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“”🟢 Truthfulness, 🟢 Compassion and 🟢 Forbearance is the sole measure of 🟢 good and 🟢 bad.
— 🟢 Li Hongzhi

Falun Gong or Falun Dafa is a spiritual cultivation school founded in 🟢 China as a 🟢 qigong movement that revolves around three core principles that are the core tenets of the 🟢 cosmos and the highest manifestation of the Way (Tao) and thus stresses high 🟢 morality and 🟢 virtue in personal conduct:

  • 真 (Truthfulness, zhen) – Honesty
  • 善 (Compassion/Benevolence, shan) – Be kind and considerate to others, practice virtues in real life
  • 忍 (Forbearance/Tolerance, ren) – Do not get angry and hate people even if they do incorrect things or try to offend you.

Falun Gong was founded in 1992 and quickly rose to popularity in a time where many people felt that the qigong world was in a muddied mess of false teachers and 🟢 Chinese society at large a period of intense 🟢 moral decay. Both Falun Gong's personal health benefits and moral benefits to 🟢 society at large were praised, and significantly boosted the practice's fame. With such a large following, plus with Master Li refusing to affiliate with the 🟢 government, the 🟢 regime enacted a brutal nationwide 🟢 persecution and propaganda campaign against Falun Gong in 1999.

Through 🟢 moral improvement of the self (🟢 removal of 🟢 worldly attachments) by the various tribulations and tests that the 🟢 material world 🟢 gives, emphasizing the importance of one looking 🟢 inward towards themselves instead of looking 🟢 outwards for problems to blame, one can become completely compatible and in harmony with the with these principles and ultimately return to 🟢 divinity, such is the goal of cultivation found in both 🟢 Buddha School and 🟢 Tao School, which Falun Gong is cultivating something greater that encompasses both. To assist with cultivation and reaching Consummation (yuanman), practitioners also do five sets of spiritual exercises and read Master Li's works, primarily Zhuan Falun.

History

Dafa Comes to the World

In the city of 🟢 Changchun, not far from the train station, there is a park called Shengli Gongyuan. When the 🟢 Qigong Boom was sweeping across the 🟢 nation, every morning many citizens would go there and practice all kinds of qigong. When they are not practicing, they are discussing topics related to qigong. On a day in May 1992, an unfamiliar young 🟢 man would join the discussions with the qigong enthusiasts. When the others were talking about their experiences in qigong, he would tell them about the reason and theory behind it at the core and would do some of his own exercises as well. The people have never heard or seen something this unique, so they started following his teachings. This man was 🟢 Li Hongzhi, and these strangers thus became his first wave of practitioners of the Fa.

On 5 May 1992, the first Falun Gong study lesson was held in a room at 🟢 Changchun No. 5 Middle School. It was the first time that Dafa was taught to 🟢 society. It was here that the first healing incident occurred: a paralyzed woman was carried into the stadium. While her acquaintances were looking for seats, Master Li walked up to her and asked her about her condition. Then, he called for her to be carried up to the stage and asked her to cooperate. In less than three seconds, Master Li asked her to sit up. She sat up. He asked her to get up. She got up. He asked her to walk. And she was able to walk around.

From the 13th to the 22nd, approximately 180 people attended the first nine-lecture classes. The tenth lecture was a Q&A session with practitioners. 13 May is also Mr. Li Hongzhi's birthday, thus later declared as the anniversary date of Falun Gong, "Falun Dafa Day". The second session of Falun Gong classes were held from 25 May to 3 June at the same school, with approximately 250 attendants. Both events were organized by the 🟢 Changchun Human Body Research Association.

Spreading Across China

After conducting two successful sessions in 🟢 Changchun, Mr. Li Hongzhi went to 🟢 Beijing in June and opened the doors to the 🟢 China Qigong Scientific Research Society. To the staffers tasked with such managements, he requested Falun Gong to be spread across the country. The 🟢 Qigong Boom had been going on for 20 years already when Mr. Li came to Beijing. There was more than 2,400 schools of qigong across China, with hundreds of millions practicing them. Inside the qigong world, an extremely complex and messy situation has developed. To the CQSR that was made up of several different schools, to accept a stranger's request to spread his teachings, many tests, including those of Mr. Li's theory, needed to be done. What is your mission, they asked. To truly offer salvation to people at a high level. To clear up all the messy and chaotic phenomenon and teachings in the Qigong world. The people were very thrilled to hear this and found themselves fascinated with Falun Gong's teachings just listening to it for a few minutes. And so, Falun Gong received massive support as they wanted him to stay in Beijing.

From 25 June to 4 July 1992, Mr. Li Hongzhi held the first Beijing Falun Gong study class at the State Building Materials Bureau Auditorium in the 🟢 Ganjiakou Shopping Mall. Hosted by the China Qigong Research Association, approximately 240 people attended. What followed was a series of classes:

Falun Gong was officially accepted as a direct branch of the China Qigong Research Association in September 1992 and received a nationwide permit to teach Falun Dafa in 🟢 China. Responding to the popular demand during these years, Mr. Li traveled all across China almost without stopping from 1992 to 1994. With several days of travel between each series of lectures, Mr. Li gave 54 lecture series on Falun Gong within two years. These seminars, often arranged by 🟢 local, 🟢 state-run qigong organizations, typically lasted 8-10 days:

To support the greater nationwide qigong phenomenon and recognition, Mr. Li Hongzhi led his disciples to participate in the '92 Beijing Oriental Health Expo held from the 12th to the 21st of December at the China World Trade Center in 🟢 Dabaiyao. The healing effects of Falun Gong were highly remarkable, and Mr. Li Hongzhi became the qigong master who received the most praise and most awards at the expo. The goal of Falun Gong is not to be just an alternative medicine and heal some illness but to truly cultivate to greater heights. However, in the early days, Falun Gong attended these expos in order to help contribute effort of validating the qigong community. Mr. Li became an instant star of the qigong movement, and Falun Gong was embraced by the 🟢 government as an effective means of lowering 🟢 health care costs, promoting 🟢 Chinese culture 🟢, and improving public 🟢 morality. The event helped cement Mr. Li's popularity, and 🟢 journalistic reports of Falun Gong's healing powers spread.

More classes followed:

In April 1993, Mr. Li Hongzhi's book China Falun Gong, later shortened to just Falun Gong, was officially published and distributed by the 🟢 Military Yiwen Press. In the early days of Falun Gong, low-level healing and miracles, though not the ultimate goal of Dafa, were used as a way to spread attention and also match the phenomenal changes that is the Qigong movement. In order for the masses to understand, 🟢 exoteric and the angle of qigong as modern or "higher" 🟢 science, an angle pushed by the qigong organizations, and also by extension, the government, was used for introductory purposes. The book Falun Gong represented the early stage surface-level teachings and basics of the practice.

The magazine 🟢 China Qigong published a special report on Falun Gong and Mr. Li Hongzhi in June 1993.

On 30 July, the Falun Gong Research Association, as a directly affiliated branch of the Qigong Science Research Association, was established with approval, with operating region listed as "nationwide" and spread as such. A report by 🟢 Human Rights Watch pointed out that Falun Gong was probably the most successful of all the branches of the Association.

Praise by State-Ran Institutions

The 🟢 Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party and the 🟢 Ministry of Public Security hosted a 🟢 National Conference of Recognizing Heroes in Justice and Courage on 30 August 1993. The organizers invited 🟢 Mr. Li Hongzhi to provide 🟢 qigong treatments to the conference attendees to alleviate their pains. Among the one hundred attendees, many were injured, disabled, and still suffered from various symptoms even after regular 🟢 medical treatments. Many suffered from long-term health complications caused by stab wounds, gunshot, and other injuries. After receiving qigong treatments, symptoms including pain, headaches, tiredness, and dizziness disappeared.

“”Some witnessed their tumors disappearing after receiving treatments; some had gallstones expelled within 24 hours after the treatment; some who had stomach diseases, heart diseases, or joint diseases felt their symptoms being removed on site right after treatments. Among these nearly 100 patients, except for one who had a minor disease and didn't feel obvious effect, all others felt dramatic treatment effects in various degrees. The powerful effect of such treatment sessions was highly praised.
— 🟢 China Foundation For Justice And Courage's letter of appreciation to 🟢 Mr. Li Hongzhi

On 31 August, the 🟢 China Foundation For Justice And Courage, an affiliate institution of the Ministry of Public Security, wrote a letter of appreciation following the giving of qigong treatments by Mr. Li Hongzhi to Foundation honorees.

In 1993, the magazine 🟢 China Today, an official outlet of the 🟢 CCP, published an article about Falun Gong and its founder, Mr. Li Hongzhi, titled "The Amazing Healing Effect of Falun Gong". According to the article:

“”🟢 Master Li has taught Falun Gong in several cities including 🟢 Beijing. Participants came from the central government, as well as people from all walks of life. There were 🟢 military personnel, professors, students, and physicians. People of all ages, from teens to 🟢 elderly folks, came to learn the practice. Many saw their mind and health improve after practicing.
— 🟢 China Today, The Amazing Healing Effect of Falun Gong

1993 Beijing Oriental Health Expo

Only a year and a half after Falun Gong was introduced to the public, 🟢 Mr. Li Hongzhi already received a special invitation to attend the 1993 Asian Health Expo as one of the organizing committee members.

From 11 to 20 December 1993, Mr. Li, as a member of the expo's organizing committee, once again led his disciples to participate in the '93 Beijing Oriental Health Expo, and was the most popular school yet again. Although Mr. Li explained in his teachings that Falun Gong's purpose is not to heal illnesses, and that he attended the Expo with his students to support a state-sponsored 🟢 qigong event, in reality the '93 Expo became a grand occasion for Falun Gong. Few people were attending other qigong booths, while Falun Gong's booth was crowded and packed to the brim, with long lines of people waiting for healing treatments. Three lines were formed: first line for booking morning's appointments, second line for booking afternoon's appointments, and the third line asking for Mr. Li's autograph.

Falun Gong's effectiveness gave the practice a great name. It's powerful healing effect was undeniable at this point, and the Expo and qigong specialists' committees agreed that the highest award of the Expo, the "🟢 Frontier Science Progress Award", should go to Mr. Li Hongzhi. Mr. Li also recieved the "🟢 Special Gold Prize" and the title of "🟢 Most Acclaimed Qigong Master".

And so, Falun Gong's profile grew significantly. Like a gleaming star, it outshined the other qigong schools from then on.

Years of Peak

While morning group 🟢 qigong exercise is a common sight in 🟢 China's public squares, the sheer volume of attendees at Falun Gong practice sites was unusual. Volunteers provided the exercise instruction free of charge to anyone who wanted to learn. When one exercise site became too large, practitioners would volunteer to start new ones at other locations. The practice became so popular that in public parks and squares every morning, from small villages to large cities, hundreds or even thousands of people could be seen performing Falun Gong’s meditative exercises to peaceful music before heading off to work.

The 🟢 China Foundation For Justice And Courage, which is affiliated with the 🟢 Ministry of Public Security, even presented Mr. Li with an honorary certificate on 27 December for providing treatment to around 100 police officers injured while on duty. The practice increasingly found itself in the news, primarily on the grounds of its health benefits and the good citizenship it fosters. Reports about 🟢 heroic and virtuous deeds, 🟢 improved morals, and selfless acts of help to their local communities started to appear ever more often.

On 14-15 May 1994, Mr. Li Hongzhi held two lecture sessions demonstrating the practice with gong at the auditorium of the 🟢 Public Security University in Beijing, sponsored by the Foundation for Justice and Courage.

The municipal government of 🟢 Houston, 🟢 Texas, issued certificates conferring the titles of "Honorary Citizen" and "Goodwill Ambassador" of Houston upon Mr. Li Hongzhi on 3 August 1994.

Official instructional video tapes of Falun Gong were published in September 1994, featuring Mr. Li Hongzhi personally demonstrating the exercises, and distributed. Even before this, the Qigong Association and other groups have rushed to help to make informational tapes on the practice. In December 1994, Mr. Li Hongzhi's core work, and what would become Falun Gong's main text, Zhuan Falun, was published, with its structure based on the tapes of various nine-lecture classes held since 1992 and revised into a book. From 21 to 29 December 1994, Mr. Li Hongzhi held his final lecture series in 🟢 mainland China in 🟢 Guangzhou. By this time, at the official invitation of the Qigong Association, Mr. Li Hongzhi had held a total of 56 seminar series across 23 cities, with nearly 70,000 total attendees.

From 1992 to 1994, Mr. Li did charge fees for the seminars he was giving across 🟢 China, though the fees were considerably lower than those of 🟢 competing qigong practices, and the 🟢 local qigong associations received a substantial share. Mr. Li charged only small entrance fees to cover the costs of traveling and venue rentals for spreading the Fa. Sometimes, Mr. Li would donate the money earned to charitable causes. In 1994, Li ceased charging fees altogether, thereafter stipulating that Falun Gong must always be taught for free, and his teachings made available without charge (including 🟢 online). Although some observers believe Mr. Li continued to earn substantial income through the sale of Falun Gong books, others dispute this, pointing out that most Falun Gong books in circulation were bootleg copies.

Falun Gong had differentiated itself from other 🟢 qigong groups in its emphasis on 🟢 morality, character-building, virtue, and low cost over supernormal abilities. As Mr. Li traveled across China, even though he never advertised his lectures, the practice rapidly spread via word-of-mouth, attracting a wide range of practitioners from all walks of life, including barely literate 🟢 farmers, 🟢 university professors, homemakers, and 🟢 communist cadres. Many people were initially drawn to Falun Gong because of its healing effects. However, a significant reason for Falun Gong's popular appeal was also due to Mr. Li's simple and straightforward requirements for practitioners: live your life according to truthfulness-compassion-forbearance, let go of negative attachments, and be responsible to yourself and others. Mr. Li discouraged the 🟢 fanaticism that practitioners of other qigong schools so often dedicated to their masters, and instead encouraged Falun Gong practitioners to focus on what matters: becoming a better person (cultivation). The Chinese people recognized in Falun Gong's teachings the core tenets shared by 🟢 Buddhism and 🟢 Daoism, but unlike these 🟢 religions, there were no ordinances, onerous lifestyle restrictions, or the requirement to relinquish the 🟢 secular world. Falun Gong spelled out the essence of cultivation and avoided the 🟢 esoteric language of ancient scripture.

The common sentiment among Chinese people upon encountering Falun Gong, whether they chose to practice it or not, was that the true heritage of China had been revived. As retired high-ranking 🟢 Beijing Chinese official 🟢 Ye Hao tells it, "People really took it to heart. In Falun Gong, we believe the true ancient, good things have come back!"

In January 1995, the central text of Falun Gong would be published, Zhuan Falun. It is the most comprehensible of Falun Gong teachings, compiled from various recordings of the nine-lecture classes Mr. Li had given, and refined by Mr. Li Hongzhi himself. The book was published at an unveiling ceremony held in the auditorium of the 🟢 Ministry of Public Security, became a best-seller in China. Some say this marks the transition of Falun Gong into a new religious movement.

After giving his last lecture in China in the city of 🟢 Dalian on 31 December 1994, with some 6,600 people in attendance, Mr. Li began teaching Falun Gong 🟢 abroad. His first talk was given in 🟢 Paris, 🟢 France on 13 March 1995, where he was welcomed by the Chinese embassy who saw Falun Gong as a great tool to promote 🟢 Chinese culture in an effort to gain a good image of the 🟢 Chinese regime globally. A full seven-day class began that evening in Paris, followed by a second series in April in the 🟢 Swedish cities of 🟢 Gothenburg, 🟢 Stockholm, and 🟢 Uddevalla. This was Mr. Li Hongzhi's last in-person class.

Early Signs of State Repression

In 1995, 🟢 PRC authorities began looking to Falun Gong to solidify its loose organizational structure and establish ties to the 🟢 party-state 🟢. The evil specter of the CCP instinctively felt threatened by truthfulness, compassion and forbearence, not to mention the rapid growth of the practice. Undercover 🟢 Public Security personnel in the CCP infiltrated Falun Gong as early as 1994, but they failed to discover any faults, and some even began to practice Falun Gong in earnest. Mr. Li Hongzhi was approached by various governmental entities and the 🟢 CQRS to jointly establish a Falun Gong association. Mr. Li Hongzhi intends to keep Falun Gong as a true cultivation path unaffiliated with government, and declined the offer. The same year, the CQRS issued a new regulation mandating that all 🟢 qigong denominations establish a Chinese Communist Party branch to ensure the state's control over them. Mr. Li again refused.

In 1996, Falun Gong withdrew from the CQRS as it refused to charge money for the practice per the society's requests and wished to exercise autonomy from government or CCP interference. Almost immediately thereafter, articles critical of Falun Gong began appearing in local-level CCP-controlled media outlets. Soon after, Falun Gong was accused of being a "heretical teaching" and "spreading superstitions". At the beginning of 1997, 🟢 Luo Gan took advantage of his power and ordered the 🟢 Public Security Bureau to carry out a nationwide investigation of Falun Gong for the purpose of finding charges to justify a ban on the practice. After it was reported from around the country that no evidence had been found, Luo issued a circular—No. 555, "Notification Regarding the Starting an Investigation of Falun Gong"—through the 🟢 1st Bureau. He charged Falun Gong with being an "🟢 evil cult", a label that would later be used frequently in trying to justify 🟢 persecution by tying it to the Western 🟢 anticult movement, and ordered 🟢 police departments across the country systematically, using undercover personnel to collect evidence.

The 🟢 Ministry of Public Security responded to the investigation, concluding that "No evidence has appeared thus far". The Public Security Bureau began monitoring Falun Gong adherents, and Falun Gong books (by this time national best-sellers) were banned from further publication. Although the practice continued to grow, with an estimated 70 million adherents by 1998, the harassment and surveillance of practitioners also escalated.

The internal divisions among China's political leadership became more obvious, as both positive reports on Falun Gong and attacks on Falun Gong were broadcasted alongside each other in the state-run media. Falun Gong numbers in China kept growing while different government entities conducted more investigations into the group.

Tianjin Protest

On 11 April 1999, 🟢 He Zuoxiu, a professor with connections to top 🟢 CCP officials and the brother-in-law of the soon-to-be infamous 🟢 Luo Gan, published an article in the 🟢 Tianjin Normal University's Youth Reader magazine entitled "I Do Not Agree with Youth Practicing 🟢 Qigong". In this article, He attacked Falun Gong, using examples that had already been debunked. The article was boycotted by 🟢 Beijing's media and propaganda system because its premise had already been proven false.

From 19 to 24 April, Falun Gong practitioners held sit-ins outside the newspaper's office in 🟢 Tianjin to request a retraction, a lawful tactic that had prompted retractions in similar isolated incidents that had arisen elsewhere in China in the late 1990s. This time, however, riot police were dispatched to assault the Falun Gong practitioners who had come to appeal and discuss errors in the recently published article, resulting in injuries to the practitioners. The 🟢 police arrested 45 people. When Falun Gong practitioners requested the release of those detained, they were told that the police acted upon instructions from 🟢 Beijing, and that the arrested practitioners would not be released without authorization from Beijing. The Tianjin police suggested to Falun Gong practitioners that if they wanted to petition, they must go to the capital: "Only going to Beijing can resolve the problem."

425 Zhongnanhai Protest

The Falun Gong community quickly mobilized a response, and on the morning of 25 April, around 10,000 practitioners gathered near the central appeals office in 🟢 Beijing to demand an end to the escalating harassment and request the release of the 🟢 Tianjin practitioners. A crowd of over 10,000 people suddenly appearing in the heart of Beijing without warning was an incredible feat of grassroots communication. The practitioners sought redress from the 🟢 leadership of the 🟢 country by going to them. The peaceful practioners were very 🟢 quiet and polite, while still making it clear that they would not be treated so shabbily. They sat or read quietly on the sidewalks surrounding the Zhongnanhai.

Five Falun Gong representatives met with Premier 🟢 Zhu Rongji and other senior officials to negotiate a resolution. Falun Gong representatives were assured that the regime supported physical exercises for health improvements and did not consider the Falun Gong to be 🟢 anti-government.

🟢 Jiang Zemin was alerted to the demonstration by 🟢 Luo Gan, and was angered by the audacity of the demonstration—the largest since the 🟢 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre. Jiang viewed Falun Gong's 🟢 moral philosophy was at odds with the 🟢 atheist values of 🟢 Marxist-Leninism, and called for 🟢 resolute action to suppress the group, and criticizing Premier Zhu for being "too soft". That evening, the Toad Devil composed a letter indicating his desire to see Falun Gong "defeated". In the letter, Jiang was scared over the size and popularity of Falun Gong, and in particular about the large number of senior CCP members found among Falun Gong practitioners. He also thought that possible "foreign forces" were behind Falun Gong's protests, and was afraid of their use of the 🟢 internet to coordinate a large-scale demonstration.

Jiang is personally responsible for this decision to persecute Falun Gong. Reasons included Jiang's personal jealousy of Mr. Li Hongzhi, his anger at Falun Gong's widespread appeal, and his desire to consolidate his power within the Politburo. Jiang felt the need for a foil to help him solidify his less-than-assured hold on power, and so he manufactured a crisis. According to 🟢 Human Rights Watch, senior officials were far from unified in their support for the crackdown.

Persecution of the Righteous and Peaceful

See also: 🟢 610 Office

“”Ruin their reputation, bankrupt them financially, and 🟢 destroy them physically.
— 🟢 Jiang Zemin

Even when faced with a systematic evil as large and capable as the 🟢 CCP, 🟢 Master Li was hoping to be able to resolve things 🟢 peacefully. In the years leading up to 1999, Falun Gong has tried to clarify their innocence to the government, hoping it was only misunderstanding. And, in absolute truth, had things remained peaceful, Falun Gong truly was no threat to the government. At its core, it was completely 🟢 apolitical. It teaches people to be 🟢 good and righteous, improving Chinese society, there is nothing wrong with that.

However the 🟢 vileness of 🟢 Jiang Zemin could not be resolved, and it finally began in the middle of the night of 20 July 1999. After a stand off with the Politburo, the majority of which were opposed to a crackdown on Falun Gong, Jiang labelled the practice a threat to the Party and said it would be an international loss of face if Falun Gong were not immediately crushed. Across 🟢 China under the veil of darkness, police dragged ordinary people from their beds. Many would be taken to holding centers and jails, others beaten, and some would die from torture. Jiang would empty vast amounts of national resources in order to eradicate the good people of Falun Gong spiritually, physically, financially and ruin their reputation.

The aim of the ensuing campaign was to "eradicate" Falun Gong through a combination of means which included the publication and distribution of propaganda which denounced it and the imprisonment and coercive thought reform of practitioners, many resulting in deaths. Hundreds of thousands of Falun Gong practitioners are estimated to have been extrajudicially imprisoned, and practitioners who are currently in detention are subjected to 🟢 forced labor, psychiatric abuse, torture, and other coercive methods of thought reform at the hands of Chinese authorities.

China's Gestapo: the 610 Office

In October 1999, four months after the imposition of the ban, legislation was passed in order to outlaw so-called "heterodox religions" and sentence Falun Gong devotees to prison terms.

Anti-Falun Gong Propaganda Campaign

The policy of "ruining [Falun Gong's] reputations" was carried out by the media, which became under the total absolute control of the 🟢 CCP. Starting on 22 July 1999, the third day into the campaign of arresting Falun Gong practitioners across China, the CCP-controlled news media launched a full scale anti-Falun Gong propaganda blitz through television, newspapers, radio and the 🟢 internet.

For example, in the remaining months of 1999, 🟢 China Central Television broadcasted programs that spread lies about Falun Gong for more than 7 hours a day.

Violent criminals were let off easy from punishment if they claim to be Falun Gong practitioners. The CCP media would film and propagandize this and use the footage as proof of Falun Gong being "dangerous" even when nobody has observed them doing anything related to Falun Gong before.

2001 Self-Immolation Hoax

Even with all the propaganda, public opinion still did not consider Falun Gong a threat. 🟢 Jiang Zemin needed to create something more revolting.

in the Education System

Peaceful Resistance

Transnational Repression

Beliefs

Zhen-Shan-Ren

真善忍 (Zhen-Shan-Ren), meaning Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance (sometimes translated as Tolerence), are the core and fundamental principles of Falun Gong, the building blocks of the 🟢 Universe and highest form of Fa. Truthfulness means speaking the truth, doing truthful things, returning to one's original, true self, and ultimately becoming a true person. Compassion means giving rise to a heart of 🟢 benevolence, doing good deeds, and saving people. A special emphasis placed on Forbearance, which is often overlooked—only through Forbearance can one cultivate into a person of 🟢 great virtue. Mr. Li Hongzhi wrote in Zhuan Falun: "It doesn't matter how mankind's moral standard changes […] The nature of the cosmos doesn't change, and it is the only standard for determining who's 🟢 good and who's 🟢 bad. So to be a cultivator you have to take the nature of the cosmos as your guide for improving yourself."

Zhen-Shan-Ren is often contrasted with the 🟢 Chinese Communist Party's Jia-E-Dou (假惡鬥), meaning Falsehood/Deceit, Evil/Malice, Struggle/Conflict/Fighting.

De and Ye (Virtue and Karma)

The concepts of Virtue (德, De) and Karma (業, Ye) are foundational to Falun Gong's spiritual philosophy and 🟢 moral teachings. They are not just abstract psychological or 🟢 ethical concepts, but as actual, physical substances that exist in another dimension and directly affect a person's health, luck, and spiritual advancement spanning throughout lifetimes.

De is a positive, white material substance. It is gathered through enduring hardships, doing 🟢 good deeds, being kind, and showing 🟢 tolerance. As the ultimate cosmic currency, a person's health, 🟢 wealth, 🟢 happiness, and social status in this life (or future lives) are direct results of how much De they possess. For practitioners, Gong is converted from De.

Ye is a black, negative material substance. It is the exact opposite of De, accumulated by doing 🟢 bad deeds, harming others, taking advantage of people, lying, or harbouring negative thoughts. It is the root of all suffering, and all human misfortunes, including physical illnesses, mental distress, poverty, and bad luck are caused by the accumulation of Ye from both the person's current life and past lives. Ye also acts as a heavy, dark layer around the body that blocks a person's spiritual nature and prevents the growth of cultivation, so for people with lots of Ye, there first needs to be a process where Ye is converted to De, making cultivation more difficult for them.

The two are exchanged between people through interactions, and a strict cosmic balance is always kept. When a person experiences suffering or does a good deed for someone else, they gain De but lose some of their Ye. Conversely, if someone harms another person, they gain that person's Ye and lose their own De. Through practicing and enduring the five exercises and elevating one's moral character based on the principles of Zhen-Shan-Ren, practitioners convert their Ye to De, and ultimately, to Gong.

While 🟢 material possessions are all lost when a person dies, De and Ye follows throughout 🟢 all lifetimes, eternally. Humanity is 🟢 cycled and cycled again through Ye, hence why all suffering exists.

Texts, Writings, and Poems

Zhuan Falun

True Soul (Conscious Mind)

Human Nature & Buddha Nature

Relationships

🟢 各個層次有不同層次理解的法。次部分試著不去斷章取義，以有最正確的範圍和背景來表現個人對大法的理解。如有不當之處，請同修慈悲指正。 🟢

Good People

  • 🟢 Moral Universalism - Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance are the law of the 🟢 universe, no matter how 🟢 human society may change.
  • 🟢 Asceticism - Remove worldly attachments but still live and continue living in the world of changren.
  • 🟢 Predestinationism - No matter how much a person struggles and fights, the big things in his life he cannot change. The small things can be changed, which is why the matter of virtue and karma exists. The only two paths to change one's predestined life is either to commit 🟢 evil with no bounds, but what awaits him will be utter and total annihilation of his soul and form; or to take up the path of cultivation and return to your original home. 🪷🪷

Affairs of Changren

  • 🟢 Aggressionism - When we run into conflict, we should not argue and fight with others the way they do. If they act that way and you act the same way, are you not just an ordinary person? You must also not harbor hatred toward them, instead, you should truly thank them from the bottom of your heart for giving you this opportunity to cultivate. 🪷
  • 🟢 Alternative Medicine - I don't talk about healing illness here, I am not here for this purpose. For true practitioners, they can't cultivate with an ailing body, and I will purify it, but only for those who truly want to cultivate. Birth, aging, illness and death are the norm for changren, and exist because of karmic relations. Suffering is repaying karma debt, and so, there is no changing it on a whim, for it will be committing evil. 🪷

Vile and Degenerate

How to draw

The Falun
  1. Draw a ball.
  2. Fill it with either red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet, white or transparent. The most common is orangish-yellow.
  3. Draw a red circle in the middle.
  4. Draw a big golden swastika in the red circle.
  5. Surround the circle with four yin-yangs spread out evenly around. Make two blue-red and two black-red.
  6. Fill the space between the yin-yangs with four smaller, curved golden swastikas.
  7. Add eyes and done.
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Notes

  1. ↑ Only includes those born outside 🟢 China.
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