[Minghui.org] Antwerp, Belgium: “Falun Dafa Can Help People Find Peace”

 Oct. 16, 2020 | By a Minghui correspondent in Antwerp, Belgium

Mr. Brett Syndercombe from South Africa talked with practitioner Johan for a long while. As a Christian, Brett knew about the CCP’s persecution and surveillance of Chinese Christians. He said, “Most people in Western countries are Christians, but our governments dare not condemn the Chinese government for the persecution [of Christians]. It’s a betrayal.
“I understand that Falun Dafa is a spiritual practice. Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance are great traditional values,” Brett said. 

(Minghui.org) Falun Dafa practitioners held introductory activities on Meir, the main shopping street in Antwerp, Belgium on October 4, 2020. Many people stopped to learn about the benefits of the meditation practice and signed a petition to call for an end to the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) persecution of Dafa.

A popular tourist destination, Antwerp, Belgium’s largest and Europe’s second-largest seaport, is also the second-largest metropolitan region after Brussels. 

Practitioners held activities on Meir, the main shopping street in Antwerp, Belgium on October 4, 2020.

Practitioners talk to people about Falun Dafa.

People sign the petition to end the persecution.

Brett from South Africa praises Falun Dafa’s principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance.

Mr. Brett Syndercombe from South Africa talked with practitioner Johan for a long while. As a Christian, Brett knew about the CCP’s persecution and surveillance of Chinese Christians. He said, “Most people in Western countries are Christians, but our governments dare not condemn the Chinese government for the persecution [of Christians]. It’s a betrayal.
“I understand that Falun Dafa is a spiritual practice. Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance are great traditional values,” Brett said. 

He’d heard about the persecution of Falun Dafa. “I have some Chinese friends. I know how the CCP used money, loans, and projects to corrupt the government of South Africa. It has persecuted Falun Dafa for over 20 years. Many people disappeared suddenly. It has also thrown Uyghurs into concentration camps. It has never changed.” Brett said he would like to help practitioners spread the word about the persecution, and he hopes the persecution ends soon.

Jeanine recognizes the role of cultivation practice in awakening people.

Local resident Jeanine said that the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance are essential to awakening people in today’s society. She feels that people need to search for the origin and meaning of life, and listen to their own hearts from a different perspective. “Energy exercises make people become calm, clear-minded and energetic,” she said.

While watching practitioners meditate, Jeanine praised Falun Dafa for quietly inspiring people in peaceful and compassionate ways. “Most people try to vent their emotions. Falun Dafa can help us with our perception. Thank you!”

A young man named Peter told practitioners that he had heard about the CCP’s crime of harvesting organs from living prisoners of conscience. It was his sincere wish that the persecution would soon end. He realized that the CCP regime was the root of the huge problems in China. 

The practitioners’ activities received support from many people, who condemned the CCP’s atrocities. One man told a practitioner that he’d learned the exercises by following online instructions years ago. He was excited to meet Falun Dafa practitioners for the first time. He said with a big smile, “I’ll resume doing the exercises.”

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Source: https://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2020/10/16/187844.html

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Editor’s Note: Dear readers, do you know that Falun Dafa, originally from China, is currently practiced by people in over 100 countries? But in China, since Jul. 20, 1999, Falun Gong is defamed, slandered and persecuted due to the Chinese Communist Party’s fear of Falun Gong’s rapidly growing popularity. Jiang Zemin, former head of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), perceived the spiritual discipline’s growing popularity as a threat to the CCP’s atheistic ideology.

To learn more about the persecution Falun Gong practitioners are subjected to in China, visit http://faluninfo.net/.

For more information about the practice or to download Zhuan Falun, visit: www.falundafa.org. All books, exercise music, resources, and instructions are available completely free of charge.

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[Minghui.org] Belgian Young Man: “Everything Became More Positive” Since Learning Falun Dafa

 August 17, 2015

“My work requires a lot of tolerance. Customers sometimes complain and make all kinds of demands. Now it’s very easy for me, because when I look at the example given by Teacher [founder of Falun Dafa, Mr. Li Hongzhi], he is very patient and kind when answering all kinds of questions. I became a lot more tolerant. You see life differently and have more compassion towards other people. The harmonious energy that Falun Dafa brings really follows you in your daily life. You become a lot more kind, patient, harmonious, and serene toward others. It’s really beautiful.”

(Minghui.org) While attending the 2015 New York Falun Dafa Experience Sharing Conference last May, twenty-four-year-old Lorenz Duchamps from Belgium was interviewed by Minghui on his experience in the practice of Falun Dafa.

He and his family—father, mother, and sister—all practice Falun Dafa.

Lorenz Duchamps, said practicing Falun Dafa made him more “kind, patient, harmonious, and serene.”

While other members of his family started practicing Falun Gong eight years ago, Lorenz didn’t join them at first.

“At the time, I was not in a good mental state and I didn’t really see the point of what I was doing in my life. I used to smoke and go out a lot,” he said.

About two years ago, Lorenz stopped to reflect on his life.

“I was thinking about everything, and I searched. I hung out with my parents a lot more. We talked a lot, and they said, ‘You really should read this book [Zhuan Falun, the main text of Falun Dafa]. You have to start thinking about life.”

“At that moment, something happened to me,” said Lorenz. “I felt pure energy in my body that I cannot really describe. I started [cultivating] and it really changed everything — the relationship with my father and mother, with myself, with my workplace. Everything changed, everything became more positive. It’s a really beautiful practice, and I would recommend it to everyone,” Lorenz said.

Lorenz said that along with his mental elevation, came physical improvements. “I used to sleep a lot more. When I wasn’t practicing, I would sleep 8-9 hours, but I would still feel unmotivated and had negative energy. Since I’ve started practicing, I can do very well with 5-6 hours of sleep. It changed me a lot in that aspect. I didn’t have many health problems before, but now I feel a lot more energetic and positive.”

Working at a bakery, Lorenz deals with a lot of customers. He said that he tries to always conduct himself with Falun Dafa’s principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance.

“My work requires a lot of tolerance. Customers sometimes complain and make all kinds of demands. Now it’s very easy for me, because when I look at the example given by Teacher [founder of Falun Dafa, Mr. Li Hongzhi], he is very patient and kind when answering all kinds of questions. I became a lot more tolerant. You see life differently and have more compassion towards other people. The harmonious energy that Falun Dafa brings really follows you in your daily life. You become a lot more kind, patient, harmonious, and serene toward others. It’s really beautiful.”

Helping to Stop the Persecution

Lorenz said he is saddened by the persecution of Falun Dafa in China and the fact that many people have misconceptions about Falun Dafa due to the Chinese government’s propaganda. He often spends his off-hours at the tourist spots, telling Chinese tourists what Falun Dafa really is.

“They [Chinese people] are often very shocked to see a western practitioner, especially a young western practitioner. My Chinese is not great, so I would play recorded messages for Chinese people. Some people would listen very attentively.”

“One time, an elderly man stayed for 10 minutes. I didn’t say anything. I was just standing there, being very compassionate in my heart. He was really moved, and he started to cry. He was very thankful to me for playing this voice recording, because he knows the whole story about Falun Dafa now.”

Lorenz and his friends who practice Falun Dafa hold activities at the European Parliament, urging the politicians to help stop the persecution, especially the state-sanctioned organ harvesting from Falun Dafa practitioners in China.

“Politicians came out of their meetings just to tell us how shocked they were about what is happening in China today and that people in China don’t know the true picture because the CCP [Chinese Communist Party] is keeping everything covered up. I was very moved by this.”

“When I first shared the news about organ harvesting at my workplace, many people didn’t even believe it because it was so shocking,” Lorenz explained. Earlier this year a popular program called Telefacts VTM broadcast a movie called ‘Human Harvest’ [A film made in Canada on organ harvesting in China]. Lorenz said it had a big impact on people he met. He said, “More people are seeing that this is really happening and realize that it’s all of our responsibility to stop it.”

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Source: https://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2015/8/17/152102.html

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Editor’s Note: Dear readers, do you know that Falun Dafa, originally from China, is currently practiced by people in over 100 countries? But in China, since Jul. 20, 1999, Falun Gong is defamed, slandered and persecuted due to the Chinese Communist Party’s fear of Falun Gong’s rapidly growing popularity. Jiang Zemin, former head of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), perceived the spiritual discipline’s growing popularity as a threat to the CCP’s atheistic ideology.

To learn more about the persecution Falun Gong practitioners are subjected to in China, visit http://faluninfo.net/.

For more information about the practice or to download Zhuan Falun, visit: www.falundafa.org. All books, exercise music, resources, and instructions are available completely free of charge.

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[Faluninfo.net] Learn more about who practices Falun Gong: Meet Isaak, a college student from Belgium

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Editor’s Note: Dear readers, do you know that Falun Dafa, originally from China, is currently practiced by people in over 100 countries? But in China, since Jul. 20, 1999, Falun Gong is defamed, slandered and persecuted due to the Chinese Communist Party’s fear of Falun Gong’s rapidly growing popularity. Jiang Zemin, former head of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), perceived the spiritual discipline’s growing popularity as a threat to the CCP’s atheistic ideology.

To learn more about the persecution Falun Gong practitioners are subjected to in China, visit http://faluninfo.net/.

For more information about the practice or to download Zhuan Falun, visit: www.falundafa.org. All books, exercise music, resources, and instructions are available completely free of charge.

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