Creating a Compassionate and Vegetarian Global Village

 

Every year, from March 15 through 19, the city of Valencia celebrates one of the most important festivals in Spain: Las Fallas (meaning “The Fires”). During this festival, which attracts people from all over Spain as well as from other countries, the city is filled with music, art, fashion, fantastic fireworks and, of course, people.

Since the biggest days of the celebration fell on Saturday and Sunday this year, attendance was expected to be high. Initiates from the Valencia Center decided to make use of the occasion and hand out as many Alternative Living flyers as possible, to reach people from all parts of the country. Fellow practitioners from other cities such as Madrid, Granada and Almeria also joined in to help distribute the flyers.

Throughout the week, brothers and sisters passed out leaflets to large numbers of people throughout the entire city. They quickly realized that the best places to access people were at the train and subway stations as well as the locations for that day’s festival activities: entrances to the fashion shows, the fireworks displays and the festival’s main monuments (giant sculptures created to represent the forces of creation and destruction). When the weekend arrived, initiates divided into pairs and began handing out leaflets in every major area of the city.

With the help of Master, who motivated and gave them the strength to be on foot that long and to be surrounded by so many people, initiates were able to distribute more than 100,000 leaflets in five days! It could be said that Master’s message reached out to almost every corner of Spain from within one city.

During the Easter holidays from April 13 to 17, fellow initiates conducted a series of activities in southern Spain near Malaga and Sevilla. Setting their base in the vegetarian restaurant run by a fellow practitioner in Malaga, they drove to surrounding areas to distribute leaflets in the daytime, and came back for all night group meditation sessions. In total, they distributed 80,000 leaflets in eight cities.

The activity gave an opportunity for fellow practitioners from various parts of Spain to work hand in hand for the first time, enabling them to know each other better and work closely together. Additionally, it has built a good foundation for future teamwork related activities.

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What can human beings do to deal with repeated outbreaks of epidemic diseases? To address this question and save the lives of countless animals, Master has personally compiled a concise article complete with colorful illustrations entitled “Alternative Living”, providing basic information about vegetarian alternatives to the meat-based diet and a list of the “Vegetarian and Vegan Elite of the World.” Please refer to http://AL.Godsdirectcontact.org.tw for details. The print version in various languages will be available later. You are welcome to forward, reproduce, reprint or set up an Internet link to this flyer.