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Falun
Dafa Photo Exhibition Tours in New Zealand An exhibition of photos showing how Falun Gong practitioners have validated Falun Dafa around the world is now being held around New Zealand.
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=================================================================================== On October 31, the photo exhibition moved to Northcote shopping center in the north of Auckland. A woman from China who is visiting family here told a practitioner, "This is my first time to see such a good photo exhibition. In China, we all know it is hard to be a good person. Even if you are, no one would praise you. I felt like I was locked in an urn and didn't see the beautiful world outside. What I see here really opened my mind." She said she had read the book Zhuan Falun and "Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party." A practitioner asked her to remember, "Falun Dafa is good." The lady said, "Thank you very much for your reminder. I understand. I know what to do now."
======================================================================================= The touring photographic exhibition, "Falun Dafa Practitioners Validating the Fa" visited the Handerson Shopping Center in the Western District of Auckland on November 19, 2005. An older Chinese woman visited the exhibition with her little granddaughter. While listening to practitioners explain the stories behind the photographic works, she told her granddaughter, "Look at those children in the photos, they lost their parents who practiced Falun Gong. They are so lovable. You'd better be a good child like those children on the photos." The older lady commented that the photo exhibition was beautiful. She said, "Thank you, it's so kind of you to tell me about Falun Gong. I don't know how to read, but I'll bring back your materials to my son, and ask him to read them for me." The two Maori young people in the photo above listened to a practitioner explain the content of the photo exhibition, especially the photo depicting Ms. Gao Rongrong whose face was disfigured by torture. They were amazed and exclaimed, "How can the Chinese Communist regime treat their people like this? How can they be so cruel and inhumane? It's just too sad. What can we do for you?" The practitioner told them, "Learn the truth about Falun Gong, and remember that Falun Dafa is great! Tell this to all the people around you." ========================================================================================On November 20, 2005, the photo exhibition came to the Chinese community in the Western District of Auckland. Many Chinese people came to see the exhibition. A mother and son who came to the community to find some people carefully viewed each photo. After looking at the photos depicting children who have lost their parents due to the persecution and the photo depicting the persecution of Ms. Gao Rongrong, they said, "We know that Falun Gong is good. We all have sisters and children still in China, and we know that they (the Chinese Communist Party - CCP) are so cruel and malicious. We still want to go back to China. The CCP is so cruel, and therefore we do not dare to sign the petition to show our support publicly. We are very sorry, but we support you in our hearts." There was a retired older man, who looked as if he had held a position of some status in China. After viewing the exhibition, he had a conversation with a practitioner for about an hour. The older man changed from having an initial misunderstanding at the beginning of the conversation and raised many questions. The practitioner patiently explained to him the wonderfulness of Falun Dafa and answered his questions. Finally, the man complemented the practitioner by saying, "You really know a lot, and helped me learn much about Falun Gong. When you come next time, I'll come again." The woman in the red skirt shown in the photo above learning the exercise, told practitioners that she was a refugee from Ethiopia. She had accompanied her daughter who was taking a class in the area. Her daughter had not yet finished her class, so she waited for her daughter at the entrance to her classroom on the second floor. Behind the glass wall inside the building, she silently emulated the practitioners outside as they did the exercises. After her daughter got out of class, she immediately took her to the photo exhibition and listened to the practitioners to explain the content of the photos. Then she seriously learned the exercises from practitioners.
These children took the initiative to come learn the exercises after seeing practitioners doing them at the exhibition site. =========================================================================================== The touring photographic exhibition, "Falun Dafa Practitioners Validating the Fa" visited the Brikenhead on November 17, 2005.
After having looked at and appreciated all the photos, an elderly Chinese couple had a souvenir photo of themselves taken in front of a "Falun Dafa is Good" banner. The practitioners invited them to sit down to have a brief break. They said that they came from China and were more than 80 years old. They know that Falun Dafa is good.
While appreciating the photos, a young Chinese woman told a practitioner, "I left China because I knew the Communist regime was so vicious."
====================================================================================== On November 18, the photo exhibition was held at Handerson Shopping Center of Auckland.
The young man shown above is an ethnic Maori. After learning about Falun Gong, he left his number and asked practitioners to hold the exhibit in his village and teach his people Falun Gong. He showed strong support for Falun Gong and told everyone, "Falun Dafa is good," and said that the ongoing persecution of practitioners in China should end. The young man said, "People who don't believe in God will go to hell. The atheistic Communist Party is doomed to go to hell." ============================================================================================ On November 21, the photo exhibition returned to the Birkenhead in North Shore.
The man in the black jacket told the practitioner, "I'm Indonesian, and also suffer persecution for believing a religion. I sign your petition to support you. Come to find me if you come to Indonesia."  The three members of the family in this photo are from Taiwan. After listening to the practitioner's explanation of the exhibition, they said, "Taiwan and Mainland China have the same ancestors. If Taiwan can support Falun Gong, why does the mainland treat Falun Gong so cruelly? Isn't it good for people to have a belief?" One young woman asked the practitioner, "They [the CCP] said you do this [clarify the truth and do the exercises] all day long without doing anything else." The practitioner patiently told her, "Some of us have worked several dozen years inside China. It is because of the malevolent CCP's persecution that we left our home and came here. Some of us spend our spare time and use our own money to make the photos to be exhibited and to make our truth-clarification materials. Our aim is to tell all people that the CCP is still brutally persecuting Falun Gong, a group of people who believe in the principles of 'Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance.' I hope that you can learn about Falun Gong and the persecution and tell your relatives and friends that Falun Dafa is great." The practitioner also told her that the publication of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party is to help people clearly see the true nature of the Communist Party. It has done too many evil deeds and Heaven will destroy it. The young woman said, "I'll read your materials, and visit Minghui/Clearwisdom Website. I'll read the Nine Commentaries. I'll cherish the materials you gave me, as I want to understand you. I'll also tell my parents all this, because they are both veteran Communist Party members." Two overseas Chinese students saw the photos of orphans of Falun Gong practitioners who have died as a result of the CCP's persecution, and took the initiative to sign the petition to support rescuing the orphans. ============================================================================================= On November 27, the photo exhibit arrived in the New Market District of Auckland.
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An older man who learned the exercises said that he had already seen the photo exhibit in the Otahuhu District. He lives in the New Market District, and came to see the photos again. He immediately asked the practitioners to teach him the exercises. ============================================================================================= On November 30, 2005, the photo exhibit, "Falun Dafa Practitioners Validating the Fa" was held on the square in front of the Manukau District Hall in Auckland, New Zealand. During the lunch break, quite a number of government officials came to visit the exhibit. Some left message in the guestbook: "The government should give people the freedom of believing in "Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance!" Some wrote, "End communism."
After viewing the photo exhibit, a tour guide for a Chinese tourist group said that he could not bear the evilness of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). People in China all understand in their hearts that the CCP is not good and its government officials are really corrupt. He also said that some people who work for the Chinese public security to monitor the Internet just open one eye and shut the other because they know in their hearts that they need to accumulate some virtue so as to offer themselves a way of escape [from the evilness of the CCP and its inevitable end]. He also told the Mainland officials in his tour group that if they wanted to take the truth-clarification materials, they could go ahead and take them, and they should be able to bring them back to China. A Maori woman exclaimed, "So beautiful!" after she saw the Faluns that appeared in the photos. She immediately told her two children to go over and listen to a practitioner explaining the facts about Falun Dafa. She told the practitioner, "Today, I was brought here by an unknown force and I saw such a beautiful photo exhibit." Another Maori woman listened to a practitioner telling the story of Ms. Gao Rongrong who was tortured to death simply because she practiced Falun Gong. When the practitioner showed her some photos of orphans of Falun Gong practitioners who had been persecuted to death, the lady sighed, "That's terrible! It's so evil! It can't happen any more!" She signed the petition to support the rescue of the orphans and also signed for her daughter. She also asked for some petition forms and said that she wanted to help collect petition signatures to help rescue the Falun Gong orphans. =============================================================================================== On December 2, 2005, practitioners showed the photographic exhibit at Prince's Wharf, Auckland. Two young men who sold fruit juice gave the practitioners some free juice and asked them try it. The practitioners gave them Dafa truth-clarification materials and told them about Falun Dafa. The young men then came over and thanked the practitioners and left several cups of free juice for them when they left.
================================================================================================ On December 3, 2005, the Falun Gong Practitioners Validating the Fa Photographic Exhibit was held at the Otara Shopping Center, in eastern Auckland.
A practitioner told a young lady, "Do you know that the children in this photo have been orphaned simply because their parents practiced Falun Gong and believed in Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance?" The western young lady immediately signed the petition to support the orphan rescue. ============================================================================================= On December 4, 2005, the photo exhibition was held on Queen Street in Auckland. Two young ladies from England had come to visit Auckland. One of them said that she had worked for six months in Xi'an, China where she took care of orphans. After the practitioners' explanation, they accepted the truth-clarification materials and signed the petition to support rescuing Falun Gong orphans. They also said that they would expose the persecution of Falun Gong in China over the Internet. They wanted to allow more people to learn about the CCP's persecution against Falun Gong and support bringing an end to the persecution as soon as possible.
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