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Te Power o Falun Daa


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able o Contents

Introduction.........................................................................7

Te Origins o Falun Daa...................................................................................8

Cultivation Practice..............................................................................................9

Te Practice o Falun Daa.................................................................................11

Cultivation o Character.....................................................................................14

Scientic Findings...............................................................................................16Te Persecution in China: Ruin their reputations,

bankrupt them nancially, and destroy them physically........................18

Conclusion ...........................................................................................................21

Articles

1. Te Enormous Power o Daa .......................................................................22

2. Tanks o Falun Gong, I Have Become Much More Considerate

o Others--And I Look Younger, oo!...........................................................26

3. Overcoming Complacency o Become a Better Person ............................29

4. ake Hardships as Blessings,

Look Inward or the Source o Our Diculties...........................................33

5. An American High School Student:

"It Was My Heart and Mind Tat Needed o Change"...............................37

6. "eacher, I Want to Learn Falun Gong!" A Disobedient Boy is ransormed by Falun Daa.....................................44

7. Giving Up the Attachment to Fame and Personal Gain.............................48

8. Growing with the Fa ......................................................................................56

9. Stories o Young Beibei rom China..............................................................61

10. Discovering Hope In the Sea o Misery--

A Young Man Finds Falun Daa in Prison...................................................65

11. Becoming More Mature in My Practice o Falun Daa..............................68

12. Te Principles o Falun Daa Helped Me Solve a Problem at Work.........74


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13. A Small Video Clip Changes a Lie...............................................................79

14. Viewing the World Dierently Trough Daa ............................................82

15. Rising rom the Depths ..................................................................................85

16. A een-ager Experiences Many Benets rom Practicing Falun Daa.....8917. Putting "ruthulness, Compassion, Forbearance"

o Work In My Daily Lie...............................................................................93

18. Walking an Upright Path and Starting a New Lie......................................97

19. Why I Chose to Practice Falun Daa:

Te Experience o a Doctor o Western and Chinese Medicine

and Former Researcher o Qigong and Acupuncture...............................101

20. "ruthulness, Compassion and Forbearance,"

Even While Driving a Car............................................................................108

21. How Falun Daa Changed a Former Tie.................................................109

22. Anesthetist Reuses to Accept Extra Income

and Kickbacks aer Practicing Falun Gong..............................................112

23. I Can Hardly Believe the Person I Used o Be........................................116

24. My Experience Working in a Chinese Restaurant....................................121

25. Conficts Lasting Decades Are Resolved

aer Family Practices Falun Daa...............................................................12426. Company Vice-President :

My Wonderul Experiences in the Practice o Falun Daa.......................129

27. Practicing Falun Daa and Becoming a Better Person.............................135

28. Regaining the Happiness I Enjoyed As a Child.........................................137

29. Te Most Fortunate Beings in the Cosmos................................................140

30. Finding Meaning In My Lie....................................................................... 144

31. Falun Daa Lied Me Up And Made Me a Better Person........................148

32. Learning to Say, "Tis Was My Fault".........................................................151

33. Our Class Is Now Well Behaved .................................................................153

34. Falun Daa Is Deeply Rooted In My Heart................................................155

35. Separating the Cha rom the Pure Essence.............................................163

36. How I Resolved a Long-erm Confict with My Husband......................167

37. When I Was Seeking Revenge, I Found Zhuan Falun Instead ................170

38. Te Best Decision I Ever Made :

Refecting On My First Year as a Falun Daa Practitioner........................173


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39. Daa Is Rapidly Changing People's Hearts.................................................179

40. Reading Zhuan Falun Reunited My Family ..............................................181

41. Living a New Lie...........................................................................................183

42. My Lie Is a Lot Better When My Heart Is Practicingruthulness, Compassion, and Forbearance............................................186

43. I Found Falun Daa and Le Behind My Lie o Crime ..........................189

44. Practicing Falun Daa in the aiwanese Army..........................................191

45. Falun Daa urned My Lie Around...........................................................196

46. urning Diculties Into Opportunities to Cultivate

ruthulness, Compassion, and Forbearance............................................200

47. A New Lie or My Family and Me..............................................................202

48. Tank You, Master Li ...................................................................................207

Epilogue............................................................................211

Glossary.............................................................................213


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Introduction

Although Falun Gong (also known as Falun Daa)is deeply rooted in ancient Chinese culture, it was irstintroduced to the public in 1992 by Mr. Li Hongzhi, thepractices ounder and teacher. Now, over 100 million people

worldwide perorm the simple, graceul exercises on a dailybasis while striving to conduct themselves according toFalun Daas undamental guiding principles: ruthulness,Compassion, and Forbearance.

he vast majority o people who take up the practiceexperience signiicant improvements in many aspectso their lives. A previously published collection o shortarticles, Life and Hope Renewed--Te Healing Power of Falun

Dafa, described the proound health benets o Falun Daa.his companion volume ocuses on another importantaspect o peoples lives: the tremendous personal growththat can be achieved by cultivating ones character throughpracticing Falun Gong.

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Te Origins o Falun Daa

From 1992 to 1994, Mr. Li Hongzhi gave over 50 lectureseries on the practice, typically consisting o a two-hourclass every day or nine days. During the classes, generallyone and a hal hours were used to lecture on the principleso Falun Daa, and the last hal hour was used to teach the

exercises. By the end o a lecture series, attendees wouldhave received the essential teachings and learned all o theexercises.

In December 1994, the main text o Falun Daa, ZhuanFalun, was published, and at this time the lecture seriescame to an end. he book provided newcomers who hadnot attended the lecture series the opportunity to learnthe practice on their own. Veteran practitioners beneited

as well, as this book became the cornerstone text orcontinuous improvement, providing practitioners withguidance at every stage o their cultivation.

Because o its tremendous power to improve health andelevate character, Falun Daa stood out rom the myriad oother qigong systems being taught and practiced in Chinaat that time. Beore July 1999, by early dawn, almost every

Chinese park would be brimming with people practicingthe exercises, which were always taught ree o charge byvolunteers in each city. Spread primarily by word o mouth,Falun Daa grew very quickly. Te practitioners came romdierent geographic regions and spanned all ages, socialstrata and walks o lie. Many government agencies andmainstream media acknowledged and supported FalunDaa.


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Cultivation Practice

Falun Daa is a cultivation practice or elevating themind and enhancing physical health. Although the concepto cultivation may not be amiliar to many Westerners,looking through the list o deinitions o cultivatein the dictionary, we do ind that it relates to growth,

development, improvement, and renement o something,in this case, a person, through education, training, labor,and attention. But this does not tell the whole story.

In China, there is a rich tradition o cultivation. Te termin Chinese is xiu lian. Xiu means to repair or ix. Lianmeans to smelt or reine, and written in Chinese, thischaracter looks similar to and has the same pronunciationas the term to practice [exercises]. his is only a direct

translation o the characters that make up the term.o get a more complete understanding o the concept o

cultivation, we can look to Chinas history. Around 2,500years ago, the sage Lao Zi appeared in China. Around thesame time, Shakyamuni appeared in India. Lao Zi wrotethe bookDao De Jing, which was how most people learnedabout what he called the Dao or the Way. Shakyamuni

spread Buddhism in India or 49 years, which then made itsway to China. Tese two schools then ormed the basis ormany spiritual practices in China.

Religions are also considered orms o cultivation.For example, there is the religion o Buddhism, whichhas temples, monks and nuns, rituals, and many otherormalities o a religion, and there are many dierent

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denominations o Buddhism. he cultivation way o theBuddha school does not end there though, as there aremany practices rom this school that are not consideredpart o the Buddhist religion. Oten these practices arecomprised o simply a teacher and students, but there areno religious ormalities or places o worship. Tese are alsoconsidered cultivation ways. Te same is true or the Daoist

school. here is the religion o Daoism, but there are alsomany Daoist practices that are not religions. So in China,it is not considered necessary to be a member o a religionin order to achieve the goal o elevating one's spirituallevelbut one does need a cultivation practice. Here in theWest, since we dont really have the concept o cultivation,anything spiritual or that has to do with transcending thehuman world has traditionally allen under the concept o

religion.Falun Daa is such a cultivation way, encompassing

the essence o all other cultivation ways in the orm oits guiding principles, ruthulness, Compassion, andForbearance. Indeed, regardless o their religious aliationor spiritual belies, people can universally identiy withthese three core principles o Falun Daa.


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Te Practice o Falun Daa

Many o the essential truths o Falun Daa were taught inprivate or thousands o years. It was common in China'shistory to teach this way, as these timeless principles wereoen passed rom a teacher to a single student. In the 1960'sand 1970's, many qigong practices were introduced to the

public. At that time, mostly just exercises and some basicprinciples were taught, and by doing these qigong exercises,people were able to improve their health.

Since Falun Daa is a cultivation practice or both themind and body, a practitioner not only does the exercisesto transorm the energy o his body or increased health,but also strives to elevate his character by ollowing the

principles o ruthulness, Compassion and Forbearance.he ive exercises themselves are easy to learn andpractice. Mr. Li Hongzhi gives explanations o each o theexercises in he Great Consummation Way of Falun Dafa,portions o which are quoted below:

he irst exercise is called Buddha Showing a housand

Hands.

At the core o Buddha Showing a Tousand Handsis stretching o the body. his stretching unblocksareas where energy is congested, stimulates the energywithin the body and under the skin so that it circulatesvigorously, and automatically absorbs a great amounto energy rom the universe. his enables all o the

meridians in a practitioner's body to open at the

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practice. Rather than getting upset and responding inkind, perhaps the practitioner would understand that itwould be best to just let it go, or calmly and kindly explainthe situation that brought about the confict. Tere are noormulas providing speciic ways to act in every situation,but by reading Zhuan Falun, practitioners gain their ownunderstanding o how to cultivate character and how totake these tribulations that all o us meet in our lives asopportunities to improve. Practitioners ind that as they cultivate, they arerequently gaining new understandings o how to liveaccording to ruthulness, Compassion and Forbearance.Perhaps in the beginning o cultivation, a practitioner mightrespond one way when insulted, but aer cultivating or awhile and gaining a better understanding o the principles,

he might treat the same situation quite dierently. Another aspect o cultivating character that is requentlymentioned in this book involves "letting go o attachments."It is important to note that this is not the same concept asstriving to become detached rom lie or one's problems. Onthe contrary, it's a process o acing up to one's shortcomingsand lie's diculties and rising above them. In the contexto cultivation practice, "letting go o attachments" reers

to gradually giving up notions, behaviors, and thoughtpatterns that prevent a person rom ully assimilating toruthulness, Compassion, and Forbearance. Te relationship between mental and physical health isextremely important. By cultivating character, practitionersare also directly and positively aecting their physicalhealth. Tis is thought to be one reason why the practice oFalun Daa has such outstanding results in healing illnesses.

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Scientifc Findings

he precise way in which the practice o Falun Daaworks to heal illness is not ully understood by modernscience, but its eects can be measured through scientiicstudy. A Chinese government census taken in 1998 indicated

that 70 to 100 million people were practicing Falun Daa inChina alone. Tis made Falun Daa by ar the most popularqigong practice in Chinas history. Many practitionerstestiied rom their personal experience that Falun Daahad powerul healing properties. In 1998, the irst majorhealth survey was conducted on Falun Daa practitioners inBeijing. According to the survey, out o 12,731 participants, 93.4%

initially had conditions o illness and 49.8% had sueredrom at least three diseases beore they began practicingFalun Daa. hrough learning and practicing Falun Daa,the practitioners health improved to varying degrees,with 58.5% reporting complete recovery. Comparingpractitioners health beore and aer practicing Falun Daa,80.3% o the participants reported improvements. Among

these people, the percentage o people reporting that theyelt very energetic increased rom 3.5 beore practicing to55.3 aer practicing. Tese numbers demonstrate that FalunDaa is remarkably eective in curing illness, increasingenergy, and improving ones overall sense o well-being.Being healthy includes having both a healthy body and ahealthy mind. Te survey demonstrated that 12,287 people,or 96.5% o the participants, elt healthier psychologically

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Te Beijing survey indicated that the number o peoplepracticing Falun Daa increased every year, with the growthrate also becoming more rapid. he act that Falun Daaattracted such a great number o practitioners in such ashort time provides urther evidence that Falun Daa isindeed eective in healing illness and improving health. According to the survey, Falun Daa practitioners

saved 3,270 yuan in medical expenses per person per yearor the nation. Multiplying this igure by the millions opeople practicing, one can easily see that Falun Daa savedChina a tremendous amount o money in medical costsand resources. his is one o the reasons why Falun Daahas been widely regarded as being beneicial, not just orindividuals, but also or society as a whole. A survey was also conducted in aiwan. Out o 1,182

participants, 72% o Falun Daa practitioners used only onehealth insurance card, which allows the recipient 6 visitsto health care providers, per year, a reduction in usage oalmost 50% compared to the general population. Te reportalso pointed out that Falun Daa has a remarkable eecton eliminating unhealthy habits and addictions. Te studyshowed an 81% success rate or quitting smoking, 77% or

abstaining rom alcohol, and 85% or quitting gambling.o learn more about Falun Daa's proound healingpowers, please read Life and Hope Renewed--he HealingPower of Falun Dafa.

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he Persecution in China: Ruin their reputations,bankrupt them fnancially, and destroy them physically.

Because o the great beneits oered by the practiceo Falun Daa, it quickly became the most popular ormo qigong in China, with the number o practitionersexceeding the total membership o the Communist Party.

Its immense popularity drew the attention o Jiang Zemin,then Chairman, Communist Party General Secretary, andHead o the Military Commission in China. As the powerulhead o the Communist Party, which has stamped out anydiversity o thought since its inception, Jiang and others inthe Party leadership ordered the police to curtail Falun Daaactivities and the state-run media to reverse course andpublish deamatory stories about Falun Daa.

In response to a set o such articles, a group opractitioners went to the magazine agency in the city oianjin to clariy some acts about Falun Daa, hopingto resolve any misunderstandings that may have takenplace. o their surprise, their peaceul discussions wereinterrupted when over 300 riot police descended uponthem, physically assaulting them and arresting 45 o

them. When questioned, the ianjin authorities directedthe practitioners to take their appeal to Beijing, statingthat the arrests were made at the directive o the CentralGovernment.

On April 25, 1999, about 10,000 Falun Daa practitionerswent to the State Council s Appeals Bureau nearZhongnanhai to lodge an appeal. Ten-Premier Zhu Rongjimet with these practitioners and at the end o the day

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are revealed, the actual gure will almost certainly be shownto be much higher. Outside o China, Falun Daa has fourished throughoutthe rest o the world. Te practice has spread to more than70 countries, receiving more than 1100 awards and otherorms o recognition rom local governments and civicorganizations. In the meantime, in spite o the brutality that

the practitioners in China have been subjected to, therehas not been a single case o retaliation or violence on thepart o the practitioners. he last seven years stand as apowerul testament to the universal appeal o ruthulness,Compassion, Forbearance and the irm resolve o thepeople that live according to these principles


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The Enormous Power of Dafa

companies on how to manage their employees. Beorepracticing Falun Gong I was determined to reach the top omy company as quickly as possible. When I did not receivea promotion that I was expecting I would become veryupset. Since practicing Falun Gong I have not retted aboutpromotions at all. I try to do the best or my clients andreally listen to what they want to achieve, without worrying

about the prot that I will make on the project. I someoneelse can help the client more than I can, I will tell the clientto work with that person rather than try to get the projector mysel. In act I price my projects very reasonably nowbecause I do not want to treat any client unairly. In the lasttwo years I have been promoted twice and I am selling ourtimes as much business or my company than I did beore. Iam sure this would not have happened i I had not practiced

Falun Gong.Also at work, Falun Gong has helped me to cope with

the stress in my job. In my work, a mistake can cost mycompany many hundreds o thousands o pounds. Beore Ibegan practicing Falun Gong there were several occasionswhen I would not be able to sleep at night because I wouldworry about my work. Since I have been practicing Falun

Gong I have slept very soundly even though the pressurein my job has increased. his is because I no longer havean unhealthy attachment to my job or my position in thecompany. I always try to do the best that I can. I I make amistake, I correct it as quickly as possible and carry on. Inever try to hide my mistakes anymore.

In my home lie I have also changed. Beore practicingFalun Gong I was attached to having the best o everything.

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Tanks o Falun Gong, I Have Become

Much More Considerate o OthersAnd I

Look Younger, oo!

By a practitioner in aiwan

Ever since I was a child, I have been very outgoing and

active. My amily nicknamed me "wild horse." I enjoyedsports and won many awards while representing myelementary and secondary schools in open tournaments.However, academically I ell ar short. Nonetheless, the highmarks I achieved by playing sports compensated or mypoor perormance in other subjects.

In order to relieve the inancial situation at home, Iollowed the ootsteps o my three brothers and took a

part-time job while attending school. I worked during thedaytime and studied in the evening at a technical school.My ather died o cancer. At the time, I was not yet a legaladult. raumatized and saddened by his death, I began toengage in quite a ew unhealthy activities, such as gambling,drinking, ighting, reckless driving, gossiping, along withwasting my time thinking about horrible things.

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I Have Become Much More Considerate of OthersAnd I Look Younger, Too!

thinking at that time, sweating was a means o proving thatI was still alive. I also participated in various tournamentsand won many awards and prizes. I was exposed to manytemptations and became absorbed in pursuing personalame and gain. I gradually lost mysel in it all. I spent allmy time and energy attempting to climb to the top in mycareer. As a result, my amily began to ind it diicult to

understand me. Te trust between my riends and me wasgone, and my health deteriorated as I pushed mysel to thelimit physically.

One day, an older riend o mine gave me a popularnewspaper that contained some very positive and inspiringstories. ears began to stream down my ace as I wasreading it on my way home in the subway. I read storiesabout being kind and learned many new things. One article

I read was discussing Falun Gong practitioners beingpersecuted in China. Since I wished to know more, a ewdays later I began to read Zhuan Falun.

I joined a practice site in my neighborhood ater Inished reading Zhuan Falun or the rst time. Aerwards,something miraculous happened. I had never won anyscholarships in my lie, but aer beginning to practice Falun

Gong, I was awarded scholarships in three consecutiveschool terms! I realized that doing well in my studieswas a result o the increased ocus I had developed rompracticing Falun Gong.

Ater a year o practicing Falun Gong, my brother'swie commented that I had changed immensely. She wenton to say that I had become more down-to-earth and thatI no longer ocused on supericial things. My sister had

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people and was always taking the initiative to help others.Moreover, my colleagues were amazed at how I had madesuch positive changes within such a short period o time.Tey said they admired my new commitment and devotionto work. In addition, my team members also observed that Iwas no longer the aggressive person I used to be. Tey alsomentioned seeing other positive changes in me.

Lately, I have heard people comment on my youthulappearance. I could not help but recall an incident when Iwas in high school. One day, I went out with a riend. Wesaw his riend coming up to us, and she said to my riend,"Hi. So you are hanging out with your aunt?" I was totallyshocked by what I heard and did not know whether tolaugh or cry. I know that I owe the change in my appearanceto Falun Gong. I know that it is a practice o mind and

body, and that many practitioners experience signiicantimprovement in their complexion, where it becomes airand rosy. his occurs even with the elderly. I you areinterested in Falun Gong too, you can read Zhuan Falunand you will nd the answers you seek.


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important. As a child, I learned to compete or grades bythe time I was in high school. At the same time, I had senseenough to be embarrassed by my own need to be the best.o compensate, I became not only good in school, but alsogood at analyzing my own aults (and others) and good atseeming like a wonderul person. I was very cheerul andhelpul. I had a very altruistic point o view. By the time I

was in graduate school, I had convinced many people o mygoodness and certainly had convinced mysel.For this reason, practicing cultivation was hard or me. I

was complacent with my lie. I had always been treated wellby others. Although my graduate studies added tremendousstress to my lie, I was learning and intellectually stimulated.Although my husband and I worried about money, still hehad a job and my stipend added a little to that, so that we

always managed to pay the rent, eat and take care o ourbills. I had many riends with whom I could indulge ingossip and good times. My lie was good.

Aer nishing my comprehensive exams, my husbandand I moved to Kansas City, where he ound a better payingand more challenging job. I settled down to part-time workand to writing my dissertation. My contact with riends

diminished, and the stimulating challenge o new projectsand ideas did too. I still had a very optimistic attitude aboutlie and progress because I considered the time in KansasCity as a stop-over on the way to something either moreexciting or more amiliar. At the same time, I began toreassess my progress as a cultivator.

Master Li gives us so much help that, aer listening tothe lectures or the rst time, I elt like a dierent person.

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problems may occur when the products are tested. Tis inturn might bring the company a big loss.

For a certain period o time, I made mistakes very oen.Something always went wrong, even in an absurd manner.Sometimes, although I obviously ollowed the proceduresvery well and even got the green light rom my colleagues,the results were still rustrating. Not surprisingly, I received

a lot o harsh comments rom the lab supervisor, whichmade me very sad. I thought to mysel, I'm trying to domy best. Is there anything wrong with that? o makeit worse, one o my colleagues always reported to thesupervisor upon spotting even the tiniest mistake o mine.Te supervisor would then get impatient immediately andshout, You can't make mistakes all the time. Otherwise, Ican't keep you here anymore. Ten I would get angry too

and think, All human beings make mistakes. Do you thinkI made them intentionally? At those times, my mind wouldbe occupied by one idea, Fire me, then. I worst comes toworst, I will go home. Tat's it. I'm ed up with this kind olie.

Tis situation continued or a long time, until one day Imade an error just as the supervisor happened to pass by.

He asked me what happened. I told him I made anothermistake and expected him to explode with complaints. omy surprise, he went away without saying anything. All oa sudden, I elt awakened rom a dream. So many days oreprimands and arguments all came out o one attachment:Every time a mistake occurred, I had always remainedsilent and tried to cover it up. When someone came toinquire, I said that everything was xed and ne. I always

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practitioner should be.Ater thinking about it, I understood why. In the irst

place, it was because I had adopted a biased attitude towardothers. I looked at them as selsh, rough and unorganizedin their work. I always had perceived things around mestrictly rom my own point o view. When others did not tmy perceptions, I elt uncomortable with them. Why had

I become so angry? It was because they disturbed my workand created trouble or me. Every bit o my thinking hadbeen about mysel only. Was that not selsh? I he had beenmaking trouble or others, disturbing other peoples work, Iwould not have become angry.

In every matter we must be considerate o others! AerI started adopting such an attitude, I no longer elt annoyedby my co-workers. On the contrary, I started to eel

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yoursel and determine what you still have not let go."(Zhuan Falun) I realized rom this that I would have to giveup much more than just the supercial things i I wanted tobe a true practitioner and truly advance. It wasn't just myactions and habits that needed to be changed and/or givenup, it was what was inside, my heart and my mind, thatneeded to change. Without doing so, my character would

not be able to upgrade, and my cultivation would be in vain.he time between then and now has been like a rollercoaster ride. I would make progress, then all back down,and make progress again, and all again. But because othose ups and downs, I have been able to learn a lot. Inact, this is just the cultivation process. For instance, in thebeginning o my cultivation, every time I would understandsomething new in Zhuan Falun or my exercise time would

increase, I would become excited and think, "Wow, I ammaking good progress," or "Wow, I am doing really great."I would then, without realizing it, become complacent, andas a result, would all back down. For quite a while this washappening, then I realized that it was just because o myattachment o complacency that I would all back down aermaking a little progress. Once I gave up this attachment, I

ound that aer making a little progress, I was able to keepmaking more progress. Sometimes though, I eel myselgetting lazy, so I try to read the book every day and practicewhen I can. Now, when my practice time increases, I thinkto mysel, "I should endure longer next time."

Recently, I went through a tough ordeal in mycultivation. Over the course o several days, my mindbecame more and more unclear, and the warm eeling

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them what they are doing is wrong, that there is so muchmore to everything than what they think. But because I ama practitioner, I know it is not my place to get involved intheir troubles. I think the desire to get involved is actuallytied in with the attachment o showing o. I know eelingcompassion brings about such a sadness or people, buteeling compassion does not mean that I should get involved

in their business. I I really want to help them, I should tellthem about Zhuan Falun.Recently, quiet a ew people at my school have become

interested in learning about Falun Daa, and I have givenaway several books. I think it is really great that they areinterested in it, and I smile rom ear to ear when I thinkabout the benets they will get rom it. o promote FalunDaa is just such a good thing, and I think I need to take a

step up in this aspect. In the time to come, I am going to tryand get a reading group and practice site started, and try toget Zhuan Falun into bookstores in my area.

Sometimes I eel overwhelmed and eel that thecultivation ahead o me is just too dicult and complicated.I try and shut these thoughts out o my mind as soon as theycrop up because I know that they are just my attachments

and karma interering with me. hey don't want to beeliminated, so they resist against my cultivation. I mustbe irm in mind and determined to make it, and let mycultivated side prevail over my uncultivated side, as well asaccept hardships to eliminate my karma. Te more I do this,the less dicult my cultivation will be. When encounteringa problem, I must remember that overcoming it is truly notthat diicult, and it's just the alse ideas and notions that

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and material interests were ully displayed to me. Troughlooking inward, my anger cooled. Not long aterwards, Inally got a position at a nancial rm in Boston.

Master Li said: As a human being, you are a goodperson only i you can ollow this universes characteristicoZhen-Shan-Ren. (Zhuan Falun) Master Li also said: As apractitioner, i you assimilate yoursel to this characteristic

you are one that has attained the aoits just such asimple principle. (Zhuan Falun). Ater considering thethree aspects, Zhen, Shan, Ren (ruthulness, Compassion,Forbearance), I ound that I was the worst at Forbearance.I had to work on Forbearance. But even then I didnt thinkcareully about why I could not orbear. I thought at thetime that i someone hit me or cursed me I would probablybe able to orbear because I had learned rom reading the

teachings that I had to orbear it. I also thought though thatI may not be able to truly remain unmoved in my heart.I thought that I should improve step by step. Since mycharacter did not improve, whenever a tribulation came, Iwould not be able to orbear. o save ace, I would alwaysgrumble and talk back. It was only aer the tribulation thatI realized that I should have orborne. he reason why I

couldnt stay unmoved in my heart was that I didnt improvemy character and dig down to the undamental reasonwhy I could not orbear. Ater two years o cultivation Igradually realized that the reason I could not orbear wasthat I was still attached to ame and personal gain. WhenI encountered a tribulation I never looked inward but Ialways looked externally or reasons, trying to give myselsome evidence that I was right. hat was why I had to

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Growing with the Fa

By a practitioner in Ireland

Women o all ages have a reputation or oten lookingin the mirror to see how they look, i their hair is right or itheir clothes are right. Men do this too, but seldom admit to

it. How we think and eel about others does not show in themirror. Neither does it show i we are good or bad. It onlyrefects what we look like on the surace and how we appearto others.

Since becoming a Falun Gong practitioner, I have learnedto look inward. he Fa is a great mirror or showing howI look on the inside. I can't hide any attachments, aults,

anger, jealousy, unkindness or lack o compassion rom theFa. I I haven't taken the trouble to be nice to someone, justbecause I eel a bit tired, the Fa lets me know. I at any timeI dont think or act as a cultivator, the Fa lets me know. TeFa has become the guiding orce or who I am and I eelthat I am surrounded by it. I I have a thought to take a dayo work because I eel tired, I remember Master Li's wordssaying that we "must do everything well.

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Stories o Young Beibei rom China

By a practitioner in China

In May 1997, Beibei started to practice Falun Daa alongwith his mother. At the time he was 9 years old. Daa is nowdeeply rooted in his heart. he ollowing are some o thestories rom his practice.

One day in September 1997, Beibei accidentally bumpedinto a classmate who was holding a cup o steaming hotwater. he water was spilled and scalded the classmate'shand. Angrily the classmate poured the remaining wateronto Beibei's chest, causing bad burns that blisteredimmediately. Despite the injustice, Beibei kept silent anddidn't blame the boy. Other classmates were scared by theinjury and called the teacher. he teacher inormed the

other student's parents, and together they went to Beibei'shome.

Beibei's mother asked about what happened, but shemainly consoled the teacher and the classmate's parentswithout blaming them. Beibei said to his mother, "I eelbad about bringing so much trouble to the teacher..."Hearing this, the other student's parents and the teacher

were too moved to say anything. "We were prepared to aceanger," said the other student's parents, "but now we eel so

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ashamed."Tat night, when Beibei lay down to sleep aer nishing

his homework, his mother asked him, "Do the burns hurt?""No," answered Beibei. o a cultivator, one thought is oenthe dierence between a good or bad outcome. he nextmorning, the blisters had disappeared, and the skin lookednormal. Ater that, the trouble-making student was no

longer as badly behaved as beore.In 1999, Beibei was attending his second semester omiddle school. He ranked among the top ve in the middleschool entrance exam.

One month ater the beginning o the new semester,Beibei's mother went to appeal on behal o Falun Gong inBeijing. Aterwards, Beibei and his ather also appealed.Tey were arrested, and the three amily members were sent

back home on the same day. Beibei's ather was sent to alabor camp, while he and his mother were taken to the local610 Oce. Seeing the sad look on his mother's ace, Beibeiencouraged her by saying, "Mom, don't worry. I'll go toschool all the same, but you must not write any statementspromising to give up Falun Daa." his shocked everyonein the room. His mother was sent to a detention center. It is

hard to imagine that an 11-year-old child would be orcedto live alone.Although he had never been to his grandmother's house

beore, Beibei took the bus there alone and brought hisgrandmother back to his home. Arriving back in school,the principal and the teachers talked with him one by one,urging him to give up practicing Falun Daa. Beibei said,"I should not lie." Under pressure, his teacher said sternly,

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however, remained irm in his aith. At home, Beibei'sgrandmother and many other relatives anxiously tried topersuade him to write a ake promise to stop practicing,but Beibei irmly insisted that ollowing "ruthulness,Compassion and Forbearance" and striving to be a goodperson were not wrong. He reused to speak any lies againsthis conscience.

Over the last three years, the persecution o FalunDaa practitioners by the Chinese Communist regime hascontinued to escalate. Beibei has been orced to live withoutthe care o his parents and has borne tremendous hardship.On December 5, 2001, Beibei's mother was arrested againor distributing materials that expose the truth about thepersecution o Falun Gong. His ather was still in a laborcamp. Te police ocers brought his mother to their home,

ransacked it, and stole a computer and other materials.His mother was handcued as Beibei watched. hey sentBeibei's mother to a detention center, leaving Beibei withouthis parents once again.

Te neighbors all knew that Beibei's mother was a goodperson, so they helped to look ater Beibei while she wasbeing held in the detention center. Once, Beibei went to

visit his mother, and he comorted her by saying, "I amine, neither hungry nor cold." His mother relaxed a lotin her heart and became more determined in the jail. Sheearlessly and continually claried the truth to the criminalsand wardens, thus beneiting those people's uture. Aterconducting a hunger strike, his mother was nally releasedunconditionally on April 19, 2002. But the 610 Oice stillreused to leave her alone. en days ater her release, she

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at others' expense. Te only exceptions were the Falun Gongpractitioners. Tey never ought back when attacked, eitherphysically or verbally. hey cared or other people. heyplaced value on virtue and good deeds. Tey also clariedthe truth about Falun Gong, patiently advising the criminalinmates to become good people.

In the seven months I spent in prison, all the

practitioners I knew were the same way. Regardless otheir education level, they all demonstrated a high moralstandard. hey had a great capacity to tolerate dierencesin people, and they all were able to endure tremendoushardships. heir sincere manner and compassion weremost memorable. Ater spending time with Falun Gongpractitioners, I was amazed that I could meet such goodpeople in such a dark place. Under their great eacher's

guidance, they were practicing a wonderul cultivation. Isecretly admired them. Falun Gong practitioners are themost ortunate people in the world.

his experience taught me an important lesson. Iestablished an upright understanding o the world andound the true meaning o lie. I saw a light in the darknessand ound truth in that boundless sea o misery. I am

grateul to those who put me in prison, even though theirmotives were personal revenge. How else could I haveever met so many Falun Gong practitioners? Without thisexperience, I would have taken more wrong turns in lieand committed more bad deeds. his prison term or mewas a blessing in disguise. Why do I say this? Because I havelearned Falun Gong! I will tell my amily and riends aboutthe persecution. I will invite them to practice Falun Gong. I

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The Principles of Falun Dafa Helped Me Solve a Problem at Work

my deputy manager to request hal a day o leave, andhastily le beore she returned rom lunch.

When I returned to work the ollowing day, the deputymanager said to me, "According to your contract, youshould stay in the oice or 8 hours a day. According tocompany rules, you need to give two weeks notice beoretaking leave. Your behavior has violated your contract and

the company is very unhappy about it! Te company has nointerest in keeping such an employee." Our deputy manageris a strong woman at work. A ew months aer she joinedour company, our department manager resigned due toconlicts with her. She complained that the departmentmanager was not productive enough. Tereaer, I becamethe only worker in the department.

Prior to practicing Falun Daa, I was a hotheaded person.

Unortunately, I did not change much ater I practiced. Ihad always thought that the company should reward meor doing the work o two people on my own. I had alreadybeen considerate o the company in not taking the wholeday o. Furthermore, I had already inished my dutiesor the day. Why wasn't I allowed to take hal a day o?hereore, I told the deputy manager, "You should look

at the company records. I have inished in one day whatother employees take two days to do. My eciency shouldwin me some lexibility in work hours. What happenedyesterday was an exceptional case, so why should you takeit so seriously?" She said, "Aer you nish your own work,you could help others with their work. While you are atwork, all your time must be devoted to work-related duties;otherwise you have breached your contract." Since she

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while I was talking about eiciency, it was impossible orus to come to an agreement. Because o this, I suggestedconsulting the manager.

he next morning, the manager said to me that as arapidly growing company, it was necessary to have strictrequirements or management purposes. Every employeeneeded to abide by certain rules. O course, on the other

hand, the company is very respectul o employees' interestsand habits. ake Falun Gong, or example: He said, hecompany is very supportive o Falun Gong, yet it is not rightor you to violate the company rules so oen. I asked i thecompany could list my violations o punctuality. "You can't,I said. I have been in the company or over a year now,and all you can remember are just three or our exceptionalcases. Why do other people have lexible work hours,

whereas even when I have nished my duties, I am still notallowed to enjoy any fexibility in my hours?"

It elt as though we had reached an impasse, and I couldeel a strong ield between us that would not allow us tocome together.

I calmed down and took a ew deep breaths, whichallowed my mind to become more aware. I told mysel, I

am a practitioner, and Master Li has taught us to be goodemployees at work. What is wrong with me today? Iother people are trying to ind ault in me, there must besomething I have missed as a practitioner. We should lookinside under all circumstances; this is the undamentaldierence between a practitioner and an everyday person.All the employees in our company are actually supportiveo Daa, and no one complains i I browse the Clearwisdom

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accused me. What was the reason today?Master Li's words suddenly came into my mind. We

should consider others more under all circumstances. AsChinese practitioners living in the West, we should respectthe habits o Westerners and the way they like to deal withthings. For example, Chinese people would think it is nota big deal whether or not we hold the door or others;

everyone can open their own door when they need to. YetWesterners take this as a sign o good manners and respector others. I suddenly understood where the problem was:the deputy manager was angry because I did not inorm herearly enough beore I le work. I did not respect her in thissense. I acted rst and reported aerwards, which hurt herpride.

I apologized to her sincerely, and explained the dierent

customs and habits between the East and West. I alsopromised to ask or her permission beore doing somethinglike that in the uture. I also explained to her the purposeo our activities and that time is very urgent at this point. Istressed again that I had increased my eciency but I didnot expect any monetary returns; all I would like is to winsome spare time to do Daa work. Soon, I could eel an

obvious change in the atmosphere. he deputy manager'sattitude had soened a lot. At last the manager said to mewith a smile, "You won this time. Go and have your contractrewritten, to allow you some lexibility in your hours. Ibelieve you will do your work well."

Not only did I not expect the conlict to be resolvedso quickly, but I had also won the right to do Daa workopenly. Tinking back on this little story, I came to a clearer

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A Small Video Clip Changes a Lie

By a Chinese practitioner in the U.S.

I have been practicing Falun Daa or a year and a halnow.

Although I know the importance o clariying the truthto Chinese people who have been deceived by the Chinese

Communist Party, especially those who are rom MainlandChina, I oten get unriendly reactions and words romthem that make me reluctant to try harder, and I otenthink, "I've tried my best."

hen my mother came to visit me rom China a ewmonths ago, and I had no choice but to ace this bigchallenge. She was upset when she learned that I practiceFalun Daa and didn't want to hear any o the truth rom

me. Each time we ended our discussions, it was in a ght. Iwas worried or her, but my character was not yet improvedenough to talk to her in a peaceul and intelligent manner.Whenever she quoted something rom the evil propaganda,I got emotional. I gave up on her quickly and didn't want totry anymore.

But then, one day, I had to make some video copies

or a ellow practitioner. It took me a while to set up theequipment. When I was inished, I started recording. Just

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upon them by the Chinese Communist Party. It's all up to usto make the eort to clear it away and reveal the goodnessin them.

here are millions o people in China just like mymother. Recently my mother said to me, "Te poor peoplein China know nothing but lies." Her words gave me greatcondence and courage to try harder in clariying the truth

to Chinese people. I no longer eel reluctant to speak aboutthe truth o Falun Daa. When I speak, my mother speaksthe truth with me by telling her own story. Looking at thechange in my mother, I can't stop thinking, "Daa's power isso boundless!"


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Rising rom the Depths

By a Chinese American practitioner in the U.S.

I am a 26-year-old man, and I want to talk about myexperiences ater I began practicing Falun Daa. I was atypical young Chinese American rom Caliornia. My wholeamily immigrated to the United States in 1989 rom the

southern part o China. Ater I arrived here, I graduallychanged into someone that wasn't recognizable as me atall. For example, I took up smoking, drinking, and goingto nightclubs. I even got involved with a group o gangstersin Chinatown. Fortunately I did not commit any crimesinvolving ighting or shooting, although I used some akecredit cards to buy expensive things and stole change romparking meters.

In 1997 or 1998 when I was doing nothing, I wentto the library one day and spotted a golden book calledZhuan Falun. I was interested because I had heard aboutit beore, even though I didn't remember rom where, soI checked the book out along with the exercise video. Atrst I thought it would be a really complicated book, but itwas not. Instead, it used the most common language, yet

contained the most proound explanations o the universe.I was really amazed and ull o wonder at the book. I started

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away, it was all over or me, so I decided to put an end tothis once and or all. I went online to the Clearwisdom.netwebsite. Aer reading some o the new articles rom MasterLi and some rom the students, I realized how selish andhow bad I was. I swore to mysel I would start over again.

Since then, I read all the articles on the Clearwisdomwebsite every day, do two hours o practice at night, and

go to bed reading Zhuan Falun beore I all asleep. It wasnot easy the rst day I started again, especially when I wasdoing the second exercise. Maybe I had been too lazy in thepast, but sweat dripped rom my orehead to my chin, asi my hands were liing thousands o pounds. In my mindI kept telling mysel to stop and leap onto the comy bed,but visions appeared o the students in Mainland Chinapracticing every day, even in jails, with the prisoners and

the police beating them up but did they quit? No! hewords rom the books o Master Li also appeared, tellingme that practice is hard, and i I could not even endurethese little hardships, how could I practice cultivation? Whowas I kidding? hus, I didn't stop my practice. I ollowedthe Falun Daa music and inished the whole two hours.It's been about a month since the day I decided to start

practicing cultivation. During this time, the urge to smokecigarettes and marijuana cropped up a couple o times, butI kept reading the articles rom Clearwisdom and ZhuanFalun.

Another thing happened two days ater I decided tostart practicing cultivation again. My best riend called meto go out and smoke marijuana like we usually did. I wentwith him, but ater we smoked, I was very regretul that

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A een-ager Experiences Many Benets

rom Practicing Falun Daa

By a 14-year-old Chinese-American student in the U.S.

I am ourteen years old and going into the ninth gradethis year.

My parents started practicing Falun Daa in February o

1999. At that time, I didn't really pay attention to what theywere doing. I just saw that they were doing a very gentle,slow-moving exercise every day. However, aer just a coupleo weeks, I couldn't avoid noticing the changes in my amily.My mom used to have problems sleeping at night, usuallynot alling asleep easily. But I noticed that she startedsleeping very well, and looked energetic. My dad seemed tobe not getting angry or raising his voice at me easily. Withthese incredible things happening around me, I couldn'thelp mimicking the movements o their exercises to seewhat would happen to me. Aer doing the movements or alittle while, my body became really warm and the exerciseselt very soothing. My hands were especially warm. I didn'tknow how this slow-moving exercise got my whole bodywarm so easily, because when I run and jump while playing

basketball, I still can rarely get warm at all. It was amazing.

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parents oten encouraged me with what Master Li said inZhuan Falun, "When it's dicult to endure, you can endureit. When it's impossible to do, you can do it." So I ollowedthese words and just kept reading. I read just about everyday now, and I can read the whole book in Chinese slowlywithout too many mistakes.

Falun Gong has also improved my character. eacher has

said, You should always be benevolent and kind to others,and consider others when doing anything. (Zhuan Falun) .I have tried to be kind to my classmates, never getting intoights or arguments like I used to. For example, one time,my riend accidentally spilled soda on my binder and gotall the papers wet. Beore studying Falun Gong, I wouldhave been really mad. Instead, I held it in this time. I justthought that he did not spill the soda on purpose, and there

was not really any reason to get mad at him. So my riendsaid he was sorry and he helped me clean it up. I am happythat I didn't get angry with him. Otherwise, he would havegotten angry with me too, and there would have been a bigargument.

In July o 1999, probably because they thought therewere too many people practicing Falun Daa, the Chinese

Communist regime banned it. From then on, just becauseDaa practitioners persisted in practicing Falun Daa,many o them were sent to labor camps, prisons, and evenmental hospitals [as a way to discredit and persecute them].Tousands and thousands o Falun Daa practitioners havebeen brutally persecuted, and many tortured to death.I really don't understand why the Chinese CommunistParty would persecute good people, and why they would

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was really shocked because everything was or ree: theteachings, the books, the videos, and the music. I honestlycould not believe it and thought that it was a trick tomake money. However, reading hundreds o practitioners'experiences, little by little, I became convinced that FalunDaa must be something really worthwhile. What I wasinterested in was not the act that as a practitioner, I

could have some particular powers, but the act o puttingthe three principles o "ruthulness, Compassion andForbearance" to work in my daily lie. From this I believedI would become a better person and improve the quality olie or both mysel and the people around me.

From then on I started putting into practice the irstprinciple, ruthulness, in the sense that I did not want tolie any more. I thought it would be easy, but it wasn't at all.

I used to tell lies to mysel and to others; now I graduallybecame aware o them. I am learning to tell the truth. Inoticed that by just applying these principles in my lie, Ihave more energy. I think that all the energy I previouslyused to construct the castles o my lies can be saved, and Ieel the joy o liberating this energy.

I understand the second principle, Compassion, as being

kind to the people I see every day in my amily, at work, onthe bus, etc. I think I was always a kind person, but now it isdierent: I think that we are, as human beings, one entitykind to ourselves when we are kind to others. I hope thatthis thought is not too selsh.

I notice that behaving in this waynot lying, being kind,being tolerant and having patience, trying to behave in anoble way, my lie has become more beautiul and ull o

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Walking an Upright Path and Starting

a New Lie


I am a 24-year-old man who once lost his way. I waslucky to learn about Falun Daa when I was released rom

the orced labor camp last May. I was awakened, convinced,and determined to cultivate mysel ollowing the guidanceo Falun Daa. It has been over ve months now and I havechanged into a completely dierent person and ound myway again.

I remember at the labor camp, despite the hard work thatwas imposed on me, my heart remained wild, even though

I agreed to be a dierent person when released. I thoughtI would not take part in any illegal activities anymore,but, rather, devote mysel to making more money andcompensating or my lost youth. My brain was ull o ideason how to make a ortune.

But my heart was in great pain aer I read Master Li'sbooks on Falun Daa. I regretted all the bad things I didand all the karma that I added to mysel daily. I realized

that I was going against the undamental principles o the

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dirty. Te ground was burning hot and my eet blistered, butI did not complain. I thought, I am a practitioner o FalunDaa, and this is something I ought to do. I also helpedpeople rom other buildings move. I swam out to buy oodand drinks or everybody. Actions speak louder than words.Everybody complemented me and smiled.

O course, making people treat me nicely was not my

intention. Cultivation in Falun Daa, however, has generatedthis positive eect. I would not have acted this way i it werenot or Falun Daa. Indeed I have changed. My characterhas improved. I am more determined to cultivate. Nomatter what obstacles I encounter in the uture, I will useFalun Daa as my mirror and teacher to discipline myseland upgrade my entire being. I will reach the criteria o atrue Falun Daa practitioner, be a good person, and make

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Why I Chose to Practice Falun Daa:

he Experience o a Doctor o Western and

Chinese Medicine and Former Researcher o

Qigong and Acupuncture

By a Chinese practitioner in Japan

I obtained my bachelor's degree rom Chinas WesternMedical Science University and my master's degree romthe Chinese Medical Science Research Institute. I have amaster's degree in Qigong and Acupuncture certiied bythe State Education Commission o China, and have servedas the Deputy Chairman o the Heilongjiang Provincial

Qigong Science Research Society and counselor to theLiaoning Provincial Qigong Science Research Society. I wasalso nominated and recommended by Mr. Zhang Zhenhuan,ormerly Director o China National Deense Science andIndustry Commission and now Chairman o the ChinaQigong Science Research Society and China Human BodyScience Society, as academic counselor o therapeuticQigong. Since 1985, I have had many opportunities to give

lectures in European and American cities by invitation.

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Fish Pond in Zhongshan Park in Beijing, I heard pleasantmusic and became curious about the source. I saw dozenso people practicing a qigong system that I had never seenbeore.

Ater the practice inished, I had a conversation withthe practitioners. Tey told me that the practice was calledFalun Gong and the teacher was Mr. Li Hongzhi. Tey also

mentioned that Falun Gong was a cultivation practice andMaster Li not only taught the practice, but also lectured onthe Fa (law and principles), which guide spiritual cultivationat a high level. I thought to mysel: this might be theadvanced cultivation Daa (Great Way) I have been seekingor years. hen, I started learning Falun Gong in the parkevery morning. Upon hearing that Master Li was going togive another series o lectures in Beijing, I asked the contact

person o that practice site to enter my name too.August 27, 1993 was a day most worthy o celebration

in my lie. On that day I became a practitioner at the 13thFalun Gong lecture series in Beijing.

During that period, every evening I went to attend thelectures given by Master Li at the No.27 Beijing LocomotiveFactory way outside the city proper. Returning home aer

the 3rd lecture, I practiced the ith set o exercises or 30minutes and elt light and comortable all over my body,with no numbness or pain when doing the cross-leggedmeditation. Tat was the rst time I physically experiencedthe great power o Falun Daa. Beore I attended thelectures, when I practiced lotus sitting or up to 30 minutes,I would eel swelling pains. In the past, I had been involvedin human body supernormal capability research conducted

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"ruthulness, Compassion, Forbearance,"

Even While Driving a Car

By a European practitioner

I climbed into my car. My rear window was adorned withthe words: "ruthulness, Compassion, Forbearance." I was ina hurry, so I stepped on the gas pedal harder. I overtook a taxi

and another vehicle, not even realizing that I was driving inan erratic manner. When I stopped at a trac light, anothercar approached slowly, pulled up beside me and stopped. Tedriver rolled down his window and said to me, "It would begreat i you would drive according to the words on the stickerin your rear window."

his made me realize what a huge responsibility it is to

drive through a city with those three words on my car, tolive each second according to those three words. I must notignore them when I sit behind the wheel.

I thanked the driver and promised to mend my ways.Since then I have been driving more careully and

obeying all the trac rules. I have to live with "ruthulness,Compassion, Forbearance," not only when I am behind thewheel, but also when speaking and in my other daily routines.

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things. Ater inishing reading Zhuan Falun, I understoodthat laws and policies in human society could only changesomeone on the surace, and that only a higher law couldchange someone's heart and make one become genuinelygood. I was really lucky to be able to learn Falun Daa inprison. I decided to be a good person rom then on.

Later, I was sent to a labor camp in Jinzhou City. I

was worried very much that I might not be able to meetother practitioners because I still wanted to ask themmany questions. Surprisingly, however, I met many otherpractitioners there! I suddenly realized that Falun Daawould shed light into every corner o the world.

When my amily members came to visit me, they becamevery angry aer they learned that I had started to practiceFalun Gong. hey said, "How come you learned Falun

Gong here? Right now the whole country is attacking FalunGong!" I told them, "You do not understand the truth. FalunGong is not like what is said on V and in the newspapers.Falun Gong teaches people to become good people andis wonderul." However, they didn't want to listen to me.Tey even threatened that they would not visit me again i Icontinued to practice Falun Gong. I started shedding tears

on the spot. However, I realized immediately that it wasa test or me. I would become a good person by learningFalun Gong and in the uture my amily members wouldthen know that Falun Gong is indeed good.

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Anesthetist Reuses to Accept Extra Income

and Kickbacks aer Practicing Falun Gong


In Mainland China, i you go to the hospital or anoperation, there are usually two people to whom you mustgive extra money in red envelopes. One is the surgeon who

will perorm the operation, and the other is the anesthetist.Its not clear when this practice began, but quite oten themoney in the red envelopes is their main source o income.hough the amount o money in the red envelope variesrom person to person, according to my younger sisterwho works as an anesthetist in the hospital, an ordinaryanesthetist like her would receive between seven or eight

thousand to ten thousand yuan per month [500 yuan isthe average monthly salary or an urban worker in China].In contrast, a doctor's monthly salary is about one to twothousandyuan. Another source o extra income is kickbacksrom drug companies or prescribing expensive medicine.Tough it cannot be compared to the amount o money inred envelopes, it is also quite sizable.

Aer practicing Falun Gong, my younger sister, who is

an anesthetist working in a hospital, stopped taking the red


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Immediately, she continued to talk in a fow o eloquence.She said she inally understood the meaning o lie,understood why human beings were living in this world,and also understood the value o lie. She said she did noteel conused any more. Ater a period o time, she toldme over the phone that ever since she cultivated Daa, sheelt a completely new sense o enrichment and tranquility

in her soul. She did not eel anxious, empty, or depressedany more. She also elt that she received a new strength oractively moving ahead in lie, and had ound a new meaningto her lie.

Later on, all kinds o propaganda attacking Daa cameout, becoming more and more irresponsible, slanderous anddeceptive. China was a truly terriying environment. Facingall o this, I was put in a state o conusion. Every day, my

mind was ull o thoughts about current events, and I didnot have the presence o mind to see how she was doing.For a long period o time, she also had similar problems.Occasionally, she called to tell me about how she elt. Ilearned that she did not have a very good state o mind.She did not study the Falun Gong teachings or a longperiod o time, and neither did she practice the exercises.

She was agonized and could not understand why such agood practice would be subjected to deamation and attack!She could not believe how the CCP leader, Jiang Zemin, inorder to persecute a group o good people, could disregardthe acts and make up all kinds o lies to deceive the people.She started to jog early in the morning. However, everymorning, she heard people talking about Falun Gong in thepark. Some elderly ladies sighed, looking at the garbage on

the ground: "When the Falun Gong practitioners practiced


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Conicts Lasting Decades Are Resolved after Family Practices Falun Dafa

peaceulness and their devotion to their belie, I wasempathic towards Falun Gong over its being persecutedby the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) or no rationalreason. Finally I really wanted to understand what kind obelie made these practitioners so persistent and why theCCP was trying everything to persecute these kind people.Just then, I remembered the Daa website listed on the

lyers. I visited http://www.alundaa.org and downloadedthe online version oZhuan Falun. I was deeply drawn bythe wonders o the book ater reading just a ew pages. Ielt I was on a spaceship traveling into space and exploringthe proound mysteries o the universe. All o a sudden myquestions about lie were answered. What is good and whatis evil all became clear. Black and white, truth and lies allbecame crystal clear.

Aer I was ortunate enough to become acquainted withDaa, I didn't immediately walk onto the cultivation path. Itwasn't easy or the whole amily to come to practice Daa.When I ound out Zhuan Falun was such a good book, Iurged my ather to read it, hoping it could help him, anhonest person with a bad temper. But my ather knew myintention, and he always tried to avoid it. Winter came in

no time. One day he insisted on going skating. I was a littleworried, but my mother and I didn't want to stop him sowe let him go. Unortunately, we got a phone call rom ahospital emergency room that my ather had broken hiship and needed immediate surgery. He was almost 60 yearsold. It was a big shock or the amily. My mother and I tookgood care o him, hoping he could recover quickly. But theconficts between my mother and ather persisted.

I was reading Zhuan Falun at the time. I understood


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coming down rom the top o my head and spreading allover my body. I elt wonderul. Later my ather went back toChina, and my mother and I became lazy about practicing.I knew we shouldn't be like that and wanted to get intouch with the local practitioners so we could have a goodcultivation environment to help improve ourselves. Forvarious reasons I never got a chance to do that. Just then, a

ellow practitioner we had never met called us. She calledto greet my ather. It turned out that my ather, who likesreading Te Epoch imes, withdrew rom the CCP or ourwhole amily ater he read the Nine Commentaries on theCommunist Party.

Later I realized that this ordinary phone call marked ahuge transition in our cultivation paths. he practitionerencouraged us to participate in the group Fa study. he

study site was very close to our house. At irst we justthought we'd try it out, but we have not stopped going thereever since that rst time. Every week we studied the Fa andshared our experiences with ellow practitioners. It becamean important part o our cultivation. With encouragementand help rom ellow practitioners I became very diligent incultivation. Since then, Daa has become part o our lives.

Our whole amily walked onto the cultivation path.Over the year and a hal since I began Daa practice, wehave experienced the greatness o Daa. I had never beenvery healthy, even when I was very young. I had chronictracheitis and perpetual allergic rhinitis. Ater I came tothe West, or the rst couple o years my chronic tracheitisdidn't bother me much, but the perpetual allergic rhinitisgave me quite a bit o trouble. Aer several years I was used

to having to breathe through my mouth, particularly aer I


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had gone into bankruptcy soon ater my wie let me. Mynew relationship with a woman had been raught withheartbreak and pain. I wasn't a very happy man. I knew theanswers lay inside mysel and I continued to search.

I awoke that morning saying I had to exercise and movemy body. I had to try to break this pattern o no energy andlow spirits in the morning and throughout my day. I slowly

awoke, got dressed, and walked down to the park close tomy house and began to walk briskly around the course. As Iwas walking, I glanced over to my le and saw some peopledoing what initially appeared to be a orm o ai Chi. AsI drew closer, I saw a young Chinese woman holding herhands over her head. She warmly smiled at me and said,"Would you like to join us?" I immediately said, Yes. Terewas just a knowingness that this was right.

I did the exercises and she helped me do the rst two setsthat I had missed. I really liked it, and she invited me backthe next day at 7:00 a.m. I said, OK. hat day I noticedthat I could really think clearly, and that I elt relaxed andat peace with the world. Tat night I slept really well. Well,all this sure got my attention, and I knew I would go backagain the next morning.

Sure enough, the alarm went o at 6:15 a.m. but I wasalready awake, ready to embrace the day and surely themorning. I was truly excited about going again to the parkto do those wonderul exercises. he volunteer assistantand the other practitioners began to lead us in the exercises.I should also mention that everybody was so warm andriendly, and their demeanor was very peaceul. We alldid the ive exercises, and I again elt wonderul during

and aer doing the exercises. I got up every day to do the


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My Wonderful Experiences in the Practice of Falun Dafa

exercises. I was invited to a nine-day seminar and eagerlyattended. I elt so relaxed listening to the Master's words. Ireally liked it and elt excited to learn more and do more othis practice called Falun Gong.

Last year my girlriend had given me a magazine articleabout the persecution o people in Mainland China whowere doing this. Both she and I got on the Falun Gong

website and downloaded inormational materials. I eltan attraction to Falun Gong even then. I called one o thelocal numbers and the gentleman said to please come at5:30 a.m. to a park that was ar away and do this or twohours. I thought I didn't want to do that. I just wasn'tready at that time. Now I was ready and it was wonderul.I am so grateul that I made the decision to begin aer theopportunity presented itsel. But honestly, it wasn't really

hard to decide. I just knew it was right and I really wantedto do it.

I got both the Falun Gong books and started reading, andI really liked what they had to say. Te material was excitingto read and my mind elt alive and stimulated. Doing FalunGong and studying Daa has really had a very prooundeect on my lie in a very positive way. Five simple exercises

and three very simple and basic principles guide my dailylie. ruthulness, Compassion, Forbearancevery simple,but very proound.

I am now much more at ease with some o the challengesI ace in my lie, both in my relationships and in my job. Inotice I am much more relaxed and accepting while dealingwith lie's daily struggles. I eel like I am at home nowand on the right path to truth. ruthulness, Compassion,

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Compassion and developing character are very attractiveto me and enhance my lie on a daily basis. I was alwaysattracted to things that talked about coming rom the heartand having compassion or all things.

When I began to practice the ve Falun Gong exercises,I immediately noticed that I was calmer and more relaxed.My overall mental outlook began to really change in a very

positive way. I eel that I have more clarity and mentalocus.Because Falun Gong is a very holistic practice that

improves and enhances ones mental, physical, andemotional well being, I can honestly report excellentchanges on both a physical and emotional level. Myemotional outlook is one o eeling much more relaxed andless stressed. I eel better physically, and my energy level

has increased. I am excited about embracing the day when Iawake, and I sleep much better. I eel more rested and alert.Physically, I eel that a lot o the stress that I normally carryin my body has been released. My neck and shoulders areless tense and I generally eel a lot more fexible and loose.

In general my lie is much more peaceul, and things thatused to cause me anxiety and worry just don't seem to have

such a strong eect on me now. When doing the exercises,it eels good to relax and quiet my mind and thoughts. Iam very happy to be meeting new people and practitionersevery week. Every practitioner I have met is a person ostrong moral character and is thoughtul and considerateo everyone he or she comes into contact with. I have eltvery welcomed by all that I have met. I have always beengreeted with a warm smile and encouragement to continue

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My Wonderful Experiences in the Practice of Falun Dafa

Mr. Li Hongzhi, the ounder and teacher o Falun Gong,has had a very signiicant impact on a worldwide level,including on a growing number o practitioners here inthe United States, in improving how people relate to eachother and live together. Te improvement o character andintegrity, the development o compassion and considerationor others, and the values o honesty and truthulness are

very sound principles or us all to incorporate into ourpersonal and proessional lives.Why are more and more people attracted to the

practice o Falun Gong? Why was I attracted to it? For allo the reasons that I have mentioned above. Physically,emotionally, and intellectually, I have directly and almostimmediately experienced the very positive ways that FalunGong has enhanced my daily lie. I am most th

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