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Anecdotes from My Visit to Washington During the Experience Sharing Conference By an American Practitioner
July 28, 2003 (Clearwisdom.net) Master's lecture and the experience sharing of fellow practitioners are what
gave me the deepest impression during this Washington DC Fa Conference. Besides
these, I had witnessed many things during the few days I stayed in DC. They can
be put into stories and they touched my heart, and made me feel how truly
precious and sacred cultivation is. Below are a few such stories: I used to live in another state where it was quite difficult to start any Fa-clarification
activities. This was because the number of practitioners there was so few. I met
up with some practitioners from that state and learned that they had recently
obtained more proclamations from the local government, and had participated in
several parades. I saw a picture of them in the July 4th parade. In
the picture I saw their float, which had been done very well even though there
were so few practitioners present to help. I was very touched to see how they
did so well with so few people. On Monday, while sending forth righteous thoughts at the Chinese embassy, I
met an elderly lady. I learned that no matter whether it rained or shined she
would come to the embassy to send righteous thoughts. Some of her family are
non-practitioners, so it is sometimes difficult for her to come, but she always
manages to handle it very well. For the conference this time, she could have
gone to the main conference hall since she did not speak English, however she
chose to go to the secondary conference hall instead because she wanted to save
her space for practitioners from out of state. I was very moved. Practitioners came and went to the embassy quite frequently. This lady always
said hello or waved good-bye, and everyone was so friendly. We spent most of our
time studying Fa, doing exercises, and sending forth righteous thoughts, with a
few short breaks in between and some brief moments for experience sharing. By
being there I witnessed a very harmonious unity, and realized my own
deficiencies in several aspects. 3. How shall one view the conflicts between practitioners? During an afternoon I attended a project meeting. Everyone in the meeting
talked with modesty, as if his each one's effort was so trivial that it was not
worth mentioning. Seeing the calm manner, righteous thoughts, and selflessness
in their speeches, I sensed my own deficiencies. Due to lack of communicating, I used to think practitioners around me have
this attachment or that deficiency. In reality, I might not have known the seen
the good aspects of fellow practitioners. When I was shown their deficiencies,
it was actually an opportunity for me to look inward and improve myself. How
could I seek out and magnify fellow practitioners' deficiencies? 4. "It is my pleasure to do this." During the public rally on Tuesday, a practitioner and I unfurled a very long
banner on one side of the rally. The banner displayed in large English and
Chinese characters: "Truthfulness, Compassion, and Tolerance," but it
was too long for two people to handle. A practitioner came to help us, so the
three of us stood there and held the banner up until the rally was over, nearly
four hours. Several times during the rally, some practitioners came up and asked
us if we needed to switch with them to take a break. The woman who had come to
join us always replied with a smile: "No, thanks. It is my pleasure to do
this." No matter where I was, practitioners' righteous thoughts and righteous
actions always touched me. It allowed me to feel the power of Dafa and
encouraged me to do better. Posting date: 8/15/2003 |