(Minghui.org)
Greetings, Master! Greetings, fellow practitioners!
I am from Taipei and started practicing Dafa in 2010. I’d like to share my cultivation experiences with you.
Master has stressed the importance of studying the Fa in his teachings. In 2023, I realized that I needed to increase the amount of time that I spent studying the Fa, and later realized that I would benefit by memorizing the Fa while studying. I have increased how much I study again this year.
I will first report my current plight. I am an editor for The Epoch Times and have also distributed the newspaper since 2019. I get up at 4 a.m. every day to distribute the newspaper until just after 6 a.m. I study the Fa before having breakfast and participate in group practice at Rongxing Garden from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. This is followed by group study for 40 minutes. I then go to The Epoch Times office. After sending forth righteous thoughts at 12 p.m., I study the Fa for a while, then join a group study for 55 minutes. I do editing work until after 9 p.m., before I return home to sleep.
After increasing my Fa study in 2023, I deeply realized that as a Dafa disciple, Fa study is paramount and crucial in cultivation and for saving people. In cultivation, an important thing I learned was the ability to look inward at times when conflicts occur.
While working as an editor, I once wrote a feature article on a presidential candidate. The article mentioned an incident that I had seen the candidate personally recount in a television interview. However, after posting the article, I received feedback that the incident was untrue. I was later strongly criticized in an editorial meeting. I immediately looked inward and let go of my desire to argue. At 8 p.m., I discovered six Udumbara flowers at The Epoch Times office. Perhaps this was a significant test. That was August 23, 2023. More than two years later, those six Udumbara flowers are still blooming.
I also lead the Taipei waist drum team. A fellow practitioner, eager to improve her drumming, made an appointment with me for drum practice. Her problem was that she played the drums too fast. While helping her, I uncovered several attachments, including emotion, competitiveness, impatience, and jealousy. For example, once when I heard her hit the right rhythm, I subconsciously looked at her. That’s when I realized my jealousy. I was looking down on others. I later realized that my jealousy, which prevented others from surpassing me, had hindered the waist drum team’s progress and affected our overall performance.
I’ve also discovered that when I encounter a problem and look inward to identify my attachments, Master grants me wisdom, allowing me to think, “What would happen if I did this?” I’ve come up with solutions I would have never considered or heard of before, but they’ve proven incredibly effective. I’ve applied them to issues with the waist drum team, and they’ve been equally effective and led to overall improvements. I suppose my fellow practitioners don’t realize that these solutions came from the Fa. I’ve also realized that things that we think could be very difficult can be easily resolved in Master’s eyes. It just depends on how we improve ourxinxingand how we look inward. When our xinxing improves, Master will give us wisdom and the problems will be resolved.
I’ve realized that looking inward can only be truly achieved through diligent Fa study. This isn’t just an ordinary habit, but rather something extraordinary and high-level. Only by studying the Fa well can one truly do it.
I’d also like to share my experience of memorizing the Fa. I started memorizing the Fa in 2023, but not using the traditional method of memorizing passages one by one. Instead, I memorized as I learned during group Fa study sessions. When other practitioners read, I recited along if I remembered something, and listened if I didn’t. My memorization process was often cleverly structured. During two or three group Fa study sessions per day, I studied the same lecture, chapter, or passage repeatedly, memorizing them. After completing one round of Fa study, I was surprised to find that I’d memorized some parts. With each round, I became more familiar with it. I’ve realized that while superficially we’re studying the Fa, in reality it’s Master teaching us the Fa and impressing it into our minds, thus enabling us to remember. I maintain the mindset of:
“...only focus on practicing, without paying attention to obtaining gong.” (Lecture Two, Zhuan Falun)
Although I haven’t memorized every word, I’ve benefited greatly.
After increasing my duration of studying the Fa, I’ve felt that my ability to save people has greatly improved. As leader of the waist drum team, I find that my cultivation state is directly related to the power of the project to save lives.
Perhaps some practitioners saw the Taipei waist drum team’s performance at the May 13 celebration and the July 20 march. Some practitioners described it as “glittering with gold.” Starting in mid-2023, the Taipei waist drum team moved its rehearsal location to Liberty Square. We wear golden uniforms and distribute truth-clarification materials to people during rehearsals. Many people come to take photos with us, dance with joy, or even take up drums and join in the fun. People have been delighted and have received flyers and origami lotus bookmarks. This happens almost every week. Practitioners have even persuaded Chinese people to quit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated organizations. Even during the Chinese New Year, the waist drum team introduced the practice and saved people in Liberty Square. With practitioners united by righteous thoughts, countless people have learned about Dafa and the CCP’s persecution since 2023.
The waist drum teams from Indonesia and Malaysia invited the Taiwanese waist drum team to participate in the Batam parade, celebrating Indonesia’s 80th anniversary of independence, in the summer. We received the request a week before the parade. Due to tight schedules, nine people from Taipei ultimately went. I felt Master’s help with the coordination and arrangements for the trip. Within a week, everything was meticulously arranged by fellow practitioners, from booking flights, departure, riding the ferry, and arriving in Batam. That Sunday’s event was a resounding success. The six practitioners who remained in Taipei also performed well at Liberty Square on Saturday. The waist drum team split into two groups, each contributing to the salvation of sentient beings.
As an editor at The Epoch Times, I’ve realized that my cultivation state is reflected in my news selection. When doing news, I need to have foresight and be aware. After studying the Fa more, I’ve discovered that the news I choose for headlines are often what ordinary people would pay attention to and what ordinary media will make headlines about. But this is often done intuitively, without much complex consideration or thought.
Master said:
“But in many cases when people do things the idea behind it comes to them quickly, and then they act on it; the thinking occurs very quickly, and the idea doesn’t result from any prolonged thought process or careful deliberation. They don’t think it over carefully, and yet they manage to do whatever it is very well.” (“Fa Teaching Given at the New York Fa Conference Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of Dafa’s Spreading,” Collected Fa Teachings, Vol. XIV)
A journalist practitioner interviewed an anti-communist social media influencer last year, and I edited the article for publication. It was headlined “From Super CCP Follower to Awakening.” The interview was later posted on NTD’s Facebook page, using this title in the editorial and headline. It garnered 10,000 likes, the highest number of likes I’d ever seen on either The Epoch Times or NTD’s Facebook pages.
Another time, a legislator talked about a front page headline I had written during a political talk show the next day. Of course, I must point out that this was the result of the collective efforts of fellow practitioners; I am merely a small part of it. Studying the Fa more frequently is the key to truly achieving success.
I’m also a newspaper distributor for The Epoch Times, having started in 2019 and continuing to do so through today. Distributing newspapers has been a significant step forward in my cultivation. Because I started getting up early to distribute newspapers, I began attending the Rongxing Garden practice site and Fa study sessions, supplementing my Fa study with the exercises. I later expanded this to include Fa study and memorization. This has brought about a comprehensive improvement, a total uplift, for me. I’d also like to thank The Epoch Times.
What I’ve described above are aspects of my life that emerged after I studied the Fa more. What I would like to share with fellow practitioners is that studying the Fa well can lead to excellent results in cultivation and saving people. Furthermore, improvement can begin by increasing Fa study time. This will form a virtuous cycle and lead to further development, perhaps including memorizing or copying the Fa, all of which are voluntary and spontaneous.
Master compassionately encouraged me and allowed me to see the Udumbara flowers three times in 2023 and 2024.
One day, after I finished practicing the exercises, Master showed me the words in my mind, “Dafa Disciple.” I was deeply moved. Master sees all the effort, big and small, that disciples put in. I have also understood the challenges of being a Dafa disciple and the immense importance in the universe.
Master said:
“What is a Dafa disciple? Can the name be used casually? It’s the greatest and most sacred title!” (“Fa Teaching at the 2016 New York Fa Conference,” Collected Fa Teachings, Vol. XIV)
Every day when I wake up, I have the thought of saving people. I hope to save even more sentient beings in this final phase of the Fa-rectification period. I also hope to become a qualified Dafa disciple of the Fa-rectification period.
Thank you, Master, for your compassionate salvation.
Thank you, fellow practitioners.
(Presented at the 2025 Taiwan Fahui)