(Minghui.org) The persecution was rampant in our region in 2000 as many practitioners were being monitored by the police. Those who talked to people about Falun Dafa and the truth surrounding the persecution were arrested, detained, or sent to forced labor camps.
To expose the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the lies it fabricated to slander Dafa, practitioners distributed truth-clarification brochures, posted stickers with information about the persecution, and hung banners.
When we saw the Minghui website announcement about May 13th being designated as World Falun Dafa Day, everyone was excited—we felt it would be a wonderful holiday to be celebrated around the world. It was also encouragement to the practitioners in China to remain resolute despite the relentless persecution.
A few of us talked it over and agreed that we should do everything we could to spread the word far and wide. People needed to hear the truth about Dafa so they could be saved. We decided to cover the entire region with truth clarification stickers and banners, which would not only eliminate the evil elements, but also remind people that they are basically good.
With help from practitioners in another city, we began making both big and small banners. A few male practitioners gathered logs and cut them into sticks, while the female practitioners bought fabric and made the banners.
We had 7 seven-meter-long banners, about a dozen five-meter-long ones, and more than two hundred smaller ones, ranging from one meter to three meters long, for a total of two hundred and seventy banners.
We had a sharing session as a group, and everyone wanted to cooperate and be a part of the effort. So we formed small groups and decided to carry out our plan on the night of May 12. Those assigned to post the stickers and distribute brochures planned to finish before 9:00 p.m. They sent righteous thoughts for the groups that were going out to hang the banners at 1:00 a.m.
The longer banners needed to be hung somewhere where more people passed by during the day. We decided to hang them on telecommunication towers, bridges on major roads, big trees, buildings, and tunnel entrances so they were visible to commuters or people exercising in the parks each morning.
We notified all practitioners in the area and asked everyone to send righteous thoughts throughout the night. We also asked Master Li to help strengthen our righteous thoughts and protect practitioners so they would return home safely.
We headed out as planned on May 12. More than a hundred practitioners went out at 1:00 a.m. and quickly hung the banners at the locations we agreed on. Two hundred and seventy banners with messages such as “Falun Dafa is Good,” “The World Needs Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance,” and “Celebrating World Falun Dafa Day” on them could be seen everywhere in the mountains.
It was just like what Master said, “Broadly shines a Buddha’s light” (“One With the Fa” in Hong Yin)
We felt indescribable joy afterwards and became teary eyed.
After all the banners were hung, we went home and sent righteous thoughts so everyone would see the banners, and the momentum of the persecution would be diminished.
When people stepped out of their homes the next morning, the first thing they saw was “Falun Dafa is Good.” They asked each other, “Have you seen the Falun Dafa banners? They are everywhere. Falun Dafa is truly remarkable! How did they hang the banners on such high towers?”
The police panicked and sirens could be heard up and down the streets. People remarked to one another, “The county police have been deployed. They said they would collect fingerprints and find those responsible for hanging the banners.”
With Master’s protection and the strong righteous thoughts of our one body of practitioners, the police gave up. We assumed they knew it would be too difficult to track down whoever hung the banners.
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