(Clearwisdom.net) During the first weekend in September 2002, Norwegian practitioners from Oslo and Stavanger introduced Falun Gong at an alternative health fair. Stavanger is a big southern Norwegian city with about 100,000 inhabitants. The organizer of this fair was very supportive and gave us a free place for the exhibition stand to introduce Falun Gong. We distributed flyers, talked with people who were interested in learning more and demonstrated the exercises. We also played Falun Gong exercise instruction videotape. Over the course of 3 days, we held a workshop to introduce Falun Gong to people.

One man asked what Falun Gong is. We explained to him that practicing Falun Gong means to do five simple exercises and to assimilate oneself to the universal principles of Truthfulness - Compassion -- Forbearance and be a good person. He instantly replied, "I want to have this" and got the exercise instruction videotape.

A woman who saw a practitioner doing the fifth exercise said, "The person looks so peaceful, I will also come and learn the exercises." A Norwegian woman, who attended our first workshop, came back the next day and told us that her husband had said a lot of bad things about Falun Gong. She wanted us to tell her the real story about Falun Gong. After a practitioner spoke for a while with her, she understood the truth well. She then bought the books and exercise videotape, and said that she wants to come to the group practice site. When she left, she looked very relieved.

Also the local TV station came and took pictures of our display, and the reporters where very eager to film practitioners doing the exercises. After this fair, more than 10 new practitioners came to the exercise sites in Stavanger and Sandnes, a smaller city nearby Stavanger.

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