During the weekend of December 29-30, the Falun Gong practitioners of Finland met in Jyvaskyla, a city in central Finland. There were 7 practitioners altogether including one Chinese practitioner living in Finland. We began the weekend by doing the exercises and then studying some Falun Gong articles.
It was –25C outside and the surroundings were snowy. After reading, we did the righteous thoughts meditation and after 10 o’clock we headed to city to hand out flyers. Everybody spread out to the centre of the city. Some people hurriedly took the flyer and went inside the shopping centre safe from the cold weather. Two young men listened with interest about the persecution of Falun Gong by the Chinese government. They nodded their heads and had a surprised look in their eyes. One man said that Falun Gong is a good thing. Other kind comments were also heard.
Later on we held a class at the unemployed people’s activity centre to teach the five exercises. After the teaching and trying out of the exercises we watched the exercise videotape. For the first time, Zhuan Falun [the main book of Falun Gong] was now available in Finnish. A Finnish practitioner from Sweden had had them printed in Sweden and bought them along with her.
We discussed with this Finnish practitioner from Sweden about her experiences in Beijing and at Tiananmen Square in November 2001 where she had gone to appeal peacefully.
The programme for Sunday was partly the same as on Saturday. Later, in the chilly and windy weather, we again handed out the flyers in the city centre. The temperature was below –20C.
In the afternoon we had the first meeting of the Finnish Falun Dafa Association which was registered before Christmas.
During both days, important things came up that can affect one in his or her own life as a practitioner. My own understanding on the Chinese people’s suffering was elevated to a new level. Determination to do things has made me do my own share in clarifying the truth as a responsible practitioner.
A Falun Dafa Practitioner in Finland
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