United Kingdom: Promoting Falun Gong on Cambridge Children’s Day

June the 12th was Cambridge Children’s Day, organised by the Cambridge City Council. Dafa practitioners participated in the celebration. They showed children how to practise the Falun Gong exercises as well as how to make paper lotus flowers. They also told them the story of “Petals of Peace” so that the seeds of Truthfulness, Benevolence and Forbearance could be sowed in the children’s hearts.

After a western practitioner obtained the information about the Cambridge Children’s Day, he asked fellow practitioners if they wanted to participate. Another western practitioner suggested immediately that we could coordinate this event with the activities of “Petals of Peace” so that the persecution that Chinese children were suffering could be introduced to the children in the UK. We could motivate the children in the UK so that they could help the children in China. Through experience sharing, we understood that every person in the world, no matter whether he is elderly or young, comes because of the Fa. Although the children’s age in the human world is young, it does not mean their Primordial Spirits are too much different from ours. We should introduce Dafa to them via a way that they can comprehend.

We put up white sunshade tents early on Saturday morning. A huge banner reading “The World Needs Truthfulness, Benevolence and Forbearance” fluttered in the wind. The music of “Pudu” and “Jishi” floated on the breeze. In front of our golden exhibition platform were posters with photos of Master Li demonstrating the exercises. One practitioner designed a huge poster with information about “Petals of Peace”. Dafa practitioners in London also made a gigantic information board and more than a hundred paper lotus flowers. The young Dafa practitioers from UK’s Minghui School travelled from another town to support us. By virtue of everyone’s cooperation, the Children’s Day activities progressed smoothly.

Even though the weather was not good and showers occurred from time to time, we completed the five sets of exercises quietly as usual. Dafa practitioners’ hearts were not influenced by the changes in the outside world. In the rain, we learned how to fold an even more beautiful lotus in a new way. As the weather gradually became better, the number of people who came to attend the activities of Children’s Day also slowly increased. A boy who was about eleven or twelve years old came towards our demonstration platform with his mother. They wanted to learn the exercises with us. We taught them the exercises on the grass. Many passers-by stopped to watch. After learning all five sets of exercises, they told us that the first thing they would do after they get back home to London would be to download Master Li’s Exercise Instruction Video from the Falun Dafa website, and they would try to find a practice site to attend group exercises.

Not only did the children like the lotus flowers that we folded, their parents also praised the flowers profusely. Several youngsters sat down to learn the whole process of folding a lotus. The passers-by condemned China for the unreasonable persecution after they saw our posters. Many people who have a pre-destined relationship also made an appointment with us to learn Falun Gong exercises. We also came across an English lady who taught English in Shanghai for one year. She indicated that she completely supported our Falun Dafa activities.