Sydney, Australia: Practitioners Improve Together During Experience Sharing Conference

(Minghui.org) The 2025 Australia Falun Dafa Experience-Sharing Conference took place in Sydney at the Hurstville Entertainment Centre Auditorium on October 12. More than 1,000 practitioners from across Australia attended the event.

The 2025 Australia Falun Dafa Experience-Sharing Conference on October 12, 2025

Twenty practitioners spoke during the conference on how they aligned themselves with Falun Dafa’s principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. By eliminating their attachments and improving their xinxing, they were able to do well telling people facts of Dafa and help save them.

Practitioners talked about their cultivation experiences.

Improving While Helping to Coordinate Shen Yun Performances

Several practitioners said they improved significantly while helping with the Shen Yun tour, especially in rectifying their thoughts and letting go of their human notions.

Ms. Tian said on the second day of the Shen Yun tour last season, a coordinator called and asked her to be responsible for the overall coordination for the next few days. She was a little nervous since she’d never done this before. “But I know Master made all the arrangements. I just need to follow Dafa’s teachings,” she reminded herself.

Ms. Tian interacted with the team well, including the theater and the Shen Yun staff. “When facing emergencies and challenges, I was able to remain calm and treated them as opportunities to cultivate myself,” she explained. “Every day, I made many phone calls and sent many text messages and emails. Fortunately, there were no major issues in those few days, but I realized how much pressure the coordinator had been under.”

After the last afternoon performance, she was busy handling everything until 10 p.m. when she got a text message from the theater manager on duty telling her that the piano had to be moved out before 11:59 p.m. that night so that the new client could move in the next morning. “Noticing the stern tone, I was very upset. Because they were so busy before and during the performances, the entire team was exhausted. Plus, how could I find someone to move a piano at midnight? Even if it were moved, where could I find a place to put a piano that weighed over 1,000 pounds?” she said.

Remembering she was a practitioner, Ms. Tian realized she needed to evaluate things based on Dafa’s teachings, not her own notions. “With the attachment to material interest, I tend to compete with others. I also have jealousy, resentment, and pursuit. These thoughts have grown significantly and yet, they were all rooted in selfishness. But a practitioner needs to be selfless and I need to maintain righteous thoughts,” she thought.

Ms. Tian immediately apologized sincerely and pointed out there was an issue of miscommunication for which both sides were responsible. She recommended how it could be handled, and the problem was solved.

Talking to Elected Officials

Susan described how she overcame her fear and was able to talk to elected officials about Dafa. After attending a city council meeting one day, she thought about how to approach the council further. She knew she needed to find an angle using local issues and she was confident she could find one. “When I did the fifth exercise, I had an idea: I could thank them for what they just did—canceling their sister city relationship with China. I knew Master was helping me,” she said.

So Susan prepared a four-minute speech. Although it was short, it included lots of information, such as what Falun Dafa is, the CCP’s defamation, how Dafa improved her life, and how her friend was detained in China and made to do slave labor. That friend was fortunate because he did not become a victim of organ harvesting. She also urged the council to pay attention to the CCP’s transnational repression.

“All the city councilors were present when I spoke. I knew Master was helping them to know facts of Dafa,” Susan recalled. Her talk was given warm applause.

When Susan was in the parking lot after the meeting, a woman called out to her and complimented her on her great speech. Then a council member texted her, congratulating her for speaking on such an important matter. Once again, Susan knew Master was encouraging her.

Mr. Sun talked about how, by working with other practitioners, he was able to meet a city council member, write emails about Dafa, and publicize the Falun Dafa workshop on the city council website.

Mr. Sun shared the news with other practitioners and the young practitioners’ Fa study group. Instead of the enthusiastic discussion he had expected, however, there was little response. “I just let it go, but I could not understand why they did not cherish this opportunity,” he said.

Mr. Sun realized he was attached to fame and started to work on being humble. Six of seven city councilors wrote greetings to the workshop in advance and two city councilors came on the first day to learn the exercises. “Seeing you practitioners having such a workshop in the city council, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) would be really afraid,” one of them joked.

Making Phone Calls to China

Several practitioners shared their experiences of clarifying the truth to people in China and helping them quit the CCP organizations.

A young practitioner, Ms. Zhou, has been doing this since the outbreak of COVID even though she has a full-time job. Before she began making phone calls, she learned how from other practitioners on the RTC platform. She also focused on her cultivation and looked inward to eliminate her human notions.

Ms. Zhou decided to first talk about Falun Dafa and then ask the person to renounce their memberships in the CCP organizations. This way, they would learn some facts even if they did not choose to quit the CCP.

Ms. Zhou said making truth-clarification phone calls to China is very meaningful. “Although the content of my presentations is generally the same, people have vastly different reactions. I can quickly determine their underlying concerns from their responses and tailor the content accordingly,” she explained.

Ms. Zhou realized she needed not only patience and empathy, but also kindness. “People in mainland China live in an environment filled with lies and fear. Some are afraid to listen to the truth the first time we call them. Or even if they do listen, they’re afraid to quit the CCP. We must understand them. They’ve been blinded by lies and overwhelmed by fear, and they cannot think rationally.”

Ms. Zhou usually makes three calls to such people at different times. She believes that the information conveyed in the phone calls will take some time for most Chinese people to digest and absorb.

Due to her diligent and heartfelt efforts clarifying the truth to people in China, many have withdrawn from the CCP. Some, after learning the truth about Falun Dafa, began practicing. Like Ms. Zhou, they began clarifying the truth to their friends and family, helping them to withdraw from the CCP. Their friends and family, in turn, understood the truth and began practicing Falun Dafa. Their efforts snowballed.

A woman from Nanjing who learned the truth and withdrew from the CCP said she wanted to practice Falun Dafa. She was very grateful to Master Li (Falun Dafa’s founder) that she was able to receive a truth-clarifying phone call from a practitioner and, at almost 70 years old, be saved by Dafa.

The woman told her clients the truth about Falun Dafa, and several of them also began to practice.

New Practitioner

Several new practitioners also shared their experiences.

Ms. Ya, who began practicing two years ago, thanked Master for his blessings and arrangements. “Many of my neighbors, friends, and family have understood the truth. They’ve read Zhuan Falun and learned the exercises. I realized that, when I thought about myself and wanted more people to hear the truth and get materials, my truth-clarification efforts weren’t very effective because I was validating myself instead of the Fa. When I sincerely hoped that sentient beings could be saved and asked Master to arrange for predestined beings to come, I felt things change immediately. Many people came and listened to my truth-clarification. I felt Master’s compassion and blessings.”

Ms. Ya also tells people about Falun Dafa at work. She started a research project on “The Impact of Trade Liberalization with China on Australian Society and the Economy.” This is the first academic study on the CCP’s influence on developed countries, and provides evidence of the CCP’s negative impact on and damage to Australian society.

She used Dafa to correct herself during this process. “When things started going smoothly, I was overjoyed. But when I realized I used the wrong method and needed to spend a lot of time correcting it, I was anxious and impatient, fearing that this would disappoint my colleagues and fellow practitioners. This was my attachment to fame,” Ms. Ya continued.

Throughout the process, she improved her mind and character, which helped her complete her research and present her preliminary findings to experts at several seminars. At one of these seminars, she received an award and many scholars were impressed by her presentation.

Improving Oneself at Work

Ms. Zhang trains students to make dim sum. Some come from complicated backgrounds and they have poor behavior. She tried to discipline them by imposing strict rules or she yelled at them, but the results were not good. After a series of trials and tribulations, she realized that only by adopting a cultivator’s mindset could she resolve the problems.

“If I had simply viewed all this as ‘bad luck’ or ‘the other person’s fault,’ I would be no different from an ordinary person, and I wouldn’t have seized this opportunity to cultivate and improve myself. I began to understand that the chaotic situation before me was no accidental inconvenience. I calmed down, stopped blaming others, and began to look inward,” she said.

She saw she had many attachments, including the desire for fame and vanity. “I wanted the training to be a complete success. While this was driven by a sense of responsibility, it was also mixed with a desire for recognition and praise from the students. I wanted them to think I was a ‘competent teacher’ and a ‘good manager.’ This wish to be praised was a form of vanity,” she said.

When Ms. Zhang let go of her concerns and focused solely on improving herself, a miracle occurred. “During the next two training sessions, the classroom atmosphere became more harmonious than ever before, and our interactions became positive. Even the most ‘naughty’ students became more focused,” she said.

After her character improved, Ms. Zhang won second place in the tea drinking group at the Australian Chef Competition held in Sydney and won the highest medal in the tea drinking group at the World Chefs Federation Certified Chef Qualification Competition.

Even the chef who usually treated her badly was moved by Falun Dafa’s principles that she followed at work. After learning the truth and withdrawing from the CCP organizations, the chef said, “I want to learn how to practice Falun Dafa.”