(Minghui.org) The 13th Pan-Russia Falun Dafa Experience Sharing Conference was successfully held on September 15, 2012 in Moscow. Practitioners came from Russia, the Ukraine, Belarus, and Latvia. Twelve practitioners shared their experiences and understandings in studying the Fa, letting go of attachments, improving xinxing, clarifying the facts about Falun Gong and the persecution, and saving sentient beings.
The 2012 Experience Sharing Conference in Russia
Practitioners meditate together during the conference
A practitioner shares her experience at the conference
A practitioner shares her experience at the conference
Saving People Regardless of Their Social Status
Alla from the Ukraine talked about her clarifying the truth in Crimea during the summer. There were many tourists. To organize activities, Alla had a chance to meet with many government officials. She kept her righteous thoughts and was not attached to their social status. As a result, the officials listened to her carefully and wished her success.
Intensify Fa Study
Rita from the U.S. studied the entire book of Zhuan Falun with other practitioners every Saturday. She realized that such intensive Fa study helped to eliminate a lot of human notions and attachments. It also helped to deepen her understanding of the Fa and strengthen her righteous thoughts. She was able to solve a lot of problems with her work at NTDTV and on other truth-clarification projects because of the intensified Fa study sessions. These problems had bothered her for weeks or even months.
Power of Righteous Thoughts
Marina came from Philadelphia, U.S. and she talked about helping with Shen Yun’s ticket sales. At first, she was unable to conquer interference because of her attachments. The practitioners did not form one entity and the ticket sales did not go well. The practitioners later found their attachments, looked within, stepped back, tried to understand and support one another, and eventually eliminated the interference and partitions between practitioners. They sold all the tickets.
Improve Family Environment
Naga from Irkutsk talked about how to maintain a good family environment. She believed that her family members knew exactly what her cultivation state was.
She stressed that holding a grudge could bring trouble and interference to coordination work and different projects. A bad thought brought harm to herself and to others.
Study the Fa in Chinese
Nelly wanted to learn Chinese a long time ago so she could read Teacher’s articles in Chinese. She went to a Chinese class and gradually she was able to talk to her Chinese teacher about Falun Gong in China. Through studying Chinese and understanding Chinese traditional culture, she saw in the Fa what she had not in the past ten years.
Clarifying the Truth at an Art Exhibition
Lyudmila from Novorossiysk shared how she managed to host a Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance Art Exhibition in the city. It was the first time for the practitioners in Novorossiysk and things weren’t working out well. Lyudmila realized that practitioners must study the Fa together so they could be better prepared and touch the heart of every audience member. They had to clarify the facts with wisdom.
After the practitioners began to study the Fa together, telling the viewers the meaning of each painting became much easier. People tended to open their hearts and many viewers did not want to leave after hours at the exhibit.
Lyudmila also shared how she developed her attachment to showing off through praise from practitioners and viewers and how she eliminated it. She knew that praise was a big test for a practitioner.
Eliminating Attachments is Not Hard
Ulliana from Moscow shared how she dealt with mainstream society. Government officials’ doors were easily opened if she had righteous thoughts. Working with the Epoch Times provided her with chances to improve herself many times.
She realized that if she could not be calm and be tolerant, the truth in the Fa would not manifest itself to her. She quoted from Master's “Teaching the Fa at the Conference in Singapore”:
“Having you expose your weaknesses during frictions with each other is how I enable you to improve most rapidly. And yet as soon as you encounter a problem, you push it aside and point out others’ shortcomings instead of examining yourselves. How can you cultivate, then?”
