Open Discussion

  • The Relationship Between Falun Gong Practitioner Auntie Zhao and CCP Defector Chen Yonglin

    Aunt Zhao felt that aside from being a Consulate official, Chen Yonglin was a fine young man, and that he should not be led by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to do bad things. Aunt Zhao found an opportunity to speak with him and said, "Young man, no matter where you are, no matter how high-ranking an official you are, you need to have a conscience and truly serve the people, and not abuse the people. The government stays but officials will come and go. Can you guarantee that you will always be an official? Who will vouch for you when you are not an official anymore?" Chen Yonglin replied that he knew this.
  • Stories From China: Only One Greenhouse Remains Standing After a Fierce Storm

    Last June a fierce storm hit a village in China's Hebei Province, smashing most of the large greenhouses in the area. As a result, vegetable growers suffered great losses in their crops, with but one exception. It just so happens that the unharmed greenhouse belongs to a Falun Dafa practitioner. Although the plastic covers were old and the storm pulled the shed's bamboo posts more than one meter above the ground, the greenhouse remained standing. Therefore, the tomatoes in the shed were not damaged at all and the yield was the highest in the village. The villagers were all shocked and envious. They said, "Look! Falun Gong practitioners are better off after all."
  • Liaozhong County Officials Awaken and Ignore Quotas Regarding Falun Gong

    On July 5th, 2005, all work units within the Liaozhong County bureaus and departments received telephone messages from the 610 Office, urging those with practitioners to report numbers of the so-called "harmonious families after no longer practising Falun Gong." The 610 Office stipulated firm quotas. For example, the Liaozhong County No. 2 High School was mandated to report a specific number. Many officials and employees were tired of the demands and some unit leaders immediately rejected the demands and did not reply. This clearly shows that many people now understand the truth about Falun Gong and refuse to participate in the persecution.
  • How the Chinese Communist Party Propaganda Intentionally Distorts Important Concepts to Deceive the Chinese People

    The Chinese nation is a profound and ancient civilisation that has lasted more than 5000 years. Since it was seized by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime in modern times, however, these traditions have been under constant attack. In this cruel struggle, the philosophy of the CCP, which goes against the grain of traditional Chinese culture, spares no effort to destroy any time-honoured practices it deems necessary in order to instill the culture of its evil regime.
  • Reminiscing About the Days When the Founder of Falun Gong Taught in Harbin City, China

    Some of them complained about the heat from the lights and about the light being in their eyes, and asked the staff to readjust the lights. For a moment the class became a little restless. In order to have everyone be able to focus on the Fa lectures, Teacher told the staff, "Readjust the lights towards me." The four hottest spotlights bathed Teacher in their light and intense heat. Teacher now was sitting in the very hot light in the middle of this sweltering August weather. Everyone in class saw Teacher's sacrifice and became absolutely quiet.
  • A Story about Falun Gong Practitioner Marina Vassong

    Before she started to cultivate in Falun Gong, her blood pressure was very unstable. From time to time it would suddenly rise and drop. She didn’t know whether she should take the medicine to make her blood pressure go down or vice versa. After practising Falun Gong for six months, this problem vanished. From then on, she has never asked for any sick leave.
  • Young European Practitioners Take to the Streets of Manhattan to Help Stop the Persecution

    On the eve of the International Falun Dafa Experience Sharing Conference, a lot of Falun Dafa practitioners reached the U.S. several days ahead of time so as to take part in activities to reveal the facts about the persecution and also to introduce the practise on the streets of New York. I met eight practitioners from Europe who came to New York to participate. They came via their own initiatives from the Czech Republic, Bulgaria and Russia to participate in the conference. They were very young and only spoke broken English; however this did not deter them from taking part in the activities. They brought with them their sincere smiles and honest and merciful hearts to participate in the activities alongside other practitioners.
  • Understanding the Truth about Falun Gong, a Village Party Secretary Resists the Persecution and Promotes the Practise

    At a people's representative delegates conference, when people were talking about a reporter for China Central TV's news show Focal Point defaming Falun Gong, this village Party Secretary spoke loudly, "Do not believe that propaganda from TV. You need to think for yourselves." In part due to his attitude, people's way of thinking began to change.
  • Stories of People Receiving Retribution after Mistreating Falun Gong Practitioners

    Si Jiaxiang was born in July of 1949. In October of 1970, he became a member of the Communist Party and he has been a deputy party secretary in the Daqing City Party Committee, and a secretary of the Daqing City Discipline Committee since 1998. After the persecution of Falun Gong began in July of 1999, Si Jiaxiang was put in charge of persecuting Falun Gong practitioners. It has been verified that under his directive, at least 55 Daqing practitioners died from persecution. Though local practitioners advised him not to continue his crimes, he paid no attention whatsoever. On July 15th, 2005, Si Jiaxiang died in a car accident. After his death, the Daqing City Government sealed the news tightly.
  • Mr. Zhong Guichun, Former Head of the Political Protection Department at the Beijing Public Security Bureau, Exposes Details of the Persecution - Part I

    Mr. Zhong Guichun currently resides in New Zealand. Moved by the other individuals' brave actions publicly exposing the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong both inside and outside of China, he also stood up to share with the public and the governments around the world what he knows about the persecution and how the persecution has been carried out in China and abroad. Mr. Zhong is fifty years old.
  • Evildoing Officials Meet with Retribution

    Stated another way, good deeds will be rewarded with good, while evildoings will meet due retribution. Articles such as this one are meant as a compassionate reminder of this principle to those who would commit wrongdoing. While many of those who persecute Falun Gong are merely "following orders," the universal law requires that they, too, be held responsible for their actions, and that only by reversing their course of wrongdoing may they escape retribution.
  • How Can Gods Save You If You Choose to Stay with a Sinking Ship?

    Let's take a voyage as an analogy. If you don't withdraw from the Chinese Communist Party, you are a crew member on the Party's pirate ship. No matter how ornate and colourful the pirate ship is decorated, it is decayed and rotten inside, unable to withstand the weather. Once a storm hits, the ship will sink to the bottom of the ocean. If the entire ship sinks, will the crew survive?
  • A Brief Discussion on "Cultivating the Self"

    The Great Learning was written about two thousand years ago. During the Song Dynasty (12th century), it became one of the required textbooks for all academic examinations. The Great Learning focuses on cultivating the self as a prerequisite to administering a government; the goal for an administrator cultivating the self was to rule the country wisely and bring peace to the world. It illustrates the relationship between improving oneself and administrating a government.
  • People in China Are Looking For Information about Falun Dafa

    Those people who finished reading the Nine Commentaries waited several evenings to meet me. They kept telling me their feelings, such as realising how the Tiananmen Self-Immolation was faked and how those suicide and homicide cases were made up. They also said that the practitioners they knew were kind people and were totally different from how the TV propaganda portrayed them. They were very upset and angry over the Chinese Communist Party's deceit over the people of China.
  • The Truth Behind the Murder Case Reported in the Tianjin Daily

    A taxi driver who spoke on condition of anonymity said the murder had to do with Li Yanzhong being traumatised over his wife's affair, and that the only reason Li claimed to be a Falun Gong practitioner was because the government promised to exempt him from the death penalty if he did.