Australia: Melbourne Falun Dafa Experience Sharing Conference Successfully Held

On May 21st, the Melbourne Falun Dafa Sharing conference was held. Veteran and new practitioners gathered together to share their cultivation experiences from everyday life, work, study and truth clarification efforts.

The conference site

On May 20th, the day before the conference, practitioners held an anti-torture exhibit at the Melbourne downtown city plaza to expose the brutality of the persecution and the atrocities of harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners. Passers-by signed the petition to support Falun Gong and to call for an end to the persecution. After viewing the exhibit and truth-clarifying posters, many kindhearted Australians cried and expressed their sympathy. Now and then, people formed a long line waiting to sign the petition.

Practitioners sharing experiences

A western practitioner named Trevor was the first one to share his experiences during the one-day conference. He said that he received a Falun Gong brochure from a Chinese practitioner 2 years ago, which inspired his interest in the practice. During his cultivation, he realised that many small things were in fact good opportunities for cultivation and truth clarification. Sometimes, opportunities were created by simply wearing a Falun Dafa T-shirt or exercise suit. Therefore, he said that one should not limit his or her truth-clarification efforts to just group activities. Instead, one should maintain the noble demeanour of a Dafa practitioner anytime and grasp every opportunity. Once, when he was selling furniture and other household items, he took the opportunity to distribute the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party to people who came for the yard sale.

Afeng obtained the Fa through the New Tang Dynasty TV station in 2004. Before she started to practise Falun Gong, she had a lot of diseases including gastritis, chronic headache, heart and kidney problems and insomnia. After she started to practise, her body was soon cleansed by Master Li and all the pain disappeared all of sudden. In the past, she could not read the newspaper for even 5 minutes. However, when she read Zhuan Falun [The main text of Falun Gong] for the very first time, she read the book continuously for an hour; the more she read, the more she loved the book and the better she felt. She felt that every cell of her body was filed with energy when she read aloud. Since then, she has tried her best to do well the three things, and difficulties and obstacles were always dissolved by righteous thoughts and actions. Once, she went out to help distribute truth-clarification newspapers. A fierce back pain suddenly occurred and she couldn't move her body at that moment. However, she had a righteous mind; she asked Master for help in her heart: "I need to distribute the newspaper, I have to go and I want to go." After she got off the train, the pain simply disappeared. She then enlightened to this principle: Nothing can stop Dafa practitioners who have righteous thoughts and righteous actions.

Shuhua also obtained the Fa in 2004. She shared her experience in calling Chinese people to clarify the truth. When she started the project, she had a lot fear. She was worried about not knowing how to talk to strangers, being laughed at, and many other issues. However, she now can talk over the phone in a very rational, peaceful and relaxed manner. Sometime, she called 610 Office officials who were directly responsible for the persecution. Looking back, she can see Master's compassion and guidance at every step.

Polish practitioner Barbara shared how Falun Dafa gave her a new life. Her specialty is restoring fresco paintings. On November 11th, 2003, she was working alone in a church. All of sudden, she lost her balance and fell from the 7-metre high scaffolding. Her head and hands touched the ground first and she clearly heard the sound of skull fracture. With the doctors' hard work, she survived. However, her skull had several fractures, her nose and the bone above the nose was depressed, her upper palate was fractured into three pieces, and her wrists and knees were completely fractured. The doctors had to install many screws and steel plates in her body and her two eyes still looked in different directions. All her teeth were loose and her head had more than 100 stitches.

Two months later, a friend introduced Falun Dafa to her. Before the accident, she refused to read Zhuan Falun with the excuse of being too busy. However, on the third evening of her reading, she suddenly felt a strong electrical current in her two hands. A miracle happened: all the pain disappeared! When she practised the exercises, she could feel the bad stuff being cleansed from her brain little by little while fractured nerves were being reconnected... When she finished all the five exercises, she was immersed in a feeling of warmth and health which she had not had for a long time. Today, Barbara has a healthy body, a clear mind and an exceptionally calm heart. She sincerely stated that she was so happy with her choice of practice, and Falun Gong was more precious than her life.

Luanshuang shared how she grasped every opportunity to clarify the truth. She said things that seemed impossible always became possible when she maintained a pure heart in truth clarification.

A practitioner named April came from Mainland China. She shared her experience during the Fa-rectification period. When the persecution started, she was confused and didn't know what to do. With diligent Fa study and sharing with fellow practitioners, she gradually became a Dafa disciple during the Fa-rectification period with firm righteous thoughts. When she was arrested for her belief, she clarified the truth to the policemen and managed to walk away safely. When her relatives were arrested, she went to clarify the truth to their supervisors and tried hard to rescue them. With the development of righteous thoughts and more Fa study, she started to clarify the truth at work. She incorporated the principles of "Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance" into her daily life and her classes. Consequently, she obtained trust from her students, fellow teachers and the principal. After work, she always kept some truth-clarifying materials with her wherever she went.

Time flies, and the one-day experience sharing conference soon concluded with great success. Practitioners said that they would cultivate more diligently and do well the "three things", to live up to Master's arduous salvation.