(Minghui.org) The Memorial Day long weekend was on May 27-May 29, 2023, in the United States. To let more people know about Falun Gong, practitioners in the San Francisco Bay Area organized group exercises and awareness-raising activities in several cities over the weekend, and participated in the annual Carnaval San Francisco.
Set in the Hispanic Mission District, the Carnaval San Francisco celebrates the arts and traditions of Latin America and the Caribbean. The two-day street fair was held from 10 am to 6 pm and drew not only Hispanic residents from the Bay Area but also people of other ethnicities.
Introducing Falun Gong to visitors at Carnaval San Francisco on May 27 and 28, 2023
Practitioners demonstrated the exercises and distributed leaflets to introduce Falun Gong to people of all ethnic groups during the two-day event. An endless stream of people came to the booth to learn about Falun Gong. Many people asked where they could learn the exercises, and some learned the exercises on the spot. An organization in San Francisco invited practitioners to come to teach the exercises there.
Filipino Community Leader: Falun Gong Practitioners Are Good People
Joshua is a Filipino community leader in San Francisco. When he saw the Falun Dafa booth at Carnaval San Francisco, he went straight to the booth to sign the petition. “I know Falun Gong. I know the CCP [Chinese Communist Party] persecutes their beliefs, and I support their efforts against the persecution. They are peaceful, and people should have the right to freedom of belief,” he said.
Joshua said he understood Falun Gong and that practitioners are good people who spread goodness. “We need kindness,” he told practitioners. “You are doing a great thing. I support you.”
Francisco, a passerby, is a Hispanic person who doesn’t speak much English, but he said that Falun Gong is good, and Falun Gong practitioners are good, because they practice according to the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance. He said that if everyone followed these principles society would be nicer.
Cecilia: Pain Is Relieved After Learning Falun Gong
Cecilia passed by the Falun Gong booth and was happy to see practitioners. She told practitioners that she had already started to practice Falun Gong. She is from Ecuador. Pain in many parts of her body had made her very uncomfortable for a long time. She had sought treatment in hospitals, but nothing had been effective.
One day, when she was passing through Chinatown, a Falun Gong practitioner introduced Falun Gong to her, and she learned the exercises on the spot. She didn’t expect that after she learned the first set of exercises the pain in her body would be relieved immediately. After learning one or two movements in Chinatown, she started to read Dafa books.
She said she felt that after learning Falun Gong, she felt better every day. When she saw practitioners at Carnaval, she was happy and asked the practitioners for flyers introducing Dafa. She said she wanted to introduce the practice to people she knew. She said that she would continue to learn and practice.
Feeling Strong Energy
Falun Gong practitioners in the San Francisco Bay Area held an exercise demonstration and taught the exercises to people in front of the Ferry Building in San Francisco on Saturday, May 27. The peaceful scene drew the attention of passersby, and some of them learned the exercises on the spot.
Group practice on the square in front of the Ferry Building in San Francisco on May 27.
A man named Saul passed by the square in front of the Ferry Building and was drawn over by the practitioners’ exercises. He asked the practitioners if he could join the meditation. After getting confirmation, he sat down and imitated the movements until the exercise was over. After doing the meditation, he also learned the first four exercises of Falun Gong.
He told the practitioners that he was drawn over by the energy emitted by the practitioners who were doing the exercises, so he stopped to learn. When he was learning the exercises, his hands felt warmth, electricity, and numbness, and he felt strong energy. He said he wanted to continue to practice.
Teaching people the Falun Gong exercises in Snow Park on May 27, 2023.
Falun Gong practitioners in the East Bay of San Francisco held group exercises and free teaching activities in Snow Park, Oakland, on May 27, 2023. Some Chinese people heard the news and made a special trip from another city to learn the exercises.
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