Indiana: Spreading the Fa at a Multi-Cultural Festival in Indianapolis (Photos)

By a practitioner from Indiana

(Clearwisdom.net) Indianapolis hosts a Multi-Cultural Festival at the beginning of every November. Hundreds of groups come to the festival to display all kinds of culture. It is a good opportunity to spread the Fa. Falun Gong practitioners from Indiana rent two booths to display the beauty of Falun Gong this year. It is the sixth time that local practitioners attended this activity.

Learning the exercises

Practitioners put all kinds of materials on the desk. They played videos of the NTDTV global Chinese New Year Gala and the demonstration of the exercises. They took turns to pass out materials and teach the exercises. Practitioners also taught people how to fold paper lotus flowers. Many people came to learn the exercises and asked for more information. Some of them already heard about Falun Gong and they wanted to learn more about it. One practitioner said that it was easier to clarify the truth this year, especially to Chinese people.

A 10-year old child told practitioners: "We have been to your booth three times. We learned the exercises and got lotus flowers, but I still want to come to see you guys. Your booth is my favorite." A high school student learned the exercises, and he brought three groups of students to learn the sitting meditation.

An American man came to our booth with his Chinese wife. He said: "Although I don't speak Chinese, I know a lot about Chinese history and I am interested in Chinese culture. The Chinese Communist Party has badly damaged the traditional Chinese culture in the past decades. The CCP should be abandoned. Chinese people are smart. They will do better without the CCP." He learned the exercises and asked his daughter to learn too. He wants his daughter to know both Chinese and Western culture.

A man on the wheelchair liked the paper lotus flower very much. He was very happy when practitioners gave him one. Practitioners also taught him the Chinese characters on the lotus flower: "Falun Dafa is good; Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good." He and his family thanked practitioners.

A lady, who learned the exercises at the festival two years ago, came to do the sitting meditation and fold lotus flowers with practitioners two days in a row.

A visiting scholar from Mainland China told practitioners that the reason she likes U.S.A. is that people have freedom.

In four days, many people learned more about Falun Dafa and the truth of the persecution.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2006/11/21/142911.html

 Yearly Archive   Printer Version