(Clearwisdom.net May 15, 2003) On May 11, some practitioners
from North and SoutháCarolina gathered in the biggest city in North
Carolina--Charlotte--to hold an experience sharing conference to celebrate World
Falun Dafa Day. Our purpose was that through the conference, practitioners could
exchange understandings on the Fa and learn from each other so that we could
improve as one body.
Returning from the New York Fa conference, practitioners were greatly moved. We seriously examined ourselves for where we did not do well enough or did not eliminate attachments that had been held for a long time. We realized that the Fa is solemn, sacred and merciful, and that the Fa also has a standard. Dafa practitioners not only have the responsibility of offering salvation to people, but also will have great responsibility for the future. We also need to safeguard what is upright. So how we rectify ourselves through cultivation is very important.
When preparing articles for presentation at the Fa conference, in the beginning, many practitioners shared the state of mind that they had not cultivated well and could not write articles that could inspire fellow practitioners. Some other practitioners looked within and found too many attachments, so they were reluctant to write down their experiences and understanding. Two days prior to Fa conference, there were only a few articles ready. Since holding Fa conferences is our common wish, though practitioners met with various types of interference when preparing articles, as Dafa practitioners, we should be responsible to ourselves and to the Fa. We encouraged each other and carefully prepared the articles.
The Fa conference began in a solemn and peaceful atmosphere. The practitioners sincerely examined the shortcomings in cultivation, and all of practitioners present were deeply moved. We were immersed in a peaceful and compassionate atmosphere. Several practitioners who did not prepare articles also got on the stage to give speeches. At the Fa conference, the practitioners broke through many old notions, and talked about many weak points in cultivation for a long time and bad thoughts that have long interfered with them. The practitioners felt that they learned a lot from each other.
Before the conclusion of the Fa conference, two Western practitioners showed photos they compiled of practitioners' Fa study and exercises, scenes of practitioners' introducing the Fa and doing Fa-rectification one by one to the accompaniment of music. Practitioners reviewed the journey over the last several years that we have walked through together. They were so familiar, pure and precious. We can study the same Fa and fulfill the same wish together. This is the great honor that Master has bestowed upon us.
Let us cherish all of this, fellow practitioners; this is the magnificence that has never been seen in history.
