The Breakfast Open-House Near the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel Was a Success

Today (Sept. 7^th) was the last day of the Fa-promoting activity of the breakfast gathering at Café St. Barts, across from the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. As usual, practitioners arrived early and practiced after they had their breakfasts. Practitioners wearing yellow T-shirts could be seen everywhere. They generated a peaceful and calm atmosphere throughout the vicinity. The police and the management personnel of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel had already come to know the peaceful natures of the practitioners. They trusted that the practitioners would not do anything radical and therefore they were very relaxed. While the practitioners were practicing, there were other conferences being held in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Government officials and diplomats of many countries gathered by the windows and watched the practice with much interest. After these conferences ended, many hotel employees also gathered by the windows to watch the practitioners. The last day of the three-day Fa-promoting activity of the breakfast gathering came to a close around 10 AM.

During this three-day Fa-promoting activity of the breakfast gathering in this sensitive place by the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, and during the United Nation's Millennium Summit, Dafa practitioners displayed the peacefulness of Falun Gong to the leaders and officials of many nations. They also showed the pedestrians who were passing by the style and features of Falun Gong. For the people in the world, it was not something extraordinary. However, this "ordinary" peacefulness and calmness revealed to people what Falun Gong is, what "Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance" is. Falun Gong was shown to be different from what the Chinese Government claimed it to be, thus making a strong impression in people's minds. When all goodhearted people come to realize the behavior of the few power-holders in the Chinese government, those evildoers will receive the punishment that they deserve. This is the majesty of Falun Dafa and the power of "Compassion".

Reported by New York Dafa Practitioners

9/07/2000