My Experience of Teaching Falun Gong to Children in Israel

By a western practitioner
Shared at the Israeli Fa-Conference

I would like to share my experiences of promoting Falun Dafa to children.

Sometimes we do not understand the importance and stature of our experiences until someone points these things out for us. This was the case with my experiences with children. Only after I was asked to write them down did I become aware of their tremendous strength.

I am mentioning this because I am completely convinced that every cultivator sitting here, has gone through meaningful experiences or emotional states but he's not aware of them or didn't fathom their depth and value.
Several months ago, I joined two cultivators for a Falun Gong workshop amongst arts class pupils at an elementary school. The children did the exercises and most of them reached a state of tranquillity. Afterwards they were asked to paint following their understanding of the universal characteristics: Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, using colours that they thought would be appropriate. The results were magnificent. Their teacher indicated that their works were especially beautiful. One pupil painted a Falun (Law wheel) although we didn't mention it. Another pupil painted an exercise that we didn't teach. Others drew the Zhen-Shan-Ren (Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance) Chinese characters according to the flyers we brought; some noted that the character Ren (Forbearance) is the hardest to draw. A pupil drew himself sitting in mediation surrounded by the characters of Zhen (Truthfulness) and Shan (Compassion) and the word "ñåáìðåú" (forbearance in Hebrew) on his chest. The colours were harmonious. One could feel the children's pure and swift connection to the Fa [Law and principles of Falun Gong]. They insisted on finishing their work even though it was late at night.
The practitioner, who invited me to join her in that workshop, expressed her doubts about her motives to transfer the Fa specifically to children, thinking that this is a kind of attachment and that she might end up harming Dafa. I remember telling her that what should happen will and what isn’t suppose to happen won’t and that she doesn't have to worry. Nowadays I know that without such attachments we cannot cultivate or do things Dafa.

I think I said that confidently, because I myself had such a dilemma with promoting the Fa in an Arabic society. "Teacher never mentioned Islam…" I was told, or "We should concentrate on truth clarification to those who oppose the Fa…” "New members might add Karma to the existing and that would delay Fa Rectification ". However, whenever doubts increased and I would start to ask myself as I sat in Lotus position whether I’m not harming the Fa, things happened and that made me continue the path I took and made it clear that what should happen is indeed happening at the right time.

As the process took several months and each time I saw another door slightly opening, I understood that whenever such a thing happens and whether each of these doors are opened depends on Xinxing [Heart/mind nature] improvement. As I upgrade my Xinxing the doors consequently opened wider. But I also understood that promoting the Fa and Fa clarification isn't solely based to my own improvement.

One day, just after having one of those doubts, I received an email which showed about 3000 Muslims practicing in Malaysia, and how their spiritual leader spoke on how Dafa is the law and there's no need to seek it anymore, and that there is an Arabic proverb talking about travelling to China in quest of knowledge. But now there's no need to do that because Dafa has already arrived. In the article it was said that the evil forces are vanishing and thus more people can receive Dafa. Shortly afterwards the doors opened in Israel and Muslims here started practicing Falun Dafa. I have understood from the article that Dafa practitioners are one body: That our success, in promoting the Fa or in clarifying the truth, is based on the improvement of each one of us and in the improvement of all of us cultivators as one body. The body depends on us and we depend on it. If the body, as a whole, doesn’t improve it will hard for us as individuals to work, but if we as Dafa particles don’t improve, we will make it harder for the entire body to operate.

I think that at that time many practitioners' articles were published about sending righteous thoughts, and I started to understand it’s importance. So I started to take part in this as much as I could. I felt that the more I sent the more things turn righteous and are cleansed in me, and felt like the Fa is purifying me. I remember describing to another cultivator that as I send righteous thoughts, I sometimes feel like in a pond of pure water. Consequently, I understood how important it is that each particle of Fa sends righteous thoughts to strengthen the body of the Dafa cultivators. So as each of us clean more and more evil and Karma the whole body becomes most clear and swift to act.

As I said, after the event in Jakarta the door was also opened in Israel. Apparently the right time has come, and when it comes all the doors become wide open. I saw the people's yearning for Dafa. They came one by one as a tremendous wave of humans, a giant wave seeking the Fa. Both of us, the cultivator that expressed her doubts about the children and myself, received offers for workshops for children and youth in summer camps. She was offered to work with Jewish children and I was offered to work with Arabic children in Vadi-Ara. Hundreds of children and tens of adults participated. Seeing that flow, so many camps, so many children. It was hard to understand that what should happen actually happens in the right time.

During the same summer, I spent some time in France; I practiced with a cultivator in a public park. There were children playing and shouting. As we practiced there in the late evening, many children, big and small surrounded us. They joined us, giggling and wondering about the matter. But slowly they joined us mentally and tried to imitate our movements the best they could. We then explained, they listened and asked questions.
In the sitting exercise many of them reached the state of tranquillity. Some looked just like Buddhas.

Their parents called them for the evening dinner but they didn’t want to go. Asking for some more time. Their parents smiled and waited on the side. The other practitioner told me that one child after reading the flyer asked him about the persecution in China, she expressed her will to lecture on it in her class. She asked for materials on the subject and then she called her all her friends and started to instruct the exercises, correcting them and explaining.

I see this phenomenon and I ask myself: Are these children the next course of the Fa? Again I see that what should happen - happens at the right time. Question is: Isn’t the right time something that depends on us?