(Clearwisdom.net) On April 12, 2003, practitioners were invited to the World
Taiji Qigong Day at Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena, a yearly festival organized
by Orange County. This is the second year in a row that Falun Gong has
participated in this event. Last year, since it was the first time for Falun
Gong to attend the festival, a few Chinese groups were defensive toward us at
the beginning. Later when they saw the peaceful practitioners and how Falun Gong
was welcomed by the mainstream society, they soon changed their attitude.
Soon after we started to practice the exercises, the strong energy field
attracted many Qigong practitioners. Many Westerners and Chinese came to our
table to request information and some of them wanted to learn the exercises.
When we were teaching the exercises, the people learning exercises grew from one
to four, then four to ten. Later, the people surrounded the teaching
practitioners for three layers. After the exercise teaching, we distributed
flyers to them and told them to attend the group practice near their homes. When
we saw the people's enthusiasm to learn about Falun Dafa, we were deeply moved
and immediately remembered our duty to save sentient beings.