The Power of Truth-Compassion-Forbearance in an Irish City

Practitioners from Meath in Ireland decided to start weekly Hong Fa in the largest city in their County. The Hong Fa would consist of having posters with information, banners, people doing the exercises and clarifying the truth in the busiest part of the city centre.

As we got our selves organised many people curiously watched us to see what was going on. Recently a practitioner had been on a TV station and the local people linked the two and came over to ask questions. Many of the people who stopped to ask questions and ask for leaflets were elderly people and their comments were quite profound. Local Chinese students came over and said they supported us but were sad to say they could not practise themselves, as they feared for the safety of their family back home (the Chinese government would cause trouble for them).

We really got to see clearly the power of truth-compassion-forbearance. When two practitioners were doing the sitting meditation a number of school kids came over and started acting aggressively. One kid was actually going to hit a practitioner with a crutch. A young girl took a practitioner’s phone in her pocket and when asked why, she said it was “Only to have a look!” The practitioners practising didn’t even open their eyes and remained calm and tranquil. Other practitioners explained about Falun Dafa to the kids with kindness and patience and their negative attitude began to change. Finally one of the children actually wanted to learn the exercises in the street and learned exercise one before he left to catch his bus.

Most of our leaflets were distributed and many people expressed an interest in the practice and concern about the persecution.

Irish practitioners