Treasure Every Moment Together with Falun Dafa Disciples

Greetings Master,
Greetings Falun Dafa disciples

It is a great honour to be here to share my cultivation experience. I obtained the Fa in spring 2005. It was the time when nature was coming to life again. Through the eyes of an ordinary person, there was nothing extraordinary, but now, since I started to walk my path as a Dafa disciple, I see that not a single step has been taken just like that.

Throughout my childhood I felt like I never had enough space to move. When I was at kindergarten, the midday sleep felt like a real waste of time. Playing in a sandbox couldn’t keep my attention for long. I was looking around and searching for my way out. Also at home, my grandfather’s garden was too narrow for me, so I often jumped over the fence and went to see the world outside. During my teenage years, I made many different wheels, to move faster, but all of that gave me just a short-term feeling of satisfaction. At that time, I had started to study at a boarding school for sports, so from that moment my path as a professional athlete had begun.

Being a professional athlete, my way of life involves travelling a lot. So at the very beginning when I obtained the Fa, there was little time for learning the practice in a local Fa study group. After about a month I went to a training camp, and I continued practising on my own. The schedule of the day was quite specific, so the only time for practice was early mornings, while my other teammates were having a good sleep to get ready for the next training day.

One beautiful summer day, I woke up in the morning. My body was light and as if something was lifting me up. At that time I had no idea what was going on, because of my very tiny understanding of the Fa. I just felt that this was something really good.

I liked to do the exercises. When it was hard to keep my hands up in the Falun standing stance exercise, or painful while sitting in meditation, I just quietly told myself: “Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance” After a little time of practising my body went through a great change, but my mind had little improvement.

One day I had a deep feeling in my heart that there is something much more than great exercises. So I got the Zhuan Falun book in Russian and started to read it. Because of my poor Russian, it took about three or four months to read it once on my own. But only after some time I understood that it was not about language but about how immense and boundless this Fa is, and how much I missed other practitioners giving me a hand to understand it in a shorter time.

Through this process I have gained a better understanding of what Master mentioned about how hard it was for us to obtain the Fa and how precious the opportunities were for Dafa disciples to be together, help each other, share with each other and do Dafa projects together. For those who complain that the shoulders of other practitioners are sometimes too small, I could say: Please treasure them, because they are always bigger than a mountain.

As I mentioned before, a lot of my life is about travelling - travelling to quite extraordinary tourist places. Most of the luge tracks are placed in small towns and villages, up or near mountains. I always have had the heart to find some local practitioners to study the Fa together, practise exercise or share experiences. I had never succeeded, until last year, when I went to some small town near Moscow.

Near – that means 2.5 hrs going by car. It was my greatest experience of just how boundless the hearts of many Dafa disciples are. I called them, and they just came to pick me up. In addition, after a long evening of studying the Fa, sharing experiences and having a beautiful dinner, they drove me back, like it was a 15 min drive. It helped me to feel and understand how precious this opportunity of being together is in this historical time, and how much we can learn about ourselves through each other.

Master has given the Fa to us, and I feel that we are like living particles of it. When we come together, we become as one solid light of Fa, which can shine and rectify every millimetre of this human world and other worlds around, existing at the same time in all parallel dimensions.

Last year I went to the experience sharing conference in Washington. It was a long trip and on the first day I felt really tired due also to the time difference, but my only understanding was that I could not waste this precious time by going to sleep. So I was trying to keep up, but it felt like a kind of suffering. And then I started to dig inside myself. I found quite a lot of my shortcomings, such as the attachment to comfort, not enough Fa study and exercise, too much ordinary person’s behaviour, and too weak-willed to do more for saving sentient beings. Of course, finding and understanding all of that helped me to improve my cultivation.

The day was over and it was time to sleep. I slept well and the next day woke up full of determination. There was one meeting planned, and I went there. We started with Fa study together. It was pure and harmonious, but then came the time for sharing and some practitioners started to fall asleep. I was trying to overcome it and to find the reason of having such a state, but then just one thought came to my mind: “We are all here by the will of Master. It means that every word said here in the conference, is what Master wishes us to hear.” And after that, in a second, I became fresh and clear-minded, and could listen to others and feel the compassion and the big heart of everybody around. This was the feeling of pure land.

So I would like to thank you all for being as you are. I also would like to apologise to those of you, who I misunderstood or mistreated. I believe that the only way to fulfil our promises to all living beings and to reach our goal of cultivation is to treasure each other, and to treasure every moment of being together.

I would be glad if any of you would help me to see my shortcomings, and when my view is too narrow-minded, please help me make it broader.

Thank you Master
Thank you All