(Minghui.org) A Falun Dafa Cultivation Experience Sharing Conference was held in Edmonton, Canada on August 22, 2026. Nine new and veteran practitioners described how, guided by Falun Dafa’s principles, they improved in cultivation.

Falun Dafa practitioners talked about their cultivation experiences during a conference in Edmonton, Canada. (Minghui.org)

A Surprising Experience

Mai began practicing Falun Dafa more than a year ago. Her right hand and foot used to shake due to a stroke, and she had trouble controlling her movements. She also suffered from various symptoms of menopause for years. All these health problems disappeared after she practiced Falun Dafa.

Mai visited her family in her home country during the Lunar New Year in 2025. One night her entire body suddenly felt painful and chilly, as if she was being torn apart. She tried to get rid of the pain through the folk therapy of scraping, but it didn’t help. A few days later, the pain got worse. She said, “I saw shadows in the room and horrible faces in white and yellow. They vied with each other to get on me and bite me like wild wolves.”

Mai remembered that Master told practitioners to ask him for help in emergencies, so she cried out loudly, “Master, help! Master, help!” “Falun Dafa is good! Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good!” Within a second, she saw a golden Buddha and the room was filled with golden light. All the horrible shadows disappeared immediately. She felt relaxed, and her pain was gone!

This experience strengthened her faith in cultivation. She said, “Without Master’s protection, I thought I could have died. Master saved me and gave me a second life!”

Looking Within When Facing Criticism

Dalong shared his experience of looking within when facing criticism. He worked in a restaurant for three years and initially had a hard time accepting criticism. Even though he managed to tolerate it, the incident kept replaying in his mind. He gradually found his own attachments that he hadn’t realized before.

Dalong said, “I used to have a fighting mentality, complaints, grievances, and jealousy. I didn’t initially see my jealousy. I thought, ‘I’m criticized when I do a good job, but others did not do well, yet they were praised.’ I realized later, ‘Isn’t this jealousy?’”

He knew that identifying an attachment doesn’t mean he’ll be able to immediately eliminate it. He is determined to continue cultivating and improving.

Memorizing the Teachings

Andy shared how his family started cultivating and his experience of memorizing the Fa.

Soon after she started practicing, Andy’s wife saw a big eye at the position of her celestial eye. She told her family that she could see a ladder leading to another dimension near the roof of their house.

Encouraged by a fellow practitioner Andy decided to memorize the Fa, and he memorized one or two paragraphs each day. He often found tests in his life relevant to the Fa he happened to be memorizing. The tests didn’t last long if he improved his xinxing. For example, when he was memorizing the Fa about eating meat, he suddenly felt his favorite food, pork ribs, stank. When he took one bite, he almost threw up. He realized that it was time to get rid of his attachment to eating meat. This state was gone after a couple of months.

Andy said that he memorized the Fa when he first started cultivating, and it was easy for him to cross both legs when doing meditation. After 10 months, he was able to meditate for an hour with both legs crossed, and it was easy to enter tranquility. It became even easier after he joined the group exercises. When he meditated, he sometimes felt like he was encased in a transparent cover, and all the street noise disappeared.

One time, Andy took his son to a Falun Dafa activity, including a group exercise session. His son told him, “Daddy, the energy field of your exercises at home isn’t as big as the energy field at group exercise.” His son’s words made Andy more determined to join group exercises.

A Thirty-Year Cultivation Journey from China to Canada

Mr. Fan began practicing Falun Dafa in China in 1996. His home was a truth clarification material distribution site. Fellow practitioners brought the materials they made to his home, and others came and took them to distribute. They collaborated well. The distribution site operated for more than 10 years under Master’s compassionate protection.

After he moved to Canada, Mr. Fan established a Fa-study site in his home. He said his righteous thoughts strengthened, and his cultivation state greatly improved through group study and discussions. His attachments to personal interest, comfort, and fear, which he hadn’t been able to eliminate for years, lessened through Fa study and by looking within. As his understanding of Falun Dafa’s principles deepened, he felt himself returning to the motivated state he had when he started cultivating. He said that the cultivation environment of studying the Fa in a group is critical for a cultivator, and that it allowed a cultivator to break through barriers and continuously make improvements in their cultivation.

Ten-Year-Old Persists in Fa Study

Mr. Fan’s ten-year-old son began practicing with his parents when he was little. His mother taught him how to read Zhuan Falun when he was two. By age five, he could read the book by himself. He read the Fa with the adult practitioners and started reading Master’s teachings given in various locations last year, and he has now read all of them. He’s also memorized Hong Yin and “On Dafa.”

All nine practitioners mentioned one thing: the conflicts in their lives are great opportunities to reflect upon themselves and improve their cultivation.