(Minghui.org) After a two year pause, the popular flower show was held at Lalbagh, the central park in Bangalore from August 5-15. The show drew hundreds of thousands of people. Falun Dafa practitioners set up a booth, demonstrated the exercises and distributed information about the spiritual practice and told people about the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) persecution in China.

People learn the Falun Dafa exercises.

Practitioners demonstrate the Falun Dafa exercises

People stop to watch practitioners demonstrate the exercises.

Distributing Falun Dafa fliers

The venue was crowded with people who came out to appreciate the flowers

Lalbagh park is spread over 260 acres and has 4 gates. The flower show was organized around the conservatory, which is located in the park’s center. The Falun Dafa stall was set up near the entrance of the flower show. Practitioners have closely interacted with Lalbagh’s management and they know about the persecution of Falun Dafa in China. They have great appreciation for Falun Dafa and condemn the persecution.

Practitioners set up a TV, which showed the exercises and played the musical piece, Falun Dafa Is Good. One young girl went to the booth after listening to the music and asked where she could get a copy, as she found it very calming and peaceful.

People who entered the west gate to the flower show saw the Falun Dafa booth’s facade emblazoned with “Falun Dafa is Great” from a distance. Thousands of people passed by the Falun Dafa booth every day. As people read the banners practitioners heard them saying out loud: “Falun Dafa is great”, “Falun Dafa is good”, and “Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance.”

Practitioners demonstrated the exercises and distributed information fliers and cards from 10 a.m. to 6.30 p.m. every day. Fliers in English, Hindi, Kannada and Tamil were available at the stall. Many people who took the fliers or spoke to practitioners said that this was the first time they had seen or heard about Falun Dafa.

Many groups of people learned the exercises every day. Rithik, a 20-year-old yoga instructor, learned all five exercises and said that he felt a lot calmer after doing the sitting meditation for 15 minutes.

Every year, an elderly practitioner couple travels from another city to Bangalore to participate in the flower show. They participated this year too. Another couple, both practitioners, from another distant city, also participated for two days. They all said that they were happy to be there and distribute fliers to thousands of people.

Two practitioners said that while they meditated, they felt very tranquil even though they were surrounded by a bustling crowd.

Many people took pictures standing next to practitioners while they demonstrated the exercises. Several young groups of professionals and students were curious to know about the health and fitness aspect of Falun Dafa. They signed the petition against the persecution when they learned how the CCP kills practitioners in China.

Many people who read and heard about the persecution were in shock and expressed their solidarity with the practitioners in China.

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, 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.