(Clearwisdom.net) Around two hundred Dafa practitioners from Switzerland, Austria and Germany gathered in the scenic forest region of Erbach in the central Germany to hold the annual holiday group experience sharing and study after Christmas. The activity lasted four days.
Sharing Between New and Veteran Practitioners
There were a lot of new practitioners joining this activity and many of them were westerners. Some had practiced Falun Gong for half a year and some for just a few months. Therefore an experience sharing between new and veteran practitioners was arranged to help new practitioners to further their understanding in cultivation. Many new practitioners were actively involved in truth-clarification projects to every people and were cultivating diligently. A Chinese couple from Southern Germany, who had practiced Falun Gong for only six months, cultivated very diligently and used their holidays to clarify the truth of Falun Gong to the Chinese tourists in the German town of Trier where Karl Marx was born. Some western practitioners overcame the attachment of fearing to be seen by friends during truth-clarification activities. Some took time every week to distribute Falun Gong leaflets to Chinese tourists in Cologne Cathedral. One Chinese practitioner learned about Falun Gong in 2001 but out of the fear that the Jiang regime and the Chinese Communist Party would go after her family members in China for her involvement in Falun Gong, she didn't practice at that time. Later she encountered great health problems and was hospitalized twice. After she became extremely skinny and realized that she was about to die, she chose to practice Falun Gong. Now she has fully recovered and is able to do all the daily chores.
Practitioners Actively Involved in Truth-Clarification Projects
During this holiday group study, aside from studying Dafa teachings together, practitioners involved in different truth-clarification projects shared experience in small teams. Practitioners, especially western practitioners, actively joined the group discussion and sharing. Western practitioners involved in the German newspaper project carefully studied all relevant technical information from library books as well as the Internet. They also invited specialists to train every team member.
2004 Falun Dafa Experience Sharing Conference in Erbach
In the afternoon of December 30, 2004, the German Falun Dafa Association organized the 2004 Falun Gong Experience Sharing Conference in Erbach. Five practitioners and one project group shared their cultivation experience. A full report on the conference can be seen at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/1/1/92589.html
Minghui School and the New Year Party
Because practitioners in the German-speaking area live quite far away from each other, they can't organize a regular Minghui school. In order to help young practitioners in their cultivation and also thus to give their parents opportunity to join various activities, four female practitioners organized a Minghui school during this holiday gathering. In the school, young practitioners studied the Falun Gong teachings and learned singing, painting Lotus flowers and writing the Chinese characters Zhen (Truthfulness), Shan (Compassion) and Ren (Forbearance). During a New Year party, young practitioners performed a song called "Falun Dafa is Good", recited some of Master's poems and demonstrated the first set of Falun Gong exercises. There were many new faces among the New Year party performers, and their participation made the party richer and more colorful.
 Chinese Minghui (Clearwisdom) School |  Young practitioners demonstrated the first set exercise of Falun Gong during practitioners' New Year party |
