(Clearwisdom.net) August the 15th is a holiday in Spain and this year it fell on a Friday, so Spanish people had a long weekend. Dafa practitioners from around Spain gathered at Tarragona to hold three days of group activities, including group Fa study, experience sharing, Hong Fa [promoting Falun Gong], and letting the Spanish people know the facts about the persecution.
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Dafa practitioners from different areas of Spain practice the exercises and studied the Fa together
Tarragona is a small city on the Northeastern coast of Spain. It is a famous scenic spot in the summertime and many tourists go there. Because of this, it is a good place for spreading the Fa and clarifying the facts about Falun Gong.
The spot practitioners chose for spreading the Fa in the city centre was along a busy coastal road. Here there are various businesses, restaurants and entertainment outlets. Throughout the day, there were endless people coming and going. Practitioners sat down to send forth righteous thoughts, before they hung up Dafa banners, displayed pictures and demonstrated the exercises.
The beautiful music accompanying the peaceful and graceful exercise movements, with the blue sky, the ocean, and the old buildings in the background, created a bright and beautiful scene. Passers-by were soon attracted. People stopped to watch and said: "Look! How beautiful it is!" "How wonderful the music is!" Many people could not help but imitate the exercise movements; others took photos with the exercise demonstration as a background. Still others took the initiative to ask practitioners for information and talk to those who were distributing materials.
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When we introduced Falun Gong and explained the facts to passers-by, quite a few people said, "'Truthfulness- Compassion-Forbearance is very good. The world needs Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance!" Many people asked if Tarragona had an exercise site. One lady even voluntarily offered to provide a fitness centre run by her family as a place to practice the exercises and study the Fa [the teachings of Falun Dafa].
When practitioners talked about the brutal persecution of Dafa practitioners in China, people were astonished. They could not believe how such a peaceful practice could be persecuted. One practitioner spoke to a tourist from Madrid who said, "You don't have to say anymore. I already know about the persecution in China. I work near the Chinese Embassy, and always see your fellow practitioners sitting in meditation opposite the Embassy on my way to work. I am touched by your fellow practitioners' persistent and dauntless willpower. From this I am sure that you are righteous. I believe that you will win the victory with your persistence." Before leaving, he said that when he goes back to Madrid, he will learn how to practice the exercises.
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A passerby imitates the movements of the meditation exercise
A tourist from another area in Spain took more than twenty copies of the materials that practitioners were handing out after hearing the facts of the persecution. He said that he wanted to distribute them to his friends and relatives after returning home.
During these activities, some Chinese people also passed by. Two shy Chinese girls stopped to watch the exercise demonstrations. When one Chinese practitioner prepared to give them Chinese truth-clarifying materials, they walked away immediately. Apparently, they were avoiding us. The practitioner caught up with them, gave them the materials, and clarified the facts to them. They then thanked the practitioner and left. However, they came back a short time later and asked for more materials out of their own initiative. They again thanked practitioners.
We met another Chinese couple from Germany. When the practitioners gave them the materials, they said, "We came from Germany. We often see Falun Gong practitioners in Germany, and we have kept the flyers they gave us. I am sorry for the persecution occurring in China. You keep this flyer, and give it to people who still don't know the truth." The practitioner was very moved when hearing this. Every one of us really sensed the mighty power of Dafa. People's hearts are changing. More and more people understand the facts.
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The world needs Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance!"
Practitioners also encountered some disturbances during the activity, but most of them were solved with righteous thoughts. For example, when they went to the site of their appeal on the second day, there was a stage was under construction at that spot. Some people wanted to hold a concert there in the afternoon and they set up large amplifiers around the stage. Practitioners knew that this would ruin their activity and many people could miss their chance to find out the truth, so they kept righteous thoughts throughout.
As a result, the concert had not begun when the practitioners' activity finished at 9.30pm. People who originally wanted to join the concert came to our Hong Fa site and learned more about Falun Dafa. Practitioners' righteous thoughts turned a possible disturbance into a good opportunity to spread the Fa. Through this experience, practitioners came to a deeper understanding of the importance of sending forth righteous thoughts and keeping a righteous mind.
During the two days, practitioners distributed almost 4000 flyers. Most people carefully read them and took them home.
Another thing that deserves to be mentioned is that some practitioners who joined this activity were new practitioners. However, they voluntarily and actively cooperated with everyone to participate in this activity. Later, when practitioners shared experiences, they all said that they greatly benefited from the activities, and now have a firmer resolution to practice cultivation in Dafa. Meanwhile, everyone had a deeper understanding and improved further in the three things that Dafa practitioners should do.
The three-day activity concluded well. This activity helped more sentient beings to witness and understand the wonder and power of Dafa, and recognize the evil nature of the brutal persecution that the Jiang regime has imposed on Falun Gong practitioners in China.
Category: April 25 Events
