A Western Practitioner Righteously Validates Dafa to Chinese Tourists
By a Western Practitioner from Europe
(Clearwisdom.net) Recently we noticed a big wave of Chinese tourists
traveling to our city for the purpose of sight seeing. Next to a famous
building, a national symbol for freedom and democracy, there is a tour bus
parking lot. Many groups of Mainland Chinese people gather there.
I discovered I still had a mental block about clarifying the truth to these
people because I felt it was very difficult to speak to them while they were in
a group and everyone was monitoring each other. So I decided I would just
practice the exercises in front of them. The resulting impact was quite huge.
They were all very moved and shouting excitedly, "Oh, Falun Dafa!
"Falun Dafa!"
Practicing the exercises in front of these tourist groups, the exercises
often felt very different. The reaction of each Chinese tourist is different,
but I have realized that taking time to study the Fa before going out to
validate Dafa in this way is very important. On one occasion, I rushed after
work to the bus parking lot and jumped into the exercises holding the mentality
of having a certain kind of fighting spirit. It wasn't a coincidence that soon a
group of men came up behind me. Listening to the tone of their voices I realized
that they were becoming more and more vicious. I kept an untouchable calm center
within myself, knowing that I became moved or fearful that the situation could
escalate. (This was one of the lessons learned from my Tiananmen experience)
A single man got up the courage to go to my tape recorder. Perhaps he thought
to switch off the exercise music, however, he did not complete his action. They
were urged to enter the bus and the exercise music finished right at the moment
the group began to leave. Afterwards, I had some mixed thoughts about this
incident. I thought, on one hand I did validate the Fa while practicing the
exercises in front of them, but on the other hand, if they became vicious
against Dafa it was definitely not good for them and it was a wrong result.
So looking inside as to how I could improve, I made the decision to be more
serious about studying the Fa more diligently before I went out to validate Dafa
the next time. Meanwhile, the next morning I had a sudden enlightenment that a
lot of these men were in certain official positions in China and in charge of
persecuting Falun Gong. Their viciousness was not only a result of the
slandering propaganda, but I realized that my lack of preparation by not
studying the Fa enough gave the evil in other dimensions more energy and
loopholes to pour in their bad thoughts. I also realized the enormous
responsibility I have while validating Dafa. Whenever I have studied the Fa with
a focused and calm mind, Chinese tourists usually react for the most part with
positive surprise and very few get upset.
One thing has become special in this environment. If I realize that something
not correct is going on or the evil things are rising up, I send righteous
thoughts while doing the exercises, without stopping them. One day, a very
ambitious Chinese official must have called the local police. A police car
stopped near me for awhile and then left after a short time. I don't know what
that person must have told the police. Maybe some of the Chinese then realized
that Falun Dafa is not persecuted all over world like the regime's propaganda
claims. To see me reading Zhuan Falun while sitting on the steps of the
famous building in front of them wearing a yellow "Falun Gong" shirt
is quite shocking to them. When a Westerner validates Dafa, the impression to
Mainland Chinese is very strong.
After practicing the exercises I realized that this alone was not enough to
completely break through all the lies in their minds. Some other practitioners
had worked on a new flyer specifically for the Chinese tourists. We had realized
that they are afraid and refuse to take anything when they see it is Falun Gong
and Falun Dafa practitioners. The Chinese tourists walk together in a big closed
group making it even more difficult to hand out materials to them. Therefore, we
created a very tiny flyer, the size of a credit card, with a very pleasing
design. The contents are brief, precise and concise. A person reading it is able
to grasp everything in less than 30 seconds. This little flyer is made from a
letter-sized piece of paper cut lengthwise into three strips, each of which is
then folded into three parts, creating a miniature 6 panel brochure.
The cover page shows a welcome to tourists with a picture. The small size of
the flyer enables a person receiving it to hide it in one's hand and quickly put
it into a pocket after realizing the contents. The cover shows a nice picture
from our city and in Chinese characters says, "Welcome to [our city]"
Opening it up, suddenly the truth about Dafa and the self-immolation is
revealed. There is a small section about what exactly is Falun Dafa. Chinese
people who didn't know much about Falun Gong before the persecution started have
been completely deceived by the propaganda. The backside of the flyer is white.
Everything looks like friendly information for tourists.
The best results we have achieved so far is to hand them out to a single
person, usually the last one walking in a large group of tourists. To rush into
these groups and give everyone of them a flyer isn't efficient, since everyone
in the group is monitoring each other. If one of them speaks out that it is
Falun Dafa, the whole group will become tense create obstacles to the truth
clarification activity.
For some time I had been thinking about clarifying the truth to Chinese
tourists face to face in order to break completely through the propaganda that
has deceived them. One evening while handing out flyers to tourists as usual, I
offered flyers to two Chinese tourists. They refused to take them. Later I sat
on a bench in the sightseeing area and they sat down beside me! I again offered
the flyers to them and they took them this time. I told them it is something
very special. After they realized what the flyers contained, I began to tell
them-in very short sentences- the hidden points of the Tiananmen
self-immolation while pointing at the pictures in the flyer. The points I
covered were:
The old lady in the interview said the practitioner have drunken one and a
half bottles of benzine before going to the square. A normal person is dead in
few minutes after drinking two small glasses!
I felt I was able to discuss everything I wanted to cover. Both were very
moved and after I finished, they tried to leave me courteously. As they were
leaving, I wished them a very nice stay in our City. Maybe two cosmic systems
have been saved.
Later another point I could have told them came to mind. It was that,
"J.Z. claims that Falun Gong wants to overthrow the government. But were
any cases where policemen were shot or street terror done by any Falun Dafa
practitioners?" and, "This man on the self-immolation film is sitting
in a completely wrong sitting position. Maybe it is Yoga, but it is not from
Falun Gong. Shouldn't a person who is willing to sacrifice his life at least
know how to do the exercises positions correctly?"
One of our next projects will be to prepare a small board showing the man
sitting in the wrong position after the "self-immolation." Short
explanations will describe the facts in big characters visible from several
meters distance. Two other small pictures will show his photo "before"
and another one showing the correct sitting position. If a group of tourists are
passing by, each of them will get the message by observing the upright poster
board within 3-5 seconds without having to stop walking or to leave their group.
Because we felt we should not give the evil a chance to intervene in our
righteous actions here, I left out the specific details of location in this
report. But I can say that this has occurred somewhere in Europe.
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