(Clearwisdom.net) From June 27 to 29, 2008, Falun Gong practitioners in the central region of Taiwan gathered in the Lizhi Duke Grand Hotel, Douliu City of Yunlin County, for three days of continuous Fa study and sharing. Practitioners were moved and elevated in the pure environment through group sharing of understanding and insights on the Fa, cultivation experiences, upgrading of xinxing, and searching within. Everyone felt much benefited from this Fa study and sharing.

Group exercise at the Douliu Circle, in Yunlin's landmark of the Liudi Sign

Practitioners gather together for group Fa study

A practitioner shares cultivation experiences

A practitioner from Taichung shared his experiences from 2005 during the time of intense truth clarification in Manhattan. He was a new practitioner at the time, but he had convenient circumstances to go to the US. However, he avoided the issue through one way or another due to his attachment to comfort. Finally, under the encouragement of fellow practitioners, he decided to go. Yet due to the lack of righteous thoughts, many human attachments surfaced. He was concerned that the weather may be too cold, he may catch a cold, or worried about experiencing hardship and considered whether he should return early. Once he reached Manhattan, all the hardships he had been concerned about became real. In the -18 degree weather, he fell ill with a cold and fever. Whatever he was more afraid of, he would come across, in order for him to cultivate away the attachment to comfort and fear of hardship. Once he truly cultivated his own mind on the Fa, he was determined to be rid of those bad attachments. After experiencing these hardships, he let go of the attachments, and came to understand that factors of cultivation are integrated in validating the Fa.

In sharing about the power of righteous thoughts, one practitioner shared the example of his daughter's experience of fever. His entire family were practitioners, and knew how to treat the matter when his daughter caught a fever. However, when the fever did not subside, his human attachments surfaced, and took her to see a Chinese medicine doctor with whom they were acquainted. After diagnoses through the pulse, the Chinese medicine doctor said seriously, that the pulse did not match the symptoms of a fever. At that moment, the couple realized what was going on. After they returned home, they sent righteous thoughts around their daughter, and within a few minutes, her fever disappeared. This event also displayed the power of righteous thoughts to them.

Mr. Huang from Taichung said that in the past he had come in contact with many schools of practice, but upon cultivating Falun Dafa, he experienced the pure righteousness and beauty of Dafa. Through the process of cultivation he got rid of many attachments. As a non-practitioner, he used to be a man who thought of himself highly as a manager, and there would be someone to help him with every task. Yet as the progress of Fa rectification advances, many projects for validating the Fa require everyone's participation. In validating the Fa through distributing flyers, and selling tickets for the Chinese New Year Spectacular, he discovered various attachments, and cultivated them away.

A fellow practitioner in Yunlin also talked about the current state of the local practice site. He pointed out practitioners' state of Fa study and exercise at the site was not very good, as some practitioners were reluctant to come out and validate the Fa. Ms. Huang shared her own efforts on this matter. She called practitioners who scarcely came out for group practice and Fa study, and suggested holding a Fa study at the fellow practitioner's home. Ms. Huang helped practitioners at the practice site to step forward to validate Dafa, and she also helped each practitioner at the site to improve in their cultivation. She understood that when a wish is formed to assist in the Fa-rectification, Master will help us. Another event which touched Ms. Huang, was when her husband who used to practice other qi-gong, began to cultivate in Dafa. He opened a Fa study location at there home, which was a great breakthrough for their cultivation environment.

In the afternoon sharing, practitioners shared enthusiastically on the relationship between righteous thoughts and sickness karma. An elderly practitioner shared his experience. One day at work, he suddenly felt a pustule on his back with puss. In the following days, the pustule extended toward his chest, and seemed like an illness with the common name of "belt-shaped snake skin". People in his surroundings tried to persuade him to seek medical treatment, but his heart did not move. He solidly persisted in Fa study and exercise, and held the thought of letting go of life and death. Not long after, the pustule became a scar, and healed without medicine. This allowed people around him to witness the miracle of Dafa.

During the night sharing, a practitioner spoke of his experiences in sending forth righteous thoughts in the morning at 6:00am. In the past, as soon as he began to send righteous thoughts, the garbage truck would arrive; after taking out the garbage, by the time he returned, there would only be 7 or 8 minutes left. Subsequently he came to understand further the importance of sending forth righteous thoughts. As his state of mind was adjusted, the environment also changed; now the garbage truck arrives at 5:45am every day.

The sharing on Sunday morning focused on truth clarification projects. A practitioner shared that through her experience of truth clarification on the phone, her husband also listened to the truth by her side, and learned of fellow practitioners who pro-actively provided calling cards for fellow practitioners. He felt the greatness of Dafa disciple's efforts, and thus obtained the Fa. Within three months he had quit smoking and drinking. Moreover, the stomach ulcers which ailed him for many years disappeared without a trace.

Ms. Cai also shared that she maintained the mindset of cherishing interactions with every sentient being. She treasured every opportunity, because it may be their one chance to hear the truth, for which the being has waited for tens of thousands of years. Thus, if we don't do well, wouldn't we ruin what he has awaited for tens of thousands of years? How could we face Master's benevolent salvation, and the anticipation of sentient beings? So she always cherishes these opportunities, and her efforts in truth clarification have been maintained at a relatively good standard.

On the afternoon of June 29, a large group sharing was held at the main building of Yunlin's Department of Engineering and Irrigation. Approximately 600 practitioners gathered at the hall and after group Fa study everyone shared experiences in upgrading xinxing and understandings on the Fa through validating the Fa. After hearing of an elderly practitioner who was illiterate, but learned to study the Fa independently and clarify the truth with unwavering diligence, some practitioners expressed their feeling of embarrassment for not being so diligent. Practitioners found their own shortcomings through the sharing, broke through notions, and encouraged themselves to hasten their steps in following the progress of Fa-rectification.

Practitioners look forward to the next opportunity for participating in this environment of Fa study and sharing.