Feeling the power of cooperation as we improve as one-body

Greetings, respected Master! Greetings, fellow practitioners!

My name is Thuy Anh and I am from France. In 2019 I obtained the Fa in Vietnam and set out on the path of cultivating in Dafa.

In 2026 it was the second time I took part in the Shen Yun tour. In France, the overall coordination and organisation of the tour had improved. As one particle within this one body, I truly felt how the improvement of the whole was carrying me upward. With our coordinators leading the way, I found myself becoming more truthful, more kind, and more patient.

In such a positive, uplifting environment, I examined myself deep down: how could I walk the path of a truly cultivating disciple more diligently? That process of reflection brought me a real breakthrough in my cultivation.

1. A New Understanding of Cooperation

Until this year, I had always thought that “cooperating well” meant keeping righteous thoughts, being friendly towards others, looking inward when conflicts arose, and respecting other people’s opinions. Studying the Fa together with practitioners on the Shen Yun project team, this year I came to a higher understanding of cooperation.

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.

Being there in person does not necessarily mean that a truly harmonious state has been reached. True cooperation depends on one’s own cultivation state, and on the purity of thoughts that one sends out towards fellow practitioners and towards the project.

2. Removing Jealousy and a Combative Mentality

This new understanding also led me, during the tour, to discover and remove my own jealousy. In one city, sales of the Shen Yun Creations cards were at a standstill. When I saw that the music DVDs at the neighbouring stall were selling very well, I began to feel that their success was hurting my own sales. I knew that this way of thinking was not in accordance with the Fa, yet I went on thinking it, as though I could not help myself.

In the next city, however, that stall’s music DVDs suddenly sold out and there were none left. I realised at once that this was in fact a test, meant to let me see clearly that the negative thoughts I had been having were all of my own making. So I worked to remove my combative mentality and turned my attention back to my own task of selling the cards.

Even so, my sales that day still showed no marked improvement. Master was showing me concretely that the problem did not come from anyone else but from myself. I had not truly looked inward for the cause in myself. Instead, I had been looking outward far too much. So I sent forth righteous thoughts to clear away these attachments, put my whole mind into doing my own work well, and at the same time kept myself ready to help others at any moment. I thought of a passage Master taught in Fa Teaching Given at the 2002 Conference in Washington, D.C.: “The next person’s things are your things, and your things are his things.” (Collected Teachings Given Around the World, Volume II)

From then on, thoughts of comparing myself with others and competing with them gradually faded away. Once my thinking had been rectified, cooperation with the other teams also became smooth and natural. At the end of the tour, the person in charge of the neighbouring stall embraced me with tears in their eyes and said, “Our cooperation has been truly wonderful!” After I rectified myself, sales of the Shen Yun Creations cards improved noticeably as well.

3. Removing Doubt and an Unsteady State of Mind, and Saving Sentient Beings Better

For two years I had felt frustrated that sales of the Shen Yun Creations were low, especially given the great deal of time and energy I had put in and the long journeys I had made. I kept asking myself: was taking part in this way really the best use of the time and resources Master had given me? At times I even worried that I might be wasting Dafa’s resources.

I would also think of other truth clarification projects and wonder why I did not join those instead of staying on in a project whose results never seemed to show. Doubts of every kind kept interfering with my thoughts.

As the tour went on, my understanding gradually improved. I came to realise that I should not use human notions to measure the relationship between what I put in and the results on the surface. If a project can exist alongside the Shen Yun performances, then there must be higher-level reasons for it that lie beyond my human perspective.

I also came to see that a Shen Yun Creations card is not merely an ordinary product. Once audience members take a card home, they are in fact coming into contact with sacred content, and they themselves become emissaries who spread Shen Yun to the people around them.

This understanding also showed me that many attachments were still hidden within me: an attachment to fame, an eagerness to see results, and an unsteadiness in my own state of mind that made me want to change projects the moment I met with difficulty. I found that this same state of mind was in fact present in my everyday life as well.

Since nothing in a cultivator’s life happens by chance, I understood that this project was precisely the best opportunity I could have for removing these attachments. I sent forth righteous thoughts more intensively to clear away these negative substances, and I became firmer in the prehistoric vow to save sentient beings. After that, sales improved markedly.

More than the sales figures themselves, what I feel now is that I have truly assimilated to this project and given myself to it wholeheartedly. I will carry on with this project with firmer resolve and a purer heart.

The above is my own understanding at my level. If there is anything not in accordance with the Fa, please kindly point it out.

Thank you, respected Master! Thank you, fellow practitioners!

(Submitted to the European Fa-Conference 2026)