(Minghui.org) The 2026 Canadian Falun Dafa Experience Sharing Conference was held on September 20 in Toronto. More than 1,200 practitioners from across Canada and some US cities attended the event at the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel. Simultaneous translations were available in five languages including Chinese, English, French, Vietnamese, and Persian (Farsi).

During the conference, 19 practitioners from various cities in Canada talked about how they could do better in aligning themselves with Falun Dafa’s principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, validate Dafa, and help Master save people.

The 2026 Canadian Falun Dafa Experience-Sharing Conference was held in Toronto on September 20. (Minghui.org)

Sending Forth Righteous Thoughts

A practitioner from Toronto recalled how years ago she participated in the 24-hour relay to send righteous thoughts which was coordinated by the local Falun Dafa Association. This year she coordinated sending of righteous thoughts during the Shen Yun tour season. She said, “The 24-hour relay of sending righteous thoughts is the ultimate test of one’s heart. For us practitioners, it is a test of willpower, endurance, and the ability to endure hardship. Especially the challenge of staying up late at night. It’s possible to persist for a week or two, but it becomes difficult after a month or two. This year, it has been three months and ten days—a full one hundred days.

“Fellow practitioners are truly remarkable; they persevered and made it through. I saw many practitioners who are in their 70s, 80s, or even 90s years old, still holding fast online. Practitioners who are at tourist sites, truth-clarification sites, practice sites, and consulates during the day are all dedicating their time to participate every hour, and some practitioners in the media are going online in the early morning,” she continued. “Practitioners in Toronto have formed an unbreakable whole; practitioners throughout Canada, including those in Montreal and Vancouver, are also going online to send forth righteous thoughts and disintegrate the vicious interference.”

This practitioner said that she had also harbored resentment during this process. “Sometimes my mind wandered and my concentration broke down. Therefore, I must first clear my own dimensional field in order to maintain strong righteous thoughts,” she explained.

“Some fellow practitioners said that there are hidden talents among practitioners. This tribulation has further demonstrated the wisdom and superpowers we have in clarifying the truth and helping Master save sentient beings,” she continued. “The media and various teams have shown their abilities and finally helped bring Shen Yun back to the Four Seasons Theatre in Toronto, and every performance was sold out. With righteous thoughts and righteous actions, and sincere thoughts, every practitioner’s perseverance and dedication is shown.”

No Matter How Difficult, There is Always a Path

Mr. Wang from Ottawa talked about how he overcame difficulties in promoting his project on social media, and how he changed his mindset during this process.

Various social media platforms have undergone significant changes since late December last year, changes which all point to one conclusion: promoting projects on social media has become extremely difficult, the old methods are no longer effective, and the resulting problem is a sharp drop in traffic. This plunges the entire project into another challenging period.

An elderly fellow practitioner frankly pointed out that he lacked righteous thoughts. He realized that the project was severely constrained by the concept of “traffic restriction.” The participating practitioners agreed with this understanding but did not believe that righteous thoughts could overcome the challenges.

Mr. Wang therefore devised a breakthrough strategy, providing one-on-one guidance to specific practitioners and addressing their needs. He was able to persuade them to change their mindsets, show them how to do things, and let them see the effects of the correct approach. As a result, the flow began to increase, and little by little, the overall flow recovered. The process was truly arduous.

After months of continued effort in overcoming various obstacles and changing their mindsets, the project team finally found a way out. The project’s traffic has now reached its highest level ever.

“During cultivation, I sometimes feel like I’m walking into a desert, as if there are difficulties everywhere and I can’t see the way forward. It may be a critical moment for me to improve my cultivation, or it may be a test of whether a cultivator has righteous thoughts—whether they can continue to move forward in difficulties, and whether they can be persevering,” Mr. Wang explained. “Because we are Dafa disciples, Master has always been watching over each and every one of us. So, there will definitely be a way out! The key is whether we can have 100% faith, whether we can calm down and earnestly look for this path, and whether we dare to let go of our old ideas and forge a new path.”

Group Study and Group Sharing

“I’m sometimes still a bit unclear about the actual cultivation process. One is how to cultivate, another is how to look inward; plus we need to get rid of attachments, etc... These are all questions that I face. But there is always Master’s compassionate arrangements and guidance, as well as the selfless help of fellow practitioners,” Mr. Wang from Edmonton said in his speech.

Mr. Wang has practiced Falun Dafa for ten years. Through studying Dafa’s teachings, he knows that practitioners need to do the three things. “Especially practitioners during the Fa-rectification period, it’s not just about personal cultivation, but about clarifying the truth and helping Master save people. So I participated in group exercises to clarify the truth, and benefited greatly. Each time I practice, I can enter a state of tranquility more quickly,” he continued. “Sometimes I feel like I’m covered by a glass dome, and the bustling crowds and noise of passing cars seem very far away.”

Once, after Mr. Wang took his son to a group event, his son said to him, “Dad, the energy field you had when doing the exercises at home isn’t as big as that of the group event at the farmers’ market. The field there is better...” This further strengthened Mr. Wang’s confidence in doing the exercises with other practitioners.

Mr. Wang began practicing Falun Gong after he met a practitioner online in China. Many miraculous things happened to him, and later his wife and children also began practicing.

In the early years of his cultivation, Mr. Wang had more dreams than he had in his entire life. Some dreams were about his understanding the principles of Dafa, some were related to relationships with relatives, friends, and his wife, and some involved past experiences and even demonic interference. These gradually deepened his understanding and insight into Dafa’s principles.

“In particular, the fellow practitioner who told me about the practice was still able to selflessly and regularly exchange cultivation experiences and insights with me despite the brutal persecution and suppression in China,” Mr. Wang said. “He did this for seven or eight years, and then gradually reduced the frequency of exchanges, but even now, he still contacts me once a year.”

Mr. Wang said that as practitioners we must cultivate our every thought and action, and continuously strive for improvement in our cultivation. Doing the three things well will allow us to return home with Master in the end.

A New Environment and a New Practice Site

Ms. Zhang from Vancouver shared her experience of how she seized the opportunity to tell people in her new environment about Falun Dafa. In 2018, she left Victoria and moved to a small coastal city. There were no practitioners there for group study or group exercises, or to tell people about Falun Dafa. What should she do? Thinking she should let the people there know about Dafa, she set up a practice site in a seaside park near her home. With exercise display boards, Dafa materials, and small lotus flowers, she played the music and practiced the exercises by herself.

“At first, I felt lonely, and my worries and pride often affected me.” Ms. Zhang recalled. “But whenever I thought of Master’s teachings, I felt as if my whole body was filled with energy, and I was full of confidence. My negative thoughts disappeared, and my righteous thoughts surfaced.”

Ms. Zhang knew her mission was to tell people how wonderful Falun Dafa is. “Under Master’s arrangement, many local people began practicing the exercises with me and have started cultivation. Now, they have also started to introduce Dafa to others with me, collect signatures, and promote Shen Yun,” she continued.

She told a woman who came to learn about Falun Dafa, “In this world, have you ever heard of or seen a teacher who teaches you the exercises for free without asking you for a single penny? Plus, this teacher makes you healthy, teaches you how to be a morally upright and kind person. That is the Master of Falun Dafa.”

At this moment, tears streamed down the woman’s face and she said, “I can feel that you are very kind.” Ms. Zhang said, “It’s not me, it’s Falun Dafa that carries this compassionate and kind energy field.”

Ms. Zhang said that throughout the years she’s cultivated and clarified the truth, she always reminds herself that Dafa is beautiful and sacred. She should not leave people with a bad impressions of Falun Dafa because of her words or deeds, including her family, colleagues, and passersby. “I want to let people know how wonderful Dafa really is,” she said.