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Taiwan: Story of a Bookmark (Photos)
By Jin Feng from Taiwan (Clearwisdom.net) I am a taxi driver in Taiwan. I cherish everyone that I
encounter. I introduce Falun Dafa to each person who takes a ride in my taxi. My
passengers are often older persons. They are all very happy to listen to me
telling the facts about Falun Gong. When I tell them to remember that "Falun
Dafa is great" and to be a good person who is truthful, kind and tolerant, many
seniors who are illiterate, or who don't have good eyesight, or if their memory
is failing, ask me to write these words down for them so that they would not
forget them. Because the words printed on bookmarks made by practitioners to
introduce Falun Gong are often too small for these elderly people to read, I
would take a piece of notepaper and write down these words for them. However, I
felt very uncomfortable about it because the piece of notepaper is not easy to
keep. I therefore shared this issue with another practitioner at our practice
site. She said that she would design bookmarks suitable for elderly people. I
told her it would be best to not use any pictures but just large characters in
bright colors. Shortly after, I got the bookmarks (see photos below). Many fellow
practitioners think the design is very good. We feel that the design is pure and
peaceful and we can even feel the light shining from it. The practitioner who
designed the bookmark is very diligent in her cultivation and we feel that she
is very pure. I started carrying the bookmarks in my taxi. Almost all the
passengers eagerly ask for the bookmarks. They treasure the bookmarks very much
and carefully put it in their pocket or purse as if they are trying to remember
these words by heart forever and will keep the bookmark forever. Seeing how the
small bookmark plays such a good role in introducing Dafa to people, my heart is
deeply moved. Taxi drivers in Taiwan voluntarily form brigades at different places to
direct traffic so as to serve society and maintain traffic safety. People from
all circles praise them for this. I'm also a member of the voluntary brigade.
Each week, I would volunteer some time to direct traffic on the busy streets. On
the evening of August 20, 2004, our local brigade members had a dinner party
together. About 100 colleagues and local leaders, including representatives of
public groups and people from industry and commerce, attended. At the dinner
party, I introduced Falun Gong and explained the facts about the persecution to
people, and handed out bookmarks. People were very pleased to receive the
bookmarks. They asked me to go up to the podium. I sang the song, "Coming for
You" and won warm applause. I remember that a fellow practitioner once told a story: A Chinese person
from the Mainland visited Taiwan and saw many Falun Dafa banners hanging in
different places and then he talked about his previous bad notions about Falun
Gong. When he went to the U.S. for the first time, he saw a huge poster that
read, "Falun Dafa is great!" Suddenly, his negative thoughts were cleared away
and he felt good about Falun Gong. I came to understand that as long as
practitioners have a compassionate heart to save sentient beings, just one
sentence, one article, one video CD, one poster and even one small bookmark
would be very effective. Bookmark designed by a fellow practitioner. The left-hand side reads, "Falun
Dafa is great," the right-hand side reads, "Truthfulness, Compassion,
Tolerance." |