- Falun Gong is a cultivation system of mind and body that consists of both inner cultivation and practicing exercises. It is better if we can practice outdoors so that everyday people can see us, and those who have a good predestined relationship can find us.
- Falun Gong has spread far and wide throughout the world. Falun Gong practitioners should frequently practice outdoors together, since it forms a great environment for group practice all over the world (except in China, due to the persecution currently underway there). This is a tangible exhibition of the spread of Dafa in the world and is the undeniable responsibility of each practitioner.
- Falun Gong practitioners benefit infinitely from Dafa and should not just gain without contributing. We should overcome various kinds of obstacles, and practice outdoors on our own initiative. Even if only one person practices outdoors in one area, it can move everyday people and shake the world in ten directions.
- Practicing outdoors in a group can also clean up any abnormal factors and purify our overall environment.
- Practicing outdoors in a group is an exhibition of Falun Gong practitioners stepping out of humanness with righteous thoughts and righteous actions. This will serve to validate Dafa.
- Practitioners have been through a great deal and have established this hard-won practice environment. Dafa practitioners all over the world should cherish today's peaceful overseas environment. Practice outdoors every day in a group -- this is a powerful way to support the practitioners in Mainland China.
- Overseas practitioners practicing outdoors in a group can also allow Chinese people who pass by the exercise sites to understand the truth of Falun Dafa. Perhaps, some of these people will tell their relatives and friends back in China about what they saw. These people can become a great way to spread the truth.
- Why do we live overseas? Because we can use this peaceful and good environment to validate Dafa. Group practice outdoors is an indispensable part of validating Dafa.
- Dafa practitioners all over the world frequently practicing outdoors in groups will leave a reference for the beings in the future. This is a wonderful reference to leave for the history of the universe.
Teacher tells us in Teaching the Fa at the 2003 Atlanta Fa Conference:
"You need to be clear that a Dafa disciple's cultivation is about stepping out of humanness; it is to step out of the old colossal firmament that is restrained by all kinds of factors that result from endless, countless, innumerable beings in this old cosmos; it is to gain a new life, emerging from an environment that is at the last of the last stage of the formation-stasis-degeneration-destruction process of the colossal firmament."
Teacher tells us in "Environment" in Essentials for Further Advancement,
"The cultivation practice form that I have left for Dafa disciples ensures that disciples can truly improve themselves. For example, I ask you to do the exercises as a group in parks in order to form an environment. This environment is the best way to change the surface of a person. The lofty conduct that Dafa disciples have established in this environment--including every word and every deed--can make people recognize their own weaknesses and identify their shortcomings; it can move their hearts, refine their conduct, and enable them to make progress more rapidly. Therefore, new students or self-taught disciples have to go to the practice sites to do the exercises."
Here we are appealing to those overseas practitioners who cannot step out of humanness and who have not yet understood the importance of outdoor group practice: We should practice together in order to continue to do well and to ensure solid and persistent advancement in our cultivation.
