China Uncensored: What is Falun Gong?

[Rico]

Can I get some cliffs or something?

 

[Warlord1991]

With the “Chinese characteristics,” China’s crippled capitalism was transformed into
“socialism;” “unemployment” became “waiting for employment;” “being laid off” from work
became “off duty;” “poverty” became the “initial stage of socialism;” and human rights and
freedom of speech and belief were reduced to the mere right to survive.

 

[Warlord1991]

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/1090031-the-book-that-is-changing-china-is-ten-years-old/

 

[Warlord1991]

The CCP’s rule is the darkest and the most ridiculous page in Chinese history. Among its
unending list of crimes, the vilest must be its persecution of Falun Gong. In persecuting
“Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance” Jiang Zemin has driven the last nail into the CCP’s
coffin. The Epoch Times believes that by understanding the true history of the CCP, we can help
prevent such tragedies from ever recurring. At the same time, we hope each one of us would
The Epoch Times is now publishing a special editori al series,
“Nine Commentaries on the Chinese Communist Party.”reflect on our innermost thoughts and examine whether our cowardice and compromise have
made us accomplices in many tragedies that could have been avoided.

 

[Warlord1991]

Justice for Falun Gong, please!

 

[Warlord1991]

"Culture offers no answers for questions such as how to expand industrial production or what
social systems to adopt. Rather, it plays an important role in providing moral guidance and
restraint. The true restoration of traditional culture shall be the recovery of humility toward
heaven, the earth and nature, respect for life, and awe before God. It will allow humanity to live
harmoniously with heaven and earth and to enjoy a heaven-given old age. "

 

[Wariowokecancel]

The CCP

 

[Warlord1991]

Today’s China appears prosperous, but social conflicts have been built up to a level never seen
before. Using political intrigues from the past, the CCP may attempt some sort of retreat,
redressing the Tiananmen Square Massacre or Falun Gong, or making another group its chosen
enemy, thereby continuing to exercise the power of terror.

 

[Michaelangelo]

This thread deserves a look

 

[Warlord1991]

This thread deserves a look

Yes, everyone should be aware of the truth about Falun Gong.

 

[Warlord1991]

As the climax to five days of protests, Falun Gong practitioners from the greater New York area gathered together near the United Nations on Dag Hammerskjold Plaza on a sunny Saturday afternoon to hold a rally calling for an end to the persecution of their spiritual practice in China.

David Tompkins, a Falun Gong practitioner who helped organize the rally, said the protests began on Sept. 23 in response to Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli leading China’s delegation to the U.N. Climate Summit.

 

[Warlord1991]

Dr. Damon Noto, spokesman for Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting, talked about the deadliest form the persecution of Falun Gong has taken: the forced harvesting of organs from living Falun Gong practitioners that Adler alluded to.

“The world will come to know what the medical community has known for years,” Noto said, “China is executing prisoners of conscience for their organs.”

 

[Warlord1991]

Wang described the organ harvesting taking place in China as using the entire machinery of the state, involving all 31 provinces and province-level cities and more than 200 hospitals, to carry out a campaign of genocide against Falun Gong practitioners.

 

[Warlord1991]

Dolkar said that the Chinese Communist Party wants every oppressed group in China, including the Tibetans and the Falun Gong practitioners, to be isolated from one another. She called upon all of those who suffer under the CCP to unite together in their opposition to it.

 

[Warlord1991]

On 13 May 1992, Li Hongzhi gave his first public seminar on Falun Gong (alternatively called Falun Dafa) in the northeastern city of Changchun. In his hagiographic spiritual biography, Li Hongzhi is said to have been taught ways of "cultivation practice" by several masters of the Buddhist and Daoist traditions, including Quan Jue, the 10th Heir to the Great Law of the Buddha School, and a master of the Great Way School with the Taoist alias of True Taoist from the Changbai Mountains. Falun Dafa is said to be the result of his reorganizing and writing down the teachings that were passed to him.

 

[Warlord1991]

Falun Gong is distinct from other qigong schools in that its teachings cover a wide range of spiritual and metaphysical topics, placing emphasis on morality and virtue, and elaborating a complete cosmology.[14] The practice identifies with the Buddhist School (Fojia), but also draws on concepts and language found in Taoism and Confucianism.[11] This has led some scholars to label the practice as a syncretic faith.[15]

 

[Warlord1991]

Demographic surveys conducted in China in 1998 found a population that was mostly female and elderly. Of 34,351 Falun Gong practitioners surveyed, 27% were male and 73% female. Only 38% were under 50 years old.[98] Falun Gong attracted a range of other individuals, from young college students to bureaucrats, intellectuals and Party officials.[99][100] Surveys in China from the 1990s found that between 23% - 40% of practitioners held university degrees at the college or graduate level—several times higher than the general population.[40]

 

[Warlord1991]

At the end of the rally Tenzin Dolkar of Students for a Free Tibet turned to address the rows of Falun Gong practitioners dressed in their characteristic yellow t-shirts that were arrayed behind the speaker’s stand.

Dolkar said that the Chinese Communist Party wants every oppressed group in China, including the Tibetans and the Falun Gong practitioners, to be isolated from one another. She called upon all of those who suffer under the CCP to unite together in their opposition to it.

 

[Warlord1991]

Independent filmmaker Jeremy Taylor gave a spirited account of how the Chinese regime violates “everything,” listing people, human rights, the environment, other countries, borders, treaties, and contracts.

Taylor professed his love for the Chinese people, but said, “The Chinese Communist Party makes me nauseated.”

 

[Warlord1991]

Soon afterward, a movement to renounce all association with the Chinese Communist Party began. To date 178 million Chinese people have done so, according to the website for the Global Service Center for the Quitting Chinese Communist Party.

At the end of the rally Tenzin Dolkar of Students for a Free Tibet turned to address the rows of Falun Gong practitioners dressed in their characteristic yellow t-shirts that were arrayed behind the speaker’s stand.