Scotland: Promoting Falun Gong and Letting the People of Inverness Know about the Persecution (Photo)
(Clearwisdom.net) In Inverness, the capital of the Scottish highlands,
on Sunday June 23rd, 2007, UK practitioners held various activities at a street
market. At last year's successful event, the organizer told practitioners,
"You created a wonderful environment with our peaceful practice. Perhaps
you'd like to come again next year". Wind and rain continued throughout the day and despite this, people passing
by were drawn to the practitioners, who wore traditional Chinese costumes and
demonstrated exercises along with peaceful music. As practitioners demonstrated
the exercises, those who stopped to watch seemed to forget about the rain. A woman came and listened about our practice and how in China the persecution
takes place. She had a painful expression on her face, took a leaflet and left
saying she wouldn't sign our petition but would read the leaflet. After a few
hours she came back with purpose in her heart and signed the petition. Two gentlemen walked by, one took a leaflet and the other refused while
saying persecution was happening all over the world not just in China. The
practitioner pointed out that eighty million Chinese people were killed by the
CCP in China during the last fifty-six years of CCP control. Yet most in the
west were not aware of this. In the rest of the world there are laws to protect
people, in China laws are set aside to allow this persecution to take place. He
then kindly took a leaflet. Parents with school children took Nine Commentaries DVDs to pass to
their teachers and were happy to do so. The organizer came to see if things were alright and talked with a
practitioner at the petition table. She said she saw the practitioner who
organized the event and said "he looks really happy" as he did the
exercises during the rain. The practitioner remarked "With my eyes closed,
when I maintained a serene expression, it seemed the sun was shining on me and I
felt the warmth as if transported to a different place." After the event, practitioners shared their experiences and saw how everyone
did different things throughout the day but all towards the same aim. Despite
the poor weather the event was a good cultivation environment, testing
practitioner's tolerance in not letting personal comfort be a barrier, having
opened the hearts and minds of many in Inverness.
Chinese version available at
http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2007/7/3/158091.html
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