Switzerland: Falun Gong Practitioners Celebrate Falun Dafa Day in Bern (Photos)

By a Swiss practitioner

(Clearwisdom.net) On May 17, 2008, the Falun Gong exercise music could be heard at the Rose Garden in Bern. What was different from usual was that the Falun Gong practitioners were celebrating World Falun Dafa Day. They expressed their gratitude to their respected Master by practicing the exercises, studying the principles, exchanging experiences, and raising awareness of the persecution.

Practitioners doing the exercises

Greetings to Master

Passers-by seemed eager to accept information about the persecution of Falun Gong

Among the practitioners in Bern, some who used to suffer from different kinds of illnesses have now not only recovered but have also become more vigorous and younger as a result of practicing Falun Gong. Some have improved their family relationships by following "Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance."

They expressed their gratitude to their Master by reciting poems.

To Our Respected Master

On the birthday of our Master
Even more your practitioners think of you.
Consecrated is our sincerity
In front of your picture with flowers and fruits.
A lighted fresh incense stick
Is presented to our respected Master who is far away.
For sixteen years the Fa has been spread
And now seen throughout the world are the Pure Lotus Flowers.

Predestined Relationship

For sixteen years Dafa has been spread
By surmounting all kinds of hardships and difficulties.
With the lighted fresh incense sticks conveying our gratitude to our Master for his kindness
Our pure hearts have formed predestined relationship.
With thousands of dangerous passes that have been surmounted
All fated calamities are already culminating.
When we follow our Master to the Heavens in the future
The whole world will exclaim in admiration.

There are more than 200 different kinds of roses in the Bern Rose Garden. The garden is also ideally located for a panoramic view of the whole city of Bern. As such it has become a popular tourist site. Practitioners chose this garden as their practice site in order to let more people to know about Falun Gong and the persecution by the Chinese Communist Party. Each time they practice together, they display leaflets and materials about the truth in Chinese and other languages for the tourists.

Source: http://clearharmony.net/articles/200805/44496.html

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2008/5/18/178737.html

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