Switzerland Zurich Heights Carrier: Face life with more optimistic attitudes

The phone calls to Silvan hardly stopped yesterday. He and dozens of other Falun Gong practitioners held a hunger strike for two days on Tuesday and Wednesday to express their support for the practitioners who are persecuted in China.

Chinese Government’s power politics

The recent case in Hong Kong involved four Swiss citizens. “Jiang Zemin wanted to use this case to show his power politics in Hong Kong where British law is still enforced and Falun Gong is also legal,”Silvan said.

The Hunger Strike in Hong Kong

The Falun Gong practitioners in Bern first held a press conference in the Cathedral in front of the railroad station. Then, they held a hunger strike at the Federal Square to support the protest. At the same time, Falun Gong practitioners in Hong Kong also held a hunger strike to protest.

The public should know the truth

Silvan is nothing special but just an ordinary member in the society. He has work, family, and kids. After work, he practises the Falun Gong exercises, and holds some activities for the Falun Gong practitioners who are persecuted in China. In the past, he smoked excessively. He said, “This cultivation benefits me a lot. My will becomes stronger, and my attitude towards life is much more optimistic.”

The fewer people care about it, the more brutal the persecution becomes

Silvan believes that “the public should pay attention to this issue. The fewer people care about it, the more brutal members of the Chinese government will persecute Falun gong.”

Heathenish expert’s comments on Falun Gong

AvU: Mr. Schmid, is Falun Gong [slanderous term omitted]?

Schmid: From the viewpoint of the traditions of Buddhism and Taoism, Falun Gong is an ordinary and influential exercise for meditation. It has the basic structure of Tai chi. The external exercises are combined with an inner transformation. Falun Gong practitioners do not teach religion, so their organization is relatively loose. From the structure of their organization, Falun Gong has no characteristics of [slanderous term omitted]. It does not slander or reject the western society. Falun Gong practitioners can bear criticism. They do not have the tendency of fanaticism. Concluding what mentioned above, we cannot view Falun Gong as [slanderous term omitted].

Falun Gong practitioners are persecuted in China while in the west, we have more and more people learning to practise

We definitely side with Falun Gong. The Occident are the developing countries in the aspect of spirituality, while the Orient can supply us with help in this aspect. The religions and means of meditation from the remote Orient have been spread here since the 19th and 20th centuries; Buddhism and Yoga are especially popular.

At the beginning, Falun Gong was encouraged in China. Why did the Chinese change their points of view all of a sudden?

After the USSR fell apart, the spiritual movements, such as Falun Gong, Christianity, etc. were encouraged in order to restrain people. However, the communications between the communist party and the religions became more and more difficult. Jiang Zemin somehow felt that Falun Gong was anti-Beijing. After Master Li moved to the United States, the authority of Beijing thought these feelings were confirmed. Besides, many communist party members practised Falun Gong, too. [..]

The special law of the pre-colony

Falun Gong is banned in China, but not in Hong Kong, because it is still a special administrative division. So the organization often holds activities to protest against the actions of the Beijing government.

“Hong Kong also starts to persecute people”

An accused Swiss practitioner said, “The verdict showed the pressure from Beijing again. Hong Kong also starts to persecute people.” Members of the human rights activities and the councillors of the opposition party condemned that Hong Kong succumbed to the pressure from China.