Suggestions for How to Write Experience Sharing Articles

Falun Dafa practitioners write "experience sharing articles" to share their cultivation experiences with each other. Though some people who don't practise Falun Gong and even perpetrators of the persecution also read them, the primary audience is practitioners. The style differs from articles that are written for the general public, such as descriptive or narrative articles.

In writing for the public, we focus on facts, events and the underlying principles. In experience sharing articles, we focus on our understandings of the principles of Falun Gong and on improving our understandings and our xinxing (mind-nature; character) in the face of conflicts and tribulations. In this way, we can learn from each other regarding how to study the teachings of Falun Gong better and how to improve our xinxing.

Members of the general public can learn why we do things as we do, which is a matter of our cultivation. They can begin to understand what kind of people we are, our purpose for doing things, and the benefits that our cultivation can bring to others.

Some practitioners feel it's easy to write about things they've done. As a result, their articles read like work reports or like our materials for clarifying the facts. Some practitioners write experience-sharing articles as if they are "shouting slogans." These kinds of articles cannot contribute to sharing cultivation experiences.

As many practitioners have felt, writing experience-sharing articles is a process of rational thinking, cultivation, and self-improvement. Even if initially our thoughts were wrong, not very rational, or not pure enough, this is an opportunity for us to reflect, to see how much improvement we have made in our thinking and actions after a period of studying the teachings of Falun Gong and showing people the true facts about Falun Gong, and to learn from our shortcomings and failures. We can also share some specific examples. Such experience-sharing articles can play a good role in our cultivation.

No matter what you have done, when you write an experience-sharing article, you should not talk only about the specific things that you have done and neglect cultivation and improvement.

The above is just my personal understanding and is for your reference only.