(Minghui.org) For the first time in three years, Falun Dafa practitioners held an experience-sharing conference in Ukraine on October 11, 2026. Due to the war it was held both online and in person. Practitioners in Kyiv, Odessa, Dnipro, Kharkiv, and other cities gathered in their respective areas and joined the online platform to share their cultivation experiences. They were also joined by Ukrainian practitioners who immigrated.
Practitioners from Kyiv at the Ukraine Falun Dafa experience-sharing conference on October 11 (Minghui.org)
Eighteen practitioners shared their cultivation experiences. They spoke about how they continue to improve their character and save sentient beings, despite the fact that the surrounding circumstances have changed radically since the war began over four years ago. Although the situation is different, the principle of looking within remains the same.
Maintaining a Good Cultivation State on the Front Lines
Two new practitioners in Kyiv serving on the front lines as soldiers shared their experiences. Military service in Ukraine is currently compulsory.
Oleksandr was introduced to Dafa over a year ago. He said that he felt positive changes as soon as he began practicing. His bad thoughts and negative moods gradually disappeared, and his morale improved. He became kinder and his relationships with family and friends improved.
He rarely phoned his mother and their relationship wasn’t good, but now his attitude has changed and he treats her with respect and kindness. His health has also improved: his fatigue disappeared, he felt a sense of lightness throughout his body, and his chronic hepatitis C gradually disappeared.
When Oleksandr was conscripted into the army, at first, he couldn’t understand how he could practice Dafa in that setting, but he never stopped studying the Fa. He gradually realized that what is bad for an ordinary person is good for a practitioner. He came to understand that he needed to live up to the standards of a Falun Dafa practitioner and that he must behave well, because he has important responsibilities as a practitioner. As soon as he realized this, everything around him changed.
“In everything I do, I am now considerate. I do my job to the best of my ability, and people feel and see this. They are surprised by my kindness, my selflessness [which is very unusual for them], and my attitude about everything. I tell them that it’s all thanks to Falun Dafa,” Oleksandr said.
Oleksandr (Minghui.org)
Vyacheslav was introduced to Falun Dafa four years ago when a female practitioner handed him a leaflet. He later married her. For the past two years, Vyacheslav has been in a combat zone as a soldier.
He explained that that he hadn’t been very diligent in his practice before, but once he found himself on the front lines, he realized that Falun Dafa was the only thing that allowed him to keep his mind and heart pure and to avoid becoming embittered, broken, or resentful. He continued to study the Fa, and over time, many of his fellow soldiers also began practicing Falun Dafa and became better people. He described several instances where they experienced miracles when their lives were in imminent danger.
Providing Peace and Calm to Ukrainians in Wartime
Tatyana from Kharkiv, which is 35 kilometers (22 miles) from the Russian border, recounted how, when the war began, she went to crowded places every day to tell people about Falun Dafa, because she believed that this knowledge could help keep people calm in the chaos of war.
There was no public transport running in the city at that time, so she arranged with a fellow practitioner who lived in another district to get origami lotus flower keepsakes from her to hand out to people. They decided to walk towards each other along the tram tracks.
“As I was walking along the tracks towards our meeting point—where anti-tank barriers had been set up—I recited On Dafa. When we met up, we could hear explosions in the distance. She brought me a bag of lotus flowers, and I was very grateful,” Tatyana said.
She said that people are very open to information about Falun Dafa. “One man told me that he wanted to join the territorial defense and walked 80 km from his village, but they didn’t take him because he was already 60 years old. He was in tears. But he had a better destiny, because, thanks to his journey, he learned about Dafa,” Tatyana said.
Developing a Healthy Relationship with Family
Svitlana from Netishyn explained how she overcame her attachment to family ties. She has three children. Her youngest daughter had always been her favorite, so when she got married, Svitlana felt a huge emptiness inside.
She was unable to recognize and analyze this obstacle from the perspective of cultivation and succumbed to it. One day she told a friend that she had fulfilled her destiny and that nothing was keeping her in this world now that her daughter was gone.
While she was out walking a few months later, she suddenly felt a sharp pain her chest. She immediately began repeating “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.” When she was able to breathe again, she began reciting On Dafa from memory.
Svitlana quickly recovered and continued on her way. But afterwards she had difficulty breathing, and her family insisted that she go to the hospital. To reassure them, Svitlana agreed since she was confident that nothing was wrong. However, the doctor told her that she had had a heart attack and said he was surprised that she was still alive.
She began looking within and realized she had a strong attachment to her family: “Now I understand that love for one’s family should not become an attachment, and taking care of family should not be the sole purpose of one’s life.”
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