Coming To Geneva Once Again

As I approach Geneva to go to the headquarters of the United Nations I came to realise that this trip will have been the seventh for many practitioners among us. The earliest trip would have been when Master personally taught the Fa in Switzerland in 1998. After that, and since the beginning of the persecution of Falun Gong in China on 20 July 1999, each trip here has been made to appeal to the Human Rights Commission which convenes in March and April of each year. I remember for our first appeal in 2001, even entering via France, would require a visa. But after the year 2001, no visa was required in any of the European countries – maybe Master had opened a “door of convenience”, so that the European practitioners could come to Geneva more often. During 2001, many British practitioners visited Geneva twice as it was needed; so altogether, we’ve been here seven times.

For this year, except for one or two rainy days at the beginning, the weather has largely been fine. The sky was blue and the sun was shining as we paraded through the streets on Monday when the Human Rights Commission started its meeting. We paraded with banners reading, “Severe Punishment for Jiang Zemin” and “Bring Luo Gan to Justice”. The procession of Dafa practitioners was even more solemn and respectable than that of last year. Some practitioners compared this year with the past few years, when this event would have been a fierce battle ground between the good and evil, with everyone feeling the weight of the battle; now the evil is weak and can no longer fight. If it can be said that our emphasis for the past few years has been on sending forth righteous thoughts to eliminate the evil; now, we’ve come to save sentient beings.

We clarified the truth about the persecution of Falun Gong and introduced Falun Gong as a practice for improving ones mind and body on the streets of Geneva on Tuesday. The people were very receptive, warm and friendly, and this reminded me of the environment in China before the persecution started. We demonstrated the exercises and meditation again and again. When we performed the exercises of “Maitreya Stretching His Back” and “Bodhisattva Placing Hands on the Lotus Flower” and so forth, we really felt as if we were the Maitreya and Bodhisattvas exercising; after the trials of past few years, we really felt we were cultivators who were “As Tall as Heaven and Incomparably Noble.” To tell a joke, those girls who are obsessed with cleanliness and their own appearances could shower ten times a day; however, that would be no comparison to our exercises.

Last night we received Master’s newest article “Eliminate the Dark Minions With Righteous Thoughts”. Through Fa study, we enlightened to the fact that Master once again instructed us so unambiguously to focus our energy on eliminating all the dark minions and rotten demons in other dimensions. This means that we really must do this well. That day, when we sent forth righteous thoughts at Geneva’s Places des Nations, one practitioner saw a small, dense cluster of tiny flashes of light around her knees – the pain was so great that she couldn’t even cross her legs for the meditation position. But this pregnant practitioner persisted and in the end, all those dark minions were eliminated.

It doesn’t matter what the outcome is at this years Human Rights Commission in the human world, as Dafa disciples, the Fa-rectification is our mission, and saving sentient beings is our responsibility. We just have to accomplish what we ought to do, and everything will be included in the process.