On June 25, more than 20 Falun Dafa practitioners from Princeton, Edison and Newark, New Jersey went to the fairground of Metuchen to spread Falun Dafa. Among them were seniors as old as 70 years old and kids as young as 4 years old.
We put up a horizontal self made Falun Dafa banner and set up more than 10 pictures as an introduction of Dafa. Under the hot sun, some practitioners practiced the exercises repeatedly, while others sincerely introduced Dafa to interested visitors. A lot of people were attracted to the serene and peaceful practicing scene. Some bought Falun Dafa books and exercise instruction videotapes without hesitation. Some said they definitely would go to practice sites to learn Dafa. When people learned that not only all of us are volunteers but also all the book-selling activities are non-profit, they expressed admiration in their eyes. They could not understand why we would teach them how to practice totally free of charge. Then they asked if they needed to pay in the future. We explained to them that no fees would ever be charged, forever, as Dafa is priceless and it could not be bought with money. We further explained to them that our teacher requires that no practitioners collect fees when they teach Falun Gong. We told them the reason why we spread Dafa in this way is that all of us benefit enormously from Falun Dafa. They were moved even more and admired Dafa after hearing this.
Coincidentally, a visitor came to our booth and introduced herself as the organizer for an exhibition on "Body, Mind, Spirit". She warmly invited us to attend her exhibition.
Five hours passed quickly. More than 300 Dafa brochures were handed out. In America almost every city or county has similar activities. We consider this kind of form of spreading Dafa, in malls, very effective. This kind of activity, merging into American society, shortens the distance among people, and is a good way to spread Dafa to American society. Moreover, it is easy to do. What you need to do is to look for the phone number and give a call to the Recreation Department or President office of your city, county or your neighborhood to find the schedule of city fairs, street fairs or county fairs. A practitioner said he had considered spreading Dafa as an assignment previously, now he would not miss any opportunity. Another practitioner said he felt very happy the whole day. Of course, there were lots of chances to upgrade our xinxing. When some little boys shouted at the Falun emblem, we explained to them with great patience. When some other people asked practitioners to send out qi to let them sense it, we explained why we would not do that. Some people were indifferent to our warm hearts. But all of us were able to maintain our xinxing and cultivate our inner selves.
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