✵[email protected] Falun Gong and the Persecution in China UNSUBSCRIBE E-mail Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is an ancient Chinese spiritual practice in the Buddhist tradition and consists of upright instructions a sitting meditation, and four gentle exercises that are a truly unique and highly effective way to enhance your health and vitality levels. Please type the phrase on the Google search engine for additional facts: An Introduction to Falun Gong. At the core of Falun Gong are the values of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Tolerance (or in Chinese, Zhen 真 Shan 善 Ren 忍). Falun Dafa instructs that these are the fundamental nature of the universe and takes them to be a guide for everyday life and practice . In 1998, to ascertain the health benefits of Falun Gong, a survey was carried out among Falun Gong practitioners in five districts in Beijing, with 12,731 valid questionnaires. The results show that Falun Gong’s healing rate from illness is 99.1% with a relief rate of 58.5%; Improvement rate is 80.3% in physical health and 96.5% in mental wellbeing. The study signifies that Falun Gong has a remarkable effect in disease healing and health elevation. Falun Gong is an excellent Qi-gong practice that benefits people both physically and mentally. The health and wellness benefits of Falun Gong have been experienced by people throughout the world, while the practice continues to grow in 114 countries. It has been well-received by governments. But yet, in the country of its origin where it was presented to the public in 1992, it has been cruelly persecuted . In July 1999, Falun Gong became state opponent number one in China. A paranoid dictator's fear of Falun Gong's exponential growth resulted in intense jealousy of Falun Gong’s acceptance. Since the beginning of the suppression, many practitioners have been sentenced to ‘reform through labour’ camps, where they are subject to extreme food deprivation, beaten, and tormented with electric batons. By 2008, there were over 3,000 registered cases of practitioners who were killed as a result of the state-run suppression. Increasingly, solid proof iimplies many more, at least 60,000 until several years ago, have been targetedas unwilling donors of kidneys, livers, and hearts. To understand the gravity of this situation, let me give a small analogy : Imagine you practiced yoga in India and one fine day you were kidnapped and put into jail for practicing it. Then you were tortured and pushed to stop practicing. Then, when you declined to stop since it has given you only good things, you were put through more torture and denied access to your family members, who did not know where you were. No court would take your case. You were put through physical and mental torture and then subjected to the worst crime of all: Your organs, having been tissue typed, were forcibly removed from your body, to be sold at a premium price to affluent Chinese or foreign patients. You die from this process. And this was all done by the government of your own country. This is sadly happening in China right now to Falun Gong practitioners, whose only crime is an following the principles of truthfulness, compassion and tolerance. Please help raise understanding about this brutal persecution and indiscriminate killing among your family and friends. Your signature can make a big difference.
