PureInsight | November 28, 2005
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Story I:
Location: On the National Mall of Washington, D.C., in front of the National Air and Space Museum.
Time: Thursday, October 27, 2005
When we first started putting the posters about "The Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party" (or "The Nine Commentaries" for short) on display at the Service Center to Withdraw from the Communist Party in Washington, D.C., we were severely short of equipment. We laid all the posters on the lawn and used a few iron pipes, plastic pipes and wooden sticks to hold the posters on the ground. They worked OK normally. But they were not enough to hold the posters in place in windy days. A practitioner came up with an idea to solve this problem. She filled plastic food containers with tiny pebbles from the ground and use them as weights to help secure the posters. But she did not have enough plastic food containers, so the wind could still blow the posters away.
Then she thought, "I do have lots of empty plastic water bottles at home, but the openings are very small. It's not easy to fill the pebbles into the bottles through such small openings. If only I could find some sand or soil around here."
The next day, when she came back to the National Air and Space Museum, she was stunned: she saw a huge pile of soil that came out of nowhere! (See photo below.)
She immediately realized it was help from Teacher. So she quickly filled the bottles with soil and used them to anchor the posters. Two days later, when she found a better way to secure the posters, the large pile of soil disappeared.
More surprisingly, tourists from China were very interested in reading "The Nine Commentaries" posters despite the economical display.
Because we had just gotten started, the appearance of the Service Center to Withdraw from the Communist Party in Washington, D.C. was quite simple and crude. Besides, we only had "The Nine Commentaries" posters with English captions back then, so we didn't expect much audience, let alone Chinese audience with little facility in English. Unexpectedly, tourists from China read them with keen interest!
Indeed "It doesn't matter how tall the mountain is, it becomes magical as long as a divine person lives there!" It is Teacher's mighty power behind "The Nine Commentaries" posters that appeals to the Chinese tourists!
Story II:
Location: On the National Mall of Washington, D.C., in front of the National Air and Space Museum.
Time: Tuesday, November 8, 2005
The original permit for the poster exhibit had expired. Until the new permit was issued, we could not display any banners or posters there. In accordance with some practitioners' requests, I taped the abstracts of "The Nine Commentaries" in a piece of B4-sized paper in Chinese on a carton display board. Practitioners wondered whether s anybody was going to read the fine print on such a small and simple poster?
It turned out the tourists from China really wanted to read it! Because of the small size, the Chinese tourists had to squat down (like the elderly practitioner in the photo) and get close to the small poster in order to read its content in small print. Even so they wanted to read it!
Some tourists from China dared not accept "The Nine Commentaries" in public, but they felt comfortable enough reading "The Nine Commentaries" Posters. Alas, it's not easy for them to come to the U.S. Seeing them so keen on reading "The Nine Commentaries" posters, I feel what we have done is far from enough.
Translated from: http://www.zhengjian.org/zj/articles/2005/11/17/34625.html
