(Minghui.org) Falun Gong practitioners from the greater Boston area, state of Maine, and Rhode Island, took part in the Celebrate Burlington event held on August 3, 2024. The organizers arranged different entertainment and performances, including exercise demonstrations by practitioners in the central area.
Practitioners demonstrated the Falun Gong exercises at Celebrate Burlington on August 3, 2024.
People Show Interest in Falun Gong
Falun Gong practitioners set up a booth where visitors found out more about the spiritual practice. Passersby watched practitioners doing the exercises and joined in. In some instances, the entire family wanted to learn Falun Gong and said that they would get more information online after returning home. Several people noted the time when they learned that practitioners were going to demonstrate the exercises in the afternoon.
A few local Chinese residents took fliers and expressed interest in finding out more about Falun Gong. An elderly couple struck up a conversation with the practitioner when she offered them a flier. They said they were from China visiting family in the U.S. When the practitioners asked if they'd heard of the movement to quit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the man said he heard of it in China.
Chinese People Agree to Quit the CCP and Its Affiliated Organizations
The practitioner went on to explain to the couple the significance of withdrawing their membership from the CCP and its youth organizations. They were hesitant in the beginning. The practitioner said, “I believe a predestined relationship has brought us together today. l hope you will withdraw from the Party so that you will have a good future.” The man agreed to quit the Young Pioneers and the Youth League. His wife followed suit.
People visit the Falun Gong booth in a steady stream to find out more about Falun Gong.
That day, relatively more children came to the booth. Some came with their parents while others came alone. They loved the lotus flowers. Pointing at the Chinese characters for Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance, a practitioner taught the children to read them. She said, “When I heard the children reading these words in Chinese, I felt like crying. Their sincere voices are so touching.”
In the afternoon, practitioners gathered at the central area to demonstrate the exercises after the organizers introduced them. They wore yellow T-shirts with the words “Falun Dafa” printed on them, light-colored pants, and yellow caps. Standing in neat rows, they did the exercises following the instructions and the music. Later on, several people came to the booth to tell them that they saw the exercise demonstration and loved the movements. At the end of the day, all the material prepared by practitioners to inform people of upcoming classes at the local library was handed out.
It was a hot day and the mats used to sit on during the exercise demonstration were scorching. Yet, practitioners discovered that as they began to do the exercises, clouds appeared in the sky and it cooled down at once. The temperature went up again after they finished the exercises. The peaceful atmosphere during the exercise demonstration made many people stop in their tracks to watch. These people came to the booth to get more information about the cultivation practice afterward.
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