(Clearwisdom.net)Experience sharing among practitioners is intended for us to improve our understanding of the Fa principles, elevate ourselves in our cultivation and Fa-rectification work, and truly do well the three things that Master Li has told us to do. But if we bring too many human sentiments and deviated elements into our experience sharing and allow this to go on for too long, we might leave a gap that the old forces can take advantage of.

Yesterday, several practitioners in my region were arrested while sharing experiences with one another. I feel very sad about this. Because human sentimentalities are added into the mix, certain experience sharing sessions among practitioners have fallen to the level of the "chatting" of everyday people. The only difference is that a cultivation term is used to describe the gathering. This is an area in which practitioners have fallen short for quite some time. After thinking things over carefully, I feel there are two reasons behind this. The first reason is that practitioners have not been able to completely eliminate the sentimentality that exists among practitioners. The second reason is a type of mentality that people have been accustomed to, which is a deviated element in the old cosmos.

As we continuously improve ourselves during cultivation, we often feel that we have less and less things in common with non-practitioners. On the other hand, practitioners have many things in common and find it very easy to talk to one other, regardless of differences in age or background. That is why practitioners often have many things they want to tell other practitioners. But precisely because of this, the experience sharing among practitioners has often become impure. We are no longer able to cherish the limited amount of time that we have together and use it in such a way that we can improve diligently together. Instead we spend a lot of time talking about people and things that don't directly have anything to do with cultivation or Fa-rectification.

An everyday person enjoys telling other people the thoughts that he has developed after using his own notions to judge and evaluate everything, and he also enjoys showing off his fame, fortune and personal relationships. On the other hand, what brings happiness to a cultivator is Dafa's majesty and magnificence, as well as the endless wonder and mysteries of the universe that one can sense when one's heart is as still as water. For cultivators, when we talk about a certain person or a certain thing, we should focus on extracting experiences and lessons that we can learn from so that we can improve ourselves and do well in our Fa-rectification activities. We absolutely can't behave like everyday people who focus on talking about their opinions on the specific people and things.

One day while meditating, my primordial spirit went back to the heavenly kingdom and I was able to be reunited with my relatives there. No words can adequately describe the joy and feeling of majesty that I felt. We sat together and used our "hearts" to talk about what has happened over the last tens of thousands of years. What we expressed weren't only words but also the true situation of physical substances. The conversation was very serious and magnificent, and it was filled with the endless power of the righteous thoughts and righteous understandings of enlightened beings.

Sometimes when we share experiences, even though it appears on the surface that we are talking about things related to cultivation, they actually have no direct relationship with studying the Fa, sending righteous thoughts and clarifying the truth. Experience sharing should play only a supplementary role. In order to genuinely improve ourselves, we must place ourselves in the Fa. This is the only way for us to make genuine, solid improvement.

There is an extremely deviated element in the old forces that is also very hard to detect. If one isn't careful, one can easily treat it as something of one's own. When looking at it with the Third Eye, one can see it is very sticky and has a grayish black color. It sticks itself tightly on different layers of particles that make up lives. What it covers is even more microscopic than what "sentimentality" covers. "Sentimentality" is only something from the Three Realms. But this sticky substance is extremely microscopic. It was created when the group social relationship, which was gradually formed as more and more beings were created, became deviated. This is the source of the deviated way of thinking of the old cosmos. The moment we let our guard down, it will interfere with us and bind itself tightly against us. Its characteristics are: It makes us always want to tell others what we have done so they will say good things about us. It makes us always want to change other people and preserve our own things. It is as if we are living for other people. We've totally forgotten that we were created by the Fa, and everything that we have was given to us by the Fa. We should be responsible to the living environments, and the states and characteristics of beings that Dafa has created for us. We should be responsible to everything that we have enlightened to. We don't need others to evaluate and acknowledge any of these things. We don't have to tell people about everything, nor should we carry the desire of wanting to change other people. This mentality is not something that Gods would condone. Of course, this is something that is among humans that exists because we haven't become pure enough and we still need other people to help us eliminate our imperfections. This is also a type of coordination and assistance among the overall body, but we can't share experiences for the sake of having a "buddy" to talk to. This will make our experience sharing become too impure. As a result, we end up wasting a lot of time and pass up many opportunities to save sentient beings.

The closer Fa-rectification is to the final stage, the higher the requirement is for us. Whether we have cultivated well is not only something that relates to our own improvement, it also has to do with the huge task of the Fa-rectification of the colossal firmament. If we have cultivated well, we will be able to save more sentient beings and eliminate more evil; if we haven't cultivated well, we will be able to save fewer sentient beings and eliminate less evil. In addition, we will be subject to more interference from the evil itself, who might even use the most evil methods to persecute us in order to destroy all sentient beings. Let us be responsible to ourselves, be responsible to fellow practitioners, and treasure the sacred environment of sharing experiences with fellow practitioners.

The above is only my personal understanding for fellow practitioners' reference.