(Minghui.org) I was lucky to attend many events held to clarify the truth about Falun Dafa in Manhattan during the 2014 New York Fa Conference. I would like to share one of my most memorable experiences.
We were practicing the Dafa exercises at Times Square on the last day of the conference. Times Square is the “heart” of New York City. Thousands of people walk by every hour. It rained at the beginning, but the weather cleared as we demonstrated the exercises.
I held a banner, passed out flyers about Falun Dafa and then practiced the exercises. We were told to send righteous thoughts while we were doing the exercises.
After five minutes we were told again that we must eliminate interference against our event. I felt heavy in my heart because I didn't know what had happened. After another five minutes, I decided to stand up and take a look around. I saw a group of people who were displaying banners defaming Master and Dafa.
I walked over and tried to communicate with them. However, they just kept jumping around and shouting. It was hard for me to stop them by myself. 5 to 7 female Dafa practitioners near me sent righteous thoughts towards them. But the group continued shouting. At that time, I felt we couldn't allow them to destroy sentient beings and themselves in this way. We are Falun Dafa practitioners in Fa-rectification period. Our mission is to save sentient beings. We cannot allow people to be poisoned.
I decided to get help from some male Dafa practitioners who were tall and strong, in order to stop the demonstrators from spreading lies. They only had 10 to 12 people while we had more than 200 practitioners.
Many practitioners came to help. The demonstrators divided into two groups. We also formed two groups, stood in front of their banners and stopped them from poisoning people. A tall young Chinese practitioner was cursed and shouted at by them, but he was not moved. Several practitioners then joined and supported him.
The situation changed soon. The demonstrators started to be quiet when more and more male practitioners came over. They left several minutes later. I felt we had a major victory when the evil gave up. We could continue our event to the end without interference.
That same group of people showed up several hours later when we held another event at Union Square. They hid behind a fence and asked several policemen to stand nearby. I couldn't help but laugh.
They looked like frightened animals. I thought they were badly scared after the event at Times Square in the morning. One of them even copied our hand gesture for sending righteous thoughts and held his right palm up in front of the chest. I thought he tried to protect himself in a supernormal way. However, I felt sad for him. There were many practitioners in front of the fence. Only a few passersby could see the demonstrators. And those who did see them did not seem at all interested or affected.
One person passed by, pointed to a banner the demonstrators held and chatted with me: “They hide behind the separation fence like this. How can they get any attention? Your Master has 11 properties? Really? Amazing!” On the banner, they claimed that Master owned 11 real estate properties.
American's thinking is different from that of Chinese people. Thus, the defaming banner actually had the opposite effect. American people live in a society that encourages people to succeed. They would think Master is a successful person when they see he “has 11 real estate properties.” No matter what the case is, the CCP's attempts to defame Dafa are futile.
I realized from the view point of cultivation that I couldn't make too much impact as an individual, however our force would be irresistible when we formed a whole body and collaborated. I also understood that the evil won't be effective when we eliminate them in this dimension and other dimensions. Our body in this dimension also needs to send righteous thoughts towards other dimensions. Evil will be controlled effectively in this way.
These are some of my understandings at my limited level. Please point out anything that is incorrect.
