During this year’s Shen Yun coverage, Master let me see how other practitioners deal with hardship. Their state, with no negative thoughts at all, straightforward and pure, giving of themselves wholeheartedly, believing in Master one hundred per cent, free of the attachment of fear and free of worry, made me simpler and more composed too.

I would like to share my cultivation experience with you. I am a young practitioner who grew up in a Dafa environment, as my mother, grandmother, and aunt are all practitioners. Although I did not fully understand cultivation during my childhood and was not diligent, I always knew that Falun Dafa is good.

This tribulation is like a milestone for me, one of the biggest yet, because I must face one of my most difficult tests: the SELF test! To accept what I am, to accept what I am not, and to be guided only by my heart. When Master Li showed compassion to me and made me part of Dafa. I had no education, no English, no special abilities. I had only a heart, a heart for Dafa!

When some tests come, they really are an examination. My understanding is that if you can step over a test quite easily, then the test was not set high enough. You are bound to face repeated tests of xinxing, again and again, ones that wrench at you and make you suffer, to see whether you can hold firm to being a cultivator, whether you can hold yourself to higher Fa principles and so make the right choice.

I realized that it is only fear and our own notions that hold us back, while we practitioners are in fact capable of far more than we sometimes believe. It is very important to overcome the fear of tiredness. How could I be afraid of getting tired when Master has created everything in this universe and is always by my side?

After a painful lesson, I came to understand that if I am not walking the path Master has arranged, then I am walking the path the old forces have arranged. Before I began my postgraduate studies, almost everything in my life had gone smoothly, and every step seemed easy. Even things that looked difficult I got through without trouble, under Master’s compassionate care and protection.

On 20 September 2026, nearly 1,600 Falun Gong practitioners from 31 European countries attended the European Fa Conference at the Top Hotel Praha in the Czech capital, Prague. Simultaneous interpretation was provided in 13 languages. 21 Falun Gong practitioners shared their insights and experiences regarding their cultivation experiences.

As we want to reach all of the members of the state parliament with the newsletter, keeping them informed and up to date, this is also an important question for us. How can we find out more? The idea was to call each person to ask whether the newsletter had arrived, or to ask whether they would like to continue receiving it by post or only online, as a way of staying in touch.

Another Western practitioner and I worked together: we clarified the truth to the heads of the Council's various departments and to its most senior leadership, and we set out the evidence that these people were CCP agents, along with our agreement for the truth clarification site and the legal basis of Article 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights. In the end, the Council's most senior leadership wrote back to us to express their support. Not long afterwards, this organisation of CCP agents closed down, and it remains closed to this day.

I can now understand why Master places such great emphasis on us striving to identify our fundamental attachments and then being able to let go of them. Otherwise, we will certainly fall far short of our potential. That would be a shame for us and, in particular, for the sentient beings who have placed all their hope in us. Now I’m paying more attention and doing better. What a difference!

This small incident is not worth mentioning in itself. What matters, as I see it, is the change of notion: we are far too used to avoiding any bodily discomfort. Yet each time “discomfort” arrives, before we instinctively push it away, perhaps we can also remind ourselves that hardship is coming, that this is a good thing, and that we should not dodge it.

In my understanding, Master has mentioned that our compassion is what should melt the evil factors that manipulate people so they will not hear the truth and that blocks their salvation. In other words, both things are extremes that practitioners should avoid: fear of stepping forward to clarify the truth, and the confrontation toward communism that I noticed in myself. This confrontation, or “struggle”, used so often in communist rhetoric, apparently exists within me, and I must get rid of it.

I have had many other experiences that I once considered unimportant. However, after reading other practitioners’ experience-sharing articles, I realized that this is not the case. It is valuable for us to share our experiences so that we can help one another improve, just as the experiences of others have helped me.

Through continued reflection and letting go of attachments, many hidden issues surfaced, with fear being the most deeply rooted. I also saw that my compassion wasn’t as strong as I had believed. These uncomfortable realisations became valuable opportunities to strengthen my cultivation.

I came to realise that true cooperation does not depend only on whether I am physically present. If, in my thoughts, I hold no prejudice against fellow practitioners, no dissatisfaction with the arrangements made for the whole, no resentment of any kind, and if I can assimilate completely to the project with pure and powerful righteous thoughts, then I am truly cooperating as part of the one body.