Some Thoughts About Helping Practitioners Organize Their Cultivation Experience Sharing Articles

(Minghui.org) Minghui.org began hosting the China Cultivation Experience Fa Conference in 2004, and I helped fellow practitioners organize and write their cultivation articles. Many practitioners initially submitted articles, but the number gradually decreased. When I mentioned this, some practitioners said, “I did not do well, so I have nothing to share,” or, “I don’t know how to write an article,” or, “I am very busy, I have no time to write,” etc.

Every practitioner has their strengths, and we’ve all had many cultivation experiences—it’s just that there are some differences in our understandings of the Fa. Some practitioners may not realize that writing a cultivation experience article is also validating the cultivation format Master asked us to follow: group Fa study and exchanging our cultivation experiences. This is also one way we can improve our cultivation based on the Fa. I’d like to tell you about my experiences while helping fellow practitioners organize their cultivation exchange articles.

Those Who Have Nothing to Write About

Some practitioners may feel the online conference hosted by Minghui.org is similar to an ordinary person’s meeting, so when someone mentions writing an article, they say they haven’t cultivated well, so they have nothing to write about. When I exchanged cultivation thoughts with these practitioners, I said, “Falun Dafa practitioners’ Fa conference is not just a meeting. It's a Fa conference in which practitioners share their cultivation experiences. This is a summary of whether one did well or not in one’s cultivation and in doing the three things. It offers us an opportunity to examine ourselves and see whether or not we did well in improving our xinxing when we go through tribulations and tests. It also has a profound effect in other realms. Master sacrificed so much for us, and this is a chance to tell him about our cultivation.

Anqi is 79 years old this year, and she began practicing Falun Dafa in April 1999. When last year’s conference was announced, I hoped she would write about her cultivation experiences, but she said she had nothing to write about. This year, she said, “Everything is fine, so I have nothing to share.”

I said, “Even if everything seems fine, that is also a cultivation experience. Being able to go through the past 26 years steadily is already a feat by itself. I’ve been repeatedly persecuted and imprisoned. Although I seem to be very steadfast in my behavior, I am still filled with regret for not doing well on the cultivation path that Master arranged for me. I had too many attachments, and I gave the old forces excuses to persecute me. For the past more than a decade, I haven’t had enough time to study the Fa. Although I interacted with the police and those bad people, who are all people we need to save, because I was detained, I could not go out to save people. This is a great loss to both my cultivation and in helping Master save sentient beings. Unlike me, you were able to do the three things and you were not persecuted. That is truly being righteous and walking the path Master arranged for you. This is all the more reason for you to share your cultivation experiences with fellow practitioners.”

After we talked, Anqi contacted another practitioner to help her write an article about how she persisted in joining group Fa study, clarified the truth about the persecution, and how she distributed truth-clarifying materials with five other practitioners for the past twenty-six years. She also participated in suing Jiang Zemin in 2015 and has steadily been doing the three things for 26years.

Qing is 86 years old this year. After I exchanged my thoughts with her about the importance of writing an article, which is to report on our cultivation state, she spent a week writing down her experiences. In the article, she mentioned how her neighbors went to the police station to visit her, bringing her warm clothes and food, and they told the police that she’s a good person who is very kind. This had a great impact on the police officers when she was being wrongly reported, kidnapped, and her house was ransacked. What they did also impressed her daughter, who used to object violently to her cultivation. She sent a chicken to each neighbor who visited her mother, and her attitude towards Dafa changed. Her daughter was later blessed. When she was retiring, the seemingly unsolvable issue of seniority was resolved easily.

While helping practitioners edit their articles, I truly felt how they quietly walked their path of assisting Master in the Fa rectification. These practitioners really deserve my respect. In comparison, I saw my attachment of being impatient and showing off.

For Those Who Do Not Know How to Write

Many practitioners say they don’t know what to write about or how to write. I tell them, “As long as you put your heart into it, there is nothing that we practitioners cannot do.”

When Dan came to my house, and I mentioned submitting an article, she said she didn’t know how to write. I said, “Just write about your cultivation process or the largest matter that moved your xinxing.” She wrote an article at one go. She wrote about how her xinxing was moved when her husband had an affair. How she abided by the standards of a cultivator and overcame the family tribulation, and her thoughts about it. I helped her make some minor changes and submitted it as a cultivation exchange article. The article was accepted and published, giving her great encouragement.

This year, when I was conversing with practitioner Bing and asked if she’d submit an article for the Minghui Fa conference, she said, “I’ve cultivated for decades, and I wanted to write about my cultivation experiences. However, I kept writing for a long time, but I tore it up what I wrote and rewrote it. I did this repeatedly, so I haven’t finished writing.”

She asked me to help her. I invited Bing to my house to talk about her situation, and she mentioned the influence of her cultivation state on her son. After she started cultivating in Falun Dafa in 1998, many people in her family started practicing. Her five-year-old son also followed her to cultivate. At that time, her son was very obedient. However, after the persecution began, she was kidnapped and detained. She developed a wrong understanding of the Fa.

Encouraged by fellow practitioners, she resumed practicing. Then she was kidnapped again. Although she was steadfast in her cultivation, she was transformed in prison. As her cultivation state changed, so did her son’s behavior. He changed from a young Dafa practitioner to someone who no longer cultivates. He was once a good student but became a local gangster. When she became mature and steadfast in her cultivation, her son finally returned and began to truly cultivate. He became the first person in his family to attend a university. He also changed the perspective of Dafa among the other family members.

After listening to Bing’s narration, I suggested that she use the topic of how her cultivation brought changes to her son. I organized an initial draft, and she edited it herself. Through this experience, I once again felt the power of Dafa. As long as we abide by and assimilate with Dafa, there is nothing that Dafa cannot do. At the same time, I also see that our cultivation states are related to our family members’ chance to be saved and how well we are able to clarify the truth to people.

For Those Who Have No Time to Write

For those practitioners who said that they don’t know how to write or have no time to write, I tell them, “You can write about how you overcame xinxing problems, how you clarify the truth, touching experiences you’ve had, or your understandings and I can help you organize them.” For some of them, I will use a recording pen to record their narration and help them to organize the content.

Last year, I suggested Jing write about how she clarifies the truth. Jing said that she was very busy clarifying the truth and didn’t have time. I then invited her to my house to share the touching stories that she’s had while she talked to people and I wrote them down. I organized the content and submitted the article for last year’s Fa conference. Minghui.org published it. Jing was encouraged and often came to my house to exchange cultivation thoughts about what she encountered when she talked to people. I’m writing them down, and I’ll organize them into sharing articles.

When this year’s Fa conference article submission was announced, Jing was very proactive. She even brought practitioner Wen, whom she coordinated. Wen is 70-years-old, but she looks as though she’s only in her 40s or 50s. I encouraged her to submit an article. She initially said that she had nothing to share. I said, “Just talk about your cultivation process.”

Wen explained how she began practicing Falun Dafa, and Master removed her karma such that her more than 20 illnesses recovered within a short time. She was kidnapped, detained, sentenced, sent to a brainwashing camp, resulting in her family repeatedly misunderstanding, beating, and scolding her, but she still looked within in the face of conflicts. Her husband was so moved by her compassion that he began practicing.

She was arrested three times but faced the police calmly. When she was put on trial, she said, “I only know that Falun Dafa is good!” Wen was persecuted many times, but it was never reported on Minghui.org. After I tidied up the article and read to her, she was shocked and kept saying excitedly, “I want to make good use of the last remaining time to cultivate myself well, clarify the truth more, and save more sentient beings.”

During the process of helping fellow practitioners organize their cultivation sharing articles, I can see they believe in Master and the Fa and their righteous thoughts and actions, which are totally for the salvation of sentient beings—they do not want to be praised. Their hearts are pure, and they are not selfish. I also found the distance that I lack behind them in my cultivation. This encourages me to try my best to do the three things, and do well in this last stretch of our cultivation path, and fulfill my prehistoric vow!

These are my limited experiences in helping fellow practitioners organize their cultivation sharing articles. Kindly correct me if there is any room for improvement!