Tai Ji Men Qigong Academy Commemorates the 20th Anniversary

NEW YORK, September 15, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) – September 11, 2021 marks the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks. On this historic day, over 30 volunteers from the Tai Ji Men Qigong Academy and the Action Alliance to Redress 1219 (ACT 1219) gathered in front of the United Nations building and other locations in New York to do for the city, the US and the world pray. wish that everyone’s conscience is awakened, that disasters are prevented and that a world of love and peace be realized.

Three of the volunteers witnessed the 9/11 attacks 20 years ago. Pamela Chen, a Tai Ji Men member from Los Angeles, arrived in New York on the morning of September 11, 2021. Shortly after landing in the Big Apple, they and other Tai Ji Men members gathered in front of the United Nations headquarters to spread love, peace and conscience for New York, the US and the world through their dancing and singing. They also visited Times Square, Manhattan Neighborhood Network television station, Ground Zero, the Taipei Economic and Cultural Bureau in New York, and other places to spread the idea of ​​conscience, love and peace.

Pamela said she witnessed the two planes crash into the twin towers of the World Trade Center 20 years ago. The city was immediately shrouded in fear and confusion, and everyone was eager to flee. Dr. Tai Ji Men leader Hong, Tao-Tze, and Tai Ji Men members did not leave New York. On September 12, 2001, at the invitation of Manhattan MNN Television, he led Tai Ji Men to a ceremony at which the bell of world peace and love was rung to pray for the victims, New York and the United States. He prayed for the souls of the dead to rest in peace as well as comfort the living. Traffic in Manhattan ceased at that time and people panicked like it was a world war. The suffering caused by the terrorist attacks has made people around the world yearn for peace more than ever. Although it was difficult to get around and some UN ambassadors had to walk for hours to reach the MNN TV station, many came to the site of the bell-ringing ceremony to ring the bell and express wishes for peace, love and Protecting peace with concrete measures.

Another member of Tai Ji Men, Lung Ogle, was also present during the September 11th attacks. Despite being over 80 years old, on that significant day, 20 years later, she managed to travel from Florida to New York to express her best wishes to the victims, the city, the United States, and the world. She attended the MNN television station with a group of Tai Ji Men members. In addition to her vivid memory of the ceremony of ringing the bell of world peace and love 20 years ago immediately after the attacks of 11th Tze with the title “Commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the attacks of September 11th with love, peace and conscience” , which reminds world citizens to awaken their conscience and to respect one another with love and tolerance, and calls on those in power to conduct their policies with conscience and avoid violating the human rights of their people. The 90-minute program, which will be broadcast on September 11th and 12th on the various channels of the television station, will be repeated on September 15th.

In addition to spreading the message of love, peace, and conscience, the volunteers also held signs protesting the Taiwanese government’s disregard for the rule of law and human rights violations, allowing some renegade bureaucrats to persecute the Tai Ji Men master and students for almost 25 years. They shouted slogans in Times Square such as, “The Taiwanese government has persecuted Tai Ji Men and violated their human rights. The Taiwanese government robbed the Tai Ji Men leader of his property and did not return his money. Correct the wrong case of Tai Ji Men. Return to Tai Ji Men, his holy land. Taiwan’s Democracy, Go! Go! Go! ”Many onlookers were intrigued and asked the volunteers about the case. They were surprised that such an unjust case had occurred in Taiwan.

Their protest caught the attention of the surrounding police officers. The volunteers described the aim of their demonstration and stated that they have been fighting for justice for 20 years while spreading love and peace. They use their own experiences of victimization to convey the value and importance of freedom and human rights to the rest of the world in the hope that there will be no more injustices and that the world will be at peace. The police officers were moved by the efforts of the volunteers and asked if they needed help.

This group of volunteers only stayed in New York for 10 hours. They took real action to support New Yorkers and pray for the world when they returned to New York 20 years later. They hope that global citizens will rise above the scars of history, care for one another, overcome differences and hostilities, and work together to address the world’s current problems. They also believe that the collective efforts of world citizens will prevent future calamities and that love should be practiced to create an era of conscience in which everyone enjoys freedom, equality, love and peace.

Tai Ji Men Qigong Academy: Tai Ji Men is an old menpai (similar to the school) of Qigong, martial arts and self-cultivation. It carried the wisdom of Daoist philosophy, one of the highest philosophies of mankind, on. It is an international non-profit cultural organization. Your contemporary zhang-men-ren (Grand Master), Dr. Hong, Tao-Tze, founded the Tai Ji Men Qigong Academy in 1966, which has since grown to 15 academies worldwide.

Dr. Hong teaches his Dizi methods (similar to the students) for achieving physical, mental, and spiritual balance, and tens of thousands of families have benefited from his teaching. In Tai Ji Men, martial arts and wisdom were passed on from the Shifu (master) to his Dizi. Through this time-honored tradition, Shifu and Dizi promote Tai Ji Men culture and martial arts around the world while embodying the true, good, and beautiful and spreading ideas of conscience, love, and peace. Over the past half century, the shifu and dizi have made self-financed trips to over 300 cities in 101 nations to host more than 3,000 cultural performances and exchange programs and have been recognized as “International Ambassadors of Peace and Goodwill”.

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