Ireland: Introducing Falun Dafa and the Persecution on the Occasion of the Chinese Mid-Autumn Day Holiday (Photos)
By an Irish practitioner
(Clearwisdom.net) On the Saturday before China's Mid-Autumn Day holiday,
we went to O'Connell Street in Dublin's city center. We made a banner suitable
for the Mid-Autumn festival, which read, "Falun Gong Practitioners Wish
Chinese People a Happy Mid-Autumn Day."
We also made many paper lotus flowers and prepared brush-pens, ink, paper and
ink-stone to let people experience the beauty of Falun Dafa through Chinese
Calligraphy. The following are some touching stories to share about our experiences that
day: An elderly lady with her granddaughter asked for their names to be written in
Chinese. The practitioner talked about Falun Dafa and the persecution when
writing the names. The old lady said, "I recognize you, I saw a documentary
on TV a few years ago, and I couldn't believe that such cruel things could be
happening." The practitioner wrote "Falun Dafa is good" and their
names, and she then explained the meaning to them. They left happily. There was another English family on holiday in Ireland. The father was a
teacher at a children's school. The practitioner wrote "Falun Dafa is good.
Truth, Compassion and Forbearance is good" and the name of his school. The
teacher said he would have his pupils copy them and take them home.
Another Westerner come along and said that he was supposed to have an
operation that day, but he didn't want to go. He had been operated on a couple
of times, but it didn't do him any good, as he was suffering from cancer. He
also said he had children at home and he seemed hopeful about life. A Western
practitioner told him that before she started practicing Falun Gong she couldn't
even get up the stairs as she had bad arthritis as well as tracheitis; all of
this had changed not long after she began practicing Falun Gong. She suggested
that this man give it a try as well, and he promised he would.
Although we have been raising awareness about the persecution to people in
Dublin for five years, there were still many Chinese people who dared not talk
to us. But on that day, they stood there watching our exercise demonstration and
dancing and talked to us for a long time. In Ireland, we only started this year to show the beauty of Falun Gong using
the art form of dance. A practitioner had practiced carefully before the
performance. In the early morning, it was cloudy, and there were signs of rain
as well. But as soon as we started doing the exercises, the clouds gradually
dispersed and a clear sky emerged. The beautiful day was over too soon.
After setting up the posters, practitioners began performing a traditional
Chinese fan dance and demonstrating the five sets of Falun Gong exercises. The
exercise demonstration music we used was a shorter version with English
explanations, so that people could watch the whole five sets of exercises and
learn their special features.
Chinese version available at
http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2004/9/30/85410.html
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