Practitioners from Waterloo, Windsor, London, Hamilton and Toronto attended ten Christmas parades in their local areas within three weeks. At least 200,000 people saw the brilliant Falun and cheerful practitioners for the first time. About 30,000 colorful newspaper brought Falun and "Good future" to the excited spectators.
The fight between righteousness and evil is not only taking place in Mainland China, but also in Canada. The degenerated forces spread much propaganda material throughout Canada to attack Dafa. Taking advantage of sufficient financial support, they even broadcast gruesome scenes that were purposefully faked.
However, when people saw these genuine practitioners, their kindness and happiness broke through all evil propaganda. "The great disclosure of the truth will leave the world in amazement". On the mobile float, practitioners did the exercises over and over again, transmitting the voice of "Truthfulness, Benevolence, Forbearance" to the world. Colorful balloons and banners, together with the heart-moving Dafa music, brought the beautiful and elegant scenes to the spectators.
"What is this?" "Where do you come from?" With curiosity, people eagerly opened the newspaper. Six pages of pictures, two pages of introductions and the vivid and true reports from American independent journalists in Beijing exposed these people to the miniature of the extensive dissemination of Dafa in the human world.
A tidbit: In a parade in which nearly one hundred floats showed up, our float with a Christmas tree, a rotating model for the book of "Zhuan Falun" and practitioners in golden clothes on it won the 2nd place according to the appraisal committee, and we were conferred ribbons and prizes. The appraisal committee members even stooped from the high step to take the newspaper that our practitioners handed to them.
In the happy holiday season, people also had a chance to see pictures in which practitioners are facing the evil persecution with no fear. Considering these were holiday parades, we didn't put the most miserable pictures in the newspaper. Nonetheless, the scenes of the cruel beatings endured by kind practitioners, already was vividly imprinted on the minds of the people.
"...as those who attack goodness are bound to be evil..." "We must expose the evil to the people in this world, which is also offering people salvation"
We will keep our teacher's words in mind at every moment in our life.
In general, everything we do is spreading Dafa and offering salvation to people. For every practitioner, everything we do is cultivating ourselves and we should remind each other of this often.
Some practitioners didn't sleep for 36 hours in order to prepare the newspaper for the parade. There were also some attachments exposed from some other practitioners, which led to several spelling mistakes in the newspaper. Some parts of the parade were also not so smooth. Practitioners were all thinking, "What can we learn from this?"
For the spelling mistakes, practitioners pointed them out seriously: we need to be responsible for Fa, and this kind of errors should not happen. Nonetheless, there were no reprimands. Seeing that, in such cold weather on the street, over a hundred practitioners were correcting the errors on the newspaper by hand one by one right before the parade, the practitioners who were responsible for the errors could hardly stay calm. They tasted what genuine cultivation is with their hearts.
Under the bright sunshine, we are leaving now for another trip to clarify the truth and spread Dafa...
Practitioners in Toronto
December 5, 2000