(Clearwisdom.net) While the 59th United Nations General
Assembly convened in New York September 20 to September 24, practitioners from
all over the world gathered to demonstrate the peace and beauty of Falun Dafa
and raise awareness of the persecution in China.
Practitioners' activities included press conferences, anti-torture
exhibitions, participating in local fairs, showing truth-clarification videos,
informational poster displays, distributing flyers, and forming a "Great
Wall of Courage". Practitioners from Taiwan, Hong Kong, Australia,
Singapore, New Zealand, Japan, Canada and many European countries as well as
practitioners from across the U.S. participated in these activities. Many of the
practitioners, including young mothers and their babies, came a long way to
clarify the truth about Falun Gong and the persecution to the people of New
York.
Anti-torture exhibition
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Sending righteous thoughts |
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Demonstrating the Falun Gong exercises |
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Using various ways to clarify the truth
Onlookers signing a petition calling for the end of
the persecution of Falun Gong
Two Stories from 7th Avenue
Practitioners from Australia and Taiwan were
clarifying the truth at the intersection of 42nd
Street and Broadway as well as on 7th Avenue.
They related two stories about their experiences there:
A couple from Sydney, Australia told the
practitioners, "We have seen you in Sydney."
The practitioners from Sydney then told them: "To
end Jiang's and his followers' persecution of Falun Gong
as soon as possible, we have come here to tell people
about the persecution." After listening to
practitioners' explanation, the couple was very touched.
They thanked us repeatedly and wished us success.
One day, when the truth-clarifying activities were
about to adjourn, a person came to the intersection of
42nd Street and 7th Avenue where
the Taiwanese practitioners were. He said that he came
to learn the Falun Gong exercises. He told the
practitioners that he obtained a Falun Gong flyer two
weeks ago from a Los Angeles practitioner. He then
started to learn Falun Gong by simply following the
pictures on the flier. He thus only knew two of the
movements from Exercise One. Nevertheless, he felt the
strong energy flow when he did the two movements.
Therefore, he had been practicing them for two weeks.
As the Taiwanese practitioners didn't know how to
teach him in English, I went forward to teach him and
thus got the opportunity to chat with him. He was very
dedicated while learning, and carefully drew every move
of the exercises in his notebook. He was a little
embarrassed and told me that those were just drafts and
he would draw them again more carefully at home.
I gave him a flyer with New York contact information
and told him where he could learn the Falun Gong
exercises. I also asked for his phone number as I wanted
to know his progress. I can tell that he is a very
honest and kind man who really wants to learn Falun
Gong. I wish him well.
We also encountered many other people who wanted to
learn and we told them one by one where they could find
practice sites. It is just as Master told us, the next
generation of practitioners is now coming to Dafa.
A New Yorker is Touched by "Truthfulness,
Compassion and Forbearance"
In the afternoon of September 19, a practitioner was
drawing the Chinese characters, "Truthfulness,
Compassion and Forbearance is Good" with a Chinese
brush pen at the anti-torture exhibition site on 5th
Avenue. A middle-aged gentleman was completely absorbed
by his calligraphy. Later, I found out that he lived
nearby and just happened to pass by the exhibition site.
He was attracted by the three Chinese characters for
"Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance" and
asked if he could get those three characters. It
happened that one of our practitioners was a
calligrapher and was present at the site. The man, a
Westerner, then went home and soon came back with rice
paper and a brush pen. He sincerely asked the
practitioner to write down the three characters for him.
When we asked his name, he pointed to our petition book
and said: "My name is there, I already signed. He
told us his name and that he had fallen in love with
calligraphy 6 years ago. He now can read more than 150
Chinese characters. He said that he would learn the
three characters for "Truthfulness, Compassion and
Forbearance" once he got home. The gentleman was
very grateful for our practitioner's selfless help and
wanted to give him $10 as appreciation. The practitioner
said: "We like to make friends with people who
respect the principle of 'Truthfulness, Compassion and
Forbearance.' Falun Gong practitioners don't charge for
anything, we always help people voluntarily." The
man was deeply moved and shook hands with our
practitioner repeatedly.
The gentleman who loves calligraphy
(left) and our practitioner holding up the characters,
"Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance"
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