A Japanese Practitioner Offers Some Thoughts about Her Trip to New York City

By a Falun Dafa Practitioner in Japan

(Clearwisdom.net)

Through experience sharing, all practitioners from the Hiroshima area understood the importance of going to New York City to clarify the truth. Some practitioners said, "We should not just seek benefit from Dafa without contributing." Some practitioners could not make the trip due to their busy work schedule, so they paid to print materials. All of us encouraged and helped each other. Finally five practitioners from our area went to New York City on August 12, 2004.

Upon arriving in NYC, all practitioners from Japan got together, a total of 9 people. On the morning of August 14, we went to Wall Street in Manhattan and started the activities of clarifying truth to save people. We worked together with fellow practitioners from other countries. In the first several days, we were handing out materials on Wall Street and another two spots nearby a park. When I saw that very few people accepted the material, my human notions started to grow. Especially when well dressed businessmen walked by me with heads up, I almost felt they were doing it intentionally just to go against me. I tried handing the materials over and over again but could not find people to accept them for a long time. I became very unsettled and my legs started shaking. I felt the bottom of my feet become so itchy that I almost wanted to find a place to rest. As soon as that thought came up, I immediately realized it was wrong. Coming from thousands of miles away, was I here to rest or to save people? I set my thoughts right and reminded myself to send forth righteous thoughts often to eliminate the evil elements and enable more people to know the truth. It was not easy for us to come to New York, so we should do well in what we are supposed to do. After I adjusted my mentality, I felt my compassion start to grow. When handing out material, I added the words, "Excuse me" when offering flyers and simultaneously sent forth righteous thoughts. Several minutes later, more and more people started to accept truth materials. Some people read the flyer and asked immediately about the contact phone number and expressed interest in learning Falun Gong.

We noticed in the anti-torture exhibitions that most of the policemen and victims were senior citizens. It was very painstaking work. So we practitioners from Japan asked to play roles in the exhibition. Everyone cooperated, some played the policemen and some played victims. We cared for each other and took turns to play different roles. We all felt the compassion as well as fellow practitioners' righteous thoughts cultivated from Falun Dafa.

My first role was to play a victim locked in a cage. For about an hour, I had to bend my body and could not raise my head, with two hands hanging onto the cage. It was very painful. Then I played a victim on the "Tiger Bench". The rope was not really tied around my legs. It was just loosely hanging there, but I already felt back pain and soreness in my legs while on that torture instrument. It was extremely painful. All we were playing out was just the tip of the iceberg. It was just a show to demonstrate and tell people the story. But practitioners in China had to actually endure over a hundred kinds of torture. Some of them had wounds all over, some suffered permanent injury, and some were disfigured. All of them endured various kinds of mental tortures too. Upon thinking of that, my tears kept falling. At the time I only wanted to play the role of victim well to represent my fellow practitioners in China and to tell the truth about the persecution to the people in New York City. I just wanted to have more people come to know the truth, save deceived people, and fulfill our grand prehistoric wish. I hope there will be more practitioners coming to New York to participate in the activities here.

The above was just some personal experience from truth clarification in Manhattan. Fellow practitioners please point out anything improper.

September 6, 2004

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