By Qing Mei

(Clearwisdom.net)

It is the responsibility and the mission of every Falun Dafa practitioner to demonstrate the magnificence of Falun Dafa and to expose the CCP's persecution against practitioners. This is also to validate the Fa, safeguard the Fa and save sentient beings. As Falun Dafa practitioners, we must try our best to carry out these tasks.

The audience earnestly listens to practitioners' explanations

It is the authenticity that makes photographic art convincing. With time and space condensed in the art, the transient becomes eternal and a powerful message is conveyed through the combination of structure and proportion, images and spirit. The works displayed at the practitioners' exhibit depicted how millions of Falun Dafa practitioners have been validating the Fa during the thirteen years.

Visitors carefully appreciate every work of art

The first indoor photo exhibit in Taiwan was displayed in the Taipei Cultural Center. Although the rooms were not very large and the exhibit was not the longest, the cultural center became warm and bright as soon as the Falun Dafa practitioners' photographic works were in place. Early in the morning, some visitors could not wait to view the exhibit.

At lunchtime, we started to distribute flyers to those passing by and to people in the neighboring stores and to invite them to the photo exhibit. Almost everyone accepted the flyers and thanked us.

Initially we thought the exhibit was mainly open to everyday people. Nevertheless new practitioners, who anxiously tried to understand what they had not understood, particularly enjoyed it. When we guided the tour for them, they gathered many of their friends and relatives to listen.

One lady stood and stared at the art for a long time. I walked towards her and asked her if I could be of any help. It turned out that she was a new practitioner who started to practice about a year ago. She was very fascinated by the pictures that demonstrated the supernormal capabilities in Falun Dafa. She told me that before she started to practice Falun Dafa, a colleague of hers showed her this picture but she quickly passed it off as a photographic technique. After she started to practice Falun Dafa herself, she gradually understood the profound meaning of cultivation practice. As she was telling me her story, her tears were flowing and her voice became hoarse. Her sincerity deeply touched my heart.

Another new practitioner and her colleagues also came to view the exhibit. Throughout the whole tour, she was so focused that she was not ready to leave at the end of the exhibit. Since she seemed to have something to say, I started to talk to her. She told me that she experienced something extraordinary the day before. "It must be Master's Law Body who saved me," she said. The story is that she was driving on a freeway when her car started to skid. She quickly turned her steering wheel but the car skidded in the opposite direction. The car zigzagged and it was very dangerous. Soon she realized that her car had turned 180 degrees and was facing other vehicles that were speeding towards her. As if the policeman were expecting this, he quickly guided the traffic away from her and prevented an accident. She said that at the scene she was incredibly calm and not fearful at all. When she returned home, however, she started to feel frightened and she couldn't sleep all night. Full of gratitude in her heart, she just wanted to understand what happened. "No matter how new a practitioner you are, you can validate the Fa equally well," I said.

Oftentimes practitioners hold their own notions and choose their own paths or ways to cultivate and to clarify the truth without realizing that Master's Law Body arranges everything. For example, one practitioner at the exhibit initially believed that she was there only to work at the front desk. She thought that doing the guided tour was not her job. However a lot of people came to her and asked her many questions. Soon she became more proactive and started to explain the art to the visitors. In fact, she quickly did very well in guiding the visitors.

Many practitioners at the exhibit also overcame their notions and attachments, stopped picking jobs or limiting their responsibilities, and turned to proactively work for the exhibit and get involved in helping the visitors. It was truly a good cultivation experience for all of us.

Posting date: 10/1/2005
Original article date: 10/1/2005
Category: Falun Dafa Worldwide
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2005/9/4/109728.html

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