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Falun Dafa Reaches the Arctic Circle (Part II)

Nov. 9, 2001 |   -- Danish Practitioners Spread Dafa in Greenland

3. Compassionate Greenlander

Throughout this Hongfa activity, what touched me most was the kindness of the people of Greenland. Maybe it is because Greenland is situated in a remote area that the degradation of human moral values has little effect on the people. The people of Greenland are compassionate, pure, and kind. They treat everyone genuinely without suspicion. I have not seen this kind of social atmosphere for a long time.

The first contact with the residents:

It was noon of the second day that we arrived at Nuuk. When we stepped out of the office of the local newspaper, we were greeted by bright sunshine and by the local people who were enjoying the beautiful day. We did not bring the Hongfa poster board but just a few flyers. We decided to take advantage of the good weather to spread Dafa to the people. We placed the flyers and petition forms on the ground in front of us, and we began to do the exercises to the music.

We were soon surrounded by people. They picked up the flyers and read them. One young girl pointed to Zhao Ming's picture and asked, "Is he still in jail?" I told her that throughout Europe, many people are appealing for his release. People began to voluntarily circulate the petition forms and to sign their names on it. There was no need to explain or elaborate; truthful hearts are so easily connected to Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance. It was such a nice and easy Hongfa experience for me. While we were still practicing, the number of signatures increased steadily. Even though we only brought one signature book, there were 140 signatures within that short time of one and half hours. This speed (of collecting signatures) was maintained throughout the subsequent days of Hongfa activities. The weather was of not of any consequence, whether it was a good, sunny day or a cold day.

One lady said, "Welcome to Greenland." Another lady said, "I will talk to the politicians and ask them to help you."

Promoting Dafa to citizens of Nuuk on the streets

Then groups of children started to learn the exercises, either voluntarily or by the encouragement of their parents. Even an elderly woman threw down her crutches and joined us.

Since then, we held many Hongfa activities on the streets. Quite often, when we were about to leave, people would still come and ask whether they could sign the petitions. As one woman signed her name, she said, "Our hearts are with you."

We were also exposed to people of different social status in Nuuk. The people, regardless of the social strata they belonged to, treated everyone with respect. For example, we had little understanding of the local government and did not contact the local government beforehand. With no exception, we were welcomed each time whenever we contacted the government and the media. They would go out of their way to fulfill our requests without delay.

While we were at the Greenland Radio and TV, they all reported our activities in a positive way. In one incident, a reporter of the local newspaper was unable to do the interview with us due to sudden illness. So, they sent out another reporter who did a thorough interview. The story was published after we left Greenland.

The president of Greenland Amnesty International is a renowned non-governmental organization activist. We had heard of him while we were in Denmark. Before we had the opportunity to visit him, he came to greet us on the second day of the photo exhibition and invited us to be his guests at his home (see part three of the report).

As Dafa practitioners, we evaluate the people and the society based on xinxing (moral standard, mind nature). The people of Greenland, with their sincere hearts, created an atmosphere of purity and joy for practitioners. Immersed among them, our hearts felt more pure. We all sensed that the pureness of the people of Greenland will bring them happiness. The kind people deserve to be saved.

Quite often we were asked, "Why do you come to Greenland to introduce Falun Dafa?" The answer was clear. The cosmic law has arranged this predestined relationship - the people of Greenland obtained the Fa through us. We gained a deeper understanding of Teacher's benevolence and arrangement. We felt the sacredness and the magnificence of our responsibility as Falun Dafa practitioners.

4. Delivering Falun Dafa materials to the local government

On October 22, the Cultural Center was closed. We used that time to spread Dafa and to clarify the truth to the government officials. We only prepared one set of materials. We tried to meet the secretary of the Chairman of the government. Upon learning of our intention, the secretary accepted our information and promised to pass it to the Chairman. Due to conflict in schedules, the Chairman could not meet with us at that time. However, the secretary took note of our contact information and promised that she would try to arrange an appointment for us.

Then she suggested that the Falun Dafa materials be distributed to seven members of the government. We were so happy to follow her suggestions.

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