(Minghui.org) The 19th China Fahui was held on Minghui.org from November 7 to November 20, 2022. This annual online event is an opportunity for practitioners of Falun Gong (also called Falun Dafa) in China to share their cultivation experiences with each other and the entire body of Dafa practitioners around the world. A total of 42 experience sharing articles were posted online. Chinese and Western Falun Gong practitioners living outside of China have benefited a lot from these articles. Practitioners in Turkey, the Middle East and North America recently shared some of their reflections after reading this year’s China Fahui articles.
Hazal, a Falun Gong practitioner in Turkey, feels that the China Fahui is important, and the articles always make him feel warm and encouraged.
After reading the article, “Falun Dafa Pulled Me Out of the Abyss of Suffering onto a Sunlit Path,” Hazal said he felt the “superior self-control” that Master Li (the founder of Falun Dafa) talks about in Zhuan Falun. The author of this article experienced many catastrophes. Her two sons passed away one after another, and her husband divorced her. She suffered persecution at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and passed a test of illness karma. Yet despite everything, she was able to maintain a sunny state of mind and rise from the ordeals with her superior self-control.
“After reading the articles from fellow practitioners in China, I found that the xinxing tests I have encountered in my daily life were actually nothing,” Hazal said. “With a humble heart, I am grateful to Master for protecting me. In a relaxed and free environment, I should organize my time better to save more sentient beings.”
Hazal also expressed admiration for a major quality he sees in fellow Chinese practitioners: their courage to face the persecution. Although they have suffered from violence, they never changed their mindset or were shaken in their belief in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. Despite facing such threatening circumstances, they still thought about the wellbeing of the police who persecuted them and wanted to save them.
In the article, “Putting Forth More Effort to Save People During the Pandemic,” a practitioner in China shared how after she was arrested, she walked out of the police station with righteous thoughts because of her firm belief in Dafa. The police had taken away her personal belongings, including a printer and truth-clarification materials, and she took the initiative to go back to the police station to retrieve them. This remarkable feat took a lot of courage. Hazal said he was moved by her rock-solid faith in Master.
Hazal noted that practitioners in China put all of their effort into studying the Fa, sending righteous thoughts and saving sentient beings. An elderly woman authored the article, “Master Told Me to Save People, So I Do.” Hazal felt that this woman practices Dafa with her whole life. She wakes up early in the morning and sleeps only two hours a day.
“For me, this is simply unbelievable,” he said. “As a young practitioner, I sleep six to eight hours a day. Although I also want to put in effort to be diligent and do the three things well, I still waste time surfing the Internet and enjoying life.
“Seeing that practitioners in China can grasp every minute and every second of life, I found my shortcomings and want to seize the time to cultivate well,” Hazal said.
A practitioner named Bob who lives in Turkey shared, “After reading the Fahui article ‘Rain or Shine, We Have Only One Thought: Let’s Go Out and Save People,’ I felt ashamed because I found a big gap regarding Compassion and Forbearance when I compared myself with practitioners in China. They have truly achieved selflessness. They brave the cold winter, the scorching heat, thirst, hunger, fatigue, and even being persecuted, and death, but they still devote their entire lives to saving sentient beings. I admire them, because through them I have seen the realm of true selflessness.
“They look within unconditionally all the time, using every opportunity to reflect on their own shortcomings and let go of their attachments,” Bob added. “Although every practitioner needs to enlighten at different levels of the Fa in different environments, our common goal is to have ourselves constantly assimilate to the realm of selflessness, so that we can get closer to and meet the standards of the new universe.”
Sara, a Falun Gong practitioner in the Middle East, said, “After reading the article, ‘Falun Dafa Pulled Me Out of the Abyss of Suffering onto a Sunlit Path’ I was moved by the fellow practitioner. After being swept out of her home, she was able to forgive and tolerate her husband. She even came through the hardships of losing two children, getting sick and being detained in a detention center. Not only was she not knocked down by the hardships, but she passed through them with firm belief in Master and Dafa and ascended through her endurance.”
The article “My Experiences Saving People during the Pandemic” tells the story of a practitioner who is over 50 years old, and elderly practitioners who use divine power to quickly distribute truth-clarification information materials.
Sara said, “They go back and forth more than 100 kilometers every day, but they spare no effort. They only hope to help more sentient beings understand the truth. After reading the article, I could see the gap between me and them and hope that I will be more diligent in my future cultivation.”
Xinming, a practitioner in North America, said, “When I read the article ‘Our Journey Home,’ I was sincerely moved by Dafa practitioners’ perseverance in saving sentient beings. The fellow practitioners braved a snowstorm, carried heavy bags, were hungry, and walked from night to morning in the suburbs, and they could not see where the village ahead was.
“Seeing this, I thought that in Dafa projects I will sometimes feel very busy, and when facing difficulties, I often felt bitter. But after learning about the experiences of the fellow practitioners in the article, I realized that the difficulties I had to overcome were actually nothing.”
Ms. Hope Chen, a young Falun Gong practitioner in North America, was moved after reading the article “Helping Students Overcome Addiction to Mobile Phones.”
“The article tells the story of Xinxin and Shuiling changing from their exhibitions of demon nature when they were addicted to mobile phones to returning to their original innocence through practicing Dafa,” Ms. Chen said. “Their stories let me empathize with the pain and difficulty they experienced to pass the tests, as well as the assimilation and joy after passing the tests.
“The selfless devotion and patient guidance of the fellow practitioner to the children in the article embody the realm where a cultivator can still think about others at all times, despite being tested and impacted.”
Ms. Chen also said that when she encountered persistent tribulations and setbacks, she habitually looked outside herself, complaining and being resentful of life’s unfairness. Fellow practitioners always reminded her that a cultivator should look inward. She said she was aware of her resentment, and when she sent forth righteous thoughts, she cleared out these bad substances in her dimensional field.
As a youth practitioner, Ms. Chen could empathize with the issue of giving up a mobile phone addiction. She said, “After being addicted, I also became demonic and easily lost my temper. The desire to constantly look at my mobile phone also aggravated my lust, resentment, appetite, jealousy, etc. After giving up the addiction to my mobile phone, I also spent more time studying the Fa, like the children in the article. Therefore, when negative emotions come up, I can now distinguish that it is not me, and can actively resist it. My main consciousness is more rational and sober.”
Manny Sandoval, a Western practitioner who started practicing Falun Gong in 2000, shared his thoughts after reading the article “A Young Veteran Practitioner’s Cultivation Story.”
“After reading this article, I realized that my karma and attachments can be eliminated in the Fa. As long as I practice cultivation and let attachments go, problems can be solved,” he said.
Manny said he chats with people and introduces Falun Gong to them and tells them about the CCP’s persecution, but he said he does not always do it perfectly. Sometimes he might have an opportunity to clarify the truth to people, but he might let it pass by. He said he regrets that he didn’t use his righteous thoughts at those moments.
Manny said, “I admire the experiences of Dafa practitioners in China in cultivation, as well as their courage and righteous thoughts to clarify the truth to the world’s people. I am grateful to Master and the China Fahui for inspiring me to be more diligent on the path of cultivation.”