(Clearwisdom.net) On Friday April 29, 2005, a large "culture day" was arranged with various activities at a senior high school in Ockelbo, Sweden. The students had the opportunity to choose the day's activities, and two Falun Gong practitioners from the city of Gaovle were invited because the students wanted to know more about the practice. The day was divided into morning and afternoon sessions, with two groups of students.

Practitioners told the students how Falun Gong was introduced to the public in China in 1992 by Master Li Hongzhi. They also spoke about how the cultivation practice became popular in China for both its positive health benefits and the improvement in people's moral standards that it brought about. Today, Falun Gong is practiced in more than sixty countries around the world.

The students listened attentively and had the opportunity to try the Falun Gong exercises. This also gave them a chance to learn more about traditional Chinese culture and its view of the human body and health and fitness. Practitioners shared how they had benefited from cultivation practice and how they are trying to assimilate to the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance in their daily lives. The students also learned that there are books available about Falun Gong, and they got the chance to read the foreword to the book Zhuan Falun together with the practitioners.

At end of the activity, a video about human rights was shown. Practitioners told the students that a severe persecution has been waged against Falun Gong practitioners in China since 1999. They explained that this persecution was launched because former president Jiang Zemin was jealous of Falun Gong's popularity, and the Chinese Communist Party was afraid of losing power. The students realized that the brutal persecution happening in China is an abuse of human rights. They expressed their gratitude to the practitioners for the introduction to Falun Gong.

Source: http://clearharmony.net/articles/200505/26268.html

Originally published in Swedish at http://se.clearharmony.net/articles/200504/14220.html