Poland: Clarifying the Facts at the Tall Ships Races in Szczecin, Poland (Photos)

(Clearwisdom.net) Falun Dafa practitioners from Poland and Germany were welcomed by event organizers to attend the Tall Ships Races 2007 in Szczecin, Poland. Held from the 3rd to the 7th August, the Tall Ships Races are like the Olympics of large sailing ships, and the organizers expect around 1.5 million visitors. Practitioners saw this as an excellent opportunity to save sentient beings--many thousands of them.

A group of dancer practitioners stayed together to perform, and teach the Falun Gong exercises. Scheduled to perform each day onstage in the main tent and on the children's stage, the dancers wanted to do more. They searched for a special location to help clarify the truth in a very public place. Without too much mind intent, they started performing in a space they later discovered was the center of the whole event.

Teaching the exercises

Performing waist drum

Demonstrating the exercises

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Practitioners on the big screen

Learning the exercises

They chose a place just below the Maritime Museum of Szcezien, just beside the Provincial Building, and just above the mooring of one of Poland's most famous sailing ships, the Dar Mlodziezy (Gift of Youth). Many people felt touched by the exercises, the Golden Buddha dance and the drum dance. Armed with flyers in Polish, we distributed thousands of these among the spectators.

The effect was powerful. So many people were happy to accept flyers. Many wanted their pictures taken with practitioners and some requested that practitioners give them Chinese names.

Even though the language barrier was sometimes tough to break through, practitioners decided to see how popular the Polish version of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party would be. One practitioner had 25 in his arms, and was transporting them from our booth to where we were performing. Four people came up to him, begging to obtain the paper.

It must have been Master's arrangement that the official opening ceremony was also held at the site of our impromptu dance area. At the end of one repetition of the Golden Buddha dance, and unknown to the dancers at that time, a special announcement was made over the speaker-system to all visitors of the event, in Polish:

"I know you're watching the Chinese dancers, but we have to hold the opening ceremony now". Practitioners vacated the area for the opening ceremony--but later returned.

Falun Gong practitioners had three tents set up at the event. One was in the children's area. There a large banner saying "Falun Dafa in Poland" with a sewn image of a lotus welcomed the children to make paper lotuses. There was also a desk to give away materials, lotus flowers, and balloons.

The Tall Ships event was a great opportunity for practitioners to reach more and more of the local people.