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Over 10,000 Falun Gong practitioners surrounded at the gate of
Tianjin Educational College from April 19 to April 23, 1999. This event was
caused by an article written by He Zuoxiu, a physical scientist and aca-
demician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The article
, which was published in the college
publication , cited a case that a PhD student
of Prof. He was obsessed by Li Hongzhi's theory which led him to
schizophrenia. The attack lasted four days.
Falun Gong practitioners illegally besieged Tianjin Educational College.
This was the case with the unprecedented number of Falun Gong
practitioners besetting the media. After the media reported for the first
time the cases of death and lunacy of the Falun Gong practitioners in
1994, dozens of media organizations came under organized attacks by
Falun Gong practitioners.
These media organizations included:
Beijing TV Station Shenyang TV Station
China Youth Daily Nanfang Daily
Nanfang Metropolis News Xiamen Daily
Qianjiang Evening News Qilu Evening News
Health News Digest West China City Daily
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Nanfang Rural News Hebei Politics and Law News
Xinjiang Economic News Chongqing Evening News
Wujin Daily Qiantang Weekend of Zhejiang Daily
Chinese Business View
All these media organizations are located all over the country.
From June 1 to 3, 1998, Shandong Qilu Evening News press office
was illegally besieged by more than 2,000 Falun Gong practitioners be-
cause it had published an article entitled
on April 1.
On May 24, 1998, Beijing TV reported a case of lunacy suffered from
practicing Falun Gong. It was besieged by thousands of Falun Gong prac-
titioners. Beijing TV was then forced to fire one of its editors.
Following this event, Li Hongzhi released a well-known article
which was called lection by Falun Gong, mentioning that,
"some newspapers, radio stations and TV stations in various parts of the
country have harmed our Dafa... This was deliberately harming Dafa and
cannot be ignored...Dafa disciples in Beijing adopted a special approach
to ask those people to stop harming Dafa要
this actually was not wrong."
In the same article, Li Hongzhi warned the practitioners who hadn't
participated in the besetment, "At the crucial moment when I asked you to
break away from humanness, you did not follow me. Each opportunity will
not occur again."
※ He Zuoxiu, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
and physical scientist, was denigrated by Li Hongzhi as "science ruffian"
and was threatened and molested by Falun Gong disciples because he
often disclosed daylight on the abnormal death cases of Falun Gong prac-
titioners and criticized Falun Gong theory.
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The article entitled by He Zuoxiu
was published in Volume 4, 1999 of the magazine .
※ Dao Shuren, vice chairman of the Buddhist Association of China,
once pointed out that the Buddhist circle was against the activities infring-
ing upon human rights in the name of religion. This brought him letters of
threat from the Falun Gong.
Letters of threat Dao Shuren received from the Falun Gong.
※ A host of the China Central Television news program presented a
report criticizing Falun Gong, thus receiving letters of insult and threat
from the Falun Gong.
Falun Gong followers residing at Western countries protected its ben-
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efits by means of staging mobbish besieges and lodging excessive law-
suits against others, never feeling ashamed.
In November 1998, the BBC World released a report by Correspon-
dent James Miles about Falun Gong. The report pointed out that Falun
Gong is "No.1 Cult" in China and warned people that Falun Gong would
lead to "Collective Suicide." Falun Gong supporters wrote to CEO of BBC,
the British Ambassador to China and the British Prime Minister respec-
tively, demanding for BBC's public apology. "The reaction was quite ex-
traordinary," said Miles later, "More response than to any article I've ever
written in my entire career."
On November 3, 2001, the published an article
criticizing Falun Gong. The article is a self-statement by a former female
Falun Gong follower named He Bing. A number of Falun Gong supporters
lodged a lawsuit against the newspaper for its "libel." On December 7,
2005, the Supreme Court of Quebec of Canada came to the final verdict
of the case after four years: the plaintiff Falun Gong lost the lawsuit. The
verdict pointed out, "Falun Gong is a controversial movement, which does
not accept criticism."
In December 2003, the Australian published a declara-
tion by Chinese Embassy in Australia against Falun Gong. In May 2004,
Falun Gong lodged a lawsuit at the Supreme Court of New South Wales
against the newspaper for its "libel." Afterwards, Falun Gong made use of
its own media to widely attack the and made personal at-
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tacks on the newspaper's editor-in-chief and other editors. On April 5,
2006, the Supreme Court of NSW of Australia ruled that Falun Gong lost
the lawsuit while won.
On January 21, 2005, the Associated Press published an article enti-
tled , which objectively reported
the status quo of the participants of the Tian'anmen Square self-immola-
tion incident on the Chinese New Year's Eve and their reflections on Falun
Gong. On the morning of January 25, Falun Gong organized a group of
people to demonstrate before the office building where the Associated
Press headquarters was located in Manhattan of New York, demanding
that the AP withdraw the report. On February 11, , of Falun
Gong, published an article calling the AP "down-to-earth small bastard."
The Great Wall Platform cooperated with Rogers Company in
scrupulously selecting 9 representative channels from 17 channels of the
American Great Wall Platform. The Rogers Cable agent is left to apply
with the CRTC for the entitlement to the program trans-broadcasting.
Such a local Chinese cultural and recreational affair was obstructed by
Falun Gong by every means. Between March and June of 2006, Falun
Gong organized its members for many times to demonstrate before the
Rogers' headquarters in Toronto, which severely affected the normal run-
ning of Rogers Company. On December 22, 2006, the Great Wall Plat-
form gained permission to open its business in Canada.
Falun Gong grouped the followers to demonstrate before the Rogers Cable
Headquarters in Toronto.
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On February 6, 2008, the New York Times published a feature
entitled .
Afterwards, over dozen articles were released on the website of Falun
Gong to attack and frame New York Times and the author of the article
Eric Konigberg. The articles claimed that Eric Konigsberg was well known
by his ill reputation... and was absolutely inhuman.
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Chapter 2 Harassment Goes EverywhereInfringement of public interests by Falun Gong
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The following examples illustrate the destructive activities conducted
by Falun Gong:
Over 100 cases of public communications facilities being damaged;
Tens of thousands of junk e-mails monthly;
A maximum of several million harassing phone calls monthly;
By August 7, 2007, China's civil satellites had been interfered 252
times by Falun Gong.
On the evening of March 5, 2002, the trunk fiber optical cables in
Changchun city and Songyuan city, Jilin province, were cut off by a few
Falun Gong members要 Zhou Runjun, Liu Weiming, Liang Zhenxing and
Liu Chengjun, and were linked to programs propagandizing Falun Gong.
Thousands of local citizens failed to receive the normal TV signals.
The equipment used by Falun Gong members.
In October 2002, an American Chinese Li Xiangchun, also a Falun
Gong member, was caught while he was attempting to damage the com-
munication cable in Yangzhou, Jiangsu province. He claimed at the court
that his action was not violating laws since he was helping disseminating
the "Dafa."
According to incomplete statistics, Falun Gong has conducted some
100 such destructive offences in the Chinese mainland by the end of
2006.
※ Article 124 of the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China
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specifies that: Anyone who sabotages broadcast or television facilities or
public telecommunications facilities and thereby endangers public security
shall be liable to imprisonment for a term of three to seven years and; if
circumstances are serious, to imprisonment of no less than seven years.
Why are Falun Gong followers are so keen on damaging public com-
munications facilities?
Minghui, the official mouthpiece of Falun Gong, provides the answer.
"Visit Minghui if you want to learn about anything significant," Li Hongzhi,
the leader of Falun Gong once told his followers.
The following web page presents an article on Minghui:
.
This article abets Falun Gong practitioners to interfere in TV pro-
grams: Any action to safeguard human rights in a peaceful way is rational
and legal. To insert Falun Gong contents in a TV program, is just a way of
spreading information and expressing their voices, and does harm neither
to the audience nor to the facilities... Informing the public of the truth
through such a way is to safeguard the public's right of being in the know
and protect the public interests.
Moreover, a number of articles have been published on Minghui to
show the experience in damaging public communications facilities.
published on Minghui on September
29, 2003 encouraged the act of interfering in satellite. The content is as
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follows: I am happy to learn that Dafa disciples clarified the facts of Dafa
to the public by means of inserting programs in China Educational TV,
CCTV and a dozen more provincial TVs at 9 o'clock on August 12 and 13,
2003. Dafa disciples are reanimated to a great extent. I would like to ex-
tend my congratulations and respect to those participating in this act.
released on Minghui on December 24, 2006, claimed that Dafa disciples
from almost all over the world joined in such teams worldwide and there
were often organized actions to make phone calls to the key regions and
key industries within China.
re-
leased on Minghui on January 19, 2007 instigated Falun Gong practition-
ers to collect phone numbers and make annoying phone calls. It was dic-
tated: to collect numbers city by city and classify by categories such as
street offices, residents committees, villagers committees, or public secu-
rity bureaus, substations, dispatched stations and houses of detention, or
press and information organs, etc.. Once collected, it must be submitted
to Minghui immediately.
According to incomplete statistics, there are over 30 million junk
e-mails sent to China's mainland from abroad monthly.
Falun Gong organization admitted on its website that they made
more than 8 million annoying phone calls to China from abroad by virtue
of technical means in January and February of 2004.
On February 25, 2006, Li Hongzhi told Falun Gong practitioners,
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"Some people have suggested writing 'Falun Dafa is good' or 'Quitting the
Party' on Renminbi. I think that's a good idea . You can't throw away
money, and you can't destroy it."
Falun Gong slogans written on the paper currency
※ Article 18 of the Law of the People's Republic of China on the
People's Bank of China: Any counterfeiting, altering or illegal printing or
minting of Renminbi is prohibited. Selling or buying counterfeit or altered
Renminbi is prohibited. Transportation, possession or use of counterfeit,
altered or illegally printed or minted Renminbi is prohibited. Deliberate
damaging of Renminbi is prohibited. Illegal use of the image of Renminbi
in propaganda materials, publications or other commodities is prohibited.
※ Article 27 of the Regulations of the People's Republic of China
on the Administration of Renminbi regulates that: The following mischief
against RMB is forbidden: (1) Deliberate damage of RMB.
The satellite Sino I providing dozens of TV channels of the China's
mainland was hacked on June 23, 2002, by Falun Gong's illegal signal
sent from Taiwan province.
Falun Gong supporters do not think it is committing crimes. They
instead regard their actions as safeguarding China's Constitution and
international conventions. The way Falun Gong speculates to protect
themselves from being condemned for their attack against the
communication satellite is so strange that it is totally incompatible with the
global practice.
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※ According to UN Charter and relevant conventions and radio
regulation of the International Telecommunication Union, it is illegal to
deliberately disrupt or jam normal satellite TV broadcasting.
Sketch of Satellite Sino I Transmission
The record of satellite Sino I being attacked by Falun Gong
From June 23, 2002 to August 7, 2007, some civil satellites including
Sino I, Asia Pacific Sat VI and Asia 3S were hacked 252 times with a total
of 160 hours by the Falun Gong organization.
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Chapter 3 Disease or Karma
Li Hongzhi's attitude toward medical help
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Falun Gong was initiated in 1990s by an employee of Changchun
State-Owned Cereals and Oils Company in Jilin province named Li
Hongzhi, who now calls himself "the God of the Universe." However, a
large number of Falun Gong practitioners died of the cult; some
committed suicide, some were killed by others, and most of them died of
diseases for they refused to seek any medical help.
3.1 Medical helps are rejected by Falun Gong followers
After one was born, he or she may fall ill sometime throughout the
life. When one is ill he would usually take medicine, to have an injection or
to see a doctor for professional help, this is a common sense universally
acknowledged by any adults with proper thinking and judging capacity. But
sadly, this is not the case with some people.Zhang Jinsheng, aged 21, living in northeast China's Liaoning
province burnt his arm accidentally. But he refused to receive medical
treatment. Consequently, he died of septicaemia in November 1998
caused by the wound infection.①
Li Qiaoying, 58 years old, felt sick in October 1998. But she refused
to be treated at hospital and died of cerebral thrombosis in the following
December. Two days before her death, she was suffering from paralysis
and lost the ability of talking. Li kept weeping but it was too late to repent.②
Hu Aiping in Taiyuan city, Shanxi province, hadn't been well for a longtime and her family tried to get her any medical help, but in vain. One day,
she passed out and was sent to hospital by her family. Hu was diagnosed
① People.com.cn,
(July 19, 2001)
② People's Daily, (Au-
gust 3, 1999)
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as tubercular meningitis and she died on April 22, 1999.①
Sun Xixian was a retired veteran cadre retired from a financial
institution in Dalian city, Liaoning province, and was constantly ill for a long
time. On May 31, 1999, he didn't feel well but still refused to go to
hospital. His wife knelt down in front of him and begged him to see a
doctor but was refused bluntly. On the early morning of June 1, Sun died
because of the delay in seeking medical treatment.②
Statistics show that more than 1,400 persons died, directly or
indirectly, of Falun Gong before it was banned July 1999. This is one of
the key reasons why Chinese Government banned the group.
Falun Gong practitioner Hu Guangying, a retired worker in Shanghai
aged 59, caught an ordinary dermatosis in January 2001, but she
resolutely refused to accept medical treatment, and finally died of purulent
infection on the affected part.③
Yao Huimin living in Jianhua district of Qiqihar city , Heilongjiang
province, had got diabetes; as a practitioner, he refused to seek medical
help, and when Li Jing, his wife, begged him in tears to go to hospital, he
replied: "The Master is testing me with this so as to eliminate karma; don't
be afraid, Master will help me to eliminate karma and to remove my
disease as well." But he died of illness in April 2005, and he finally woke
① People.com.cn,
② People.com.cn,
③ Kaiwind, (November 1, 2007)
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up to reality before death: "Falun Gong killed me."①
In March 2006, Falun Gong core member Li Guodong died of liver
cancer in New York.②
Feng Lili, a core member of Falun Gong organization in US, claimed
that "Falun Gong has magic effect in building up health and keeping fit."
Her illness was diagnosed as pancreas cancer but she refused to take
medicine or to go to hospital and died in Houston on June 22, 2006.③
On the New Year's Day of 2007, Falun Gong core member Zhu
Genmei who lived in Germany died unexpectedly because of blood
infection resulting from delayed treatment as she refused to have medical
treatment for her diabetes.④
These are merely a few cases of death among Falun Gong
practitioners caused by refusing medical help, for Falun Gong
organizations deliberately hid from the public more deaths of practitioners,
especially those of overseas practitioners.
3. 2 Why Falun Gong practitioners refuse medical help
In the early days after Falun Gong was founded, many people joined
it in hopes of building up health or keeping fit. But Li Hongzhi led the
practitioners to participate in "Cultivation" and onto a wrong path step by
step. Many practitioners were trapped and had no way to free themselves,
① Kaiwind, (April, 15, 2008)
② Xinhua, (November 29, 2006)
③ Xinhua, (November 29, 2006)
④ Xinhua,
(September 7, 2007)
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some even lost their lives. To practice Falun Gong is more complicated
than merely repeating some dancing movements, for practitioners must
comply strictly with a lot of doctrines invented by Li Hongzhi.
Li Hongzhi, the founder of Falun Gong, was also one of the Qigong
masters becoming popular in 1980s and 1990s in China, who claimed to
possess "super power" and "extraordinary powers." With "Qigong
Workshop" and the services treating diseases with "extraordinary powers,"
Li Hongzhi made a fortune but then risks followed as well.
Li Hongzhi was forced to refund a treatment fee of RMB 30 at the
1993 Qigong Expo in Beijing, at the insistence of Expo staff, when he
failed to cure a particular case.①
Li Shulin, 53-year-old, suffered from outburst of cerebral thrombosis
at a Falun Gong training course held by Li Hongzhi in August, 1994.
According to Li Hongzhi's explanation, it was a normal reaction as Li
Shulin was practicing higher-level Falun Gong and there was no need to
take medicines or injection. A couple of days later, Li died.②
In order to avoid potential risks, instead of calling himself Qigong
master, Li Hongzhi claimed that he was "the top Buddha in the universe."
He published in 1994 and explained the core theories of
Falun Gong, demanding that no doubt be allowed on these theories by
Falun Gong practitioners, otherwise, their "Cultivation" would end up in
great troubles and the practitioners would be eliminated.
The core of Falun Gong theory: Human beings are superior lives from
the universe falling on the earth. The earth is the garbage station of the
universe and America is the garbage station of the earth. Since the
morality of the human beings was ruined, this would further lead to the
① Kaiwind, (April 24, 2008)
② Kaiwind, (April 24, 2008)
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blast of the earth and the extermination of human beings. It is Li Hongzhi
who will save the human beings with Falun Gong theory prepared by
him long long ago when the human beings had been destroyed already
several times. Learning Dafa can not only eliminate all the sickness and
trouble, but also turn all the practitioners into superior lives of the universe
such as Buddha, Dao and God. Whoever disbelieves Falun Gong will be
exterminated.
"Karma resulting from past wrongdoing, one has illnesses or
tribulations."①
"Why do people have health problems? The root cause of their
problem and all their misfortune is karma."②
"I've told you that when we cultivators feel uncomfortable somewhere
in our bodies it isn't sickness."③
As for Buddhism, the basic meaning of "Karma" is cause and effect.
Buddhist doctrine believes that all deeds, speeches, and thoughts will
have certain "effect." Since there are good and bad causes, there're also
corresponding good and bad effects. The results or "fruits" of actions are
called karma. Good karma will have good results or effects and will make
you go to the heaven in your next life; while bad karma will have bad
results or effects and you'll end up in the hell in your next life because of
① Li Hongzhi,
② Li Hongzhi,
③ Li Hongzhi, (March 23, 1997)
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that.
But Li Hongzhi tells his followers that no "Karma" is good, for "Karma"
is the basic reason why people fall ill or suffer in their lives. In other words,
physical illness is actually caused by the "Karma" of someone because of
the bad deeds he or she did in previous or present lives.
Li Hongzhi said: "Karma is a dark substance opposite to morals, it's
known as the bad karma in Buddhism and we just call it Karma. So to do
bad things is to make karma, and Karma is caused by the wrongdoings of
a person in previous or present lives, such as killing living beings, bullying
others, taking advantages of others by force, gossiping about other people
behind their back, or treating others badly, all these will cause Karma.
Moreover, your ancestors, friends, and relatives will also pass on Karma
to you."①
"What we lose, actually, is something bad. And what is it? It's karma,
and it's intertwined with all the different attachments people have. For
example, ordinary people have all sorts of character flaws, and they do all
kinds of bad things to benefit themselves. So they get this black matter,
karma."②
Buddhism has a long history of more than two thousand years in
China, with profound and extensive influence. Although most Chinese are
not Falun Gong practitioners, yet they still believe in such Buddhist
thoughts as "comeuppance" or "samsara." Being affected by the teachings
of Li Hongzhi, Falun Gong practitioners started to believe in the theory
that Karma will cause diseases. As for them, illness is not the pathological
changes of physical tissues or organs but is caused by the bad things they
have done in previous or present lives, in other words, illness is caused by
Karma. Unfortunately, the wrong belief leads them to a road of tragedy.
① Li Hongzhi,
② Li Hongzhi,
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" (Some veteran practitioners) always go to the hospital to get
injections but it doesn't work. And taking medicine doesn't do much,
either...One of our students went to the hospital and had several syringe
needles bend on him ... but the needle still couldn't go in. Then he caught
on, 'Wait, I'm a cultivator! I don't want any more injections.'"①
"Once ill, the person takes medicine or seeks various kinds of
treatments, which in effect press the sickness back into the body again."②
"Because some diseases are not restricted within the scope of
worldly laws; some are so big that they go beyond any worldly law, that's
why no hospital can treat them."③
"If the master's potency is very high, then he can eliminate karma for
you."④
"The first thing is to get rid of the bad stuff in your body, and that
includes health problems. But we don't do healing here. What we do is
cleanse the body. And we don't use the term 'healing,' we just call it
cleansing the body要 we cleanse the body for true cultivators."⑤
"Maybe some folks would...be ill like that for years...How could you
cultivate with your remaining years? We have to clean up all of that for
you and not let those things happen."⑥
① Li Hongzhi,
② Li Hongzhi, (March 10, 1996)
③ Li Hongzhi,
④ Li Hongzhi,
⑤ Li Hongzhi,
⑥ Li Hongzhi,
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"Taking medicine while practicing Falun Gong means not believing
that Falun Gong is able to cure illness. If you believe, why do you need to
take medicine? "①
"You want to let out this karma, yet you take medicine and press it
back in要 how are we supposed to cleanse your body?"②
"I just went over the issue of taking medicine again...If he doesn't
want to cultivate, even if he choose s to take poison, it's an everyday
person's affair. Nobody else can do anything if his mind remains
unchanged."③
"When physical symptoms appear, as for ordinary people, it's disease
and they would go to hospital; but as for practitioners, it's Karma and a
sign warning you that you haven't improved yourself for a long time and
there's a leak. It is an illusion, which will come and go in your mind."④
"My neck was so rigid that, at any movement, I would feel dizzy,
weak, confused and want to vomit...but at that time, I haven't compre-
hended the teachings of master very well and no matter how hard my wife
tried to communicate with me, I've only managed to make it for seven
days and on the seventh day, I wasn't unwilling to go to hospital...I regret it
so much for not being able to pass the test...At the thought of practicing, I
felt so oppressed...I almost felt like suffocating, a panic that was out of my
control, and an overwhelming bad omen. But at the same time, I felt sober
① Li Hongzhi,
② Li Hongzhi, (March 23, 1997)
③ Li Hongzhi, (March 23, 1997)
④ Minghui, (January 24, 2008) http://www.minghui.
org/mh/articles/2008/1/24/170966.html
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than ever before. Keeping in mind the lesson I learned from last case of
illness karma, no matter how panic I felt, I managed to stay calm and to
have strong confidence in both master and Fa. With a strong belief, all
karma can be eliminated. I got rid of all worries and concerns, keeping
telling myself that, with the help of master, by sticking to Fa, why would I
be afraid and why would I be concerned about other things?"①
"For the last few years, I've learned Fa but haven't focused on Fa,
and the actual practice is even worse. So when the sign of illness ap-
peared several years ago, I failed in getting the right message. Because I
haven't practiced it well enough, together with the effect of Karma, I be-
come increasingly ill."②
On July 2, 2008, a practitioner named Xuantong published an article,
, on Minghui which said: "When we fall ill, apart from staying
free from the interference and disturbance of the Old Force, we should al-
so know that it's the time when we should pay back for what we've done
before. At the same time, to pass the test of illness is a good chance for
us to improve ourselves. Facing illness, we should send forth righteous
thoughts but to fight with the Old Force is not all that we should do, for we
should also accept and repay what we should (it's probable that we've
done something wrong in the heaven or during our previous lives). What
we should fight with is all sorts of oppression forced on us and I think the
point is that we must always keep in mind to continuously improve our-
selves."③
You can find similar articles almost everyday on the website, from
which it becomes clear that many practitioners have never doubted about
the theory of "curing disease by practicing Falun Gong" preached by Li
Hongzhi. They stubbornly believe that their illness will go away if they
keep practicing Falun Gong and keep eliminating Karma.
① Minghui, (February 10, 2008)
http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2008/2/10/172148.html
② Minghui, (May 20, 2008) http://www.
minghui.org/mh/articles/2008/5/20/178818.html
③ Minghui, http:// www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2008/7/4/181394.html
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As a result, the practitioners don't seek any medical help when they
fall ill and the only thing they do is practice Falun Gong in the hope that
the illness will go away.
3.3 Endless sufferings from "removing Karma"
During their practicing Falun Gong, many practitioners fell ill and
wanted to go to hospital for professional medical help, but at the thought
of "Karma," they had to drop the idea and believed that even the thought
of "seeking medical help" was disrespect to Master Li Hongzhi.
Here are some examples:
"At about eleven o'clock at night on September 25, 2007, I fell asleep
and then suddenly woke up with acute stomachache and a heavy head.
My entire body ached, I vomited and had severe diarrhea. After midnight, I
felt dizzy, confused, and weak due to watery diarrhea, and then I couldn't
recall how I ended up lying on the cold cement ground of the courtyard af-
ter stepping out of the toilet ... But I denied it immediately, for I was on the
road to becoming God and no illness would affect God. So I realized that
this was the persecution on me by the Old Force, so I denied and ignored
it as a fake appearance. Master once told us that the only thing the Old
Force wanted to do was to change others while it had always been the
same without any change. So I told the Old Force: you refuse to assimi-
late to Dafa, you threaten the public with those Old Theories, you prevent
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Master from rectifying Fa, and so you have no right to test me."①
"I hadn't felt well in my belly for several months last year, both my
mother and my spouse said I should go to hospital for a physical examina-
tion, but I didn't agree with them, for I knew it was caused by the elimina-
tion of karma ... It came once again on the second day, and I dealt with it
by sending forth righteous thoughts while lying on bed for a rest at night.
For my revelation was apparently not a thorough one, on the third day,
things became worse. My belly couldn't stand even a gentle touch; I
couldn't eat anything, had no strength to go to toilet and it almost killed me
at even a small movement. Later on, my entire body ached so much that I
felt difficult to talk and then even to breathe. I kept coughing and yawning;
I ground my teeth due to the pain and had to rub my belly with both hands.
At night, it still hurt very much when I rest on my sides, on back, or with a
pillow behind. I tried to relieve the pain by pressing tightly against the belly
with hands and found a lump inside."②
"One day, I had a fever and my body ached so much that I tumbled
on bed, sweating a lot. I thought that a long time had passed, but accord-
ing to the watch, I have endured for only ten minutes. I told myself to hold
it for one more minute, and then another minute after that; for I knew Mas-
ter was with me there. So I kept telling myself: Master, I can do this! ... I
kept reciting the teaching of Fa-rectification of Master: 'Fa will rectify the
universe, and all evils will be eliminated.' I believed that the power of these
words would help me get rid of the illness Karma, so heavy a burden on
me like a big mountain."③
"After I finished doing morning exercises on the thirteenth day of the
first lunar month and right after I sent forth six righteous thoughts , I felt
acute aches in both waist and belly, accompanied by vomit and diarrhea.
① Minghui, (July 13, 2007) http://www.minghui.
org/mh/articles/2007/12/13/168292.html
② Minghui, (July 10, 2007)
http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2007/10/4/163886.html
③ Minghui, (February 3, 2008) http:
//www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2008/2/3/171631.html
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The first thought coming into my mind was: this is the persecution of the
evil force. So I asked for the help of Master immediately ... I kept sending
forth righteous thoughts, although I quickly became bed-ridden and
couldn't move around, yet I kept practicing it and around eleven in noon, I
called two practitioners living in my neighborhood, asking them to help me
in sending forth righteous thoughts."①
"A dozen of days before February 23, my spouse suffered he-
matemesis occasionally but we didn't pay much attention to it at first by
discarding it as the elimination of karma. But on the night of February 23,
my spouse had acute pain in chest and couldn't fall into asleep due to
cough for three days after that. At that time, we realized that it was the
persecution of the Old Force and started to fight against it by sending
forth righteous thoughts, for that's the correct road arranged for us by
Master. My spouse became increasingly thin due to the pain and our col-
leagues said we should go to hospital. They knew we were practitioners
and worried for us because they didn't know the law of Fa. But no matter
what they said, my spouse never did it."②
"After half a year of practice, I started to purify my body and my lips
had had ulcer for several months. Others said I had suffered from exces-
sive internal heat, but I knew it was because of physical purification and I
didn't feel much pain. When the illness karma was in the form of fever, I
sneezed and then realized that this was a way to get rid of the evil things
in my body. Master helped me to keep good things and to get rid of bad
things. One day, I had a fever. I thought to myself that I didn't get the truth
and the fever would surely be gone soon. I usually had those rice-like
things on my head and I knew that was the secretion of those bad things
in my body, my head itched so much but I knew the illness karma on my
head would soon be eliminated. One time, I had this bad pain of trigemi-
① Minghui,
(March 10, 2008) http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2008/3/10/174036.html
② Minghui,
(May 13, 2008) http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2008/5/13/178364.html
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nal, I had fever and felt very cold, but I told myself: I could manage all the
tests and all the difficulties."①
"One of my teeth ached all of a sudden this April and the sending
forth righteous thoughts just couldn't help a bit; I couldn't fall into asleep
because of the ache... There was nothing I could do to stop the ache.
Since sending forth righteous thoughts could do nothing about it, I started
to turn inward for help and since I couldn't fall asleep, I got up to learn
Dafa or to practice it more."②
Falun Gong published on its official website on August 4, 2006, an ar-
ticle titled :
. According to the article, a kid had a
high fever, the mother, a Falun Gong practitioner, practiced Falun Gong in
hopes of helping the kid fighting against the fever instead of seeking medi-
cal help. In the end, her 20-month-old baby "had four convulsions from the
midnight till the noon of the next day."③
On February 12, 2008, Minghui published an article
, which said: "On the
afternoon of November 17, 2007, Xiaoge, my niece, said she didn't feel
well and wanted to lie down for a rest. Then she said she wanted to go to
toilet but fell on the floor when she arrived at the door. We put her on the
bed but she started to stare blankly in front of her shortly after that, both
legs becoming stiff. It seemed to us that she was going to die, but then
several practitioners and I talked to her, be it illness karma or the arrange-
ment of the Old Force or the persecution of the Evil Force, we shouldn't
① Minghui,
(May 14, 2008) http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2008/5/14/178416.html
② Minghui, (May 16, 2008) http://www.minghui.
org/mh/articles/2008/5/16/178612.html
③ Minghui, http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2006/8/4/134681.html
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accept it, we should believe in Master and ask for his help, and Xiaoge
would be just fine." Then the practitioners started to practice it in hopes of
"treating Xiaoge," but still she "passed out" for several times.①
On June 23, 2008, according to
, "Doudou had to pass the test of illness karma after we came to
Korea. She had high fever, her body ached, she had a sore throat and her
heart ached too. She cried when she couldn't stand it anymore, but still
she's been strong as always." Both her parents are practitioners, so in-
stead of sending the kid to hospital for professional help, they insisted that
the girl should "go to take part in the demonstration held on the second
day."②
So these practitioners really believe that to practice Falun Gong will
help them to cure the diseases, so they'd rather put up with the acute
pains or let the baby suffer four convulsions in half a day than seek any
professional help. In this sense, to practice Falun Gong not only brings
pains to themselves and their families but also put their lives and the lives
of their families at risk.
A practitioner in Yancheng city , Jiangsu province, refused to go to
hospital and finally committed suicide by cutting open an artery so as to
get away from all the pains; in one of his pocket, there's medicine that he
didn't dare to take when he's alive.③
① Minghui, http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2008/2/12/172235.html
② Minghui, http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2008/6/30/181136.html
③ Xinhua,
(May 15, 2000)
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In January 1997, Liu Yazhen, a retired worker of Zhaoyuan county
Speed-Setting Engine Plant in Heilongjiang province , felt that her legs
ached so much that she went to see a doctor. She was finally diagnosed
as psychoneurosis. After practicing Falun Gong, Liu refused to take any
medicine her family bought for her, telling them that: "Master doesn't want
me to take any medicine and he promises to help me when it's necessary."
Shortly after Liu refused to take medicine, the illness became increasingly
severe and she started to doubt Falun Gong. She talked to the counselor
but was told that this was because Master was eliminating Karma for her
and that she would be punished and there would be severe consequence
if she stopped practicing. With such a painful and lingering disease, Liu
couldn't bear it any longer and, leaving her last will to the family ,
drowned herself in a river on the midnight of June 29. In the letter Liu said:
"To practice Falun Gong makes me become a vegetable and Master
didn't come to me when I fell ill. I can't bear it anymore so I decide to
leave you."①
Mr. Li said, "Since we're guiding you down the true path, during
Triple-World-Law cultivation we're always purifying, purifying, and purifying
your body for you, all the way until it's completely transformed into
high-energy matter. But you're still bringing all that black stuff onto your
body要
how are you going to cultivate? That's karma! You won't be able
to cultivate one bit."②
"There's no way you'd succeed at true cultivation without my Law
Bodies' protection 要 the moment you stepped outside, maybe your life
① Chinanews.com, (March 21, 2001)
② Li Hongzhi,
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would be at risk."①
"My Law bodies are aware of everything. Whatever you think about,
they're aware of it, and they can do anything."②
"While I just sit here I can see things in Beijing, things in the United
States, or things on the other side of the world."③
"When a life is truly weeded out it is horrific."④
While threatening those who dare to violate his teachings, Li Hongzhi
greatly encourages the practitioners sticking strictly to his teachings.
"How much Dafa disciples put in is how much they'll get out. Even an
average, ordinary being will, after bearing responsibility for the good things
and the bad things, be rendered in thefuture everything he accumulated."⑤
"In fact, cultivation is about coming here to suffer, not coming here to
be protected in the human world. When one studies Dafa he will be pro-
tected, but cultivating Dafa also requires one to endure suffering."⑥
"The principles of cultivators and those of ordinary people are oppo-
site. Human beings believe that a life of comfort is a good thing, while
Dafa disciples believe that having everything be easy is a bad thing when
it comes to their improvement and that discomfort is conducive to im-
provement."⑦
"Human beings think it's a bad thing to experience hardships. But suf-
fering hardships can reduce an ordinary person's karma and sins. When a
person endures a lot of hardship during his lifetime, he will receive bless-
① Li Hongzhi,
② Li Hongzhi,
③ Li Hongzhi,
④ Li Hongzhi, (May 28, 2006)
⑤ Li Hongzhi, (May 23, 2004)
⑥ Li Hongzhi, (November 5, 2005)
⑦ Li Hongzhi, (November 5, 2005)
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ings in his next life."①
"Dafa disciples all know that enduring hardship eliminates karma, and
that it furthermore furnishes opportunities to improve oneself...When you
are able...make it through the right way, you will have overcome that test,
your level will have been raised, your realm will have elevated, and your
gong will have risen, right?"②
In this way, all Falun Gong practitioners believe that all their deeds
are under the strict supervision of Li Hongzhi, so they worry that to take
medicine or to get an injection will surely be punished by Li Hongzhi and
that all violating the teachings will be eliminated by Li. By the way, not to
get medical help would help them to improve their "Cultivation," that's why
they've been trapped in a vicious circle of "falling ill要 Cultivation要 falling
ill once again 要 more Cultivation." They've got no way to get away from
the trap set by Li Hongzhi and are willing to bear the sufferings caused by
illness, they'd rather kill themselves in the end than break the rules set up
by their Master.
3.4 Li Hongzhi's explanations to the deaths
of his faithful disciples
Many Falun Gong practitioners died and this caused great turmoil
and upset among those still alive. More and more practitioners ask LiHongzhi, "Why would there be Falun Gong practitioners dying of illness?"
And here are some of the explanations provided by Li Hongzhi:
① Li Hongzhi, (May 28, 2006)
② Li Hongzhi, (May 28, 2006)
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"From the perspective of cultivation, for a person to rise above ordi-
nary people, he has to get rid of all human attachments, and that's how
the old forces took advantage of this and arranged all those things. For in-
stance, they arranged for certain students to appear sick at certain times,
and for certain students to depart first at a certain time. The old forces ar-
ranged for some people they picked to come in [to Dafa]. Those people
seem to be cultivating Dafa, and some even appear very diligent, but in
fact they came in under the old forces' arrangements to enable those
things to happen when the time came . It was the old forces' intention all
along to weed out those beings . So, they made them commit sins by
doing things that would interfere with Dafa 要 that's the role they wanted
them to play. Of course, they only did that with the beings they'd selected
for elimination. Among my Dafa disciples there are some who were used
and deceived by them in the past, for example, [they might have said] 'for
you to reach Consummation you'll have to do such and such at such and
such time.' There are cases like that. That's why the true and fake ones
are mixed together, and it's difficult to tell right away which ones have
come to stir up trouble and which ones are Dafa disciples."①
"Many were Dafa disciples deceived by them, while some were ar-
ranged by them; they all agreed to it at some point in history, and that is
why it's hard to handle. Also, while being persecuted, they weren't clear-
headed or rational, and didn't remember that they were Dafa disciples, nor
could they remember Master, as if it were all just human beings persecut-
ing other human beings. Plus, they were arranged that way by the old
forces back in history, so they couldn't reject it. You tell me, how do you
handle that?"②
① Li Hongzhi, (November 29, 2003)
② Li Hongzhi, (November 29, 2003)
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"Cultivation and Dafa are solemn, and they can turn human beings in-
to gods. The old forces can't stand that, so they want to test you. They
want to see if you will still say Dafa is good and stay and cultivate when
they have people pass away who have reached the end of their life spans.
The old forces have done that, so when a student faces life-threatening
danger, you can't say that he is not good or that he has some serious
problems. That is actually the old forces creating a disturbance by taking
advantage of human attachments."①
"It's likely the old forces will lead him to have problems and even
make him leave us early in order to test other students."②
"If certain students can't manage to get rid of long-standing attach-
ments inside themselves, they can be persecuted and interfered with.
[They might think,] 'I've been doing the exercises, and my illnesses have
been cured. I feel so good. My life has become easier.' Their understand-
ing always remains at that level and they can't understand the Fa on the
basis of the Fa, and that makes it easy for problems to come up."③
"Cultivation is a serious matter. That test of one's mind is a black or
white issue. The more attached you are, the worse you will feel. When
you go to the hospital for an examination you will be made to see that your
illness has gotten worse. Yet you still don't enlighten to it. Since you still
don't enlighten to it, it becomes more and more serious, and in the end
you truly can't make it. That happens because you are not a genuine stu-
dent, you don't study the Fa, and you can't let go of your attachment to
① Li Hongzhi, (Novem-
ber 21, 2004)
② Li Hongzhi, (Novem-
ber 21, 2004)
③ Li Hongzhi, (Novem-
ber 21, 2004)
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your illness. You are just an ordinary person who wants to get his illness
cured...If you can truly cultivate, when you can truly let go of your attach-
ment to living or your fear of death 要 and not just act that way for others
to see while constantly thinking about it inside要 then no matter what kind
of illness you have, it will be cured."①
"If that person still doesn't get it after being given chances for so long,
even if he has cultivated for years and has followed others in doing Dafa
work, if he still can't let go on a fundamental level of his attachment to
getting healed, then on a fundamental level he is still not a student, and he
will depart when he reaches the end of his lifespan."②
"As for deceived Dafa disciples, there's no doubt about it, Consum-
mation is for sure."③
"Regardless of whether my Dafa disciples were killed as a result of
persecution or departed this world as a result of being persecuted by the
old forces during this period of time, they have all reached Consumma-
tion."④
Whether or not some Falun Gong practitioners really reached con-
summation and became Buddha and God or not, no one knows, for all
that we can see are cold cadavers.
In this sense, as for Li Hongzhi, the death of Falun Gong practitioners
has nothing to do with either his theory or the practicing of Falun Gong.
① Li Hongzhi, (Novem-
ber 21, 2004)
② Li Hongzhi, (Novem-
ber 21, 2004)
③ Li Hongzhi, (November 29, 2003)
④ Li Hongzhi, (April 7, 2007)
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3.5 Li Hongzhi takes medicine instead of
taking a chance
When Li Hongzhi worked at Changchun State-Owned Cereals andOils Company, he and his daughter used to get medical services and
there were a total of 73 reimbursement receipts for the purpose, among
which 48 were for medical services gained by Li Hongzhi.①
From 1982 to1992 when Li Hongzhi worked at the Security Division of Changchun
State-owned Cereals and Oils Company, he sought medical services in a total of seven
hospitals including Changchun Hospital, Changchun People's Hospital, No. 208 PLAHospital, and Changchun Chaoyang District Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
And this is the signature of Li Hongzhi on one of the reimbursement receipts.
① Chinanews.com, (February
23, 2001)
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In 1984, Li Hongzhi was hospitalized for surgery due to acute puru-
lent appendicitis; in other words, the method of treatment by "eliminating
Karma" proposed by Li Hongzhi wasn't applicable to himself and he re-
fused to risk his own life to test the correctness of his own "eliminating
Karma" theory.①
In-patient medical records for Li Hongzhi in July 1987
"I have taught you cultivation, but that doesn't mean I am cultivating
just as you are...Nothing in the Fa I've taught says that the Master must
go through grueling cultivation just as cultivators do...Divine beings who
save people come down to rescue them, so they can't be the same as hu-
man beings...should divine beings, who don't have karma, have to suffer
even a bit? It was human beings' karma weighing them down...Divine be-
ings who save people really can't be the same as those being saved. Say
someone has fallen into a mud pit: would it make sense for him to refuse
① People's Daily,
(August 5, 1999)
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① Li Hongzhi, (February
26, 2005)
help if I offered to pull him out, and he insisted, 'You have to jump in here
and be like me before I'll let you save me'? There's no such thing."①
Therefore, the reason why Falun Gong practitioners refuse medical
help is that Falun Gong makes them lose basic ability of telling right from
wrong and because they've been confused and manipulated by Li Hongzhi
and his theory on "Cultivation" and they are no longer the master of them-
selves.
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As far as a human being is concerned, life is undoubtedly priceless.
People with common sense regard killing as an extremely irrational
behavior and believe that the killer should be held responsible legally and
economically for the death. But the obsessed Falun Gong practitioners
have their own interpretation of suicide and killing which are totally differ-
ent from that of "the ordinary people," and to make things worse, they put
their idea into actions.
In 1998, Ma Jianmin, a retired worker at the age of 54 in Hebei
province, killed himself with scissors in order to seek for the wheel of law
which Li Hongzhi claimed was installed in the abdomen of each Falun
Gong practitioner.①
Ma Jianmin
On January 23, 2001, the New Year's Eve, seven Falun Gong
practitioners, including a 12-year-old girl among the five females, burnt
themselves at Tian'anmen Square, which caused one female to die on the
spot. One month later, her 12-year-old daughter Liu Siying also died of serious burn complication.②
① Cnfxj.org,
(June 15, 2007)
② Cnfxj.org, (June 15,
2007)
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In April 2004, eight-year-old Dai Nan was regarded as a demon and
was choked to death before over 40 Falun Gong practitioners by her
mother Guan Shuyun from Yichun city of Heilongjiang province.①
Dai Nan
Incomplete statistics show that before July 22, 1999, the day the
Chinese government banned Falun Gong according to law, over 1,400
① Xinhua,
(May 13, 2002)
Liu Siying
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people died of practicing Falun Gong, among which, 136 people
committed suicide and many innocent people were killed by Falun Gong
practitioners. Today, the number of fatalities brought about by Falun Gong
has declined sharply, but far from zero.
The distribution chart of 1,404 people who died from practicing Falun Gong
Then, why do some people, who used to be normal, choose to
commit suicide or kill others after they have practiced Falun Gong for a
certain period of time?
4.1 Falun Gong led its followers to suicide
4.1.1 Practitioners wishing to keep fit would soon find out
that "Cultivation Practice" is far more complicated than they
have expected.
Falun Gong made its debut in the form of a Qigong exercise and was
flourishing in the late 1980s when all forms of Qigong schools sprang up
all over China. Li Hongzhi was working for State-Owned Cereals and Oils
Company in Changchun and, caught up in the nationwide promotion of
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Qigong, took classes in two of its disciplines. He later combined them with
elements of Thai dance to create the school notoriously known as the
Falun Gong. Before December 1994, Li Hongzhi had charged fees for his
healing sessions ranged between scores and hundreds of Renminbi. Falun
Gong practitioners were ordinary Qigong enthusiasts, they joined in and
began to practice Falun Gong with a hope to improve health and keep fit.
Later on something went wrong with Li Hongzhi and his Qigong. Li
changed his mind and abandoned his plan of making money by holding
training courses or "healing sessions of Gong."
In August 1994, Falun Gong adherent Li Shulin from Liaoning
province suffered a cerebral thrombosis. He implored Li Hongzhi to send
out Qi to revive him in vain; then died a few days later.①
To totally eliminate the potential risks arising from "healing sessions
of Gong," Li Hongzhi published a book titled in 1994. This
book, a compilation of Li's remarks on "Cultivation Practice" of Falun
Gong in the past, established the fundamental principles for Falun Gong
practitioners to abide by.
From then on, besides practicing dancing-like movement drills, Falun
Gong followers have to strictly observe the rules Li Hongzhi stipulated in
, the teachings Li later on mentioned in Fa-teaching occa-
sions and innumerable other "Scriptures." For Falun Gong practitioners,
whoever dares to violate these rules or betray Li Hongzhi, would be, in Li's
own words, severely punished or even "destroyed body and soul" and "put
into hell."
4.1.2 Thoroughly imbued with Falun Gong "doctrines," the
practitioners lose judgment and the ability to reason by and by.
Some suffer from mental disorders.
Most practitioners wish to keep their bodies strong or cure illness by
① Kaiwind, (November 1, 2007)
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practicing Falun Gong just as they do with other kinds of Qigong. Yet un-
der the guidance of "One and the only one way" doctrine and absolute
one-way information receiving, the practitioners practice Falun Gong at
lest twice a day, they are asked to read Master's books, listen to his tapes
and watch his videos whenever they have time so as to "advance" in the
Fa studies. In fact, some disciples are totally sealed off by Falun Gong
teachings and lose interests in doing or thinking about other things. As
time goes by, the practitioners get accustomed to hypnotic practices and
their minds are full of Falun Gong heresies. Eventually they are complete-
ly brain-washed to lose judgment and the ability to reason. Furthermore,
under intensified inculcation and strong temptation of "Remove Karma,"
"Get into a higher level" and "Reach Consummation," many Falun Gong
practitioners have difficulty in controlling themselves: some suffer from il-
lusion or other mental disorders; a few of them are totally out of mind and
kill themselves.
Shi Shuyan, female, a peasant lived in Southeast Camp village,
Dongguang town, Dongguang county, Hebei province. In March 1999, she
began to get obsessed with Falun Gong and became absentminded. Ab-
surd behaviors followed as the result. On May 1, 1999, she told others
while practicing Falun Gong that, she could go to Paradise after digging
out the "pellet" in her mouth. And later on her mouth was full of blood. On
the early morning of May 3, Shi tried again to dig out the "pellet" from her
mouth in room. Shi told her husband she would ascend to Paradise in 40
minutes, and let him wait outside. When her husband got in, Shi was lying
on the ground with blood all over her body, a kitchen knife was found be-
side her. Shi told her husband in faint voice that she had got the "pellet"
out with the knife. Other Falun Gong practitioners in the village hurried in
hearing of the news. Instead of sending Shi to the hospital, the fellow
practitioners took out Li Hongzhi's portrait to "cow the demons." At 6
o'clock in the morning, Shi was carried to the county hospital but it was
too late. She died of excessive loss of blood at an age of 49.
Dong Zhi, female, a foreign language teacher with a college diploma,
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used to work diligently at Tianming Xili Primary School in Tianjin. Dong
began to practice Falun Gong in 1996. Early in 1997, Dong showed ab-
normality in behavior: she was absentminded, unwilling to attend class
and did not correct papers for her students. Her family members found
her Kowtow at home several times. On the morning of December 5, 1997,
Dong Zhi committed suicide by jumping off a building at the age of 24.
Kang Caiye, female, worked as an assistant at the Guangkelong
Shop of Nanda Corporation, Xicheng district in Guangzhou. Kang was a
warm-hearted worker with keeping herself busy in her work all the time,
enjoying great popularity among colleagues, and winning golden opinions
from customers. In 1998, Kang began to practice Falun Gong and she
changed dramatically ever since. She was absentminded while working,
and frequently made mistakes in collecting money, doing accounts, and
selecting commodity for customers. Her leader and colleagues were all
concerned about her and offered to help. But she refused and replied: "I
am OK because I'm practicing Falun Gong." On October 10, 1998, Kang
suddenly went mad while taking stock: She cried and laughed, scattered
commodities on the ground and ran away...Her colleagues searched high
and low trying to find her, but to no avail. At about 2 pm, the Security Divi-
sion of Nada Corporation was informed by local police station: Kang
jumped into Zhujiang River from a place near the Aiqun Building. From
the handbag she left, people found a mini tape recorder and some tapes
with Falun Gong teachings.①
Gao Encheng, male, a cadre from Industrial and Commercial Admin-
istration Office at Tianbai township, Kai county in Chongqing, was the
head in charge of a Falun Gong practice spot. In November 1997, Gao
began to practice Falun Gong together with his wife. And his frank and
open personality changed completely: He became a man of few words
and less socialized, and firmly believed that by practicing Falun Gong peo-
ple would "go to Paradise" and "their souls go with them" after they were
① People.com.cn,
(July19, 2001)
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dead. On November6,1998, Gao quarreled loudly with others when he was
attending a meeting held by his unit: "I won't argue with you everyday peo-
ple. No body but Gao Xiong, my own son really understands me!" After the
meeting, Gao returned home and practiced Falun Gong, then he jumped
off the building from 4th floor, holding his son tightly in the arms. His col-
leagues called doctors immediately for emergency treatment. But his wife
Li Xiaofen refused to do so, saying Master Li Hongzhi would protect the
two. At last, the doctors saved Gao Xiong's life; but the father, Gao
Encheng, "all rescue measures proved ineffectual," died at the age of 42.①
4.1.3 Apart from mental disorders, Li Hongzhi's fallacies on
human body and life are the major causes and catalyst which
lead the practitioners into committing suicide.
●
"Earth is but the garbage dump of the universe."②
"From another perspective, however, Earth is but the garbage dump
of the universe."③
"A person's earliest life comes from the universe...In which some
people may develop selfishness and gradually their level will be lowered. If
they cannot stay at this level, they must drop down further. At that level,
however, they may again become not so good and not be able to stay
there, either. They will continue to descend further until, in the end, they
reach this level of human beings...From the perspective of supernormal
abilities or of the great enlightened beings, these lives should have been
① People.com.cn,
(July19, 2001)
② Li Hongzhi, (March 27, 1999)
③ Li Hongzhi,
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destroyed upon falling to this level."①
"Such is the state of the entire planet; everything has in fact degener-
ated to a grave extent."②
"In this enormous universe, Earth looks just like an apple which has
become rotten inside and out. Just like every individual human being, ev-
ery particle inside of this apple is rotten."③
"In regard to humans, when this cultivation ends, this environment
won't be needed anymore. The humans that are left over will be vile hu-
man beings...; when humans aren't good they are eliminated."④
"Some lives became bad as the universe evolved, and yet they
couldn't be destroyed. Plans were therefore made so that they could im-
prove themselves and assimilate again to the universe. They were sent to
a lower level to bear some hardship and improve themselves. Later on
people kept coming to that level. Then a division happened at that level.
Then people whose character had deteriorated could no longer remain at
that level, and so another, even lower, level was created. It went on like
this with lower and lower levels gradually getting differentiated, up until the
level that today's human race occupies was generated. That is the origin
of today's human race."⑤
"Mankind's moral values have undergone enormous changes. They
are sliding downward a thousand miles a day, so quickly. With the erosion
of their values, people have actually come to believe that the ancients
were ignorant and superstitious. Man's thinking has changed dramatically,
and it is frightening."⑥
"Man's drastic moral decline is unfolding throughout the world.
People's notions have changed dramatically."⑦
① Li Hongzhi,
② Li Hongzhi,
③ Li Hongzhi, (March 27, 1999)
④ Li Hongzhi, (July 26, 1998)
⑤ Li Hongzhi,
⑥ Li Hongzhi,
⑦ Li Hongzhi,
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"So today's human society... to be frank, I can tell you that gods no
longer consider humans human. Think about it: Aren't humans in a dan-
gerous state?"①
"Yet the morality of ancient people was much higher than that of to-
day. People today think that ancient people weren't good. Actually, that's
because you're viewing ancient people with modern people's degenerate
notions."②
"People became bad and dropped here where humankind is要 to this
earth."③
Lived in Qiqihar city, Heilongjiang province, Xu Huijun began to prac-
tice Falun Gong in 1998. Since then she became eccentric and totally dis-
carded family affections. On May 31, 1999, she jumped off a building and
killed herself to escape the so called "predestined fate," leaving her family
broken-hearted.④
Gao Wenhui, female, 52 years old, had received a junior grade
school education, lived in Jiangjia village, Lutou township of Longkou city
in Shandong province. Before 1997 Gao was basically healthy although
she suffered a slight neurasthenic. In 1997 Gao began to practice Falun
① Li Hongzhi, (April 6, 1997)
② Li Hongzhi, (April 6, 1997)
③ Li Hongzhi, (April 6, 1997)
④ Chinanews.com, (March 22, 2001)
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Gong. She once told her husband, "I met Master Li Hongzhi in dreams
and he asked me to go to Paradise 要 he tried to draw me from Heaven
while others pushing me up from beneath. But they failed just because I
had not studied the Fa well enough." In the autumn of 1998, Gao showed
more and more abnormalities in behavior and intelligence: she often told
others that the Doomsday was coming and the earth would soon be de-
stroyed. She left home unexpectedly several times, and tried to kill herself
by crushing with vehicles but was stopped. On June 28, 1999 when her
family members were all out, Gao locked herself in the house and took
her own life by taking the poisonous DDVP.①
Wang Jun, male, was born on February 20, 1967, a worker in Yantai
Wooden Clock Factory, lived in No.16-4 Zhongxing street, Zhifu district,
Yantai city, Shandong province. In the winter of 1996, Wang began to
practice Falun Gong and changed quickly in temperaments: he became
less and less interested in his job and careless about his family. Once
Wang was absent from work for several consecutive days and leaders of
his workshop sent colleagues to visit his family and offer help. Calling at
the door to be let in, his colleagues found Wang was practicing Falun
Gong, with Falun Gong books around him and Li Hongzhi's portrait hung
on the wall. Since then, his moral plummeted and became disheartened
and world-weary. He told his wife several times: "I will go to Paradise and
become an Immortal." One day in the last ten-day of April 1998, Wang ran
away from home and the next morning, people found that he hung himself
at the Nanshan Mountains.②
●
The term "Consummation" or "Perfection" that Li Hongzhi advertised
① Chinanews.com, (March 22, 2001)
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means the practitioners accomplish their cultivation and become what Li
called "Buddha, Dao and God," then they will enjoy themselves in Par-
adise forever. For Falun Gong disciples, the temptation of Consummation
is too strong to resist. To go to Paradise is the ultimate goal they have
been dreaming of, and they have done so much painstaking practices for
it.
Li Hongzhi asks his followers to let go of "life and death," and "worldly
attachments (including to their bodies)," and instigates Dafa disciples to
set against the government even at the expense of their lives.
"When a person dies, only the layer of the largest molecules 要 the
human shell or this layer of molecules on the surface 要 dies and falls
away from this dimension. How could your real body that's composed of
microscopic matter die?"①
"Even if a Dafa cultivator truly casts off his human skin during the
persecution, what awaits him is still Consummation."②
"At the very moment of death they did not feel scared; on the con-
trary, they suddenly felt a sense of relief, with some sort of subconscious
excitement. Some people felt free from the bondage of the body and
could levitate very lightly and wonderfully."③
"In this cosmos, 99.9 percent of the numerous cultivation ways in the
past and heavenly paradises in different cosmic bodies didn't need bod-
ies. Not everyone thinks so favorably about having a flesh body. Many
heavenly paradises absolutely will not let you bring a body when you re-
turn there. If you took your body along, you would be disrupting the Fa
there."④
In August 2000, Li Hongzhi told in his theory
, "It is in fact time to let go of your last attachments. As cultiva-
① Li Hongzhi, (July 26,
1998)
② Li Hongzhi, (October 1, 2005)
③ Li Hongzhi,
④ Li Hongzhi, (July 26,
1998)
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tors, you already know that you should, and in your actions you have, let
go of all worldly attachments (including the attachment to the human body)
and have made it through the process of letting go of life and death." He
required the disciples to "let go of all worldly attachments (including the at-
tachment to the human body)," stirred up the followers fight against the
Government no spare with their lives.
"If you can let go of life and death, you're a God; if you can't let go of
life and death, you're a human."①
"Whether they were detained or lost lives for practicing Dafa, they all
have reached Consummation."②
Zheng Xiaoyan, a former obsessed Falun Gong follower, lived in
Tancheng county, Shandong province , who refused to change mind by
cutting wrist in the past. She told people after getting out of the disen-
gagement of Falun Gong: "The reason (the practitioners) commit suicide
is that, they all believe in Li Hongzhi's words that those who really get rid
of human skin because of persecution can reach Consummation."③
① Li Hongzhi, (May, 1999)
② Li Hongzhi, (September 26, 2000)
③ Kaiwind, (December, 3, 2007)
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Liu Pinqing, male, 58 years old, chief of the Agricultural Technology
Promotion Station at Gushan town, Donggang city in Liaoning province. In
1988, he was introduced into practicing Falun Gong by his neighbor, and
obsessing about it later on. Liu told fellow practitioners many times, "Mas-
ter asked me to become a Buddha by burning myself." On February 4,
1999, about 5 pm, Liu opened the gas valves at home and set himself on
fire. Fortunately, he was found by neighbors and then hospitalized. In the
hospital, Liu refused to receive medical treatment, claiming they practi-
tioners did not need medicine because their Master would protect them.
As for the reason why he was not dead, Liu explained that his Master
wanted him to live and "remove Karma." Four days later Liu returned
home from the hospital. But he would tell others, his Master asked him to
"jump into a well and become a Buddha." He kept asking neighbors to
rope him tight and then throw him into a well, saying his Master would pre-
vent him from being drowned. Of course, his neighbors refused to do so.
Knowing that Liu was bewitched by Falun Gong and suffered from mental
disorders, his family members guarded him closely because he was al-
ways trying to find a chance to "become a Buddha." On April 27, 1999, Liu
took advantage of his family's negligence in the early morning, drowned
himself in a well near his house.①
On July 3, 1999, Li Jinzhong, a peasant from Sidi village, Beigang
town, Tunliu county in Shanxi province and Chang Haochi, a student from
Economic & Trade Department of the Shanxi Coal Management Cadres
Institute, all firmly believed they had already "accomplished the Gong cul-
tivation" and therefore they were able to "go to Paradise with Perfection."
The two sit face to face in an open ground outside the Sidi village, and
burnt themselves to death.②
On February 16, 2001, Tan Yihui, a Falun Gong practitioner from
Changde city, Hunan province, set himself on fire with gasoline and com-
mitted suicide near the Wanshou Road, Haidian district in Beijing . Tan
① Chinanews.com, (March 22, 2001)
② People.com.cn, (June 5, 2001)
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began to practice Falun Gong in the first half of 1999. His mother told
people, "I admonished my son earnestly, tried to persuade him into giving
up Falun Gong and not to be possessed by the evil. But he turned a deaf
ear to my words and said he would ascend to Paradise after he accom-
plished the cultivation. He tried to get his younger brother into practicing
the same thing, but I stopped him."①
Jiang Chaojun, male, was born on June 7, 1954, his family came
from Jiangwan village, Shantoufang town, Xiangcheng county, Henan
province. His wife Jiang Xiuxia, was born on October 16, 1957. In 1989,
the couple moved to Zhong village, Pingyang town, Jidong county in Hei-
longjiang province, and then settled down. They had a son and a daughter
with a warm and sweet though not very rich family life. In November 1997,
they began to practice Falun Gong and soon were obsessed by it: they
gave up farming and paid no attention to their children. On December 3,
1997, bewitched by Li Hongzhi's fallacy of "One can go to Paradise by
practicing Falun Gong", Jiang Chaojun and Jiang Xiuxia left home and
carried each other on back in shift, holding the pose of "Ascension"...After
about one or two kilometers, both failed to take off. Then they returned
home. In order to get into Paradise and become immortals, Jiang Chaojun
cruelly stabbed his wife's abdomen and mouth with a sharp knife, and
killed her; Jiang himself committed suicide later, turning their 13-year-old
daughter and 10-year-old son into orphans.②
●
① Xinhua net,
(September 27, 2006)
② Chinanews.com, (June 5,
2001)
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"There are altogether two major levels (excluding practicing qi). One
is In-Triple-World-Fa cultivation practice, while the other is
Beyond-Triple-W orld-Fa cultivation practice...in the
course of In-Triple-World-Fa cultivation practice one's body will be con-
stantly purified, it will be completely replaced by the high-energy matter
when one reaches the highest form of In-Triple-World-Fa."①
"Human cells are being gradually replaced by high-energy matter, the
aging process slows down... transforming gradually,... your body will have
been entirely transformed into another kind of physical body... And your
body will never degenerate."②
"Cultivators will gain protection from my Law Bodies (Fashen) when
they accept my Falun Dafa teachings and truly cultivate. As long as you
persevere in cultivation, my Law Bodies will protect you until you reach
Perfection. Should you decide to stop cultivating at some point, my Law
Bodies will depart."③
"To do is practice while following the standards of a practitioner.
There's no need for me to personally give you a Falun and Law Body, as
you will get everything...This is that a student of mine taught you, and all
of my students have the protection of my Law Bodies...I have countless
Law Bodies that can protect the students, so everyone that truly cultivates
will be protected...this is guaranteed."④
"My Law bodies are aware of everything. Whatever you think about,
they're aware of it, and they can do anything."⑤
"When a practitioner is about to run into troubles, my Fashen will dis-
solve such things for you and not let them occur. He may also drop you a
hint."⑥
① Li Hongzhi,
② Li Hongzhi,
③ Li Hongzhi,
④ Li Hongzhi,
⑤ Li Hongzhi,
⑥ Li Hongzhi, (1996)
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Feng Shaobao, male, was born on March 15, 1959, used to be a
worker at Xinhua Shipyard in Nanjing. In 1995, Feng began to practice
Falun Gong, then served as the instructor of a Falun Gong practice spot.
And gradually, he became mentally deranged. He told his child, "Our Dafa
disciples die hard," and asked his child to have a try on his body with a
knife. He wrote in his diary: "Who are our relatives? Our real parents are
looking at us from Paradise, they expect us to return home. We all want to
go back." Bewitched and poisoned by Falun Gong, Feng had absurd illu-
sions: he took the raccoon pictures which his daughter had put on a small
mirror as monsters, and tore them into shreds; he even tried to scrape off
the picture of an elephant on his daughter's pencil-box with sandpapers.
OnJuly10,1998,Feng locked himself in a house and committed suicide by
hanging. After his death, his wife said that before his death, Feng told her:
"If I have been off for 48 hours and do not return, then you people do not
bother to look for me要 I am definitely arriving in Paradise at that time."①
Sun Jie, male, was born on May 1, 1963, came from Hua county in
Shaanxi province, graduated from Jiuquan Teachers Colleges in 1982. In
1985, Sun was transferred to No. 803 Power Plant of the Provincial Power
Bureau, and worked as duty officer at Chemical Operation Division of the
Power Generation Department, assistant engineer. Being an introvert,
Sun worked hard in the plant. He began to practice Falun Gong in August
1995. On April 26, 1999, about 4 pm Sun Jie burned himself at home.
People found him sitting cross-legged, holding a tape recorder, with books
① People's Daily, (March 22, 2001)
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of Falun Gong under his right armpit. According to Sun's wife, Sun once
said, "I have been enlightened by Master's words since last year: perse-
vere in cultivation, I am sure that some day I'll go to Paradise, become a
Buddha and live forever."①
Little by little, the disciples are led astray by Li Hongzhi's temptation
of reaching Consummation. But human life becomes less and less impor-
tant in their eyes. Some even regard human life as an obstacle standing in
their way to Paradise. So they discard all the worldly attachments includ-
ing their own lives by means of self-burning, jumping off buildings etc. As
a result, tragedies of self-killing strike the world time and again.
Yet when so many Dafa disciples ran into dangers, the Law Bodies
of Master Li showed no magic power at all. Among the dead,
Feng Lili and Li Guodong died of cancer; Zhang Mengye died of traffic ac-
cident. The three were all Falun Gong backbones outside China. And
many more Dafa disciples died of practicing Falun Dafa!
4.2 Falun Gong led its followers to homicide
Compared with those disciples who died of Falun Gong practice,
more innocent people (some are relatives of Falun Gong followers) who
had little or nothing to do with Falun Gong were also killed by it.
4.2.1 Li Hongzhi doesn't value human life as others do.
Li Hongzhi borrowed many concepts from Buddhist when he created
the "creed" of Falun Gong. As is well known, it is highly forbidden for Bud-dhists to kill livestock, let alone human life. However, according to Li
Hongzhi's theory, Falun Gong practitioners needn't follow this command-
ment strictly.
"For example, if you're walking and some ants and insects run under
① Guangming Daily, (March 22, 2001)
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your feet and get stepped on and killed, then maybe they were supposed
to die...When there are flies and mosquitoes in our homes we can drive
them out and install screens to keep them from getting in. But if you can't
drive them out sometimes, it's okay to kill them."①
"The First Emperor of Qin killed many people in the course of unifying
China. He killed the rulers of many states, and everyone cursed him...It
was the outcome of celestial changes. Had he not acted in accord with the
will of Heaven, he would not have succeeded and unification would have
failed. Human affairs are thus no more than that. As cultivators we never
comment on them. A cultivator will not take an interest in politics, lest he
be a politician, not a cultivator...When mankind reaches a certain point in
time, its karma is enormous, and it is beyond redemption. Enormous kar-
ma such as that is something man can never pay off. He accumulates,
over the course of many lifetimes, karma so massive that it is impossible
to pay off, and thus these people are destined to be destroyed. What is
meant by 'be destroyed'? Small disasters take place and destroy people.
War is the most expedient way, and that's why history is what it is."②
Li Hongzhi demanded his disciples repeatedly to do well "three
things." One of them was to "send forth righteous thoughts" to "wipe out
the devils in other spaces." Li Hongzhi once said that bad things in the
other space were also spirits and had lives. Consequently, the idea "send-
ing forth righteous thoughts" initiated by Li Hongzhi was actually the syn-
onym of "killing others."
"Sending righteous thoughts, that's eliminating those hopeless, filthi-
est beings' persecution of Dafa disciples."③
"All Dafa disciples, new and veteran students alike: when you send
righteous thoughts, besides the targets that you specifically lock in to, aim
directly at those dark minions and completely eliminate them."④
① Li Hongzhi,
② Li Hongzhi,
③ Li Hongzhi,
(February 15, 2003)
④ Li Hongzhi, (March 16, 2004)
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Instigated openly and strengthened continually by Li Hongzhi, those
who were besotted with Falun Gong set little by others' lives; some of
them go to such an extent as to kill people to "wipe out the devils" and to
"save people."
4.2.2 Some people are considered as "devils" hindering the
cultivation and killed cruelly by Falun Gong practitioners.
"The wretched demons just deserve to be killed."①
"Since humans have come to this stage, demons certainly won't allow
it when people want to obtain the Fa 要 they'll obstruct you...All kinds of
factors are at work acting as a kind of obstruction."②
"I've got to tell you, in the end there will still be many beings that can't
be saved要 they're doomed to be weeded out."③
"If the evil has already reached the point where it is unsavable and
unkeepable, then various measures at different levels can be used to stop
it and eradicate it...Completely eliminating the evil is for Fa-rectification,
and not a matter of personal cultivation."④
On August 23, 1996, Wang Xuezhong, a Falun Gong practitioner
① Li Hongzhi,
② Li Hongzhi,
③ Li Hongzhi, (March, 2002)
④ Li Hongzhi, (January 1, 2001)
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from Jiahe county, Hunan province, thought his father was a devil and cut
his father 17 times on the head, in the neck and the chest and killed him
on the spot.①
On the night of February 25, 1998, when Wu Deqiao, a native of
Jiangsu province, was practicing Falun Gong at home, his wife dissuaded
him. Wu thought his wife was a "devil" interfering in his cultivation and
killed her with a kitchen knife.②
On April 8, 1998, Wang Anshou, a worker from Shandong province,
was dissuaded by his father when he was practicing Falun Gong. Wang
thought that his father was a demon and beat him to death with a spade.③
On March 20, 1999, Li Ting, a Falun Gong practitioner of less than 18
years old from Chengde city, Hebei province, considered his parents as
devils. In order to "wipe out the devils," Li Ting killed cruelly his own par-
ents at home.④
On February 20, 2001, Wei Zhihua, a Falun Gong practitioner from
Longgang district, Shenzhen city of Guangdong province, realized the vi-
cious nature of Falun Gong and swore "never to be Li Hongzhi's disciple
again." More than a dozen obsessed Falun Gong practitioners including
her husband thought she was a "devil" damaging reputation of the "Dafa."
As a result, they bound her and covered her mouth and nose in cold
blood. Wei Zhihua was suffocated to death.⑤
4.2.3 Influenced by Li Hongzhi's remarks of "saving people,"
some Falun Gong practitioners "save people" by killing them.
"If a large being is killed by someone, then that person's sins and kar-
ma become enormous, especially when it's a human being who is killed.
① People.com.cn,
② Chinanews.com, (June 5, 2001)
③ Chinanews.com, (June 5, 2001)
④ People.com.cn,
⑤ Zhengqing.net.cn,
(March 22, 2002)
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So when someone has generated such karma he has to pay it off...But as
for the very real, awful situation the beings are in, their painful enduring,
and their material loss after they are killed, the cultivator will have to, in
the process of consummating everything of his own, save those beings or
repay them with blessings using the fruits of his cultivation. Then from that
perspective, the compensation the killed beings receive far exceeds what
they would have received among humans. And this has thus settled
malevolent predestined relationships with benevolent solutions."①
"At the same time, a portion of the lives that you harmed will become
beings in the paradise you will have after you Consummation, so it will
turn into a good thing . If the to-be-harmed life knew , 'Oh, I'll go to a
Buddha's paradise in the future,' it would stretch its neck out to let you kill
it. It would happily, cheerfully let you kill it."②
"The Three Realms are the reverse of everything in the cosmos, so
the Fa's principles have also provided beings at this level with reversed
principles suitable for the existence of everyday people."③
Fu Yibin, a Falun Gong practitioner from Xicheng district, Beijing,
killed his father and his wife and wounded his mother seriously at his par-
① Li Hongzhi, (July 30, 2001)
② Li Hongzhi, (September 4, 1998)
③ Li Hongzhi,
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ents' home at about 5 pm, November 25, 2001. According to Fu's confes-
sion, he "realized" that his father and family members should all "leave
this world" on the very afternoon of November 25; so he killed his father
and his wife and wounded his mother with a kitchen knife.①
From May 25 to June 27, 2003, strange homicides of poisoning hap-
pened one after another in Longgang town, Cangnan county, Zhejiang
province, 17 people were killed. 16 of them were beggars who died acci-
dentally in the streets. The other one was a Buddhist believer who died at
hospital after all possible rescue measures. What shocked the world was
that this series of homicides were committed by Chen Zhaofu, an ob-
sessed Falun Gong follower. According to Chen's confession, he killed
people time and again by poisoning because his master Li Hongzhi in-
structed him to do so. He heard his master telling him to "increase the
power of Gong by killing, save all sentient beings and reach the highest
level of cultivation." ②
Tetramine used by Chen Zhaofu
On October 3, 2006, a 22-year-old Falun Gong practitioner cut a
① Xinhua,
(December 17, 2001)
② Xinhua, (July 14,
2003)
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person to death with an ax in Holand. He cruelly dissected the victim's
body and fried it so as to drive the victim's soul out of his flesh.①
4.3 Repayment for Falun Gong practitioners'
suicide and homicide
4.3.1 The Falun Gong practitioners who committed suicide
or homicide never obtain "Consummation" they dreamed of
while have to bear the social and legal liabilities for their murder.
On July 4, 1998, Chen Yong, vice director of Hainan General Training
Station of Falun Gong, andseven other key members had a traffic accident
on their way from Haikou to Sanya to spread Falun Gong with Chen
Yong and six other people dead and Zhang Yijun seriously wounded.
Li Hongzhi gave a holographic letter to Jiang Xiaojun, director of
Hainan General Training Station of Falun Gong, saying: "The eight
disciples of mine have reached Consummation in their own different
world." Zhang Yijun, the survivor of the accident, was listed together with
his seven dead fellow practitioners on the "list of canonization of the
gods " by Li Hongzhi. Zhang became the only living person who was
"recognized by the imperial order" of Li Hongzhi as the one who has
reached Consummation.②
At 14:41 on January 23, 2001, the eve of Chinese Spring Festival,
seven Falun Gong disciples from Kaifeng city , Henan province burnt
themselves at Tian'anmen Square in order to reach Consummation
advocated by Li Hongzhi. But Li Hongzhi flatly denied they were Falun
Gong disciples. Those disciples who died of the incident did not get even
① Kaiwind,
(July, 27, 2007)
② Chinanews.com
(March 2, 2001)
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① People.com.cn, (January 30, 2001)
② Xinhua, (August 25, 2002)
③ Chinanews.com,
(May 16, 2008)
④ Li Hongzhi, (March 29, 1998)
the honor of being "Falun Gong Disciple."①
Those Falun Gong followers who killed people to "remove devils" will
be put on trial according to law impartially.
Lin Chunmei and Wen Yuping, two Falun Gong members went
secretly from Xinjiang to Xilanlu Coach Station in Xianyang city, Shaanxi
province on March 1, 2002. They strangled a 29-year-old waitress named
Mai working at Binhong Hotel to the south of the station with a nylon rope.
When the case was cleared up, Lin Chunmei was sentenced to death and
Wen Yuping life imprisonment.②
Jin Mingdong and three other Falun Gong members living in
Changchun city, Jilin province used extremely cruel method to "help" a
fellow Falun Gong practitioner named Xiao "to drive out the fox spirit" in
Xiao's body and tortured her to death in May, 2008. What is waiting for
them is penal sanction. ③
4.3.2 Facing the fact that many Falun Gong disciples died
of cultivation practice, Li Hongzhi shirked his responsibility
completely.
"He was quite keen on practicing...He even helped others learn the
Fa. But he didn't necessarily give it up himself 要 you don't know what was
on his mind."④
"If he could have truly cultivated, nobly and upright, and truly regarded
himself as a cultivator, I don't think that problem could have possibly come
about...Can a person fend off death just by doing the exercises daily, as if
they were average physical exercises? I'd say that's a joke. If he does the
exercises every day without improving his xinxing, I'd say his practice is
the same as doing your average physical exercises. But, even though it's
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just a slight difference, it's difficult for him to change."①
"You might know that a few of our students passed away. Some of
them reached Consummation, while some [died to] do harm to us. So I
didn't make any comments on the matter or offer any explanation. Yet I
think those things were a test of life and death for our students."②
"I actually talked about this very early on, in . Some
students aren't diligent, but the time they put in learning Dafa will not be in
vain, and neither will the time they put in doing Dafa things. However
much they did, that's how much they will receive. The exception is those
who leave Dafa, particularly those who leave when Dafa is being
persecuted; if they pass away, [what I described] does not apply to them.
There is no hope there."③
"Of course, Dafa disciples won't die like ordinary people, and even for
those who've departed ahead of their time what awaits them is the very
best要 that's for sure."④
It is not accidental that Falun Gong disciples commit suicide or homi-
cide. This is because they are bewitched and dominated by Li Hongzhi
and his theory of Cultivation Practice. Seeing the deaths with his own
eyes, yet Mr. Li Hongzhi never admits that such tragedies have been
brought about by practicing Falun Gong.
4.4 Experts' view on Falun Gong practitioners'
suicide and homicide
Recently, a large number of Falun Gong practitioners suffer from
mental disorders or abnormal behaviors which bring about numerousdeaths. These occurrences have already drawn public attention to the is-
① Li Hongzhi, (May 30, 1998)
② Li Hongzhi, (August 22, 1998)
③ Li Hongzhi, (November 5, 2005)
④ Li Hongzhi,
(February 15, 2003)
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sue of Falun Gong. Experts and scholars both home and abroad express
their opinions on the phenomenon and warn people not to practice Falun
Gong.
Modern medicine doesn't deny the fact that autosuggestion might
cure some diseases and be good to health. But autosuggestion is
somewhat dangerous. Sometimes it causes delusion, visual hallucination,
and auditory hallucination. Those who have poor psychological traits and
self-control or those who suffer from serious setbacks and need self-
consolation may confuse the hallucinations with realities. This is the
so-called "possessed by the Demon." Giving free rein to it, they might go
mad. Therefore, serious schools of Qigong are all aware of this risk and
emphasize that people should practice Qigong under the guidance of a
master; otherwise, don't practice it by oneself. (I think those schools popu-
lar in China at the beginning of the 1980s are serious. They are not as ab-
struse as the later ones.) But Li Hongzhi categorically denies the phe-
nomenon of being possessed by the Demon. He tells others that the hal-
lucinations appearing during the process of cultivating Falun Gong are all
real existences. It shows that you've got into a higher space. The more
hallucinations you have the higher level you are at. He has many items
such as opening the Heavenly-Eye (that is, one can see what other can-
not see with their ordinary eyes) and "Three Flowers Gathering on the
Head" (that is, three flowers from "the other space" sprout on the head).
One can see nine colors including red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo,
violet, chromatic color, and achromatic color when his or her power works.
One can also see the Falun world. Purposely advocating illusions or "be-
ing possessed by the Demon," Falun Gong is actually a kind of pseu-
do-Qigong which is opposed to the traditional Qigong. Under such circum-
stances, it is not at all surprising that the cultivators go mad one after an-
other. If someone really goes mad, Li Hongzhi will deny that the madman
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has been a Falun Gong follower.①
Some graduate students in my institute also began to practice Falun
Gong. One of them was led to aberration and caught psychoneurosis be-
cause of practicing Falun Gong. He did not drink, eat, or speak. He even
did not go to bed. His symptom startled the leaders of our institute. They
sent the student to a mental hospital immediately. This shows that practic-
ing Falun Gong can easily cause psychopathy and attention should be
paid.
At the beginning of 1999, the editor of , a
periodical edited by the Educational College of Tianjin Normal University,
asked me to write a few words for the juvenile. After some consideration, I
wrote an article named . I
think it is what I really want to say to the juvenile. Because of my bad
impression of Falun Gong, I pointed out its two faults in the article. First, it
propagates feudal ideology and superstition and advocates "the law of
indestructibility of the soul." And second, it is easy to become "possessed
by the Demon" practicing Falun Gong. I cited the graduate in my institute
as an example.
In the article I emphasized that after being possessed and cured in
the lunatic asylum for the first time, the student continued to practice
Falun Gong and was obsessed again. This time he kept saying: "My mas-
ter Li Hongzhi pays close attention to me all the time." This shows clearly
that it is Falun Gong that led him to aberration.
The Institute of Theoretical Physics is a small one in the Chinese
Academy of Sciences. There are only 50 people in it. Over the past ten
years, two postgraduates caught psychoneurosis and broke off their
study. The recent one was the postgraduate who would not "drink, eat,
① New Threads, (May, 31, 1999)
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sleep, or speak." Finally he was sent to a lunatic asylum. When he was
discharged from hospital after recovery, he practiced Falun Gong again
and had a relapse. He kept saying "my master Li Hongzhi pays close
attention to me all the time" even when he was sent to the lunatic asylum
again.
Ever since I set against pseudo-Qigong, I have received nine reports
saying that their relatives committed suicide by jumping off buildings be-
cause of practicing Falun Gong. Eight of them died and one was wound-
ed. I felt it queer at first. Why did the Falun Gong practitioners commit sui-
cide by jumping off the buildings? Those who know the facts told me after-
wards that, according to Li Hongzhi, people practicing Falun Gong can live
without eating, summon winds and call for a rain; they can even mount the
clouds and ride the mist, and separate their souls from their bodies. In or-
der to seek the result of mounting the clouds and riding the mist, some of
the practitioners jumped from the balconies. Eight of them jumped from
the fourth or fifth floor and one from the second floor. Therefore, eight
died and one was wounded. But the wounded still refused obstinately to
listen to reason. He said: "I can't mount the clouds and ride the mist be-
cause my power of Gong is still insufficient." No one could be more igno-
rant than him.①
Li Hongzhi asserts that practicing "Falun Buddha dharma" can "open
the Heavenly-Eye," and makes practitioners see what common people
cannot see. He says: "Practitioners with high-level Heavenly-Eyes can see
through this pace into the other. They can see what the common people
cannot see. Even those with low-level Heavenly-Eyes have penetration
abilities and can see through walls and human bodies." ② Many Falun
① Science Review for Juveniles, (4th edition,
1999)
② Li Hongzhi,
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Gong practitioners believe in these deceptive remarks, hoping that such
miracles happen to them after practice. But what really comes out is men-
tal disorder. According to staff at the No. 6 Hospital affiliated to Beijing
Medical University (the Institute of Pathergasiology), of all the patients
with mental disease arising from Qigong practice their hospital had re-
ceived in 1998, one fifth of them were caused by "deviations" when they
were practicing Falun Gong. Such patients with mental disorders were al-
so mentioned in the so-called survey made by Beijing General Training
Station of Falun Gong.①
One of the most basic human rights is the right of existence. If
people's health and existence are in question or even their lives are lost,
then it is pointless to mention other rights. The Falun Dafa fabricated by Li
Hongzhi, especially "the doctrine of removing Karma," tramples wantonly
on the citizens' rights of health and life...In order to fool Falun Gong practi-
tioners Li Hongzhi advocates the "doctrine of removing Karma" and incites
Falun Gong group to concoct false reports, cases of illness, and stories
about the magic effect of Falun Gong in curing disease and keeping
healthy. Among the over 1,400 people who died from practicing Falun
Gong, many lost their lives because they firmly believed in the magic pow-
ers of Falun Gong. More patients missed the opportunity for treatment
and their illness worsened...The fallacy cooked up by Li Hongzhi is com-
pletely gross nonsense against the elementary knowledge of science. Li
Hongzhi is very clear about this point. He and his family members attend
to the doctor and take medicines whenever they fall ill. Li Hongzhi himself
has undergone the operation of appendectomy at a hospital. It seems that
those Falun Gong practitioners deny treatment and medicine "all on their
own initiative." This seeming act of "on one's own initiative" is actually the
reflection of Li Hongzhi's mental control over his followers; it is also indi-
cating that the practitioners have totally lost self-consciousness. The
ringleader is Li Hongzhi. These practitioners are only the direct victims of
① Kaiwind,
(June 30, 2006)
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Li Hongzhi and his "Falun Dafa." What's more, Li Hongzhi viciously vilifies
those who died of practicing Falun Gong, saying they were "devils de-
structing the Dafa." He says in the book
: "It is the most difficult thing to distinguish this kind of devils. Their
destructive power is very strong. They also learn the Dafa... However they
died suddenly or go to the contrary to destruct Falun Dafa." ①
We often see that Falun Gong practitioners' way of thinking and be-
havior are different from common people. This is caused by Li Hongzhi's
fallacies...Li Hongzhi demands his disciples to read time and
again. He says every word in the Book is an embodiment of him and it will
come out of the Book if they keep reading. Eventually the practitioners
can separate their souls from their bodies...The practitioners run after this
exceptional result 要 and metal disorder occurs. This takes effect more
quickly on those who have received less education. After reading
only one week, many practitioners become mentally deranged and
run all around unmanageably. ②
To practice Falun Gong, the practitioners are required to follow the
so-called "methods of practicing Falun Gong " which have been
pieced together by Li Hongzhi. Spiritual shackles will be put on the practi-
tioners once they are hooked up by Falun Gong. Then they get stuck in
the mental entrapment. "Sitting there cultivating Gong" for a long time
without restraint may make the practitioners' autonomic nerves over excit-
ed and their bodies in a state of responding over a long period. The syn-
thesis and relief of neurotransmitters can lead to psychopathy, i.e. "to be
① Kaiwind, (June 30, 2006)
② Kaiwind, (June 24, 2006)
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possessed by the Demon." Some practitioners may thus commit suicide
or homicide.①
(Falun Gong's) poses as a religious organization in very much the
way that the Church of Scientology has chosen to do, it is a group based
entirely on supernatural and pseudoscientific claims. A few of their outra-
geous claims serve to illustrate this. For examples, Li declares that he is
the greatest god in the universe and that the Earth is a "dustbin." All per-
sons, he says, will go to heaven if they follow him, and that his "magical
influence" will protect believers要 followers要 from dying in any car acci-
dents or in building collapses. He commands that if believers become ill,
they should not go to hospitals because Falun Gong can immediately cure
any diseases, and they would automatically become well. He even adver-
tises that he himself can fly in the air, etc... This man is simply another
scam artist, not worthy of the respect given him by his followers.②
I think in following or should I've, say, brainwashed by this group, they
have become a different person, I have to say. But what really alert me, or
what I'm really concerned about was that they abandoned needed medical
treatment. They used to use Chinese herbal medicine to treat their colds,
and it worked for them. After the Falun Gong, they stopped using that.
And their cold would last for two weeks or even more. And since 2000, mystepfather has had a very painful gout attack. We have medical insurance,
but he just refused to seek a medical help for that. I used to get into argu-
① People.com.cn,
(November 25, 1999)
② New Threads, Randi,
(July 31, 2004)
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ment with them because I want them to, I want to push them. I want them
to see some medical help, please, you know. But it is usually going into
arguments with my parents. And, well, something did happen to my step-
father when my mother, my sister and I were traveling in China at the end
of 2001. He was home alone and he had a stroke. He was home alone for
five days. But during those five days, people came. And even though the
right side of his body was paralyzed, he was able to open the door for
them. But he did not ask for help. And on the day my sister returned. In
that morning my cousin had stopped by the house and found him very ill,
and asked him if he wanted to be taken to the hospital. He just shook his
head. I mean, he refused. And when my sister came back, she asked him
again, and he refused again. My sister had a cry and begged for him to go
to the hospital. When he went, he was in there for a month. And then
even with that, he did not change his mind. He did not seek help for his
painful gout attack until 2005.①