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جوآن فالون
Zhuan Falun is the core comprehensive book about Falun Gong--and a best-selling book in China before it was banned. It takes up where Falun Gong leaves off, exploring in detail many of the same subjects.
Drawing on an ancient secret oral tradition, Li Hongzhi explores in depth the core concepts of Falun Gong---truthfulness, compassion, and forbearance. Also included here are discussions of
- The origins of qigong and the long-forgotten meaning of "self-cultivation" - The roots of illness and the fundamental qigong method of healing. - Genuine integrated cultivation of mind and body - The relationship between Falun Gong, Buddhism, Taoism, and other self-cultivation methods.
412 pages
First published January 1, 1994
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Li Hongzhi
283 books30 followersLi Hongzhi (Chinese: 李洪志; pinyin: Lǐ Hóngzhì, born 13 May 1951) is the founder and spiritual leader of Falun Gong (or Falun Dafa), a "system of mind-body cultivation" in the qigong tradition. Li Hongzhi began his public teachings of Falun Gong on 13 May 1992 in Changchun, and subsequently gave lectures and taught Falun Gong exercises across China.
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August 25, 2012
The greatest book ever written. One cannot possibly understand its inner meaning in one read. Unusually written, I found it confronting the first time, completely different the second and by the third time I couldn't stop reading it. I still read it all these years later. Guaranteed, this book will fundamentally change the way you think about life, the universe and everything.
October 27, 2008
This is most likely the most enlightening book ever written.
I've learned more from it than any other spiritual or metaphysical book ever.
This book gives insights that continue to expand every time you read it. This book gives and gives.
All you have to do is be aware of it and you'll be hooked for life.
I've learned more from it than any other spiritual or metaphysical book ever.
This book gives insights that continue to expand every time you read it. This book gives and gives.
All you have to do is be aware of it and you'll be hooked for life.
May 4, 2012
Firstly, as a supporter of freedom of expression & conscience I am against the banning of this book in China & the prosecution of Falun Gong. I read the Chinese version out of curiosity, and it's an awful mix of pseudoscience & Buddhist/Christian/Marxist terminology. Not very well written as the author conceded in the beginning, and is also a bit homophobic, but as a religious text probably not much worse than many others.
August 25, 2012
The greatest non-fiction book I've ever read. It helps me discover my true self. What more is there to want?
The greatest fiction book would be The Divine Comedy, in case you're curious.
The greatest fiction book would be The Divine Comedy, in case you're curious.
June 19, 2014
If you are so fortunate, it will be the most important book you ever read. You should definitely have a read and find out if it is so :).
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August 9, 2012Gives you hope for the future, and a whole sense of understanding the universe.
April 26, 2013
GREAT BOOK !
April 4, 2020
از اون دست كتاب هاى ممنوعه ست كه نميشه به راحتى واسش ريويو نوشت
كتاب خيلى عجيبيه
به طور خلاصه بگم كه در اين كتاب جواب تمام سوالاتون در مورد اين جهان رو مى گيريد
البته شرط مى بندم باور نمى كنيد
كه اشكال نداره
خود نويسنده هم ميگه كه باور نمى كنيد
و جواب كسايى كه باور نمى كنن رو هم ميده
اين كتاب مجموعه سخنرانى هاى استاد لى هستش و هدف اصلى كتاب تزكيه كردنه
اين كتاب خودش مريدهاى خودش رو پيدا مى كنه
كتاب خيلى عجيبيه
به طور خلاصه بگم كه در اين كتاب جواب تمام سوالاتون در مورد اين جهان رو مى گيريد
البته شرط مى بندم باور نمى كنيد
كه اشكال نداره
خود نويسنده هم ميگه كه باور نمى كنيد
و جواب كسايى كه باور نمى كنن رو هم ميده
اين كتاب مجموعه سخنرانى هاى استاد لى هستش و هدف اصلى كتاب تزكيه كردنه
اين كتاب خودش مريدهاى خودش رو پيدا مى كنه
December 31, 2011
banned in russia by chinese communists (um what's up with that?)
has to be good!
has to be good!
February 28, 2012
Excellent Book.
December 18, 2018
If something is hard to do then you can do it.
This is the logic of Li Hongzhi with regards to enduring tribulations. It's not bad advice. In fact many of the things in this book are defenitely good ideas and practices. What is my main problem with it?
If i have to try so hard to believe it then i must be in the presence of crap.
He binds what is good from both Taoism and Buddhism to create a psuedo-religion, that in fact is not a religion at all but a meditation and cultivation system. If that were indeed true then the adherents would supposedly care very little about the writer of their handbook. But no, Li Hongzhi rates himself as an enlightenend god who has changed the very nature of the universe, now his last goal is to change the human race. Such power he has that by his own admission, he has 'destroyed' people who have tried to interfere with him. He talks about demons and animals that posess people. In later writings he tells us that Impressionism is bad art, that the only goal of a practitioner is to save others and spread the practice. To take up all of your life with Falun Dhafa is the only way you will be regarded as a true practitioner. But if you can do this, if you can believe everything blindly then Mr Li Hongzhi will plant energy mechanisms in your body. He can heal your illnesses and plant a Falun, a kind of ever spinning wheel in your abdomen in another dimension.
I first came to the teachings because I read about all the well documented health benefits of the qigong practice. People have healed themselves from incuable things and frankly they cant all be lying. So there's definitely something going on with the qigong that the devotees (for that is pretty much what the fanatics who attend his lectures are) are practicing. Where I take issue and what is perhaps the biggest fallacy here, is to confuse results from a physical practice and the followings of a good principle for living (being kind and tolerant to others) as proof that this supposed god figure is healing you. That he has given you 'gong' and basically you're in his debt. If you stop believing or cultivating then his 'fashen', or body in another dimension, will know and take away all the good things he's given to you.
People come to heal illnesses, its the only reason the practice was so popular after all, but he will not do this for you, instead he will clear your body of all your illnesses only if you promise to now want to achieve buddhahood and leave everything in the world behind. This includes giving up alcohol, you'll be 'punished' if you don't give it up; not having any desires for yourself; not loving anyone but instead replacing your love with the non-attachment of compassion. It's hardcore basically.
While i could go on and on about the cult elements of the practice and Li's psychosis of self, I will first say that I'm not a communist (as apparently everyone who doesnt believe the book or says anything bad about it is obviously working for the CCP), I genuinely did want to like the book and the teachings and read it through 2.5 times giving up after I read a lot of the extended teachings and seeing just how wacky things get when you really get sucked in. They update the book all the time but you're not allowed to throw the old ones away you have to cut and paste the new 'corrections' over the old ones in the book. If you deface the book you're doing something evil as well because your defacing the 'righteous Fa (law)'.
To my mind any benevolent teacher would be a little less egotistical in his teachings. Even to hear him speak you get the impression that he's full of himself and clearly has an ego...surely a Buddha would be more compassionate and understanding that people cannot live up to his ever changing expectations for what it is to be a Falun Gong practitioner. I tried and believe me i was open minded. If it works for you then great but to be honest if the truth isn't screaming to be accepted by my heart, immediately drawing me In as a testament to that Buddha nature I know to exist within me and which Li claims is not there at all, then I can't believe it at all. If just one thing in a fundamentalist text is wrong then surely the whole lot falls apart. If someone is so omnipotent but goes on about aliens taking over the world who want out bodies (interview in Time magazine) then someone needs to think about palatability. No one is doing more harm to Falun Dafa than Li Hongzhi and he's the one who says we can't badmouth him. Sorry Li, I'm not buying.
This is the logic of Li Hongzhi with regards to enduring tribulations. It's not bad advice. In fact many of the things in this book are defenitely good ideas and practices. What is my main problem with it?
If i have to try so hard to believe it then i must be in the presence of crap.
He binds what is good from both Taoism and Buddhism to create a psuedo-religion, that in fact is not a religion at all but a meditation and cultivation system. If that were indeed true then the adherents would supposedly care very little about the writer of their handbook. But no, Li Hongzhi rates himself as an enlightenend god who has changed the very nature of the universe, now his last goal is to change the human race. Such power he has that by his own admission, he has 'destroyed' people who have tried to interfere with him. He talks about demons and animals that posess people. In later writings he tells us that Impressionism is bad art, that the only goal of a practitioner is to save others and spread the practice. To take up all of your life with Falun Dhafa is the only way you will be regarded as a true practitioner. But if you can do this, if you can believe everything blindly then Mr Li Hongzhi will plant energy mechanisms in your body. He can heal your illnesses and plant a Falun, a kind of ever spinning wheel in your abdomen in another dimension.
I first came to the teachings because I read about all the well documented health benefits of the qigong practice. People have healed themselves from incuable things and frankly they cant all be lying. So there's definitely something going on with the qigong that the devotees (for that is pretty much what the fanatics who attend his lectures are) are practicing. Where I take issue and what is perhaps the biggest fallacy here, is to confuse results from a physical practice and the followings of a good principle for living (being kind and tolerant to others) as proof that this supposed god figure is healing you. That he has given you 'gong' and basically you're in his debt. If you stop believing or cultivating then his 'fashen', or body in another dimension, will know and take away all the good things he's given to you.
People come to heal illnesses, its the only reason the practice was so popular after all, but he will not do this for you, instead he will clear your body of all your illnesses only if you promise to now want to achieve buddhahood and leave everything in the world behind. This includes giving up alcohol, you'll be 'punished' if you don't give it up; not having any desires for yourself; not loving anyone but instead replacing your love with the non-attachment of compassion. It's hardcore basically.
While i could go on and on about the cult elements of the practice and Li's psychosis of self, I will first say that I'm not a communist (as apparently everyone who doesnt believe the book or says anything bad about it is obviously working for the CCP), I genuinely did want to like the book and the teachings and read it through 2.5 times giving up after I read a lot of the extended teachings and seeing just how wacky things get when you really get sucked in. They update the book all the time but you're not allowed to throw the old ones away you have to cut and paste the new 'corrections' over the old ones in the book. If you deface the book you're doing something evil as well because your defacing the 'righteous Fa (law)'.
To my mind any benevolent teacher would be a little less egotistical in his teachings. Even to hear him speak you get the impression that he's full of himself and clearly has an ego...surely a Buddha would be more compassionate and understanding that people cannot live up to his ever changing expectations for what it is to be a Falun Gong practitioner. I tried and believe me i was open minded. If it works for you then great but to be honest if the truth isn't screaming to be accepted by my heart, immediately drawing me In as a testament to that Buddha nature I know to exist within me and which Li claims is not there at all, then I can't believe it at all. If just one thing in a fundamentalist text is wrong then surely the whole lot falls apart. If someone is so omnipotent but goes on about aliens taking over the world who want out bodies (interview in Time magazine) then someone needs to think about palatability. No one is doing more harm to Falun Dafa than Li Hongzhi and he's the one who says we can't badmouth him. Sorry Li, I'm not buying.
May 16, 2015
I tried very hard to read this with a beginner's mind (i.e. with no judgment), but halfway through it, I really can't do it anymore.
There are so many logically fallacies in there, so many anecdotes based on poor understanding of world religions and physics in there that makes it very hard for me to TRUST this as a serious body of philosophical knowledge. He mentions things like Ica Stones and other artefacts that prove there was human intelligence in the pre-historic era. A simple Google search shows that most of these are hoaxes.
In the Fifth Talk, he talks about how there's really only 2 true religions - Daoism and Buddhism. And that Christianity is just a derivative of Buddhism. I grew up in a Muslim country from a Christian and Daoist family, and ultimately converted to Buddhism -- and schooled in Western philosophy. I have pretty good understanding of many of the ancient religions and I can tell you, Christianity not have that much in common with Buddhism. Metaphysical, philosophically utterly different religions. He doesn't know what he's talking about.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not one of those anti-Falun Gong communists. There are gems in there that would make anyone's journey to self-understanding much better.
One of the best quotes I've ever read is in this book after all: "Cultivation is something you do right in the thick of tribulations". That's very, very good advice - whether you're a Falun Gong practitioner, staunch Christian or a jaded atheist.
But I just can't. I came in hoping to gain wisdom but I drop this book with disappointment. He has nuggets of wisdom and some understanding of spirituality and perhaps even hidden workings of the universe that I'm not able to yet understand. But it's evident to me that he is under the grip of his own ego and has strayed from his Self.
I find myself asking after each line - is it his ego talking or his wisdom?
I simply can't trust someone like that.
There are so many logically fallacies in there, so many anecdotes based on poor understanding of world religions and physics in there that makes it very hard for me to TRUST this as a serious body of philosophical knowledge. He mentions things like Ica Stones and other artefacts that prove there was human intelligence in the pre-historic era. A simple Google search shows that most of these are hoaxes.
In the Fifth Talk, he talks about how there's really only 2 true religions - Daoism and Buddhism. And that Christianity is just a derivative of Buddhism. I grew up in a Muslim country from a Christian and Daoist family, and ultimately converted to Buddhism -- and schooled in Western philosophy. I have pretty good understanding of many of the ancient religions and I can tell you, Christianity not have that much in common with Buddhism. Metaphysical, philosophically utterly different religions. He doesn't know what he's talking about.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not one of those anti-Falun Gong communists. There are gems in there that would make anyone's journey to self-understanding much better.
One of the best quotes I've ever read is in this book after all: "Cultivation is something you do right in the thick of tribulations". That's very, very good advice - whether you're a Falun Gong practitioner, staunch Christian or a jaded atheist.
But I just can't. I came in hoping to gain wisdom but I drop this book with disappointment. He has nuggets of wisdom and some understanding of spirituality and perhaps even hidden workings of the universe that I'm not able to yet understand. But it's evident to me that he is under the grip of his own ego and has strayed from his Self.
I find myself asking after each line - is it his ego talking or his wisdom?
I simply can't trust someone like that.
November 1, 2008
^^ I read the electronic copy i downloaded from falundafa.org.
i don't know if i'd come to consider this book as most important thing in the world... for me, that is.. *wink* but it really is something...
following the teachings in the book, it would not be wise to explain the dafa for i'm not a master.
what i'll explain may not be the true dafa.
the gist though is as follows: ( base on my feeble understanding)
- falun dafa is a cultivation practice.
- upgrade the xinxing ( mind nature, character, or moral standards.)
-act or measure your actions base on the universal charcteristic of nature - zhun,shan, ren (thrutfullness, benevolence and forebearance)
- there's a sort of credit system of good and bad acts. when you do good de would increase, when you do the opposite karma (black substance) would increase.
- the higher the xinxing the higher the de (white matter) you would have. the de would be transformed into gong ( energy more powerful than qi) by the helf of the master.
- therefore, the higher the xinxing, the higher the gong. the level of one's gong would determine the buddha fruit level one has achieved.
I find it very interesting how both Taoism and Buddhism are accommodated by the Falun Dafa system.
a litte more reading on this... i think i'll be practicing Falun Gong. ^^
i don't know if i'd come to consider this book as most important thing in the world... for me, that is.. *wink* but it really is something...
following the teachings in the book, it would not be wise to explain the dafa for i'm not a master.
what i'll explain may not be the true dafa.
the gist though is as follows: ( base on my feeble understanding)
- falun dafa is a cultivation practice.
- upgrade the xinxing ( mind nature, character, or moral standards.)
-act or measure your actions base on the universal charcteristic of nature - zhun,shan, ren (thrutfullness, benevolence and forebearance)
- there's a sort of credit system of good and bad acts. when you do good de would increase, when you do the opposite karma (black substance) would increase.
- the higher the xinxing the higher the de (white matter) you would have. the de would be transformed into gong ( energy more powerful than qi) by the helf of the master.
- therefore, the higher the xinxing, the higher the gong. the level of one's gong would determine the buddha fruit level one has achieved.
I find it very interesting how both Taoism and Buddhism are accommodated by the Falun Dafa system.
a litte more reading on this... i think i'll be practicing Falun Gong. ^^
March 13, 2008
By far the best book I have ever picked up. This book looks seriously at the important question of how to live your life and why. An excellent guide. I read it everyday.
October 27, 2008
This is another version of the book Zhuan Falun that I previously reviewed. Either version of Zhuan Falun is more than worth its weight in gold.
You can't find a treasure like this anywhere else.
Start reading now and begin to enrich your life in ways that you never dreamed possible.
You can't find a treasure like this anywhere else.
Start reading now and begin to enrich your life in ways that you never dreamed possible.
May 12, 2018
This is my book of life for sure. I have spent several years to read and accept it, don’t know what kept me to continuing to read, just want to accept it and tried hard. Now i am a believer and read it everyday! 🙂 just want to tell that maybe it is hard, but it worth to try and try again and again.
April 27, 2019
A book from Divine. Words simply cannot explain it. I think I have read it at least 20 times but there are still much much more to learn! Many Falun Gong practitioners I know have read it 200 times and they are still learning it.
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March 23, 2008i read it everyday,the result of reading improves everytime!
this book is more important than everything in the world for me!
this book is more important than everything in the world for me!
October 14, 2008
after read this book, I dont want to read other books
November 3, 2013
Great Great Great
June 8, 2022
The book a great introduction to what Buddhist, Taoists and Falun Gongists believe, but it is also full of errors and blatent lies.
I would warn anyone who reads Zhuan Falun that there are many deceptions in the book. His teachings are no difference from what the rest of the world has known as demon possession. There have been many others who have also claimed that they can utilize demon abilities without being controlled by them, but there is always a consequence for using these powers. Aleister Crowley was one who claimed very similar things to Li Hongzhi, but he was an occultist. I think it is obvious that the other consciousnesses, such as the assistance soul, are demon spirits who have been without a body for a long time and yearn to possess a body, which is why they want people to meditate so they can take over one's body. He lists many things that are characteristic of demon possession. On page 142 he says that possessed people claim they are the Lady Queen Mother or Great Jade Emperor, this is the same as Cretan divine priests being possessed by the great mother and wanting to be worshipped, or epiphanies of Demeter or Persephone, which is not surprising since Taoism maintained the old pagan Western and Mesopotamian traditions of the great mother goddess. Demons fool people to believe their sins are paid for by their assistant soul so they do not believe that they need redemption from God.
Li Hongzhi claims that his teachings are supported by scientific knowledge, but if you investigate any of the claims it is not hard to see how he based it on poor or deceptive information. His understanding of science is very flawed. On page 361 he refers to an experiment with plants that was documented in a 1973 book called The Secret Life of Plants, written by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird. Tompkins was a journalist, spy for the OSS, and an author of other mystical books on magic. He was not a plant biologist. Many botanists and plant biologists have attempted to reproduce his experiment, but were not able to. His claims that plants express emotions on a polygraph test, have been refuted by many plant biologists. Some plants do emit chemicals or electrical impulses when touched, but they have no organs necessary for consciousness. If they are surrounded by a spiritual orb of some sort, I would assume this to be demonic possession.
He says that the most powerful telescopes can only see 150,000 light years, but we have seen galaxies 13.5 billion light years away.
On page 292, he speaks against reading any other school's teachings. This is very suspicious and indicates that he is hiding something.
He claims that the pineal gland is a third eye, but the penial gland is called a gland because it is well known for releasing Melatonin and Serotonin. The penial gland is responsible for holding off puberty. When the penial gland calcifies, puberty begins. It does not look or function anything like an eye. Rene Descartes made claims about the penial gland, but his claims were wrong. Madame Blavatsky identified the penial gland as the third eye as part of her cult religion. The forehead and sweat glands do not have Rhodopsin or Photopsin, the chemicals that react to light and create the electrical impulses to the brain, so I do not understand how they could scientifically function like eyes.
On page 399, he also claims that athletes look older and die faster because cells can only split and reproduce a limited number of times, but this is the opposite everywhere I have been. Those who are most physically fit or have the best physical trainers are the ones who look the youngest and live the longest. I know a woman in her 70's who still mountain climbs and looks like she's in her 50's. I also knew a woman about 50 who did very little but died from a stroke last year.
He relates atoms to galaxies and claims that universes exist in grains of sand, but even amateur physicists know that particle forces act very different on the micro scale than they do on the macro scale. Atoms do not correlate to galaxies in the way he proposes.
On page 345, he referred to "ancient Chinese medicine" and scientists who all lived after Buddhism and Taoism invaded China. Shennong's herbal teaching was very different. It taught the effects of herbs on the body, and did not use supernatural abilities.
He claimed that humankind was annihilated 81 times, but Uranium to Helium dating shows the world to be less than 10,000 years old.
Li Hongzhi's teaching lacks moral framework. He teaches not doing evil to others, but for the selfish reason of not getting more karma. He speaks of Zhen-Shan-Ren, but he doesn't seem to truly understand it. His teaching lacks empathy and compassion, which is something that we all need since none of us are perfect. Without those things and love, none of us would survive beyond our first mistake, since heaven would have to judge us for our wrongs. But because of compassion and love we are not judged immediately and we are given the opportunity to correct our flaws. Since empathy and compassion have been shown to us, we should also show empathy and compassion to others. Without empathy and a heart for others, we don't have real xinxing.
On page 324, he blames Confucius for causing jealousy in China, but none of Confucius's teachings could cause jealousy. What he taught was self-discipline and controlling yourself and your emotions. This does not mean to be introverted, it means to think before acting or speaking and not to be controlled by one's physical desires. In contrast to Buddhism, teaching not to have any desires, Master Fu taught to control them and not be controlled by them. We should follow our desires when it is logical to do so. Desire can tell us when our body lacks water or nutrients, but the body is only concerned with itself. The body must be regulated by the spirit or mind.
On page 325, Li blames Master Fu for Asians being afraid to mention awards, but from Confucius' Analects, I am pretty sure that Confucius would have taught others to control their emotions and be glad for awardees, and taught awardees to control their emotions and not boast of their awards in a way that will hurt others, and to humbly accept awards since awards are never earned without help from others and ShangTi(The Emperor of Heaven). Li blames absolute egalitarianism, socialism and communism on jealousy, which he ultimately blames on Confucianism, but he fails to acknowledge that Buddhism is a tool that was used to spread communism. But this teaching is probably why communists have recently turned against Falun Gong. Self-centeredness is probably a major contributing factor why modern society has become so bad, and it is not hard to see how Buddhism and Taoism brought self-centeredness into Chinese culture.
On 326, Li claims that if a worker is praised by their employer, it will make other employees uncomfortable, but that is only the case when the worker is unfairly praised. When the worker deserves praise, everyone is happy to see him being acknowledged, but when an undeserving worker is praised it makes every better worker angry. The reason why Chinese people are jealous is because they have abandoned Confucius' teaching and have not learned the things he taught.
Li talks about cultivators being on a higher standard than everyday people, but just because they do less wrong than average people, that does not make them right. The truth is, there is right and there is wrong. To be better people, we must do what is right and not do what is wrong regardless of what standard others create. He says some things are acceptable for other but not for cultivators. This is very wrong, because if something is wrong, it is wrong for everyone, not just cultivators. The world is in trouble because people do wrong, and people do wrong because they are ignorant of the harm that their actions will cause themselves and others. If we taught people the wisdom to understand the effects of their actions, as Confucius tried to do, society would be a much better place than it is.
He talks about civilization being destroyed by removing the divine and moral codes, but civilization has always had that effect on society. Society is generally governed by righteousness, or propriety, as Confucius put it, but civilization is governed by laws created by a human leader. The laws of civilization become the standard of morality, so when laws become corrupt, or fail to maintain justice and righteousness, so does the standard of morality. The right to maintain justice is taken away from the people, but is not upheld by the government, crime and corruption will increasingly flourish. People do not think about what is right or wrong, only what they can get away with.
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I would warn anyone who reads Zhuan Falun that there are many deceptions in the book. His teachings are no difference from what the rest of the world has known as demon possession. There have been many others who have also claimed that they can utilize demon abilities without being controlled by them, but there is always a consequence for using these powers. Aleister Crowley was one who claimed very similar things to Li Hongzhi, but he was an occultist. I think it is obvious that the other consciousnesses, such as the assistance soul, are demon spirits who have been without a body for a long time and yearn to possess a body, which is why they want people to meditate so they can take over one's body. He lists many things that are characteristic of demon possession. On page 142 he says that possessed people claim they are the Lady Queen Mother or Great Jade Emperor, this is the same as Cretan divine priests being possessed by the great mother and wanting to be worshipped, or epiphanies of Demeter or Persephone, which is not surprising since Taoism maintained the old pagan Western and Mesopotamian traditions of the great mother goddess. Demons fool people to believe their sins are paid for by their assistant soul so they do not believe that they need redemption from God.
Li Hongzhi claims that his teachings are supported by scientific knowledge, but if you investigate any of the claims it is not hard to see how he based it on poor or deceptive information. His understanding of science is very flawed. On page 361 he refers to an experiment with plants that was documented in a 1973 book called The Secret Life of Plants, written by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird. Tompkins was a journalist, spy for the OSS, and an author of other mystical books on magic. He was not a plant biologist. Many botanists and plant biologists have attempted to reproduce his experiment, but were not able to. His claims that plants express emotions on a polygraph test, have been refuted by many plant biologists. Some plants do emit chemicals or electrical impulses when touched, but they have no organs necessary for consciousness. If they are surrounded by a spiritual orb of some sort, I would assume this to be demonic possession.
He says that the most powerful telescopes can only see 150,000 light years, but we have seen galaxies 13.5 billion light years away.
On page 292, he speaks against reading any other school's teachings. This is very suspicious and indicates that he is hiding something.
He claims that the pineal gland is a third eye, but the penial gland is called a gland because it is well known for releasing Melatonin and Serotonin. The penial gland is responsible for holding off puberty. When the penial gland calcifies, puberty begins. It does not look or function anything like an eye. Rene Descartes made claims about the penial gland, but his claims were wrong. Madame Blavatsky identified the penial gland as the third eye as part of her cult religion. The forehead and sweat glands do not have Rhodopsin or Photopsin, the chemicals that react to light and create the electrical impulses to the brain, so I do not understand how they could scientifically function like eyes.
On page 399, he also claims that athletes look older and die faster because cells can only split and reproduce a limited number of times, but this is the opposite everywhere I have been. Those who are most physically fit or have the best physical trainers are the ones who look the youngest and live the longest. I know a woman in her 70's who still mountain climbs and looks like she's in her 50's. I also knew a woman about 50 who did very little but died from a stroke last year.
He relates atoms to galaxies and claims that universes exist in grains of sand, but even amateur physicists know that particle forces act very different on the micro scale than they do on the macro scale. Atoms do not correlate to galaxies in the way he proposes.
On page 345, he referred to "ancient Chinese medicine" and scientists who all lived after Buddhism and Taoism invaded China. Shennong's herbal teaching was very different. It taught the effects of herbs on the body, and did not use supernatural abilities.
He claimed that humankind was annihilated 81 times, but Uranium to Helium dating shows the world to be less than 10,000 years old.
Li Hongzhi's teaching lacks moral framework. He teaches not doing evil to others, but for the selfish reason of not getting more karma. He speaks of Zhen-Shan-Ren, but he doesn't seem to truly understand it. His teaching lacks empathy and compassion, which is something that we all need since none of us are perfect. Without those things and love, none of us would survive beyond our first mistake, since heaven would have to judge us for our wrongs. But because of compassion and love we are not judged immediately and we are given the opportunity to correct our flaws. Since empathy and compassion have been shown to us, we should also show empathy and compassion to others. Without empathy and a heart for others, we don't have real xinxing.
On page 324, he blames Confucius for causing jealousy in China, but none of Confucius's teachings could cause jealousy. What he taught was self-discipline and controlling yourself and your emotions. This does not mean to be introverted, it means to think before acting or speaking and not to be controlled by one's physical desires. In contrast to Buddhism, teaching not to have any desires, Master Fu taught to control them and not be controlled by them. We should follow our desires when it is logical to do so. Desire can tell us when our body lacks water or nutrients, but the body is only concerned with itself. The body must be regulated by the spirit or mind.
On page 325, Li blames Master Fu for Asians being afraid to mention awards, but from Confucius' Analects, I am pretty sure that Confucius would have taught others to control their emotions and be glad for awardees, and taught awardees to control their emotions and not boast of their awards in a way that will hurt others, and to humbly accept awards since awards are never earned without help from others and ShangTi(The Emperor of Heaven). Li blames absolute egalitarianism, socialism and communism on jealousy, which he ultimately blames on Confucianism, but he fails to acknowledge that Buddhism is a tool that was used to spread communism. But this teaching is probably why communists have recently turned against Falun Gong. Self-centeredness is probably a major contributing factor why modern society has become so bad, and it is not hard to see how Buddhism and Taoism brought self-centeredness into Chinese culture.
On 326, Li claims that if a worker is praised by their employer, it will make other employees uncomfortable, but that is only the case when the worker is unfairly praised. When the worker deserves praise, everyone is happy to see him being acknowledged, but when an undeserving worker is praised it makes every better worker angry. The reason why Chinese people are jealous is because they have abandoned Confucius' teaching and have not learned the things he taught.
Li talks about cultivators being on a higher standard than everyday people, but just because they do less wrong than average people, that does not make them right. The truth is, there is right and there is wrong. To be better people, we must do what is right and not do what is wrong regardless of what standard others create. He says some things are acceptable for other but not for cultivators. This is very wrong, because if something is wrong, it is wrong for everyone, not just cultivators. The world is in trouble because people do wrong, and people do wrong because they are ignorant of the harm that their actions will cause themselves and others. If we taught people the wisdom to understand the effects of their actions, as Confucius tried to do, society would be a much better place than it is.
He talks about civilization being destroyed by removing the divine and moral codes, but civilization has always had that effect on society. Society is generally governed by righteousness, or propriety, as Confucius put it, but civilization is governed by laws created by a human leader. The laws of civilization become the standard of morality, so when laws become corrupt, or fail to maintain justice and righteousness, so does the standard of morality. The right to maintain justice is taken away from the people, but is not upheld by the government, crime and corruption will increasingly flourish. People do not think about what is right or wrong, only what they can get away with.
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November 16, 2020
I've practiced Falun Dafa out of curiosity for a while, all good and people are nice but I stopped imidietly once I read the book. This guy left China and has no opinion or a comment about what happens to the followrs of his teachings! Also the fact that you cannot find anything about his life makes it quite suspicious.
Now what can I say about his book, total brainwash that promotes pasifying attitude toward life because if you accept injustice and bad treatment you collect positive energy (from the bad doer or life circumstances) that only a teacher (he) can turn into energy for your 'upgrade', you also reduce karma and maybe next time you will reincarnate at higher position and make more money eg become an officer... Constant pinpoint of how bad other chinese energy teachers and healers are and how great he is by sharing his 'universal' truths with us and installing a spinning wheel in our bellies (he is full of ego by the way), constant separation between the practitioners and the 'common' people... The out of reality list and me, myself and I goes on and on. Another important point he doesn't discuss the suppressive governance of his country.
Do yourself a favour, skip this, get back to reality especially during these times of koronahysteria and read something about who controls China, the world and the financial system because we are debt slaves and meditation or higher vibrations won't change the reality. Spirituality is important but we need to address the reality first and no there is nothing spiritual in letting go of our freedoms and welcoming Orwellian world.
Now what can I say about his book, total brainwash that promotes pasifying attitude toward life because if you accept injustice and bad treatment you collect positive energy (from the bad doer or life circumstances) that only a teacher (he) can turn into energy for your 'upgrade', you also reduce karma and maybe next time you will reincarnate at higher position and make more money eg become an officer... Constant pinpoint of how bad other chinese energy teachers and healers are and how great he is by sharing his 'universal' truths with us and installing a spinning wheel in our bellies (he is full of ego by the way), constant separation between the practitioners and the 'common' people... The out of reality list and me, myself and I goes on and on. Another important point he doesn't discuss the suppressive governance of his country.
Do yourself a favour, skip this, get back to reality especially during these times of koronahysteria and read something about who controls China, the world and the financial system because we are debt slaves and meditation or higher vibrations won't change the reality. Spirituality is important but we need to address the reality first and no there is nothing spiritual in letting go of our freedoms and welcoming Orwellian world.
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January 16, 2022Here are my highlights:
Then how should we handle that incident? When you run into that type of conflict, we should first keep calm, and we shouldn’t handle it the same way he did. Of course, we can explain it kindly, we can clarify things—that’s not a problem. But you shouldn’t get too attached. When we encounter these problems we shouldn’t fight and compete like other people do. If he acts that way, and you act that way, too, aren’t you an ordinary person? Not only shouldn’t you fight and compete like him, you shouldn’t hate him, either. Really, you shouldn’t hate him. Once you start hating him, aren’t you getting angry? Then you’ve failed to live up to Endurance. We strive to be True, Good, and Endure. And what’s more, your Goodness is nowhere to be found. So you shouldn’t act like him, and you really shouldn’t be angry at him, even if he smeared your reputation at the office and really disgraced you. Not only shouldn’t you be angry at him, you should thank him from the bottom of your heart—really thank him.
Maybe an ordinary person would think this way: “Isn’t that being like that pathetic guy Ah-Q?” I can tell you, that’s not the case. Let’s think about it. You’re a practitioner. Shouldn’t you follow a higher standard? You shouldn’t go by the criteria that ordinary people go by. You’re a cultivator, so aren’t those things that you get of higher levels? Then you should follow the criteria of high levels.
If you act like he does, aren’t you the same as him? Then, why should you thank him? Think about it, what will you get? In this universe there’s a law called “no loss, no gain”—if you want to gain, you have to lose. He smeared you around ordinary people, he’s considered the party who gains since he’s profited at your expense. The worse he smeared you, the more serious the impact, the more you shoulder, and the more virtue he loses, and that virtue is all given to you. At the same time, when you’re shouldering it you might take it lightly and not take it to heart.
Why can human beings be human? It’s exactly because humans have emotion. People just live for emotion. The affection among family members, the love between a man and woman, love for parents, feelings, friendships, doing things for friendship’s sake—no matter where you go you can’t get out of emotion. You want to do something, you don’t want to do something, you’re happy, you’re unhappy, you love something, you hate something—everything in society comes completely from emotion.
If you don’t sever emotion, you won’t be able to cultivate. But if you do break out of emotion, nobody can affect you, and ordinary attachments won’t be able to sway you. What replaces it is compassion, which is more noble. Of course, it’s not easy to sever it all at once. Cultivation is a long process, it’s a gradual process to get rid of attachments. But you really have to be disciplined.
Some people ask, “Is it true that if you have a lot of black matter, you can’t cultivate to high levels?” Yes, you could say that. People who have a lot of black matter have their comprehension affected by it. It forms a field around your body and envelops you, it cuts you off from the nature of the universe, to be True, Good, and Endure.
Karma comes off one chunk at a time, so after a chunk is eliminated your legs feel a little better. But after a little while, here comes another chunk, and your legs start to hurt again. After the black matter is eliminated, it doesn’t dissipate, this matter isn’t destroyed—after it’s eliminated it turns directly into the white matter. And this white matter is virtue. So why can it transform like that? Because he endured hardship, he paid the price, and he tolerated the pain. We believe that virtue is gained when you tolerate pain, endure suffering, and do good things. That’s why this happens during meditation.
When you say you want to cultivate, they won’t put up with it, “You want to cultivate, you want to leave. If you develop gong I won’t even be able to reach you, I won’t be able to touch you.” They won’t let it happen, and they’ll do just about anything to block you. They’ll try to stop you from cultivating. So they use all kinds of tactics to interfere with you, and they might even come to kill you. Of course, it won’t happen like you’re meditating here and your head just gets cut off—that’s impossible, since it has to conform to the way of things in the ordinary world. Maybe you’ll be hit by a car when you leave your home, or you’ll fall from a building, or run into other kinds of danger.
There’s a chance these things will happen. It’s quite dangerous. True cultivation isn’t as easy as you imagined. Just because you want to cultivate, you think you’ll be able to cultivate upward? When you really start to cultivate you’ll immediately run into life threatening danger, this problem will come right up. There are many, many qigong masters who don’t dare to guide people up to high levels. Why is that? Exactly because they aren’t able to get around this problem—they can’t protect you
Let’s see what our Falun Dafa has to say about this. When you cultivate in our discipline, as long as you can always keep up your character, “one good can overcome a hundred evils”—you won’t run into any trouble. On the other hand, if you can’t keep up your character well, if you seek after all sorts of things, you’re sure to invite trouble.
Cultivate your mind, steadfastly raise your gong, always keep improving yourself, and assimilate to the nature of the universe—then, and only then, will you be going up. Some people ask me for my autograph, and I don’t want to give it to them. And then maybe some people tell other folks about how the teacher gave them his autograph, and maybe they want to show it off and want to get protection from the teacher’s messages. Isn’t that another attachment? In cultivation you have to rely on yourself— what are you talking about messages for? Would you care about that stuff when you’ve cultivated to a high level?
The people in other dimensions don’t have bodies like this one, and they can levitate and expand or shrink. But in this dimension they make people have this body, this mortal body that we have. Once you have this body, you can’t take it when it’s cold, you can’t take it when it’s hot, you can’t take being tired, and you can’t take being hungry—you get the idea, you suffer. When you get sick it’s hard to bear it, and you go through birth, aging, sickness, and death. It’s to have you pay off your karma by suffering, to see if you can return, and to give you one more chance. That’s why human beings have dropped into a realm of delusion. After you drop here this pair of eyes is created for you to keep you from seeing other dimensions or how matter really is. If you’re able to make it back,
you will see that the most painful hardship turns out to be the most valuable. You have to experience a lot of hardship when you try to cultivate your way back by awakening in the middle of delusion, and that’s how you return quickly. If you become worse you’ll be annihilated, so in their eyes, being human isn’t the meaning of life—it’s to have you return to your original, true self, to go back. Ordinary people can’t awaken to this. The ordinary people out in the ordinary world, they’re just ordinary people, and they think about how to get ahead and how to live the good life. And the better they live, the more selfish they get, the more they want to have, and the more they stray from the nature of the universe. So they’re heading for destruction
When it’s turning clockwise the Law Wheel can automatically take in energy from the universe, and when it’s turning counterclockwise the Law Wheel can send out energy. Turning inward (clockwise), it saves oneself, turning outward (counterclockwise), it saves others.
So think about it, everybody: there are two major systems in the universe, the Buddhist system and the Daoist system, and without either of them it wouldn’t make up a complete universe, you wouldn’t be able to call it a complete universe, so we include Daoist things here. Some people might
say, “Hey, there’s more to it than just the Daoist system. What about Christianity, Confucianism, and all the other religions?”
I can tell you this, when cultivation in Confucianism reaches extremely high levels it becomes Daoist, while a lot of Western religions are of a Buddhist nature when their cultivation reaches a high level, they’re one set of teachings in the Buddhist system. Those are the only two systems that are major
When you practice you should take virtue seriously. So while you're doing the exercises, if you don’t have good thoughts, at least you shouldn’t have bad thoughts, and the best is to have no thoughts at all. The reason is, you need to build a foundation while you’re practicing at low levels, yet that foundation serves a critical function, and that’s because your thought process has some effect.
Why haven’t you gotten healthy when you’re always exercising? Maybe some people don’t think about those bad things at their practice site, but they always want to get some abilities when they exercise, they want to get this, they want to get that, they have all kinds of states of mind, and a lot of strong desires. So they’re actually practicing in an evil way without knowing it.
But the truth is, their gong doesn’t come from those hardships that they go through. Then where does it come from? It’s just like with any person: he has a lot of attachments when he’s young, and when he gets older his attachments are naturally let go or worn out as time goes by and as his hopes for the future fade away
If you’re going to be real practitioners, you have to look at things from a really high level, and you can’t use ordinary people’s opinions to interpret things. When you think it’s a health problem, you might just bring on health problems. The reason is, once you think it’s a health problem, your character is about as high as an ordinary person’s. Qigong and true cultivation, and even more so that cultivation state, won’t lead to health problems. You know, with people who really do have health problems, 70% of it is psychological and 30% physical. It’s usually that they collapse psychologically first, that they fall apart, and have a huge mental burden, which causes their condition to rapidly deteriorate.
You’re a practitioner, so if you always think it’s a health problem you’re actually asking for it—you are asking for that problem, and now it’s able to set in. To be a practitioner your character has to be high. Don’t always be afraid that it’s a health problem. Fearing that it’s a health problem is an attachment in itself, and it can bring you trouble just the same. In cultivation you need to eliminate karma, and eliminating karma is painful—how on earth could you increase gong in total comfort! And how else could you get rid of your attachments? I’ll tell you a story from Buddhism. There was this person who put in a ton of effort and finally cultivated into an Arhat. He was about to achieve a True Fruition and become an Arhat—how could he not be happy? He was breaking out of the Three Realms! That happiness was an attachment, though, an attachment of excitement. An Arhat should always be in a state of nonaction, with a mind that’s unshakable. But he dropped, and he cultivated in vain. Since he cultivated in vain he had to cultivate all over again, so again he cultivated himself upward. After he put in a ton of effort, he again moved up by cultivating. But this time he got worried and said to himself, “I’d better not get happy this time. If I get happy again I’ll drop all over again.” When he got afraid he dropped again.
You practice, but maybe your spouse doesn’t, and in that case you can’t get divorced just because you practice. The point is, we should take it lightly—you can’t take it that seriously like an ordinary person would. The other day I said that “Buddha’s light shines everywhere, propriety and righteousness harmonize everything.” It means that the energy emitted from our bodies
can rectify all wrong states. But it’s not without exception—in today’s environment all you have to do is flip on the TV and take a glance, and there’s all kinds of stuff, and it can easily stir up desire
What’s it mean to “breed demons in your own mind”? A person’s body has a material field in every dimension. In a special field, everything found in the universe is cast like a shadow into that dimensional field of yours. Even though they’re shadows, they also exist materially. Everything in your dimensional field is controlled by the thoughts in your brain. In other words, when you look at things with your Third Eye, if you calmly observe with no thoughts added in, what you see is real. But as soon as you use your mind, even if it’s just a little bit, everything you see will be false, and this is “breeding demons in your own mind,” which is also called “transforming according to thoughts.”
When you just want to get ahead in the ordinary world, you’ll fail the tests of those tribulations, and you won’t be able to improve. If you live a plush, comfy, and luxurious life among ordinary people, how can you cultivate? How’s your karma going to be transformed?
Some people ask me, “Teacher, why is it you don’t straighten this out?” Think about it, folks, if we straighten out all the obstacles on your cultivation path, how are you going to cultivate?
Then how should we handle that incident? When you run into that type of conflict, we should first keep calm, and we shouldn’t handle it the same way he did. Of course, we can explain it kindly, we can clarify things—that’s not a problem. But you shouldn’t get too attached. When we encounter these problems we shouldn’t fight and compete like other people do. If he acts that way, and you act that way, too, aren’t you an ordinary person? Not only shouldn’t you fight and compete like him, you shouldn’t hate him, either. Really, you shouldn’t hate him. Once you start hating him, aren’t you getting angry? Then you’ve failed to live up to Endurance. We strive to be True, Good, and Endure. And what’s more, your Goodness is nowhere to be found. So you shouldn’t act like him, and you really shouldn’t be angry at him, even if he smeared your reputation at the office and really disgraced you. Not only shouldn’t you be angry at him, you should thank him from the bottom of your heart—really thank him.
Maybe an ordinary person would think this way: “Isn’t that being like that pathetic guy Ah-Q?” I can tell you, that’s not the case. Let’s think about it. You’re a practitioner. Shouldn’t you follow a higher standard? You shouldn’t go by the criteria that ordinary people go by. You’re a cultivator, so aren’t those things that you get of higher levels? Then you should follow the criteria of high levels.
If you act like he does, aren’t you the same as him? Then, why should you thank him? Think about it, what will you get? In this universe there’s a law called “no loss, no gain”—if you want to gain, you have to lose. He smeared you around ordinary people, he’s considered the party who gains since he’s profited at your expense. The worse he smeared you, the more serious the impact, the more you shoulder, and the more virtue he loses, and that virtue is all given to you. At the same time, when you’re shouldering it you might take it lightly and not take it to heart.
Why can human beings be human? It’s exactly because humans have emotion. People just live for emotion. The affection among family members, the love between a man and woman, love for parents, feelings, friendships, doing things for friendship’s sake—no matter where you go you can’t get out of emotion. You want to do something, you don’t want to do something, you’re happy, you’re unhappy, you love something, you hate something—everything in society comes completely from emotion.
If you don’t sever emotion, you won’t be able to cultivate. But if you do break out of emotion, nobody can affect you, and ordinary attachments won’t be able to sway you. What replaces it is compassion, which is more noble. Of course, it’s not easy to sever it all at once. Cultivation is a long process, it’s a gradual process to get rid of attachments. But you really have to be disciplined.
Some people ask, “Is it true that if you have a lot of black matter, you can’t cultivate to high levels?” Yes, you could say that. People who have a lot of black matter have their comprehension affected by it. It forms a field around your body and envelops you, it cuts you off from the nature of the universe, to be True, Good, and Endure.
Karma comes off one chunk at a time, so after a chunk is eliminated your legs feel a little better. But after a little while, here comes another chunk, and your legs start to hurt again. After the black matter is eliminated, it doesn’t dissipate, this matter isn’t destroyed—after it’s eliminated it turns directly into the white matter. And this white matter is virtue. So why can it transform like that? Because he endured hardship, he paid the price, and he tolerated the pain. We believe that virtue is gained when you tolerate pain, endure suffering, and do good things. That’s why this happens during meditation.
When you say you want to cultivate, they won’t put up with it, “You want to cultivate, you want to leave. If you develop gong I won’t even be able to reach you, I won’t be able to touch you.” They won’t let it happen, and they’ll do just about anything to block you. They’ll try to stop you from cultivating. So they use all kinds of tactics to interfere with you, and they might even come to kill you. Of course, it won’t happen like you’re meditating here and your head just gets cut off—that’s impossible, since it has to conform to the way of things in the ordinary world. Maybe you’ll be hit by a car when you leave your home, or you’ll fall from a building, or run into other kinds of danger.
There’s a chance these things will happen. It’s quite dangerous. True cultivation isn’t as easy as you imagined. Just because you want to cultivate, you think you’ll be able to cultivate upward? When you really start to cultivate you’ll immediately run into life threatening danger, this problem will come right up. There are many, many qigong masters who don’t dare to guide people up to high levels. Why is that? Exactly because they aren’t able to get around this problem—they can’t protect you
Let’s see what our Falun Dafa has to say about this. When you cultivate in our discipline, as long as you can always keep up your character, “one good can overcome a hundred evils”—you won’t run into any trouble. On the other hand, if you can’t keep up your character well, if you seek after all sorts of things, you’re sure to invite trouble.
Cultivate your mind, steadfastly raise your gong, always keep improving yourself, and assimilate to the nature of the universe—then, and only then, will you be going up. Some people ask me for my autograph, and I don’t want to give it to them. And then maybe some people tell other folks about how the teacher gave them his autograph, and maybe they want to show it off and want to get protection from the teacher’s messages. Isn’t that another attachment? In cultivation you have to rely on yourself— what are you talking about messages for? Would you care about that stuff when you’ve cultivated to a high level?
The people in other dimensions don’t have bodies like this one, and they can levitate and expand or shrink. But in this dimension they make people have this body, this mortal body that we have. Once you have this body, you can’t take it when it’s cold, you can’t take it when it’s hot, you can’t take being tired, and you can’t take being hungry—you get the idea, you suffer. When you get sick it’s hard to bear it, and you go through birth, aging, sickness, and death. It’s to have you pay off your karma by suffering, to see if you can return, and to give you one more chance. That’s why human beings have dropped into a realm of delusion. After you drop here this pair of eyes is created for you to keep you from seeing other dimensions or how matter really is. If you’re able to make it back,
you will see that the most painful hardship turns out to be the most valuable. You have to experience a lot of hardship when you try to cultivate your way back by awakening in the middle of delusion, and that’s how you return quickly. If you become worse you’ll be annihilated, so in their eyes, being human isn’t the meaning of life—it’s to have you return to your original, true self, to go back. Ordinary people can’t awaken to this. The ordinary people out in the ordinary world, they’re just ordinary people, and they think about how to get ahead and how to live the good life. And the better they live, the more selfish they get, the more they want to have, and the more they stray from the nature of the universe. So they’re heading for destruction
When it’s turning clockwise the Law Wheel can automatically take in energy from the universe, and when it’s turning counterclockwise the Law Wheel can send out energy. Turning inward (clockwise), it saves oneself, turning outward (counterclockwise), it saves others.
So think about it, everybody: there are two major systems in the universe, the Buddhist system and the Daoist system, and without either of them it wouldn’t make up a complete universe, you wouldn’t be able to call it a complete universe, so we include Daoist things here. Some people might
say, “Hey, there’s more to it than just the Daoist system. What about Christianity, Confucianism, and all the other religions?”
I can tell you this, when cultivation in Confucianism reaches extremely high levels it becomes Daoist, while a lot of Western religions are of a Buddhist nature when their cultivation reaches a high level, they’re one set of teachings in the Buddhist system. Those are the only two systems that are major
When you practice you should take virtue seriously. So while you're doing the exercises, if you don’t have good thoughts, at least you shouldn’t have bad thoughts, and the best is to have no thoughts at all. The reason is, you need to build a foundation while you’re practicing at low levels, yet that foundation serves a critical function, and that’s because your thought process has some effect.
Why haven’t you gotten healthy when you’re always exercising? Maybe some people don’t think about those bad things at their practice site, but they always want to get some abilities when they exercise, they want to get this, they want to get that, they have all kinds of states of mind, and a lot of strong desires. So they’re actually practicing in an evil way without knowing it.
But the truth is, their gong doesn’t come from those hardships that they go through. Then where does it come from? It’s just like with any person: he has a lot of attachments when he’s young, and when he gets older his attachments are naturally let go or worn out as time goes by and as his hopes for the future fade away
If you’re going to be real practitioners, you have to look at things from a really high level, and you can’t use ordinary people’s opinions to interpret things. When you think it’s a health problem, you might just bring on health problems. The reason is, once you think it’s a health problem, your character is about as high as an ordinary person’s. Qigong and true cultivation, and even more so that cultivation state, won’t lead to health problems. You know, with people who really do have health problems, 70% of it is psychological and 30% physical. It’s usually that they collapse psychologically first, that they fall apart, and have a huge mental burden, which causes their condition to rapidly deteriorate.
You’re a practitioner, so if you always think it’s a health problem you’re actually asking for it—you are asking for that problem, and now it’s able to set in. To be a practitioner your character has to be high. Don’t always be afraid that it’s a health problem. Fearing that it’s a health problem is an attachment in itself, and it can bring you trouble just the same. In cultivation you need to eliminate karma, and eliminating karma is painful—how on earth could you increase gong in total comfort! And how else could you get rid of your attachments? I’ll tell you a story from Buddhism. There was this person who put in a ton of effort and finally cultivated into an Arhat. He was about to achieve a True Fruition and become an Arhat—how could he not be happy? He was breaking out of the Three Realms! That happiness was an attachment, though, an attachment of excitement. An Arhat should always be in a state of nonaction, with a mind that’s unshakable. But he dropped, and he cultivated in vain. Since he cultivated in vain he had to cultivate all over again, so again he cultivated himself upward. After he put in a ton of effort, he again moved up by cultivating. But this time he got worried and said to himself, “I’d better not get happy this time. If I get happy again I’ll drop all over again.” When he got afraid he dropped again.
You practice, but maybe your spouse doesn’t, and in that case you can’t get divorced just because you practice. The point is, we should take it lightly—you can’t take it that seriously like an ordinary person would. The other day I said that “Buddha’s light shines everywhere, propriety and righteousness harmonize everything.” It means that the energy emitted from our bodies
can rectify all wrong states. But it’s not without exception—in today’s environment all you have to do is flip on the TV and take a glance, and there’s all kinds of stuff, and it can easily stir up desire
What’s it mean to “breed demons in your own mind”? A person’s body has a material field in every dimension. In a special field, everything found in the universe is cast like a shadow into that dimensional field of yours. Even though they’re shadows, they also exist materially. Everything in your dimensional field is controlled by the thoughts in your brain. In other words, when you look at things with your Third Eye, if you calmly observe with no thoughts added in, what you see is real. But as soon as you use your mind, even if it’s just a little bit, everything you see will be false, and this is “breeding demons in your own mind,” which is also called “transforming according to thoughts.”
When you just want to get ahead in the ordinary world, you’ll fail the tests of those tribulations, and you won’t be able to improve. If you live a plush, comfy, and luxurious life among ordinary people, how can you cultivate? How’s your karma going to be transformed?
Some people ask me, “Teacher, why is it you don’t straighten this out?” Think about it, folks, if we straighten out all the obstacles on your cultivation path, how are you going to cultivate?
October 23, 2020
Main gist is cultivate virtue, main focus being forbearance/kshanti. He says when you cultivate then things may arise to test your forbearance.
The author is clearly not a bodhisattva and has not reached non dual awareness because much of the book is spent shaming and railing against people. He also believes in the duality of good and evil which is a hindrance to having compassion for all beings. Rather sad.
But yeah may be perfect for people destined for those torture er "re education" camps. Since it says they gain gong whenever they accept abuse with forebearance.
The author is clearly not a bodhisattva and has not reached non dual awareness because much of the book is spent shaming and railing against people. He also believes in the duality of good and evil which is a hindrance to having compassion for all beings. Rather sad.
But yeah may be perfect for people destined for those torture er "re education" camps. Since it says they gain gong whenever they accept abuse with forebearance.
January 20, 2021
Notably like Paul’s reasoning on matters of diet, but like anything with Falun Gong, it’s not even conspiracy theories that bother me- but just how to even confront someone who takes your attacks on faulty reasoning and paranoia for an assault on their beliefs and the more you defend or explain yourself, their views about you are somehow only reinforced? It’s the problem of religion getting too deep into “I know you are but what am I” and thinking that serenity makes right rather than being a product of being right.
January 22, 2022
The best book at any point Composed, One can't in any way, shape or form comprehend its internal significance in one read, Abnormally
Composed, I observed it defying the initial time, totally unique the second and by the third time, I Was unable to quit understanding it, I actually read it such a long time later, ensured this book will in a general sense change the manner in which you ponder life the universe and everything.
Composed, I observed it defying the initial time, totally unique the second and by the third time, I Was unable to quit understanding it, I actually read it such a long time later, ensured this book will in a general sense change the manner in which you ponder life the universe and everything.
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April 13, 2020
This is not an ordinary book. It is divine. I have read it countless times and still find inner meaning on each read through. It also remains fresh and lifts your spirits no matter how often you read it.
April 28, 2020
I love this book so much.I know why Chinese Communist Party wanted to prosecute against it,it`s because its theme -Zhen,Shan,Ren,which is the summary for all the truthfulness in the universe.After reading this book,I suddenly see the light in my life!
September 13, 2020
Once someone starts talking about developing supernatural powers and how hand movements cause changes at a cellular level our ability to take them seriously should be exhausted. This book is big on claims and short on proof.
July 8, 2022
This book is great. After I read it I always feel relaxed and clearheaded no matter how I feel before I begin. It contains higher spiritual truths that put things in perspective and make life better. I recommend it to anyone looking for more purpose and peace of mind in their life.
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