(Clearwisdom.net) On Sunday May 1, 2005, the weather in San Diego was fine and warm. Several hundred participants and more than 60,000 local residents and visitors from around the world came to famous Balboa Park to participate in the annual celebration of Earth Day.

The administrative office of the park specifically granted a permit for the practitioners to hold activities to introduce Falun Gong in a spacious area near a huge fig tree.

Visitors looking at the photo display boards

A person learning to do the sitting meditation

A Mexican practitioner introduces Falun Gong to her countrymen in Spanish

A woman (right) from Switzerland is practicing the exercises with a practitioner

The practitioners came to the park quite early. They held banners reading, "Falun Gong teaches people Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance," "Falun Dafa is good," and "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance" in both Chinese and English. They also set up over 20 photo display boards depicting the beauty of Falun Dafa and the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP's) brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. The scene was very beautiful.

During our activities to introduce Falun Gong, many predestined people came to learn the exercises. One man spent five to six hours with the practitioners. He said he liked China's Tang Dynasty culture. He was very excited upon seeing us and said that Falun Gong is what he had been looking for. He learned the exercises on the spot and also expressed that he would participate in the group practice beginning next week.

A tourist from Switzerland was also very happy to see us. She said her neighbor once taught her Falun Gong. She naturally joined the practitioners to demonstrate the exercises.

People's hearts were moved when they saw the truth-clarifying display boards that depicted torture methods used to brutally persecute Falun Gong practitioners in China. One visitor said that he could not understand why the Chinese government persecutes such a good and peaceful cultivation practice. He strongly called for an end to the persecution of Falun Gong in China.