By a Dafa practitioner from the U.S.

(Clearwisdom.net) Another World Falun Dafa Day is approaching, and many overseas practitioners are busy with preparations for the celebration, working on dances, writing songs, practicing singing and making costumes, and so on and so forth. In order to make the celebration truly spectacular, many practitioners find time in their busy schedules to support the preparation work. However, I feel that amongst the busy preparation something very important is missing...

Today, I visited the web page for the World Falun Dafa Day on Minghui.net. The joint communiqu?by 17 Falun Dafa associations on the first Falun Dafa Day three years ago clearly stated the substance of the Falun Dafa Day, which says, "In remembrance of the great festival for the whole of humanity, in order to enable the people in the world to further understand Dafa, to enable those with predestined relationship to attain the Fa sooner and in order to appeal to all kindhearted people to support Dafa practitioners in Mainland China so that they would sooner regain their legal rights of freedom of belief and freedom of cultivation practice,...it has been decided that May 13 is named 'World Falun Dafa Day,' so that Dafa practitioners and all kindhearted people around the world can celebrate together." We all realize through our Fa-study and truth-clarification that although many people are now clear about the truth, there are still a great number of people who have not had the opportunity to learn the truth, or to learn the truth in depth, and their future is still hanging in the air. For these countless people, every day is pressing and every day is of great importance.

Dafa practitioners around the world are one whole body. Then, during the period of Fa-rectification, each part of the whole body may not adopt the same form or do the same thing, and they may also have different understanding of the Fa principles and their cultivation states may also vary from one another. But as one body, all that we do at different times, in different places, and in different activities should be on the same fundamental basis -- to save sentient beings and eliminate the evil. As for the celebration of the upcoming World Falun Dafa Day, perhaps every Dafa practitioner has the responsibility to consider the following:

• Three years ago, due to our limited understanding of Fa-rectification and our limited ability in clarifying the truth, the celebration activities were mostly confined to Dafa practitioners, and had very limited beneficial impact on society. Today, three years later, apart from the improvement in our singing and dancing and the betterment of our costumes, has our understanding of the Fa principles also far surpassed the level we were at three years ago, along with the rapid progress of Fa-rectification?
• How can we through the process of preparation and celebration of the great day, clarify the truth more widely, more comprehensively and more in depth in society?
• How can we make the process of our preparation and celebration of the great day an essential part of the global truth-clarification?

Put it more specifically, for example

• Can we make our truth-clarification more to the point and more touching in the light of the lawsuit against Jiang and other major events?
• How can we make contact with more people through the process of our preparation and celebration of the upcoming World Falun Dafa Day?
• How can we in the process of our preparation and celebration, solidly help more people be able to witness "Falun Dafa is good" and learn the truth of the persecution?
• How can we ensure a larger audience, "so that Dafa practitioners and all kindhearted people around the world can celebrate together"?
• What else can we do to provide avenues for people to express their support for Dafa practitioners in Mainland China so that they would sooner regain their freedom of belief?"

The above are some of my personal thoughts for your reference.

Posting date: 5/2/2003
Original article date: 5/2/2003
Category: Practitioners' Insights
Translated on 5/1/2003
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2003/5/1/49445.html

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