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[Minghui 8/2/2000]
At present, for every disciple both inside and outside of China, clarifying the truth of Falun Gong to people around the world is the most important task in "assisting the teacher in the human world". Promoting
Falun Dafa on Saipan
Island
on the July 20 Anniversary (7/23/00) July 20 is an unforgettable day
for us. In
the past year, our fellow practitioners in China used their lives creating opportunities
for overseas practitioners to promote Falun Dafa. They were steadfast and
unyielding
to
the
government power and authorities, but still persevered the truth. Their
great compassion and forbearance are praised and admired by many people. Currently,
the most important thing for our overseas practitioners "assisting
our Teacher
in the human world" is to tell people
the truth. Saipan Island has about 10,000
Chinese; most of them are workers in clothing factories. Many of them are from
Mainland China and have
received
false propaganda from the Chinese government, so they had misunderstandings
about Falun Dafa.
So, we
decided to make 2,000 copies of the newspaper "The Truth
of
Falun
Gong" and "Peaceful Journey of Falun Gong" in Chinese. We had
contacted several publishing companies, but the charge was quite expensive,
finally we found
a Philippine company. We told them about the brutal suppression of Falun
Gong practitioners in China, and that we were
going to pay for the cost of printing these newspapers by ourselves in order to tell the truth.
The
newspapers
were
going to be distributed to people for free. In the end, the manager’s
heart was moved
and
promised us
the lowest price. This
price was the same as printing black-white newspapers at other companies, but we received colored front and
back pages from this company. We understood that this is
the power of Falun Dafa, what we were doing was only to comply with the climatic change, and we were
also happy for the manager's righteous
thought. We
have
sent
out a
large number
of newspapers to Chinese stores and factories, which has
gradually
invoked great responses among Chinese. Many
people were talking
about this issue.
Some showed
us support.
Some
did
not treat
us the way as before, and
started
to think
about Falun
Gong from another
aspect. Phone calls for
Falun Dafa
information kept
flowing
in.
There is a market every Thursday
night in
the Garapa tourist area. Coincidently, this July 20th was a Thursday.
We
decided to use this chance to promote Falun Dafa among the people there. We printed several thousand
flyers in English, Chinese and Japanese with the lowest price
offered by the same publishing company. On that day, a dozen practitioners rushed there after work, some
gave up the chance to make money working overtime
and some
came without having supper. We happened
to find that a practitioner
had rented
one booth there, so we took advantage of that booth, repeatedly playing
the video
"Falun Gong --The Real Story ", and displayed
pictures
showing
how the
practitioners in China safeguarded Falun Dafa
in
Tiananmen Square and
were persecuted for this. Many people stopped to watch the video.
Some
practitioners distributed flyers at every intersection, to
every booth and every store. Before long, many people had the light-yellow
colored flyers
in their hands, some of them read it at once and some asked us about Falun Dafa.
Many people also stopped to watch some practitioners practicing the sitting meditation
in turns at the booth.
The effect of this type of Falun
Dafa
promotion worked quite well, several hundred flyers were distributed in one
night, so
we have
decided
to promote Falun
Dafa at this
market every Thursday. We have the chance to cultivate and
practice in
this historical moment because of Teacher's great benevolence. Teacher has done many
things for us, we could never
repay Teacher.
What we should do is make further advances vigorously and diligently until achievement of
the consummation! Practitioners in Saipan Island,
USA (Translated
on July 29, 2000 from http://www.minghui.ca/gb/0001/Jul/26/720_saipan_island.html) |