Gerry Smith's Diary in Front of the Chinese Embassy in Ottawa

Tuesday, 7/10/01 at 8:03 am in front of the Chinese Embassy, Ottawa, Canada

A breakthrough in endurance while cultivating in the Fa rectification: Yesterday a friend brought me an article from Clearwisdom.net written by a female practitioner in Masanjia Labor Camp. I read the whole article, which is unusual since I often stop when reading about the persecution in China. I was impressed by her total lack of complaint. What I really understood was her magnificent endurance. This was a gift!

Last night there was a thunderstorm on the horizon so I started to arrange the tarpaulin to cover the cooler, backpacks and stuff, and to provide a cover for the sleeping bags. This is a new phase - in front of the Embassy with no tent. A Chinese practitioner was sending righteous thoughts to eliminate the evil for quite a while and felt the surrounding area was "ding" (very peaceful).

Next a blonde girl and a couple stopped to read the posters. The girl read the posters very completely starting from left to right. She already knew about Zhuan Falun and asked the practitioner to show her the exercises, which she learned very quickly. I got a call from a practitioner in Montreal saying that he had dreamed about being with me in front of the Embassy and that he could get off work and join me tomorrow and stay until the 20th of July. It rained last night and we stayed dry under our tarpaulin. During the night a practitioner called to see whether we were dry and was willing to come with a car if we needed it.

This morning I woke up at 5:30 and decided to do the exercises so that people driving by on the busy road in front of the Embassy could see that I was here and see the exercises. While holding the wheel in the first position I again had a very powerful and moving feeling when I thought about how our site in front of the Embassy has become a 24-hour exercise sharing and Hongfa site.

While I was holding the wheel in the first position I exceeded 10 minutes so I remembered that Master had said it was better if we held it as long as possible; so I thought, "I will hold it for 1 hour since the practitioners have endured so much they are an inspiration." I endured for an hour during which time I had a period of many tears thinking of the persecuted practitioners in China. Then my arms started shaking and after a while my arms were still shaking and I felt strong energy in my hands and body like a tube of energy of which the wheel-shape of my arms formed part of the tube. I wanted the tube of energy to go through to the practitioners in China.

Then I thought about how Falun Gong practitioners might be freed in China so that they could walk out of the labor camps and go home; and the police and staff at labor camps would refuse to persecute Falun Gong practitioners any more.

A friend told us that a Jewish friend of his said that when Hitler wanted to exterminate Jews, he first demonized them to get the country's support. And this is what Jiang Zemin has done to Falun Gong.

To be continued.