Inland Northwest Falun Dafa

 

Falun Dafa, also known as Falun Gong, is a practice that has brought better health and inner peace to millions around the world. We call it a cultivation practice: “Cultivation” refers to the improvement of one’s heart and mind through the careful study of universal principles based on truthfulness, benevolence, forbearance, and “practice” refers to doing exercises and meditation to energize the body.

Falun Gong Background

Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a practice of meditation and exercises with teachings based on the universal principle of “Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance.” It is a practice that was taught in private for thousands of years before being made public in 1992 by Mr. Li Hongzhi. Falun Gong has roots in traditional Chinese culture, but it is distinct and separate from other practices such as the religions of Buddhism and Taoism. Since its introduction in 1992, it quickly spread by word of mouth throughout China, and is now practiced and welcomed in over 80 countries.

With government estimates of as many as 100 million practicing Falun Gong, China’s President Jiang Zemin outlawed the peaceful practice in July 1999, fearful of anything touching the hearts and minds of more citizens than the Communist Party. Unable to crush the spirit of millions who had experienced improved health and positive life changes from Falun Gong, Jiang’s regime has intensified its propaganda campaign to turn public opinion against the practice while quietly imprisoning, torturing and even murdering those who practice it.

According to incomplete statistics, over 3000 practitioners have been verified as being tortured to death in over 30 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities since the persecution of Falun Gong in China began in 1999. Government officials inside China, however, report that the actual death toll is much higher. Over 100,000 have been sentenced to forced labor camps. Thousands of practitioners have been forcibly sent to psychiatric hospitals to be tortured with drugs that damage the central nervous system. Large groups of Falun Gong practitioners have been forcibly sent to local brainwashing classes, where they have been subjected to both physical and mental torture. Many more practitioners have been severely beaten and had large sums of money extorted from them by so-called “law-enforcement officials.” When large numbers of Falun Gong practitioners are beaten to death, injured, and their families are broken up, when they have to leave home and go from place to place because of the persecution, millions of Falun Gong practitioners’ families, relatives, good friends and colleagues are also implicated and brainwashed to varying degrees.