged by Master or gods: “I realized I had to let go and that those who should attend would come.”
A few days later, 50 people signed up. In the end, an estimated 90 distinguished guests attended the screening. One of them invited her to show the film at other organizations. Through this incident, Ursula experienced how amazing cultivation is when she learned to persist, let go of attachments, and immerse herself in the Fa.
Overcoming Addiction to the Internet
Ms. Cullmann shared how she overcame her addiction to surfing the internet. From 2020 to 2021, during the COVID pandemic, she began watching news reports that questioned the effectiveness of vaccines. She kept checking her mobile phone and spent hours browsing for such information instead of studying the Fa and doing the exercises. Even her husband joked that she’d had a relapse of her addiction to the internet.
She had a bad fall one day, and her face hit the ground. There was a deep gash on the bridge of her nose that kept bleeding. She wondered, “Why did I fall down? What attachment have I not eliminated?” In that instant, “Addiction to the internet” came to her. She realized this was it and removed all the internet forums on her mobile phone.
However, this deeply-rooted attachment could not be completely removed in one go. She was soon trapped in it again. She was shocked to discover, “This addiction had become part of my body. It nearly controlled me, yet I did not realize it.”
She began thinking of the constantly evolving news in society as ant colonies. “As a practitioner, I should not pay attention to which colony of ants attacks another or what the queen ant is doing. I am walking on the path to divinity, so I should see things that happen in the human world as if they were ant colonies.” By continually reminding herself of this, she restrained herself and stopped paying attention to the news.
Assimilating to Dafa
Alf Jorden, who lives in a German speaking region of Switzerland, explained how, with her faith in Master and Dafa, she strengthened her main consciousness and let go of attachments.
She let go of many notions while going through tribulations. She said, “It feels like I’m living the story ‘Journey to the West.’ Too bad I’m not Xuanzang, the monk. Instead I’m the disciple who has made many mistakes.” She eventually realized that the many tribulations she has encountered are, in fact, opportunities for her to cultivate and find her real self.
Alf is a nurse. After she was assigned to a palliative care unit, she did not know how to know to let patients who are waiting for their lives to end about Falun Dafa. She spent a lot of time overcoming notions. Finally, she told a patient she wanted to give her a precious gift and explained how amazing Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is. The woman loved chatting with her. One day she wept and told Alf, “No one ever gave me such a precious gift. I believe what you told me. I feel I’ve been waiting to meet you.”
Alf, who could not stop crying, said, “I was full of gratitude. I thank Master for encouraging me to trust my instinct, have faith in Master and the Fa, and keep talking to my patients with compassion and sincerity.”
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