Ottawa, Canada: Falun Dafa Practitioners Wish Revered Master a Happy New Year

(Minghui.org) With the arrival of the 2025 New Year, Falun Dafa practitioners gathered on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Canada, to sincerely wish Master Li Hongzhi, the founder of Falun Dafa, a happy New Year in a video message.

Practitioners in Ottawa were grateful to Master Li for guiding them back to their true origin on the path of cultivation. They respectfully wished him a happy New Year. During the past year 2024, they have been raising awareness of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) persecution, while also spreading the blessings of Falun Dafa.

Falun Dafa practitioners in Ottawa wish Master a happy New Year.

Woman Who Attended an Online 9-Day Dafa Webinar: “Falun Dafa Has Changed Me Completely”

According to Dr. Lei Shizhong, one of the practitioner coordinators of the Webinar in Canada: “We currently have 32 teams in 28 languages. Tens of thousands of people from 150 different ethnicities and countries have participated in this webinar. They’ve experienced the extraordinariness of Falun Dafa benefiting health and the profound meaning behind the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance. They have left messages praising Falun Dafa and expressed their gratitude and respect for Master Li.”

Karina Kampichler from British Colombia, Canada, wrote, “I lost my husband and my properties. I lost everything. I felt I had reached the end of my life. I wanted to end my life. Then I accidentally found online the Falun Dafa 9-day lectures. I attended every one of the 9 lectures. They profoundly changed me from desperate to a person filled with hope. It relieved me from the mental burden I had been carrying with me for years. I found my purpose in life. I’m so grateful. I can’t express how thankful I am to Master Li and Falun Gong.”

SinCere said, “My palms got very hot and I’m not sad anymore. Before this I was in tears, thinking, ‘I don’t want to be here anymore.’ Until today. Thank you so much. You are saving my life.”

Lawrence Smythe said after attending the Dafa exercise classes, “I took the beginners class last evening... I stepped outside with my dog after the session and looked up at the sky, and oh, my heart! I’ve meditated for many years and have done qigong and other forms, but this experience connected me with a sweet divine power I felt like I was being cradled in the arms of the Almighty. A welcome mat to the center of universal love.”

Barry Ward left a message that said, “Yes. Very much what I was hoping for. From the second day onward, I seemed to see a yellow glow emanating around Master Li Hongzhi. When I close my eyes I often see this same yellow glow as a seated silhouette. Pretty much disappears when I try to focus on it. I’ve also noticed a sort of warm tingling static electricity feeling on my skin, particularly when I’m moving my hands during the exercises. I’m also experiencing a noticeable feeling of peace and contentment. I look forward to signing up again in a few months after I’ve been able to learn and practice cultivation. Thank you, all!”

“I am on my way toward real salvation, toward my true self, toward the Creator”

Daniel J Orcutt shared his amazing experience after becoming a Falun Dafa practitioner.

Daniel said, “Falun Dafa changed my life. As someone diagnosed with a painful spine condition called ankylosing spondylitis at a relatively young age (my early 20s), one could say today I am a walking miracle.

“Living most of my adult life on Western drugs, heavy-duty pain pills, biweekly self-administered injections to suppress my immune system, only to never truly feel like myself, became exhausting ...”

He encountered Falun Dafa when he needed it the most. Daniel was reading a book by a river in a park one spring day when a Falun Dafa practitioner came over to him and handed him a pamphlet. Daniel immediately trusted him because of his peaceful demeanor and obvious passion. He took the pamphlet, which was an introduction to Falun Dafa, and put it between the pages of the book he was reading.

Daniel said, “So there I was, at the river’s edge again, this time at the end of summer, reengaging with a book claiming to teach how the body can self-heal. And yet, what was staring up at me as I opened the book? Falun Dafa!”

Daniel later purchased a copy of Zhuan Falun, the main text of Falun Dafa, and started to practice it with an open heart.

“I am in deep awe of a man so obviously entrusted with wisdom beyond this dimensional plane,” he said. “Best of all, my faith (for the first time in my life) is no longer centered around healing myself, about a hope and wish. It is about something much larger. And through this recognition and adherence to live in the nature of everything true—Zhen, Shan, Ren [Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance]—I am on my way toward real salvation, toward my true self, toward the Creator. Thank you, Master. Thank you, Falun Dafa.”

Practitioners Express Their Gratitude to Master

Ms. Zhang, 89, started cultivating Falun Dafa in China in 1998. Many amazing things happened to her after that. Not only did her illnesses disappear, she was able to read the Chinese characters in Zhuan Falun even though she had been illliterate before that.

She overcame many hardships after immigrating to Canada, such as the language barrier and the cold winters. She has been telling Chinese people about the CCP’s persecution and helping people withdraw from the CCP and its youth organizations on Parliament Hill, in supermarkets, and at bus stations for many years.

In expressing her gratitude to Master, she said, “Over these years, no matter where I go or what tribulations I encounter, I have been calm and at ease. This is because I know Master is protecting me.”

Diep Tran, who is Vietnamese, started to practice Falun Dafa in Vietnam in May 2017. She said, “I knew Master was protecting me from day one of my cultivation. Master started to purify my body the first night of my cultivating Falun Dafa. I felt as if I was flying when I did the first exercise during the following week. I also developed my celestial vision. I benefited a lot from Falun Dafa, so I want to introduce this practice to others. That is why I began to volunteer to teach the exercises and spread Falun Dafa.

“In this New Year, I would like to express my deepest gratitude and admiration to Master for all that Master has done for me.”