I never regarded myself as a jealous person and thought in the beginning of my cultivation that Master's words about jealousy were only for Asians. However, jealousy and the competitive mentality would become very big obstacles in my cultivation.

Some practitioners thought that their attachments to the different political parties or groups come from the influences of the news media such as the television and newspaper, etc. They thus plan to stop watching TV and reading newspapers. In this way, they have not fundamentally improved their understandings. We remove attachments so as to better save sentient beings

Doctors were astonished by her recovery! Her mother lives on the sixth floor. After practising Falun Gong, she climbs the stairs all the way to the sixth floor without resting. She's much healthier than she was before she took up the practise! Her neighbours and friends are all surprised by her healthier appearance and praise her for her youthful looks. Her mother uses those opportunities to introduce Falun Gong to them.

So could it be possible that Falun Dafa practitioners, because of our cultivation inadequacies, have caused the formation of some barriers among practitioners, which then become a kind of hindrance to the Fa-rectification? I then realised that in the past when the practitioners were separated by regions, the elements of such barriers could have been created, and in the present when the practitioners participate in different Falun Dafa projects and work in different teams, such barriers also exist.

A fellow practitioner, rushed to Bodo. She had contacted a reporter of the Nordland Daily, the most important newspaper in Norway. That afternoon the reporter actually came and interviewed us for three hours. The next morning, two whole front pages of the newspaper carried news that Falun Gong was being brutally persecuted in China. It had a such impact that before holding the news conference, when we were walking on the street of Bodo, some Norwegians gave us thumbs-up saying: "I know you! I have read the news! Hold the line!"

The rhythm of the drumbeats seemed to brighten me up and so I asked if I could join the drum team. To my disappointment, the team instructor said that all positions were filled. Suddenly, I felt as if I had lost something from my life. I regretted my hesitating in the first place, missing this opportunity. I didn't believe I had the ability until I saw them practise. Now I have missed an opportunity, which in turn made me somewhat miserable.

Recently, during some cultivation experience sharing with other Falun Gong practitioners, we discussed about the environment of the human society being a big dye vat and that all what we see and hear are tests for cultivators. Thus, in order to eliminate the attachment to political parties through cultivation, some practitioners suggested that we simply do not watch TV or read newspapers.

I am a Falun Gong practitioner from Hunan Province, China. I neglected the importance of studying the Falun Gong teachings - the Fa, cultivating my heart and exposing the persecution. As a result, I was seized in March of 2005 while distributing the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party . I was illegally sentenced to one and a half years of forced labour and was detained in Xinkaipu Forced Labour Camp in Changsha City, Hunan Province

Since then, I found that I sometimes felt an unknown pressure stuck in my chest when I went out to expose the persecution and let people learn the truth. I sensed that it was fear. I looked inside myself to find out why I felt this way. Eventually, I found the reason. It was because I had a mentality formed ever since my childhood that I liked to hear others’ praise for whatever I did. If another person said that I did not do things well, I would worry about it. I cared a lot about how others saw me.

It is not correct to seek to achieve a certain goal in reciting the Fa. The base point of reciting the Fa is to become more and more assimilated to the Fa, rather than to achieve a higher status for oneself, to make oneself different from other practitioners, or to satisfy one’s attachment for showing off, which are all not in line with the Fa principles and part of the attachment of pursuit. Furthermore, it is also not right to take reciting the Fa as a daily task or as a guarantee for maintaining a good status in cultivation.

We reached the practice site at Darling Harbour and saw 26 practitioners doing the sitting exercise with their their backs to the clear seawater. A practitioner who was with us intended to call a stop and announce Teacher’s arrival, but Teacher stopped him. We saw Teacher looking over the 26 practitioners until the end of the music with a gratified, gracious gaze.

I started practising Falun Dafa in 1996, but for a period of time in my cultivation I did not study the Falun Gong teachings - the Fa. I realised that because of this I was not able to elevate my understanding beyond the human level. I was worried. How was I to understand the Fa from the Fa? I often asked myself this question after I was persecuted and stopped studying. When I resumed practising in 2003 I gradually found an answer to my question.

When some practitioners speak, they like to imply which party is good or bad, which party needs salvation, or which party has already taken a righteous position. In fact, these comments all derive from human notions. Some practitioners get very upset when others criticize the party that they approve of. This anger comes from wanting others to accept and think the way they do. The motivation for debating the merits of the political parties is wanting to prove oneself right and wanting to validate oneself, not the principles layed out in Falun Gong.

Having been through tests of life and death and having experienced many hardships, local practitioners and I have walked our paths thanks to Master's protection. During each stage of Fa-rectification, we remind each other and encourage each other. Although our journey has not been smooth, we share a feeling of confidence.

I had a dream one night in 2004. I stood at a river bank and many people were saying, "Who dares to jump into the river?" Suddenly a man passed me, jumped into the river and shouted for help! I thought: why did I not pull him back? After I woke up, I realised Teacher gave me a hint to quickly save people. I suddenly remembered that the man who shouted for help used to go to the same practise site as I did.

One day as I was peacefully reading the experience sharing section in Minghui Weekly, the phrase, "the attachment of ridding oneself of attachments," in an article made me wonder. What kind of attachment is this? Is there such an attachment? Can a cultivator be wrong in getting rid of attachments? How can there be such a thing? I could not find the answer after thinking about it for a long time.

In this way, my memory became quicker, and my thoughts were clear and agile when I memorized the Fa. Later I memorized word for word, and paragraph by paragraph. Moreover, after I memorized one paragraph or issue, I wrote it down from memory, so it would not be easy for me to forget. Meanwhile, I repeatedly listened to Teacher's lectures, and watched the lectures on video. Every time I did this, I learned more, especially when I watched Teacher's lecture on video.

I send forth righteous thoughts before studying the Falun Gong teachings, before practicing the exercises, before writing articles, before doing activities to expose the persecution, before browsing the internet, before preparing and distributing materials, before going out the door, etc. In this way, we can eliminate evil about to disturb what we are going to do, and complete the activities smoothly.

We advised him, "If someone from an international human rights organization asked you how your sister was treated in the forced labor camp, how would you answer him?" He said, "I wouldn't say anything special. It is not bad." After my wife then told him about what she had suffered in the labor camp, the brother-in-law said, "Under such a situation, if there were only people from the international human rights organization present, I would tell them the facts. If there were government officials with them, I would still say what I just told you."

I thought, "First, I should give up my attachment to money. My getting my salary back looks the same as what an ordinary person would do, but I don't do it for the money. I do it because in the process I'll come across people and I must clarify the truth to them. Since the year spent in the labor camp is involved here, I must explain to them about the illegality and evilness of this persecution. I'll tell them however much I can, and I won't shove it down their throats; instead I'll just chat with them."

Due to the persecution, I have been homeless for several years and have limited sources when it comes to gettign hold of Falun Dafa materials. During these years, I have been validating Falun Dafa by clarifying the truth face-to-face with people. From what I have seen and heard and experienced, I think that the general public has changed its attitude toward Falun Dafa. I would like to share my understanding in this article.

Several years ago I experienced some setbacks in my cultivation. I was away from the practice for some time in a new living environment where I knew no practitioners and had no Falun Dafa books. My family members ruined my books. I could only write down on paper those articles of Master's that I had memorised before. But what I had memorised was not enough.

Master Li came to Kenli County, Shandong Province to teach people Falun Gong in February of 1994. I was just checking in at the government-run Kenli County Hotel when I overheard someone talking about Master travelling by train in our direction. I remember it was around the Chinese New Year's Eve then.

Therefore, when practitioners are together and one will say he has slacked off in something, other practitioners will echo, "So have I. I haven't been diligent in distributing materials either." There will always be people who echo, "So do I." Doing this made those practitioners who echo the others feel relieved, and forgive themselves. They think that there are other people who are like them. It's not just them who is experiencing this interference.

When I thought about this, I came to realize that I seldom practiced the five sets of exercises every day ever since I moved to Beijing. I generally practiced the exercises once every couple of days. This was the same for the fellow practitioner. I also know that many young practitioners from other areas, who currently live in Beijing, also have this issue.

I thought in my heart, "I have experienced 10 years of all kinds of hardships since 1996, when I first started to cultivate. What I am experiencing is definitely not illness. But why am I experiencing such a severe state? There must be loopholes and gaps in my cultivation for the old forces to take advantage of. Where are those gaps?" Following Teacher's teaching, I looked inside myself, tracked the gaps down by following clues, and dug deep for each one.

When I was standing in line to buy a train ticket, many bad thoughts boiled up in my mind, but when I truly thought it over I was ready to let go of everything, even being expelled. I suddenly felt that my body had become gigantic in a moment and all the troubles that had bothered me a moment before turned into nothing,

I told my daughter again not to be attached to the problem. Teacher explicitly said, "With no attachment to anything, the path underfoot is naturally clear" (provisional translation subject to further improvement.) The change in the direction of the tool bar was not a big issue. We could find someone to fix it. "Even if the sky collapses, we should not be attached." When I said this sentence, I suddenly became awakened.

I was predestined to participate in both sessions. As a volunteer during the second one, I had more opportunities to interact with Teacher, to listen to his earnest teachings, and to witness Falun Dafa's mysterious mighty virtues and powers. I will never forget those fond memories, and it is as if they just happened yesterday.

Now I've finished memorising 200 pages. I have come to understand that the process of memorising the Fa is also a process of cultivation practise and a process of improving one' character. In memorising the Fa, one can get rid of many attachments. When one's mind is extremely pure, it is relatively faster and easier to memorise the Fa.

The practitioner felt somehow enlightened after hearing my story, and she encouraged me to send it to the Minghui/Clearwisdom website so more practitioners could benefit from it. Because there are still many practitioners who cannot strengthen their minds and always treat themselves as cultivators, they are trapped by superficial sicknesses and all kinds of difficulties. Thus they fail to advance in personal cultivation or even worse, start to drop in levels.

After repeatedly studying the Fa, my understanding changed. Teacher's words are concise and simple, yet they profoundly contain deep Fa principles behind them. For every practitioner, Teacher's Fa is our guide for cultivation. It is the most respectful and precious base for cultivation in Fa rectification. Therefore, it cannot be regarded as only relevant to some, but not to others.

The interference may have resulted from attachments that were expanded upon by the old forces. But I also found out that most of these fellow practitioners did not pay much attention to sending forth righteous thoughts. There are several manifestations. First, when sending forth righteous thoughts, some practitioners' hands were not in the right position, or they were drowsy. After other practitioners pointed this out, they still could not correct it.

I saw the horror in the faces of the pedestrians, and many mouths were opened in shock. Many of them took the flyers or asked the practitioners for information. Some were very agitated and asked questions about the scene, and asked me what I was doing. After telling them the truth of the persecution and the organ harvesting, many said, “This is unbelievable. This is illegal and criminal. Why don’t the police do something about this?”

Since the Sujiatun horror was revealed, the witnesses' testimony always made me feel very uncomfortable. After reading each testimony, I usually could not calm my mind down all day. After sharing experiences with other practitioners, I realised that the arrangement of Fa-rectification is very well ordered and nothing that happened was coincidental. But I still could not get rid of feeling indignant.

When Falun Dafa practitioners from different regions of the world went to Washington, D.C. to participate in the parade, to protest, and to engage in other various activities, I was fortunate enough to be able to join them. While I was moved by the fellow practitioners' enormous contributions, I also felt the need to make several suggestions.

Fellow practitioners have written articles recalling Falun Gong classes that the founder of Falun Gong and our Teacher, Mr Li Hongzhi held in Chengdu City, Sichuan Province. Here I would like to talk about what I saw personally to serve as a supplement.

Once I compared Teacher's words to the way I've been taking criticism, I discovered that I was not doing alright at all. In fact, I was doing very poorly. When facing criticism, I often felt agitated and wanted to explain myself. Sometimes I would pretend not to be bothered by the chiding; other times I would ignite like a match (especially in front of people younger than me). Also, there were occasions where I would hold in my agitation until I exploded with anger, especially in front of my family members.

Some said that this was the greatest, most glorious act they had ever witnessed, especially since the Western media had to break its long silence to report on Falun Gong, which they said proved that this act was on the right track. This conforms to the principles in the ordinary world, hence, it is okay to look at it this way. While cultivators are fundamentally different from non-practitioners, we must look at other people and things with principles of cultivation.

We have faced the issues of how to remove our attachments of fear and enhance our righteous thoughts, and we have clarified the facts to people who did not know about Falun Dafa. When facing everyday people's misunderstandings and accusations, although we didn't argue, our attachments of fighting, hatred, complaining, self-defence, and so on slowly and unconsciously developed. Since 2004, my attachment to not allowing people to reproach or criticise me has obviously emerged.

This sudden incident has become and will remain a news focus of major Western media before it will be brought to a conclusion. May 3rd, the day when Wang Wenyi is scheduled to appear in court, is World Press Freedom Day. We have reason to believe that as long as Falun Dafa practitioners seize the opportunity to clarify the truth about the persecution to various strata of society, Western media will only give increased positive attention to this incident.

What we cultivate is "Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance." Therefore, we need to speak truthfully while clarifying the facts about Falun Gong. However, since the CCP did everything possible to hide the persecution information, we should not wait for all the facts to be validated before proceeding to move. Otherwise, more Falun Gong practitioners will be murdered and more people will lose the opportunity to understand the truth.

Since we arrived Sweden, we have used the Internet as a tool to expose the persecution according to our circumstances, besides trying to attend activities where we expose the persecution held in some European countries and regions. Now I would like to share some of my own experiences with you.

Then it was time for the performance. I have been in many performances and yet never experienced such a degree of concentration. It appeared as though I could tell the audience about Falun Dafa and the truth about the persecution with my eyes and my voice. I was full of energy and had permanent Goosebumps – a truly elevated moment. A fellow practitioner described it as: “We shook the world of the ten heavenly directions.” I agreed and thought that this was a very accurate statement.

Is our faith unquestionably firm and without any loopholes? We should not practise cultivation in such a persecution. Since the persecution happened, we need to look within, correct what is wrong, and negate all the arrangements. If we don't have any loopholes, the wickedness disappears immediately. If we do not do this, the wickedness may transform into problems. Let's look at our past! We have had to learn from many such lessons.

When I looked back I realised that I could have done much better if I could look at the whole issue from the viewpoint of saving sentient beings instead of imposing my feelings on the reporters because of the persecution. The whole experience also made me understand that when we trapped in the notions, the rescue effort could be very difficult. However, if we can let go of the attachments we would view things very differently.

In November of 2004, a group of Falun Gong practitioners from Latvia arrived in Manhattan, in order to clarify the truth about the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) persecution of Falun Gong. While we were in New York, we attended an experience sharing conference, held by the participants of The Epoch Times project. It was at this conference that we first learnt about the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party². We also learnt the significance of this publication for the mass-media of all the countries in the world.

I have been practising Falun Gong now for ten years. For years, I sensed having strong attachments to showing off, and being zealous and combatant. After a long time of cultivation, these attachments became weaker and weaker as my level improved, and I assimilated to Falun Dafa step by step. However, I never realised I had a strong attachment to jealousy.

I have learnt from the book that we should always look inward whenever we have a problem, but I only understood that when I really put that into practise. For instance, I had an argument with my husband and I was very upset because I thought he should be blamed for his selfishness. However, when I calmed down and looked inward deeply, I found out that actually it was caused by my selfishness. The moment I realised that and decided to change, my husband’s attitude miraculously went a U-turn and he treated me really kindly.

The business I started in Prague was broke; I thought I was very unlucky, but in fact I was the luckiest guy around. Because one year later, in a case of supposed illness in my family, I’ll remember this leaflet and what was stated on positive health effects of Falun Gong. Now I know the illness case was a staged one, as well as my moving to Prague – I think the real purpose of these arrangements was to make me read the Zhuan Falun, for the first time.