Toronto, Canada: Glow Christmas Light Festival Attendees Learn Falun Dafa

(Minghui.org) The Glow Christmas Light Festival and Market is the largest indoor light show in Ontario, Canada, and is held at the Toronto Congress Center from November 30, to December 31, 2022. Practitioners participated in this event. They demonstrated the Falun Dafa exercises and taught them to the festival attendees. Many people who learned the exercises said they felt peaceful and immersed in an energy field.

The theme of this year’s Christmas light show is Around the World. The organizers used more than one million small lights to showcase famous scenic spots and cultures. The light show presents scenes of China, India, France, Mexico, England, and the Netherlands in an artistic way.

Glow Christmas displaysFestival attendees learn about Falun Dafa

Couple Learns Falun Dafa

Baresh Bandivdekar (left) learns the Falun Dafa exercises.Latha Bandivdekar (right), Baresh’s wife, said she would continue learning Falun Dafa.

Baresh Bandivdekar is an interior designer and his wife Latha Bandivdekar is a fashion and jewelry designer. They had a handmade jewelry shop at the light show. During the break, Baresh passed by the Falun Dafa booth. He saw a young Western practitioner demonstrating the second exercise. Baresh said, “I like to practice yoga. When I saw him doing the standing exercise, I wanted to see how this exercise is done.” Then, he learned the five sets of exercises.

“While practicing Falun Dafa, I felt surrounded by a positive energy field, and my whole body felt wonderful. From now on, I want to practice the exercises every morning,” he said.

Baresh explained that he injured his left shoulder and right knee while playing sports. He said he was surprised because the pain in his shoulder and knee disappeared when he did the second exercise, and he felt comfortable. He decided to continue practicing Falun Dafa.

During the pandemic, Baresh’s wife Latha experienced the pain of her mother’s death, which led to her severe weight loss. She tried an Indian practice to open the veins in her body and restore her health. A practitioner shared her own experience and said that she was diagnosed with an advanced brain tumor. After she practiced Falun Dafa for three months, she went to a hospital for a reexamination, which showed that her tumor was gone. The cancer was resolved through practicing Falun Dafa.

Latha was excited after hearing this. She said that this was the first time she talked to a practitioner who experienced miracles.

On the second day after learning the exercises, Baresh returned to the Falun Dafa booth and said, “After learning the exercises yesterday, I went back and taught my wife Latha some exercises. She also felt better immediately after she did them.”

He said, “For me, forbearance in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is the most difficult thing to achieve because I am short-tempered. When encountering conflicts, I don’t think and react quickly. So in the future, I will become more patient and tolerant. Tomorrow I will go online and start to learn Falun Dafa. With the accumulation of experience, I also hope to reach the realm of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance.”

On the third day, Latha went to the booth, and a practitioner taught her the first three exercises. Because she had to take care of her booth, Lhasa had to leave but said that she would continue to learn the exercises.

Visitors Learn Falun Dafa

Regine (second from left) learns about Falun Dafa.

The Falun Dafa booth is located across from a row of luminous and color-changing swings. While her daughter played on them, Regine talked to a practitioner. She said, “I’ve seen Falun Dafa parades and rallies in Chinatown, but I don’t know much about it.” She was curious and asked many questions, including why Falun Dafa was banned in China.

After the practitioner answered her questions, she suddenly said, “It seems that Falun Dafa generates energy when one improves one’s morality. I am a traditional Chinese medicine acupuncturist and I know that qigong can make the veins run to evolve energy.” She asked to learn the exercises.

Regine learned all five exercises. She told practitioners that she could feel the energy, especially when she did the first set of exercises. When she did the fifth exercise, Regine was able to sit in the double lotus position.

Regine said that when she did the exercises, she felt peaceful. A practitioner told her that she could visit the Falun Dafa website and read Dafa books, and there was also a video of Mr. Li Hongzhi’s nine-day lectures on the website. Regine said that she would look online, and wanted her husband and daughter to learn about Falun Dafa.

A staff member (first on right) learns the Falun Dafa exercises.

A staff member from the light show passed the Falun Dafa booth many times, and paused each time to watch the video. When a practitioner showed Regine how to do the exercises, she decided to try them. Another practitioner showed her the exercises from the beginning. Before she finished doing them, she said her hands felt warm.

The staff member said that during the pandemic she learned qigong online, but doing the Falun Dafa exercises made her feel very comfortable.

Seeta (left) is happy after learning the first set of exercises. She said she would share the benefits of practicing the exercises with her husband.

Astrid from France learned the Falun Dafa exercises. Afterward, she said she felt relaxed and refreshed. She also read the information on the posters. She said she would read Zhuan Falun.

Maja and her two daughters learned the Falun Dafa exercises.

Maja said that our society needs the values of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, “We must treat everyone around us with sincerity, sympathy, and tolerance. In life, we will encounter a lot of pressure and setbacks, so we must be open-minded. When we forgive others, we also feel open-minded in our own hearts.”

Background: What Is Falun Dafa and Why Is the CCP Persecuting It?

Falun Dafa (also known as Falun Gong) was first introduced to the public by Mr. Li Hongzhi in Changchun, China, in 1992. The spiritual discipline is now practiced in over 100 countries and regions worldwide. Millions of people who have embraced the teachings, which are based on the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance, and have learned the five exercises, have experienced improved health and well-being.

Jiang Zemin, the late, former head of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), perceived the spiritual discipline’s growing popularity as a threat to the CCP’s atheistic ideology and on July 20, 1999, he issued an order to eradicate the practice.

Under Jiang’s personal direction, the CCP established the 610 Office, an extralegal security organization with the power to override the police and judicial systems and whose sole function is to carry out the persecution of Falun Dafa.

Minghui.org has confirmed the deaths of thousands of practitioners as a result of the persecution over the past 23 years. The actual number is believed to be much higher. Countless practitioners have been imprisoned and tortured for their faith.

There is concrete evidence that the CCP sanctions the harvesting of organs from detained practitioners, who are murdered to supply China’s organ transplant industry.