I’ve Benefited Immensely from Reading Practitioners’ Experience Sharing Articles

(Minghui.org) I started reading experience-sharing articles on the Minghui.org website in 2002. Except for the days when I couldn’t access the Internet, I’ve read articles on Minghui almost every day for the last 23 years. As I do, I compare myself to other practitioners and strive to improve my xinxing. This has helped me tremendously. I’d like to share a few of my thoughts on this.

Practitioners’ Articles Inspired Me to Memorize the Fa

I started memorizing the Dafa books in 2003 and am still doing it. This all started because of what other practitioners shared on Minghui.

I recall that one practitioner said she memorized all of Master’s lectures. After the persecution started, she memorized every new lecture, no matter how long, without cutting corners. I thought: “She’s amazing! She’s memorized everything. I haven’t even memorized Zhuan Falun yet.” So I started to memorize Zhuan Falun, and now I’ve been memorizing the Fa for over 20 years.

One time, I read that a practitioner had memorized Essentials for Further Advancement and The Essentials of Diligent Progress II and III. She recited all three books every day, and it really helped her cultivation. I thought, “I haven’t even finished memorizing one of them. I need to start.” I went on to memorize most of Essentials for Further Advancement and The Essentials of Diligent Progress II, and some articles from The Essentials of Diligent Progress III. Unfortunately, because I didn’t keep reviewing them, over time I forgot what I had memorized.

I used to be able to recite Hong Yin and Hong Yin II and thought I was pretty good at it. When Hong Yin III was published, I felt it was too long and didn’t plan to memorize it. I later read on Minghui that some practitioners had already memorized Hong Yin III, and I felt ashamed. Thus, I decided to work hard to memorize it. I later asked my mother, who had just started to cultivate, to help check me for errors over what I’d memorized. Eventually, I could recite the whole book without any mistakes or prompts. Amazingly, my mother, who had never read poetry before, learned to read Hong Yin III by helping me.

I was similarly motivated to memorize Hong Yin IV. In 2017, I was going through a major tribulation of sickness karma. The pain made it hard to calm my mind and recite Zhuan Falun, even though I had memorized it well. I couldn’t concentrate. After six months of this, I still couldn’t make a break through, so I thought I would memorize Hong Yin IV. But I gave up after just a few poems because I thought it was too difficult. Then I read a Minghui article about a practitioner who had memorized Hong Yin IV, and I felt ashamed again. So I started to memorize it. Because I hadn’t memorized it before, I was able to stay focused as I did. With Master’s powerful strengthening, I often recited it in tears during the first few readings. Miraculously, that long-standing sickness karma was resolved as I focused on memorizing Hong Yin IV.

At my own initiative, I began to memorize Hong Yin V. I know I should make time to memorize Hong Yin VI, but due to laziness, I haven’t started yet.

Memorizing the Fa gave me profound insights. I wrote about my experiences and submitted them to Minghui.org. After they were published, more practitioners started memorizing the Fa. They wrote about their experiences, which were also published. This created a very positive cycle.

I encouraged every practitioner I interacted with to memorize the Fa. One practitioner initially felt she couldn’t do it, but after I kept encouraging her, she started. Later, she told me she had memorized Zhuan Falun four times. Another practitioner is close to reciting the entire book. Instead of Zhuan Falun, some memorize Master’s other, shorter recent articles as soon as they get them. The more Fa one memorizes, the stronger one’s righteous thoughts become, and it’s then easier to do the three things well.

I’ve also noticed that most practitioners who memorize the Fa are not easily influenced by others’ negative thoughts. They’re less likely to be drawn to someone’s so-called “profound sharing” or to blindly follow someone they thought cultivated well.

Practitioners’ Experiences Helped Me Overcome My Tribulations

Many experience-sharing articles published on Minghui detail the practitioners’ heartfelt experiences of improving their xinxing and doing the three things well. The practitioners’ sincerity and true cultivation were evident in the smallest details. These are genuine accomplishments, not just words. As someone who mostly cultivates alone, I discovered that the experience-sharing articles on Minghui often guided and helped me.

As an example, in an article I read about a practitioner facing a tribulation, she had this thought: “My body is made of diamond; the physical tribulation is a false illusion.” Her firm righteous thought left a deep impression on me.

Not long after that, I was jolted awake one night by intense pain in my left leg. I thought: “Bone cancer.” At the same time, I saw my leg in another dimension had turned pitch black like coal and crumbled. That practitioner’s story came to my mind, and I sent forth one powerful, unwavering thought: “This is a false illusion! My body is made of diamond, it’s indestructible, so this cannot happen to me!” Immediately, the pain vanished, and I fell back to sleep. The next morning, I was fine, and the issue never returned. Before that night, my left leg often ached for no apparent reason.

Reading Experience-Sharing Articles Feels Like I’m Being Cleansed Spiritually

As a cultivator in everyday society, I have a good job with great responsibilities. The work is tiring and stressful, and I often came home in a bad mood. But whenever I opened Minghui.org and read just a few articles, all the negativity from work disappeared. Seeing how practitioners are focused on doing the three things and urgently assisting Master in Fa-rectification, I realized that, as a Dafa disciple, I cannot waste my time being upset about ordinary matters.

I feel as if I’ve washed clean by pure water after reading Minghui articles each day. I become calm and peaceful. Minghui has accompanied me for so many years that I’ve naturally developed the ability to leave the busy world behind after I get home in the evening. Everything external becomes irrelevant. My evenings are often filled with Fa study, reading Minghui, and doing truth-clarification work with a peaceful and joyful mindset. It’s very difficult for outside things to disturb me when I am studying the Fa or reading Minghui articles.

Minghui Helps Me Keep Pace with the Fa-rectification

As a practitioner who has cultivated alone for a long time, I’ve been able to keep up with the progress of Fa-rectification thanks to reading the sharing articles on Minghui.org regularly. Early on, when I didn’t know how to overcome the persecution, I found guidance from the paths other practitioners have walked. When I wasn’t sure how to clarify the truth, the Minghui articles presented many experiences I could learn from. When I encountered tribulations and didn’t know how to handle them, I found similar experiences other practitioners had shared. Although our challenges were different, the cultivation principles of improving xinxing, maintaining righteous thoughts, and showing compassion were the same. When I didn’t know what to do next, other practitioners’ sharings often helped me see my shortcomings and where I should improve.

In short, the insights and experiences of practitioners from around the world are gathered on Minghui.org. By reading Minghui every day, I am immersed in this powerful, pure current. Without even realizing it, I’m carried forward by the righteous strength of our united efforts, advancing together by following Master’s mighty force in Fa-rectification.