(Minghui.org) I am a practitioner from Kaohsiung in Taiwan. I would like to share the importance of telling people in Hong Kong about Falun Gong.
Since beginning Falun Gong cultivation practice, I have participated in many parades in the city of Hong Kong. I've put a lot of effort into it, because I know it is a rare opportunity to tell people the facts about the persecution of Falun Gong in China.
After the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began the massive suppression of Falun Gong in July 1999, it was difficult for practitioners in other areas—except maybe in Hong Kong—to feel how truly vicious the persecution has been, and how urgent it is for us to help people learn the truth about the CCP.
My first trip to Hong Kong lasted eight days in September 2012. About three months earlier, some pro-CCP groups began slandering Falun Gong in public there. When I arrived at the Lok Ma Chau, a famous tourist site near China, I was disgusted by the defaming banners and slanderous broadcasting.
A group of practitioners and myself calmly put up posters, held banners to show the real story of Falun Gong to the public, and sat down to send forth righteous thoughts. With sincerity and compassion in our hearts and minds, we helped people learn that Falun Gong was a peaceful meditative practice that improves both mind and body, and not something bad, as the CCP claims.
Through the combined efforts of all the local practitioners, the situation in Hong Kong has changed. The attitudes of many residents have changed from indifference to curiosity. Some of them, including school teacher Lam Wai Sze, have actually stepped forward to support the righteousness of Falun Gong and its practitioners.
One local practitioner told me that more than 100,000 people travel between China and Hong Kong every day. Because of limited manpower, some tourist sites only have one practitioner available. Upon realizing that continued support was needed in Hong Kong, I traveled there again this past January, for 12 days.
“If we had more practitioners, we could set up more materials sites so that more people could learn the facts about Falun Gong and the persecution, instead of being continually poisoned by the CCP,” he said.
Volunteer work at the tourist sites is not easy. Some of the sites are far away from public transportation, so we have to bring materials using small carts, and walk about an hour each way. Local practitioners sacrifice a lot, and some return home only one evening each week.
When I went to Hong Kong for the third time in mid-May, the improvement was even more dramatic. That time I stayed for ten days, and I noticed that many residents and tourists were more willing to listen to us. A large number of them immediately agreed to quit the CCP once they understood what had been happening.
We continued talking to people for a few hours without a break. Although I was tired after holding a poster for such a long time, I did not want to put it down, as many passersby were reading the posters and taking photos.
In “Fa Teaching at the 2013 Western U.S. Fa Conference,” Teacher said:
“I questioned before whether the wicked CCP could survive another ten years. The truth is, it could have been much shorter. I could have not let it survive another five years. But do you realize how many of the world’s people would not have been saved, since they were enshrouded by evil? And many Dafa disciples have grown dejected during the persecution and not managed to step forward. Then what good would it do ending it? Isn’t the Fa-rectification for saving people? If I were the only one to leave here, what point would there have been in creating this world? And all of the arrangements made before history would have been in vain. The time has been extended for your sake, and for the sake of sentient beings.”
I have participated in other projects in the past, but going to Hong Kong and clarifying the facts to the people there has been a unique experience. I know that some practitioners were able to help more than a thousand Chinese people quit the CCP in one or two weeks.
Practitioners in Hong Kong are hoping that practitioners from other regions can also go there to help resolve the manpower shortage problem.
(Shared at the August 3, 2014 Taiwan experience sharing meeting)
