A New York practitioner

(Clearwisdom) This past Saturday (December 8), New York City practitioners gathered in front of the Chinese Consulate to send forth righteous thoughts. On this day, however, an ice-cold rain was pounding down on the city and a hard wind was blowing off the Hudson River straight up 42nd Street where practitioners gather across from the Chinese consulate.

Upon arriving at the consulate, I was moved that so many practitioners still showed up in such terrible weather. In fact, the number of practitioners that showed up appeared to be exactly the same as on any other day -- the difficult weather had not deterred the practitioners at all.

Because New York City had been enjoying very nice weather for the past few days, many practitioners were not fully prepared for the weather -- most did not have gloves or protective gear for their bags and shoes.

As we practiced in between sending forth righteous thoughts, I was moved by some things I observed. One man stood perfectly still doing the second exercise, even though he had neither gloves nor rain cover. It was freezing cold with rain pounding down, but he did not waver the slightest. His face looked calm and peaceful as he practiced straight through to the end.

A few practitioners who had brought umbrellas stood quietly behind other practitioners who were practicing without any cover from the rain and shielded them with their umbrellas as they practiced.

One practitioner ran to the nearest store to buy plastic garbage bags and quietly walked through the crowd of practitioners doing the fifth exercise, wrapping their shoes, bags and other things in bags to protect them from the rain.

I felt there was something very righteous occurring on this rainy, cold and windy afternoon, so I took out my camera and took some pictures of the scene...

Posting date: 12/12/2001
Original article date: 12/11/2001
Category: Falun Dafa Worldwide

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