Siegburg, Germany: Local Residents Resonate with Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance

(Minghui.org) “Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance helps people open their hearts and face the world,” said a German woman after being introduced to the Falun Dafa principles at a practitioners’ event on May 2, 2025.

Falun Dafa practitioners demonstrated the exercises and introduced the spiritual practice to residents in Siegburg, Germany, a small town that can tell of a long history in West Germany. They are bringing ancient Chinese wisdom to the minds of westerners. Local residents liked the Falun Dafa’s principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance. After being told that practitioners in China are brutally persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), they signed a petition and condemned the CCP.

Siegburg, near Cologne in Rhine-Westphalia, German, is located on a plain surrounded by mountains and rivers. It shows a completely different atmosphere when compared to the nearby noisy big cities. Practitioners set up display boards and banners at the intersection of the pedestrian street in the morning, introducing Falun Dafa and also raising awareness of the persecution experienced by practitioners in China. Some practitioners began to do the Falun Dafa exercises by following the exercise music. Passersby slowed down their pace. Some approached the booth and wanted to find out what was happening in China and what the practitioners were demonstrating.

Practitioners introduced Falun Dafa and raised awareness of the ongoing persecution in China in Siegburg, Germany on May 2, 2025.

Local residents learn about Falun Dafa

“This Cultivation System Is Teaching People to Be Good People”

Local residents were drawn to the practitioners’ activity, enjoying the warm sunlight, and listening to the peaceful music. A woman passing by, stopped to listen to a practitioner explaining that practitioners cultivate by following Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. The practitioner also suggested that the purity of inner character is important to one’s physical and mental health. The woman seemed to understand all of a sudden, “It is indeed like this.” When told about the CCP slandering Falun Dafa and how practitioners in China are killed for their organs, she signed the petition that calls for an end to the persecution.

A well-dressed woman stopped at the booth. When hearing from a practitioner about Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance, she said, “This is to teach people to be good people. Please give me a brochure as I want to find out more about this.”

A middle-aged woman refused to accept the brochure a practitioner offered her. Upon leaving, she listened to the practitioner’s brief introduction of Falun Dafa. She stopped. She felt that the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance are very wonderful to live by.

She told the practitioner of her personal experience. Once while riding on the subway, she saw a girl dressed very fashionably, but acting in a cold and arrogant manner. The girl’s high heel remained stepping on a pink thing and kept moving back and forth. Out of curiosity, this woman walked up to that pink thing after the girl got off. She found it was a hat that somebody had forgotten. She told the practitioner sadly, “It is such a small thing, just pick it up and hand it to the driver. How come today’s young people don’t follow even such small principles.” The practitioner said to her that the whole world needs to return to Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. The woman agreed and seemed touched. She walked to the table and signed the petition.

“Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance Help People Open Their Hearts and Face the World”

A local resident said “I think Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is very good. If all can follow this principle, then we can be united rather than just blaming others.”

After just listening to a brief introduction of Falun Dafa, a local resident signed the petition. Although she was not required to provide her postal code to complete the signature, she insisted on writing down her postal code.

“Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is all positive, elevate people and help people open theirs hearts and face the world,” she said. “I think Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is very good. If all can follow this principle, then we can be united rather than just blaming others.”

She couldn’t understand why Falun Dafa is persecuted in China. “People should not be persecuted. Especially when these people are good people and do not pose danger to others, why prohibit them. I think the CCP authorities fear to lose their power if they allow freedom to people. What’s the use of power? You cannot bring it with you when you die, just like money. But Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is meaningful, it can help people understand how to progress the journey of life.”

As for the CCP’s ongoing forced organ harvesting from living practitioners, she said, “Whoever is doing this are no longer truly human, although they are still live. It is the most terrible issue to kill for the organs or forcefully harvest them.”

When the event was about to end and the practitioners were getting ready to leave, a young woman came to the table that was already unloaded, and asked what happened in China. She accepted the informational materials.