A cultivator and a non-cultivator have fundamentally different understandings on what it means to be kind. Non-cultivators make judgments on whether a person is kind based on selfishness. A non-cultivator perceives you as a kind person if you satisfy his requests or provide him with benefits in your speech or actions. Additionally, he may call you unkind if you disagree with him or fail to satisfy his requests.

enlightened to the understanding that the dimensional space around a cultivator changes with his mind-set. If our conduct is upright, it will have a positive influence on everything around us. False occurrences and images will not be allowed to manifest if we do not have that particular attachment, or if the field that is not upright isn't there. When we look at others with sexual attraction and desire, we have already created karma due to these attachments.

During wheat harvest time, all the farming households in my area have to wait for their turn to use the paddy harvesting machine. While they are waiting, I tell them about withdrawing from the CCP. The majority of farmers accepted the truth and asked to withdraw from the CCP using nicknames. One day about 100 people asked to withdraw from the CCP.

When a problem arises, I unknowingly make excuses for myself. One day I came to realise that while I thought I had completely eliminated my jealousy through cultivation, in reality I had only eliminated some of it. It is like a fully grown tree, where only some branches and leaves are well-maintained, but the root and the main trunk are untouched. Past scenes were flowing by in my mind. The fact of the matter is, what I didn't do right was because of my "pride" that was caused, in some way, by jealousy.

Teacher told us in Zhuan Falun, "matter and mind are one thing." I felt that the matter of my fear continuously accumulated in other dimensions. Plus, the human notions I had formed in human society presented a barrier, wrapped me up as if I was inside a shell, controlled me, and made me unable to think independently. Although I studied the Falun Gong teachings every day, I was not able to break through the obsession of fear.

Today I read that Sujiatun Concentration Camp in Shenyang had detained more than 6,000 Falun Dafa practitioners to harvest their organs for profit. I shared with other practitioners and found some problems. Although it was already very late into the incident when we learned about this, I still hope that everyone can learn from our sharing.

I did not listen as I thought I'd heard enough advice and that I knew enough about computers, so I didn't need to hear any more. (This was due to my attachment to self-approval and stubbornness. This is the manifestation of my attachment to self. The attachments were so strong and yet I still didn't notice.) In the end, I chose a Chinese brand. It's an expensive brand and the specifications are low, and they come with a lot of problems.

After I was released from imprisonment, I heard about Nie Ge, a Falun Dafa practitioner in Singapore. I was saddened when I was told that she had her work permit and five-year Certificate of Social Activities (residency permit) revoked on June 2nd and that she had gone to Malaysia on June 5th, seeking asylum. I'm very worried about her current situation.

My inability to take criticism also has its historical roots. I’ve always been the leader since I started working, whether it was a small unit or a large unit. And most of the units were organizations of authority. In addition, I was instilled with the Chinese Communist party (CCP) culture since birth. Hence, the inability to take criticism was deeply ingrained in me.

Before practicing Falun Dafa , I didn’t have many dreams in life; I cared very little for fame and self-interest, and I could easily treat others nicely. However, I took "my happiness" very seriously. I once secretly made a resolution that I must study hard and leave the countryside; then I could rush about diligently to seek "my happiness." There is nothing wrong with this goal for human beings, but a cultivator should have a different goal.

Some are unconfident of their writing skills, some consider their experiences unworthy of writing, and others are illiterate, etc. Despite all kinds of excuses, these practitioners have obstacles to overcome which have blocked them from sharing their cultivation experiences. The roots of the obstacles are that practitioners have not realized that it is a practitioner’s obligation to write cultivation experience sharing articles.

Sometimes when mother refused to take my criticism, I would become very judgmental and reproach her, forcing her to admit her attachments and accept my criticism. Yet, with other practitioners, I would express my concern in a friendly manner, acceptable to them. If they didn’t want to listen, I wouldn’t pass judgment or hold a negative opinion of them. I realized the different attitudes reflected my sentimentality

My mother and I attended the first lecture Teacher gave in Dalian. My mother was in very poor health. She had all kinds of diseases, particularly tuberculosis, which made walking very difficult for her. My brother had heard that Falun Gong was very popular in Beijing. When Teacher came to Dalian, my brother bought tickets for my mom and me so we could attend Teacher's seminar.

Because I indulged myself in leisure, I became slack in doing the three things well. When I realised it, I had already lost lots of precious time. Now, I want to write down my experience so that our fellow practitioners who have similar attachments will wake up and not have regrets about the past.

One evening while reading Zhuan Falun, my granddaughter suddenly asked me, "Grandma, did you memorise the whole book?" I realised right away that Teacher was hinting for me to memorise the Fa. In January 2006, I was motivated and awakened by the many experience sharing articles by fellow practitioners on memorising the Fa. Only then did I make up my mind to memorise Zhuan Falun.

In order to promote an independent investigation of the Chinese Communist Party's live organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners in China and call for an end to the persecution of Falun Gong in China, some of us practitioners launched a van tour. Our van tour lasted nine days and travelled to seventeen cities in seven states. Along the way, nine newspaper, ten TV stations and one Radio station reported our tour.

Having righteous thoughts, strong righteous thoughts and sufficient righteous thoughts differ in their degrees and also in their results. Master always asks us to keep sufficient righteous thoughts. This is my personal understanding: What is "sufficient"? It is a full, 100 percent, and it is without a tiny bit of doubt or waver.

They used the power of the government to slander Falun Gong and promote hatred. I was confused at that time, and wondered what was going on. We had never done any bad things, and we cultivated Falun Dafa to be good people and have a healthy body. I told myself in my heart that no matter what tribulation I had, that I would still cultivate in Falun Dafa.

One night in 2004, I dreamt I was arguing with a woman in her thirties. I was very agitated and cursed at her. However, she was very kind and smiled at me without saying a word. I woke up from my dream and thought to myself that I must try to find that person and apologise to her.

The moment I decided to truly practice, I felt my body lighten and had a sense of joy. I studied the Fa and did the exercises, feeling energetic, even if I did not sleep. Miraculously, without experiencing any major reaction in karma elimination, my migraine headaches that had tormented me for over 20 years disappeared. So did the protrusion of my lumbar disc, insomnia and my stomach troubles. I seemed to have become a new person.

While persuading sentient beings to withdraw from the Chinese Communist Party this past year, Falun Dafa practitioners have tried to find opportunities to clarify the truth, help people quit the CCP and save them. But sometimes we felt that the opportunity was slipping away and we couldn’t find a breakthrough point. I would like to share some of my experiences concerning the issue of whether to give up or to maintain righteous thoughts and eliminate the interference.

Since then I began to practise cultivation. Every day I studied the Falun Gong teachings and did the exercises. I tried very hard to follow what Zhuan Falun said. Soon, I found I didn't need those medicines I took every morning to cure my backache and thyroid gland. I also had been taking drugs that prevent thrombosis and vitamins.

At the place where we go to study the Falun Gong teachings or the Fa as a group, there is an older couple. The husband, over 70 years old, hasn’t received much education, while the wife, in her 50s, is illiterate. Going through the persecution, they have clarified the truth of the persecution without fear of hardship, relying on their righteous thoughts and righteous actions.

Zhang Lin’s fellow drivers said, "If [Zhang] hit other people, he would have had to spend over 100,000 yuan to get things settled. But this Falun Gong [practitioner] asks for nothing. She is a good person. We heard she was once arrested and sent to a labour camp because she practised Falun Gong. This is so unreasonable. Such good people are persecuted. Is there any justice in this country?"

Certainly, the practitioners who know me also spent time and effort trying to help me. They truly wanted to help me, but I didn't feel that they did it in the right way. Now it seems to be a big omission for us as a whole. First, we seldom look within and always look outward at others. Secondly, we unintentionally put too much emphasis on fellow practitioners' attachments. We need to restrain thinking that won't have the effect of helping others in the end.

Such bloody atrocity is committed against cultivators on the path to godhood. How much sin will mankind have to suffer? Yet people in this world are so numb, including a considerable part of us, the cultivators. People's mentality, in my opinion, actually reflects the state of us cultivators as a whole body.

There was an argument among practitioners while we were studying the Falun Gong teachings or the 'Fa'. On the way home, a practitioner saw two cars hit each other. The next day as this story was being told to me, as I looked down the stairs, I also saw two cars hitting each other. When practitioners get into arguments due to selfishness, isn't it like two cars hitting each other?

I sometimes wondered what happened to my diligence before the persecution against Falun Gong illegally started on July 20th, 1999. At that time, studying the Falun Gong teachings ir the 'Fa' and practising the five exercises were of top priority to me. No matter how busy I was, I stuck to it and never skipped reading or doing the exercises. I can still remember the wonderful feeling of basking in the Fa. However, after I was illegally detained and later released, I began to look for excuses for myself.

As I read Zhuan Falun, I found the lighthouse that could guide me through the night. The principles in the book are profound, and when I connected them with my experience in society, everything became so clear. All of my worries disappeared, and my life suddenly became enriched, active and wonderful.

On the 4th day after the police arrested a fellow Falun Gong practitioner, I received a call on my mobile phone. I was asked if I knew the arrested practitioner and told that she was now expecting me to meet here at a certain location. It was apparent that the police were trying set a trap.

Recently, several practitioners have shared understandings about the vile Chinese Communist Party’s harvesting of organs from living Falun Dafa practitioners. We have observed that practitioners, most notably in the United States, have not taken action to expose these crimes and clarify the truth, or rather, they are acting slowly.

Fa study is an essential part of cultivating well in the Fa rectification period. I try to study at least one lecture per day of Zhuan Falun or another lecture, and do an hour of standing exercise or the fifth exercise. Sometimes I found my cultivation state wasn’t good and when looking inside I found that my Fa study and practising of the exercises had slipped without my noticing.

It seemed that I studied the Fa (law or principles in Falun Gong) and practised the exercises every day, but it did not play a role when I met with trouble. I felt that I was studying the Fa but did not obtain the Fa. I wondered why this was so. When I studied the Fa, I was absent-minded and always thought about other things. I could not remember the Fa that I had just studied. I did not know where I had stopped reading if I stopped for a little while.

Three months later he appeared again saying we needed to move 4 meters out. This time it only took one word to wake him up and he apologised, remembering who we were. Each time I was calm with a firm belief that what we were doing was righteous. Afterwards, I thought about why this had happened: I still hadn’t managed to talk face to face with the manager of the property. I still had some fear and this is how it manifested.

Recently I encountered two consecutive tests: one was about sentimentality and the other about money. Because of my many attachments, I didn’t pass these tests with flying colours. All Falun Gong students know that the more we remove our attachments, the faster we pass our tests and vice versa.

Because my mind was not righteous, and I had not awakened within the Fa, so each time I encountered conflicts with my son, I would endure with a human heart. After I changed that notion and accepted the child as part of my cultivation environment that I "must" face, I felt the situation changing.

Being able to take criticism is for me one of the most fundamental principles of being able to work well with others. I realised this early on when I started writing for one of our media. At first I would be upset if my articles were changed and this made problems for myself, and probably for other members of the team, also. I have to admit that I was even embarrassed to have my name on articles.

every day during lunch time I would go to the Parliament Hill to distribute materials and clarify the truth face to face to people. Usually, not many Chinese would stop to listen to me, and many of those who stopped would leave after hearing a few sentences. What a great blessing it would be to those Chinese people in the theatre if what they were watching was a video detailing the facts about Falun Gong and the persecution!

Different websites and media are targeting different audiences and speak from different angles, but they are all for the purpose of rescuing sentient beings in a maximised capacity. There are absolutely no distinctions between issues of one being more important than the other, just as we will not discuss whether the army or the air force is more important. But we need to know their respective roles.

One day as I was reading one of Master's lectures, it hit me like a ton of bricks that I have not been diligent. Of course, the answer was simple. However, it took a few months of getting up early every day, doing the exercises and studying the Falun Gong teachings before work, to enlighten to the difference between the meaning of being diligent and not being diligent.

During one trip with my relative, on the way back, we were passing through dense fog. At that moment, a thought suddenly appeared in my mind, "If something dangerous happens, I will be able to use it as a sound excuse to stop doing this work." At that moment, I did not evaluate this thought based on the principles taught in Falun Gong and did not deny it with righteous thoughts. The result was that we did have an accident, and I broke my leg.

This should have been the time for me to come back and help out more, but instead of seeing the need for stronger efforts on this project, I was stuck in myself, thinking: "I told them it was not reasonable, yet they still do it and throw away such huge amounts of money." I kept a passive attitude towards the gala, just providing help here and there, from time to time, instead of shouldering more and releasing a bit of the pressure off a few local disciples. Along with that was, as an excuse, the fact that I had to travel a lot for my job.

An invisible force closed my eyes and shut my mouth, forcing me to give up studying the Fa, and dragging me towards the bed. I knew this was interference. I sent forth strong righteous thoughts, "No matter what happens, I must learn the Fa by heart today!" I stopped other interference thoughts, and just read and memorised the Fa. The harder it was to memorise the Fa, the harder I tried. I memorised the Fa out loud. After two hours I felt refreshed and my head was clear.

I noticed that often when we talk about our experiences, we talk about how we faced the evil authorities and didn’t cooperate with them, how we finally broke through the tribulations and obstacles, and how we firmly believed in Falun Dafa and Master, but we rarely emphasise how to move forward in a more steadfast and rational manner, how to clearheadedly protect our cultivation environment from being disturbed, and how to diligently strive forward together and improve together.

Recently a Falun Gong practitioner who was illegally detained in a Chinese prison for five years was released. He told me that he has an obstacle in his cultivation. Whenever he wants to encourage practitioners to step forward, he feels that doing so will make the practitioners suffer more and he therefore feels unwilling to encourage them.

One day I fell asleep in the snow and I was near death. Nobody noticed it until two hours had passed, when the guards found me. They carried me to a nearby garage and started to massage my heart. Nothing worked. My pulse and blood pressure were abnormal and they were quite scared. They shouted at me. In the end, a prisoner warmed me with her body. After I woke up, I found that my upper lip was injured. I also tasted blood in my mouth. They still asked me whether I would "transform". I refused and they took away my clothes and threw me back in the snow.

I refused to look inward and improve myself from my heart. This caused me to have a very shaky foundation for my personal cultivation and I acted even worse than an ordinary person in some aspects. My speech and actions were not above those of everyday people, they were simply abnormal. This caused ordinary people to have the impression that "those Falun Gong practitioners are even worse than we non-practitioners.

My name is Dionne and I am 15 years old. I began to practise Falun Gong four months ago. I came into contact with Falun Gong through another practitioner by the name of Ruud who was visiting one of my old friends. I conversed with Ruud about Falun Dafa and it sounded good to me and I found it interesting, but I did not become a practitioner then. I’d like to share my experience about how I started practising Falun Dafa.

Not only did my rhinitis disappear during that miraculous night, so did my rheumatism. This illness started when I was ten years old, living in the countryside. It had bothered me for twenty-five years. My knee would swell and ache whenever the weather changed. It would migrate to other parts of my body. When I was young, I would cry because of the pain. Even during the hot summer, I needed to put on a kneepad. After I began to cultivate in Falun Dafa, I could lie on a concrete floor to sleep.

It did not occur to me that her attitude toward me had something to do with the old forces wanting me to fall, and manipulating her to behave that way to cause my fall. Anything she did seemed to be directed at my heart and resulted in increasing my attachments. One must not use the human mindset to think about problems, instead, one should use powerful righteous thoughts, knowing clearly that you are a Falun Dafa practitioner.