Taiwan: Group Study and Experience Sharing Conference in Northwest Region Encourages Diligence in Cultivation

(Minghui.org) Falun Gong practitioners in Taoyuan, Hsinchu, and Miaoli in northwestern Taiwan held a monthly regional group Fa study and experience sharing conference on January 15, 2023. The following are some of the experiences that were shared by practitioners during the conference.

Falun Gong practitioners in Taoyuan, Hsinchu, and Miaoli areas in northwestern Taiwan hold a monthly regional group Fa study and experience sharing conference.

Li Fen is a Falun Gong practitioner who makes phone calls to people in China every day. She has required herself to “study the Fa more and keep it in mind by memorizing, copying, and studying the Fa. Only by cultivating oneself can we increase the intensity of truth clarification.”

“When we encounter another party who won’t speak, they are actually listening silently. Don’t give up just because they haven’t responded,” she said. She shared an experience that left a deep impression on her, “I called a lawyer’s cellphone number once. He never spoke. I was not sure if he had listened or put the phone aside. I still talked, and finally left my online chat account username with him. I didn’t expect that not only would he add me as a friend, but he also told me that he and his wife had already quit the Party.” The lawyer told Li Fen that he was really touched by what she said. He said Falun Gong practitioners are all good people, and he appreciated their help.

A few people who Li Fen called in China never said a word to her while she spoke, even after two or three phone calls, and then suddenly responded with a clear “yes” when she asked them to quit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its youth organizations. She was deeply moved by their courage.

Facing Bottlenecks, One Must Improve One's Heart Nature

Falun Gong practitioner Yue Liang shared that she had participated in a truth-clarification project for many years. When the project faced a bottleneck, she tried to persuade everyone to persevere, but a fellow practitioner was very frank with her and expressed a lot of dissatisfaction with her. The practitioner told Yue Liang that she was too authoritarian and didn't respect other practitioners, so she would stop coming to the meetings. Ms. Yue was heartbroken and wept. She tossed and turned as she tried to sleep that night.

Early the next morning, a fellow practitioner sent Yue Liang a message suggesting a feasible solution. But the matter was not over yet. During another meeting, Yue encouraged everyone to express their true thoughts frankly and discuss how to do better in the future. A practitioner said, “Yue Liang only wants people to listen to her and follow her. It is difficult for us to form a consensus with her.” After the meeting, Yue Liang fell into a despondent state again.

After searching inward several times, Yue discovered that she had strong feelings of affection for the project and fellow practitioners. She said, “I had a mentality of being above others. So when it came to group discussions, sometimes I was too domineering and didn't respect everyone’s opinions, and I was self-righteous. I often only hoped to change others, not myself.”

Through strengthening her Fa study, she knew that she needed to improve a great deal, and she sincerely apologized to everyone. “After this incident, I feel that whether a project is successful or not is essentially a matter of cultivation and improving xinxing. The whole project faces this test, and this opportunity is for us to stop and look within, and think about how to restart going forward. This is an opportunity to make the project more mature and rational,” she said.

Illness Karma Disappears After Finding the Attachments

Falun Gong practitioner Xueqin shared her experience of going through some karma elimination, and how after she found her attachments and improved her xinxing her physical discomfort disappeared.

Many years ago, Xueqin experienced the symptoms of a stroke on one side of her face, and she had difficulty eating and speaking. She went to see a fellow practitioner who practices Chinese medicine. About four days later, the practitioner shared an article with her about a practitioner in China passing an illness karma test.

“After I read that article, I simply thought that I should study the Fa more, read it aloud, and practice the second set of exercises for an extra hour and a half every day, besides the regular exercises,” she said. During the process, maybe because her heart became calmer, she studied the Fa well and was willing to endure hardships. After about three days, the state of physical discomfort disappeared. The entire process lasted about a week.

Xueqin also shared that after she lost her temper she would apologize to her family and confess that she was wrong to Master Li (Dafa’s founder). But for a period of time, she was just unable to endure and would lose her temper. That was until she was scolded by her younger sister one morning.

Xueqin realized that she was envious of her sister’s financial situation and her freedom to travel abroad, so she had developed unbalanced, competitive and jealous feelings. When she couldn’t let go of those feelings, her body felt like it was having another stroke. Through group Fa-study, she sincerely repented to Master in her heart. She realized that after she found her attachments, her uncomfortable state disappeared in an instant. During the process, Xueqin strengthened her righteous thoughts by reciting the Fa.

Xueqin was riding a bicycle recently when she suddenly felt her heart ache. She said to Master sincerely: “I was wrong. When I heard fellow practitioners sharing ideas at the Fa-study site, I had incorrect thoughts.”

Xueqin said, “We should be united and not have any wrong thoughts and concepts. When I thought about it like this, the symptoms of heartache disappeared immediately.”

Purifying Oneself and Cherishing Predestined People

Meiyun shared her experience of promoting Shen Yun to relatives and friends. She said she hoped to cultivate herself well, cherish every life that she meets with a pure heart and let them have the opportunity to enter the venue to watch Shen Yun. “Every life has a mission and is worth cherishing,” she said.

A practitioner also shared that the artists in Shen Yun follow the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, purify themselves and endow Shen Yun performances with depth. Their performances touch audiences so much that people express profound feedback, such as, “All my experiences in life were only to see Shen Yun.”

Fellow practitioners were encouraged to cherish the environment of group Fa-study and group exercises, and to cultivate themselves well to positively influence people to have correct understandings about Falun Gong.