The cultivation practice form that I have left for Dafa disciples ensures that disciples can truly improve themselves. For example, I ask you to practice the exercises as a group in parks to form an environment. This environment is the best way to change the surface of a person. The lofty conduct that Dafa disciples have established in this environment—including every word and every act—can make people realize their own weaknesses and identify their shortcomings; it can move one’s heart, refine one’s conduct, and enable one to make progress more rapidly. Therefore, new practitioners or self-taught disciples must go to the exercise sites to do the exercises. There are currently about 40 million practitioners in China participating daily in group practice at the exercise sites; there are tens of millions of veteran disciples who do not go to the exercise sites very often (for veteran disciples, this is normal, as this results from their state in cultivation practice). Nevertheless, as new disciples you should never miss such an environment. This is because all of those whom you come into contact with in society are everyday people. Furthermore, they are everyday people who have undergone a rapid decline in human morality. In this big dye vat, people can only drift along with the current.

There are also many new Dafa practitioners who are secretly practicing at home, fearing the embarrassment of others finding out. Think about it: What kind of thought is this? An ordinary fear is an attachment that needs to be eliminated through cultivation practice. Yet you are afraid of others finding out that you are learning Dafa? Cultivation practice is a very serious matter. How should you treat yourself and the Fa? There are also some people in leadership positions that find it embarrassing to go out and practice the exercises. If you cannot even overcome such a trivial feeling, what can you cultivate? In fact, even if you go to the exercise site, there might not be people who know you. In some workplaces, almost all the executives are learning Dafa, but no one knows that the others are also learning. The environment is created by you, yourselves, and it, too, is essential for your improvement. I often find that you are in a good state of mind when you study the Fa or do the exercises, but when you come into contact with your work and other people, you become the same as everyday people. You sometimes appear even worse than everyday people. How can this be the conduct of a Dafa disciple?

I want to treat you as my disciples, but what should I do if you, yourselves don’t want to be my disciples? Every attachment for you to remove in your cultivation practice is a wall, standing there and blocking your path of cultivation practice. If you are unable to be determined about the Fa itself, you cannot practice cultivation. Do not take your position among everyday people too seriously. Do not think that others will fail to understand you if you learn Dafa. Think about it: Even man’s claim that he has evolved from apes can be highly regarded. Yet even with such a great Dafa of the universe, you are embarrassed to give it a correct position—this is man’s true shame.