Inspiring My Fellow European Practitioners

(Minghui. org) At the 2016 New York Fa teaching, Master encouraged European attendees to coordinate with their local practitioners and to help them realize the importance of saving sentient beings.

In a separate meeting with veteran European practitioners, Master encouraged them to look to the future and improve from this point on.

I was heavyhearted when I thought of our European practitioners, and how many of us had slacked off in cultivation. In order to improve my own cultivation and to inspire my fellow practitioners, I created a plan.

Recalling My Cultivation Experiences

Like every veteran practitioner who obtained the Fa prior to 1999, I was proud of being actively involved in truth-clarification when the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) launched its persecution against Dafa.

I felt honored for being recognized by Master for our diligent efforts to make the public aware of the persecution in the early stages of the Fa-rectification period. However, we later became lax and our spirits flagged, and we let Master down.

As the persecution began, the only goal in my mind was to speak out for Master. Once the priority was shifted to doing the three things later on, there was more and more for me to do. I started to actively participate in other Dafa-related activities.

I traveled to many places in Europe and America, including the 2000 Human Rights Conference in Geneva, the 2001 Nine-year Fa-rectification Photo Display in New York, and the 2002 Sending Righteous Thoughts Rally in Chicago. I was also involved in the New York Anti-Torture Exhibition in 2004 and the Hong Kong Nine-Commentaries Exhibition in 2005.

After my car broke down in 2008, my cultivation started to regress. I went from being a star college student in cultivation to the equivalent of being a kindergartener.

Although I was still doing the three things required for a Dafa practitioner to help Master rectify the Fa and save sentient beings, I was not as diligent as I used to be. I no longer reached out to political figures and members of the media to clarify the truth. I did not play important roles in many aspects of truth-clarification.

My Plan

After sharing cultivation experiences after the New York Fa Conference this year, we European practitioners realized that Master has been shouldering all the hardships for us because we didn't carry out our responsibilities. We started to think about how we can take charge and save more sentient beings in our communities.

I realized that our low spirits in cultivation was caused by our lack of firm belief in Master and Dafa. I further understood that deep in the bottom of my heart, I always felt I had done my share in saving people. Seeing where I was lacking, I thus started to overcome these shortcomings, hoping that my fellow European practitioners can follow suit and become more diligent.

I started to collect petition signatures for Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting (DAFOH) in nearby communities when no other practitioner was available.

I also joined the local Fa study group, where, besides reading the Fa together, we share experiences in xinxing cultivation. New practitioners have benefited through this practice. Two Western practitioners now stay to share experiences after Fa study.

The third item in my plan is to save people through practitioner-run media. I strove to write as many articles as I could for our media. Finally, I will contact Western practitioners who have not stepped forward to help carry out our missions.

Master has told us that as long as we firmly believe in the Fa, we should continue to carry out our mission. Along the way, people will be saved within the time frame Master has arranged for us.