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Report from Canada
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[London, Ontario] The
London Center was very pleased to host a public seminar on June
16, 2001 to share Master's teachings. We felt very happy and encouraged
that a Quan Yin messenger was able to help us hold the seminar.
During
the seminar's question-and-answer session, the guests asked questions
with so much enthusiasm, that one brother said it was really different
than previous ones he had attended. After the seminar, half of
the attendees stayed to learn the Convenient Method of meditation.
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We
felt greatly blessed that we again got a chance to participate in the
local Dragon Boat Festival. We arranged another seminar one week after
this event (on August 25) as a follow-up to our June seminar. The Dragon
Boat Festival in London, Ontario operates as a non-profit event, and
the money generated is used to support local charities. This year, the
Festival attracted over 40 teams from many cities across Canada, and
was well supported by the public. Before the Festival began, the weather
forecast predicted a high chance of showers on the two days during which
it was scheduled, potentially ruining it. But as usual, with God's blessings,
the weather "miraculously" cleared up, and in fact remained
perfect during the Dragon Boat Race, and then heavy rains occurred after
the Race concluded.
Our
booth was quite attractive with its display of Master's publications.
Many of our guests picked up flyers announcing the following week's
seminar. One lady read the flyer right in front of our booth, and murmured
to herself that she had been searching for this a long time, and now
she had found it. She immediately asked for an additional flyer and
sample booklet for her daughter.
A
gentleman from the booth adjacent to ours, who was promoting his martial
arts group, told us that he recognized Master's picture from a previous
visit to Japan, was interested enough to take a flyer, and expressed
his wish to attend the upcoming seminar. An older couple recognized
Master's picture and told us that their daughter-in-law in Alberta was
a Quan Yin practitioner. They had their photograph taken standing next
to Master's picture, and said they would mail it to her. A lot of interest
was shown in our booth at the Festival, and we felt that attendance
at such a public event was very useful in spreading Master's message
and promoting the upcoming seminar.
The
subsequent seminar was well attended and the audience consisted of a
broad spectrum of people from different age groups and ethnic backgrounds,
giving us the opportunity to spread Master's universal message widely.
This time, we decided to make some changes in the format of the seminar,
in order to broadcast Master's words more effectively: The seminar itself
was very short in duration. We first showed Master's TV program, which
lasted half an hour and consisted of three parts: 1) a news report about
Master at the Parliament of the World's Religions in South Africa; 2)
one of Master's lectures; and 3) Master's music concert in Hollywood.
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