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Germany: Cultivation Experience Sharing Conference Held on New Year's Eve in Erbach (Photos) By a German practitioner (Clearwisdom.net) On the afternoon of December 30th, 2005, two hundred
Falun Gong practitioners attended the annual German cultivation experience
sharing conference held in Erbach, Germany. This experience sharing conference
has become a focal point of the annual four-day-long New Year gathering in
recent years. A female practitioner, in her 50s, gave an account of how she
was forced to leave her home in China. When she attended the petition activities
at the Chinese Consulate for the first time after arriving in Germany, she could
not help but burst into tears, for it had been four years that she wasn't able
to practice Falun Gong exercises publicly. Besides exchanges about the situation in China, five practitioners shared how
they cultivated themselves in a far friendlier environment on foreign soil. A
western practitioner delivered a speech about how she got rid of the attachment
of being unwilling to shoulder responsibilities before she was finally able to
handle events independently, such as organizing photos for exhibitions. Cultivation is not equivalent to doing work. This was an experience shared by
a Chinese practitioner from southern Germany. Reminded by other practitioners,
she realized when she was composing a group dance for fellow practitioners that
she didn't spend enough time studying the principles of Falun Dafa. After she
strengthened her study and started reading one lecture of Zhuan Falun
every day, she recognized her attachment very easily, and came to the
enlightenment that cultivation is not doing work. The rest of the practitioners who gave speeches at the conference also talked
about their cultivation experience obtained from attending Falun Gong
activities. At the dining table after the conference, some practitioners were
still discussing what they had learned from the conference. Some said they had
noticed their own shortcomings by listening to the speeches; some stated that
they had established a better understanding about issues they used to feel
unclear about in the past. For them, this experience sharing conference has been
a site to "encourage learning and mutual cultivation." Source: http://www.clearharmony.net/articles/200601/30752.html Posting date: 1/4/2006
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