I drove away those thoughts and kept only one that I want to learn it and so I started to explore the program at night and I found that it’s not as complicated as it seems. I was surprised how I learnt to work with the program in such a short time. I started to write scripts and cut video and when I’m doing it I usually feel that I’m been energised and I don’t need to sleep as long as usual. So I found that I have time for this job, which in turn showed me that if I sincerely wish to save beings, the way would open.

After people accepted the materials, they all read them. One woman said, "I saw you guys on TV. I support all your activities." A young man from the United States said, "I learnt about Falun Gong when I was in the States. Some of my friends from college practise Falun Gong. This (the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners) is ridiculous. It should be stopped."

I realised that the lack of compassion I observed in my colleagues‘ behaviour was actually my own problem and that it was the reason why I was dismissed. By that time I already been studying the Fa for two months and I remembered that our Master tells us to search within our own selves when looking for the cause of trouble. I tried to honestly think about myself and my job and I found out very unpleasant and true facts about myself.

He pointed out something that really made me look inside. He said, "Cindy, why are you so focused on the technical side? Why can’t you just feel the beauty of the music that practitioners play?" I realised that when we march, all I hear are the mistakes. I try to take note of which section did not do well, so that we can work on those parts in rehearsal. How could I be so uncompassionate?

I immediately realized, that power of our cultivation and ours’ righteous thoughts has a great influence on people and it’s the most visible on those around us and our cultivation is reflected on them.

In the summer of 2005, upon seeing that a coordinator had some attachments of showing-off, I pointed them out to him. There is nothing wrong with bringing up other practitioners' attachments or problems; however, I forgot to look inward to check myself. As a matter of fact, while I was pointing out another practitioner's problem, I also had the same problem.

Most of all, it was difficult because I was unable to study the Falun Gong teachings, the Fa, since no Falun Dafa books were available. The only Fa for me to learn was Lunyu, which a practitioner wrote down for me from memory. That was the only words from Master guiding my cultivation under such circumstances. Reciting "Lunyu" was my everyday Fa-study

"...This is the debt you owed. Now, you are suffering. You want to leave this world? How can that be allowed? Now, you have almost paid back all of your karma. Go back to practise gong." I was a little confused and asked her, "What kind of gong should I practise?" She said, "Falun Gong!"

"Our region is doing very well." "We are saturated." How many attachments are hiding behind these words? Spurred by fellow practitioner's exchanged insights, I found severe prideful and mentalities related to showing off.

During the process of memorising the Fa, it became righteous. Through this I found that I was much clearer on my own problems. I felt that I didn't even understand some of Zhuan Falun on the surface, not to mention it inner meanings.

Clarifying the truth about Falun Gong and the persecution so as to clear away the deceitful propaganda instilled in so many people by the Chinese Communist Party is a must during this period of our practise. I pay attention to my truth clarification ability, constantly improving and learning from my failures.

At this moment, one lady was running toward us. I handed her a flier, which she grabbed while running and then she had passed with the flier in her hand. Then, she rushed into the theater. More people were running, passing us, grabbing fliers and running into the theater. We left the theater after no more people were coming towards the entrance of the theater.

My work has been highly praised and received recognition since I began to practise Falun Gong, because I use the wisdom that Falun Dafa endowed me with to work hard. But I developed the attachments of contentment and the mentality of completing a chore when doing things for Falun Dafa.

How nice it would be if I could spend all of my time studying the Fa and doing the exercises. Since I had such a thought, I became less busy with the business. Some unexpected incidents happened, but on the surface these things were not caused by me. I ended up having more free time, but financially I earned more. Thus, I could contribute more to Fa validation work. As a true cultivator, my attachments to material things and to emotions and sentiment gradually eroded, until one day I let go of them all.

Many years ago I met an old classmate from China in a subway station in Europe. He told me he was heading home from a church. When I asked him if he indeed believed in God he answered, "No, but it's quite eventful there. I would have felt rather lonesome otherwise." As if stung by his words I thought, "Why can't we have some art and cultural events to attract Chinese people so that they too can learn the facts?"

KongZi said: "Gentlemen can be amiable, but can't drift with current. This is the real strength. In order to be like that, gentlemen should strictly follow the "doctrine of the mean." When the government is liberal, gentlemen should keep the same good character as when he was poor. When the government is tyrannical without virtue, gentlemen should not change their beliefs even facing death. This is true strength."

Later, I heard that the government was no longer allowing the public to practise Falun Dafa. I knew Falun Dafa was good, so I made sure to do well in all aspects and let everyone see what a practitioner is like. Since the TV and radio stations had been spreading words defaming Falun Dafa, an argumentative colleague said some bad things about the practice. In front of a room full of colleagues, my rebuttal left him speechless. Since then, no one has said one bad word about Falun Dafa in front of me.

The article also reflected my recent state of cultivation: when faced with problems, I have not looked inward; instead I have looked for others to blame. When I realised this, I thanked my fellow practitioners from the bottom of my heart. I was determined to get rid of this attachment. I realised that we should not be attached to personal understandings and ways of doing things. We should harmonise as one body.

I am called Ni'er (which means little girl) and I am nine years old, a fourth grader, and a young Falun Dafa practitioner. Although I am very young, I am a veteran practitioner because I started to practise Falun Gong in the summer of 1998. I wish to take this opportunity to share my cultivation story.

Stepping into the class, I saw Master was shining with dazzling light. I felt very warm, and my two hands were sweaty. The whole auditorium was peaceful and calm. I was so moved I decided to attend again on the following day. I did not have fare for travel so I tried to borrow money from several people, but failed. Finally a kind lady lent me one hundred yuan so that I could go and listen to Master's lectures.

My daughter-in-law tells everyone, "My mother-in-law changed completely after she began to practise Falun Gong." My ex-son-in-law, who divorced my daughter many years ago, often tells others proudly, "I have a mother-in-law who practises Falun Gong. Whoever bad-mouthes Falun Gong is telling a lie. She is living testimony to the wonderfulness of Falun Gong."

Witnessing my significant health improvement, my father, a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) member and an old cadre, my oldest sister, also a CCP member and a representative of the National People's Congress, and my second sister, did not stop me from practicing Falun Dafa, although they were not very happy. They simply reminded me of not changing my belief in Islam.

I am now over 50. It was hard for me to walk upstairs before I practised Falun Dafa because of the pain I experienced in my leg joints. However, I no longer have difficulty since I began to practise. Each time I have gone to distribute materials exposing the lies made by the Chinese Communist Party against Falun Gong, I carried at least 70-80 copies up and down the floors to each family. Not only did I not feel tired, but I felt particularly excited.

Upon seeing the Nine Commentaries, some of them were crying out “Falun Gong, Falun Gong!” Some were turning away and others were confused but carefully took the newspaper. One group of Chinese tourists saw that we were taking pictures of each other and came over to join us when we invited them. This gave us a chance to talk to them and let them know we were practising Falun Gong. One of them told us that in China people were being put into prisons for being a part of Falun Gong, but he didn’t approve of it.

I had the honour of attending the classes that the founder of Falun Dafa, Master Li taught in Yanji City on August 20th, 1994. During this time I personally experienced and witnessed the miracles of Falun Dafa. Even though I have been through clouds and storms over the past 10 years, I have been steadfast towards Master and Falun Dafa and have never been moved. Here, I would like to share some short stories with everybody.

One day whilst at a fellow practitioners home I heard a cultivation story when sharing experiences. There is a Falun Dafa practitioner who lives in the mountains that started cultivation in 1995. He is alone, does not have any connection with other practitioners, but he does have a copy of Zhuan Falun, or the book Falun Gong (formerly called China Falun Gong). He has never seen Master's recent articles, but has diligently clarified the truth based on his solid faith in Master and the practice. His movements were corrected in 2005, after he finally contacted a fellow practitioner. I was very moved by his story and so I would like to take this opportunity to share it with you all.

Before I started practising Falun Dafa, I was an old woman with many diseases such as bone proliferation, muscle atrophy, heart disease, rheumatic arthritis, and leg and lower-back pain. My vision was also very poor. I could only read titles in the newspaper, even while wearing glasses. After attending Master's lectures for the first time, my vision recovered. I do not need glasses anymore and all the other diseases have also disappeared.

What a wonderful experience! In that split second, my mind completely blanked out. All the mental misery and suffering that had affected me for the previous ten days suddenly cleared up. I felt more relief that I had ever felt before. I found the lifelong life-saving prescription that I needed. I sent out a thought that I must practise cultivation to escape from the abyss of misery!

There are many opportunities to cultivate oneself in the environment of married life. How can I do the three things well if I am not righteous? When you clarify the truth to people around you, many of them judge how you behave in everyday circumstances. If you don’t behave well, what you say will not possess power, and it affects the credibility of what you say, and thus will affect others being saved. If we do well ourselves, it rectifies all unrighteous factors.

The three of us – all female Falun Gong practitioners from Kotlas Town in the Arkhangelsk Region of Russia, journeyed to the Far East of Russia in July of this year to let the Chinese people, working in construction sites of Irkutsk and Chita, as well as to Chinese tourists in those areas learn the truth about Falun Gong, having been deceived by the Chinese Communist Party's propaganda.

As I see it, the cultivation process is very simple. What is difficult, however, is giving up attachments in the process. Even if it seems to us we don’t have an attachment, our Teacher uses every situation in our daily life to point them out to us. We shouldn’t think that if we participate in activities for Falun Gong such as exposing the persecution that we don’t have to cultivate our character.

When seeing the shortcomings of another, I should kindly point them out, since I, by doing this, am responsible for the fellow practitioner and for myself as well. However, because of my mentality of seeking superficial harmony, I failed to act according to the principles of Falun Gong. After stumbling, I have realised that upon seeing another’s shortcomings, I should first search within myself to see what attachments I have.

After I finished watching the TV programme, Teacher's lecture about jealousy came across my mind. I suddenly awakened. I have been controlled by the attachment of jealousy and have done things inappropriate for practitioners. Although it didn't result in any significant consequences, the strong jealousy clearly manifested itself in these incidents. While the attachment was deeply hidden in my mind, I finally managed to dig it out. Right away I started to send forth righteous thoughts, denying its association with me.

I want to write down my experience of reciting the Falun Gong teachings, the Fa, in the hope that it will help fellow practitioners who have not yet started to memorize Zhuan Falun. I know that many non-Chinese practitioners are also reciting Zhuan Falun in their own languages.

I asked myself, "What is wrong with me?" For a long time I couldn't understand what the problem was. Recently, I suddenly realised my shortcoming through a casual conversation with a friend.

Yet recently I saw many practitioners sharing their experiences of memorising the Fa, and there were many older practitioners, practitioners who had to take care of household chores, who had regular jobs, etc. Their experience deeply touched me. I need to compare my Fa study and cultivation with others. If my fellow practitioners can do it, I can too. Thus I started to memorise the Fa again, and asked four other practitioners to do it together. We encourage each other while memorising the Fa

For over five hours, Teacher continued to lecture yet did not even have a sip of water. During the ten-minute break, Teacher was surrounded by practitioners and patiently answered their questions. Although Teacher had opened a bottle of water, He did not have the time to drink any of it. As I watched Teacher during the break from a distance, I felt terrible and anxious. Tears welled up in my eyes again. I thought, "Teacher, please take a rest for a while." But Teacher did not have any break before he returned to the stage and continued the Fa lecture.

My family members' minds used to be deeply poisoned by Party propaganda. None of them believed in Dafa before. Now, all of them are convinced of Dafa's power. They have quit the CCP and its affiliated organizations. My older sister used to show disdain when someone mentioned Falun Gong. After seeing her gravely ill sister recover quickly through Dafa practice, she has said many times, "What a miracle! No wonder so many people believe in Dafa! I would not have believed it if I had not seen it with my own eyes! Cultivate well!"

As cultivators, we should take the time to remove all the attachments that we have, wash away the dirt in our minds, cultivate firmly, and make progress on our way home, closely following Teacher. However, some practitioners are still disturbed by the attachments of sentimentality and lust. I would like to share something that happened in our area in the hope that it will alert fellow practitioners who have loopholes in this regard.

Some of the local practitioners had arrived earlier and were introducing the beauty of Falun Dafa to passersby, while others were doing the exercises in the stadium. Practitioners who arrived later joined the exercises, lining up in straight formations. It was moving to look at the scene, full of compassion and harmony.

I was greatly touched by this sight. While we were doing the third exercise I noticed that some arms were up while others were down. All of us are doing the same exercise and all of us came with same wish but we were in different fazes. Some were a little faster and others a little slower. There I had a sudden understanding that we as practitioners are perhaps not really aligned yet. At the same time I was wooed by the very thought of us being or becoming one body and how strong and powerful our energy would not be if we are completely aligned together.

My name is Jinglian. I am 10 years old and have been a Falun Dafa practitioner for nine years. For me, Falun Dafa is incomparably good. The seeds of Truthfulness-Compassion- Forbearance have been sown in my heart. I strictly follow the teachings of Falun Dafa. For example, when other kids beat me or cursed me, I do not fight back in the same way as others do. But there were times when I couldn't endure. I will do better in the future.

There are a lot of Falun Gong practitioners whom wish to see or hear something specific so that they can walk their path more righteously. In fact, seeing or hearing something specific has indeed enabled many practitioners to do things more efficiently. However, being able to see or hear some things actually also limits our understanding of Falun Dafa. Many more people are cultivating without their Third Eyes open. For many people, it is very important to cultivate in such a way

The practitioners who were being criticised found it hard to accept and even became averse to their accusing attitude and manner. They felt pressured, but may not have figured out what their attachments were. Of course, the practitioners who pointed out the attachments did so in order that they could improve. However, why weren’t they able to achieve the desired result?

At first, I was trapped in doing projects. I have this mentality of getting things done. When I worked on Dafa projects, I was doing projects for the sake of doing projects, not to save sentient beings. I was spun by the projects. I felt great for myself because I did a lot of things for Dafa. I was so proud of myself that I augmented my selfishness.

Soon they stopped practising. When my husband and I went to Beijing to appeal for a stop to the persecution, they could not understand our actions. They criticised us for being foolish, saying, "Why don’t you just live a comfortable life? Instead, you are fighting the CCP. Why don’t you practise secretly at home?" We asked them, "What is wrong with practising Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance?" However, they continued to criticise us, even saying things that were disrespectful to founder of Falun Dafa and of the practise itself.

After receiving the first letter, she was unmoved and said that she did not believe it at all, so I wrote a second letter. After the second letter, she threw all the filtered letters at her supervisor and left in a fury. Seeing how she had changed after she learnt the truth, I continued writing to her. After receiving the third letter, she said, "I will not do this anymore." Practitioners were able to send letters successfully from then on. This incident also had a great impact on the local area.

Now I am almost seventy but feel very strong. Moreover, Falun Gong practitioners try to become better persons according to the principles of “Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance”. My disposition became more and more relaxed. Now I live an ever happier life. At this point the crowd’s attention turned to me, saying, “You don’t look your age, looks like you are in your fifties.”
At that time a lad shouted repeatedly, “Falun Dafa is good!” With his shouts, everyone took the Nine Commentaries and the other materials.

The lecture was held at the Mingfang Hall in Jilin University. Because so many people, from 3,000 to 4,000, attended Master's lectures, Master split practitioners into two classes, one in the morning, the other in the evening. The lectures each lasted for ten days. Usually the lecture was an hour and a half and during the remaining half hour Master taught the exercises. Master was very busy every day.

After sending forth righteous thoughts my tooth was still in pain. I thought about how in the past several days I spent too much time doing everyday errands and did not practise the standing exercises as much as I should have. I decided to do them right away. After finishing the four sets of standing exercises my tooth felt much better.