falun gong (Earth, paradise, tradition, reincarnate, beliefs)

[LearningGuy]

Falun Gong teaches that its students will take on a complete new look in their appearance after a period of time in cultivation. The skin is deilicate and smooth, and white, glowing in health. The wrinkles on the faces of the aged will become fewer and even very few.

"Both the ancient physics and the contemporary physics of China hold that the Chinese Theory of Five Elements is right. It is true that the Five Elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth constitute the myriads of things in the universe."
- From the main book in Falun Gong - Zhuan Falun.

"Though the molecular structure of a cell remains unchanged, the energy in it has changed. So man will not grow naturally old or weakened from then on. Since his cells do not die out, he will remain young forever. In the process of cultivation, one will look young, and in the end he will have a fixed appearance."
- Zhuan Falun

"You are not able to get a human body in hundreds of years. When you have obtained one in more than a thousand years, you do not value it. Should you be reincarnated as a stone, you would not get out of it even in ten thousand years. You will never get out of it unless the stone is smashed to pieces or is weathered away."
- Zhuan Falun

"A sick man usually has a heavy karma. If you treat a serious case, you will feel very ill when you go home after the treatment."
- Zhuan Falun

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[anders]

For a religion whose homophobe inventor claims that he can walk through closed doors, those quotations almost look sane.

[Scarlett Wampus]

Though I find the beliefs and teachings of Falun Dafa silly at best the type of exercises they do are fantastic for health. Most forms of Chi Kung are likely to improve health quite dramatically and you don't even need to be in a cult.

[Hacker]

Wow, I'm going to have to read more about that, thanks for sharing!

[Scarlett Wampus]

Originally Posted by tlcmel

Wow, I'm going to have to read more about that, thanks for sharing!

Oh! Well if its the health stuff that interests you just check out any decent local Chi Kung (aka Qigong) teacher. Same kinda stuff just more traditional, less hype and non-sectarian.

[LearningGuy]

I will say that Falun Gong does have positive things like "Truth, Compassion, Forbearance" those are good values to hold.

Here are some more notes I made from Zhuan Falun:

"As is known, Buddha seldom opens his mouth. Should he open his mouth to speak in our world, he may bring n earthquake to mankin. How terrible such a booming would be!" - Zhuan Falun

"Your diseases will be elimnated directly by me[Li Hongzhi]" - Zhuan Falun

"Only after I have removed your diseases, done all that should be done and provided you with all that I shall give you, can you really succeed in the cultivation in our faith." - Zhuan Falun

"That is to say, when you spread the cultivation system in the future, you should not make use of them to seek after fame and gain. Therefore you are not allowed to hold sessions and collect fees as I do." - Zhuan Falun

"You are also not allowed to spread the cultivation system in the way I do. You must not preach the Law in the form of large-scale lectures as I have adopted. You are unable to preach the Law." - Zhuan Falun

"Therefore, nobody else is able to preach this Law."

"Besides you must not address the student (disciple) who spreads Falun Dafa as teacher or master. There is only one master of the Great Law. All are disciples no matter when they are initiated into the school."

"We consider it useless if one quits sitting with his legs crossed once they begin to feel pain, and resume doing so after some warm-ups. Because while his legs are suffering pain, we can see that the black substance is moving to his legs. The black substance is karma and can be eliminated and transformed into De through suffering pain." - Zhuan Falun

"I have already told you that every student is followed by more than one of my Law bodies."

"My Law body knows everything. He knows everything on your mind, and can do anything. He will not take care of you if you do not cultivate yourself, and he will help you all the way through if you do." - Zhuan Falun

"Light-opening means inviting Buddha's Law body into the image of Buddha, which, then, will be enshrined and worshipped as a visible Buddha body among ordinary people. As the practicitioner has a heart of reverence, the Law body of the image of Buddha will guard the Law for him, and protect him during his practice." - Zhuan Falun
I don't think the Buddha taught things like this, about his "Law bodies" protecting people, or worshipping his image.

"For this reason, an image of Buddha can not be worshipped if it has not been light-opened. Worshipping such an image will bring about serious consequences."

"I'd like to tell you to do the following: Hold my book (because there are photos in the book) or my photo while holding with both hands the image of Buddha, making the Big Lotus Hand gesture. Then you ask the teacher to do the light-opening for the image of Buddha. And it will be done within half a minute... Some people say that they take the teacher's photo to the homes of their relatives or friends to drive out evil. I am not meant to exorcise evil for ordinary people. This is the worst disrespect to the teacher." - Zhuan Falun

"When your Celestial Eye reaches the plane of the Law Eye Sight, you wil find that everything, including rocks, walls, or whatever you see, will greet and talk to you." - Zhuan Falun

[In reference to why not to eat garlic and onions] "Many living entities the human body has developed in cultivation are sick of such strong odours." - Zhuan Falun

References not from the book "Zhuan Falun"

"Question: Children who've grown up in the U.S. aren't so good with Chinese. Should they be sent back to China in the future?"

"Teacher: [Li Hongzhi] I can tell you that I’ve been to many places abroad and I’ve found this problem everywhere, so when I see my disciples I often tell them this: Make sure you have your kids learn Chinese; you can’t lose the characteristics of your yellow race. Since there’s no place for you in the Caucasian paradises, you still need to return to the paradises of the yellow race’s people.

“If you want to truly practice cultivation, you need to read the original text [In Chinese]. Only from the original text can you know what’s what. The translations—no matter how well they’re done—are shallow and don’t have the inner meanings. That’s why many of us find that each time you read the book It is different; when you read the same sentence from different realms it’s completely different.”

I tried to post the websource for this article, however it tells me that I need 15 posts to show an internet article. To find this article search in google Falun dafa lectures united states. Then go to the "Teaching the Fa at a New York meeting" and its there, or once you get the article just search "Question: Children".

[Aupmanyav]

Very cultish. I will stick with yoga.

[kb1118]

Originally Posted by LearningGuy

- From the main book .

I think it is not good to quote one or two sentences without context, that may mislead readers.

If one wants to know more about Falun Gong, here www.falundafa.org

[Random]

Buddha: "This Falun Da-Fa dude is seriously deluded. He needs to take refuge urgently and pursue real Buddhism".

[kb1118]

Originally Posted by Random

Buddha: " ".

You are not a Buddha, and you are slandering Buddha.

Since its public introduction in May 1992, Falun Dafa has attracted over 100 million practitioners worldwide in just fourteen years. Falun Dafa cultivation emphasizes that one should conduct oneself according to the principle of "Truth-Compassion-Tolerance". Regardless of gender and age, regardless of nationality and race, every practitioner who persistently cultivates his/her heart and practices the exercises has benefited tremendously. Constant diligent cultivation has brought significant changes to many practitioners in both physical conditions and moral values. At the same time, Falun Dafa is gaining worldwide understanding and appreciation, especially in Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America.
Listed below are some awards issued by some local governments and organizations in China, Canada, US and other countries in recognition of the extraordinary contribution made by Master Li Hong Zhi and Falun Dafa to people's mental and physical health. Just as Master Li Hong Zhi said in Chicago in June 1999, "a practitioner takes worldly fame lightly. The award has no special meaning to myself; but to Falun Dafa, the meaning of the award is profound. It represents the understanding and recognition of Falun Dafa by human beings and society." He hopes that more kindhearted people will join the path of cultivating Falun Gong.

http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/32/