Three Things Everyone Needs to Know About Falun Gong

The traditional Chinese meditation practice Falun Gong has been violently persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for 16 years. Since the persecution is so vicious and targets such a large group of people, it has affected not only China, but the whole world.

Therefore, it is important for each person to know the facts about Falun Gong – the true facts, not the propaganda the CCP has been spreading to try to justify the persecution.

The first and most important thing to know is that Falun Gong is good.

In the 1990s, when the ancient practice was made public for the first time in modern history, it began to grow in popularity right away. Falun Gong includes five meditative exercises and moral teachings based on truthfulness, kindness, and tolerance.

Those who practice Falun Gong have reported amazing benefits, such as improved physical health, mental clarity, reduced stress, better ability to handle conflicts, improved temper, spiritual growth, and much more. Truthfulness, kindness, and tolerance are universal principles with miraculous results.

By 1999, when the persecution started, there were an estimated 70 to 100 million people practicing Falun Gong in China, including many CCP officials. However, then-CCP leader Jiang Zemin became paranoid and jealous of the practice’s popularity, so he launched a campaign to arrest, imprison, torture, and kill practitioners across China.

This brings us to a second important thing to know about Falun Gong: The CCP is persecuting the practice not only with violence, but also with words.

After launching the persecution, Jiang tried to cover up his cruelty by bombarding Chinese people with lies about Falun Gong. He used Chinese media to do this, and the rest of the world’s media then repeated the lies, since at the time they had no other source of information on China.

The CCP’s media were ordered to slander the practice, but they could not find anything bad to say about truthfulness, kindness, and tolerance; so they made up all kinds of falsehoods.

They created videos in which “practitioners” set themselves on fire or performed other violent acts. These videos were later debunked as having been staged. Indeed, Falun Gong prohibits violence and suicide, so the actors in the videos could not have been real practitioners.

A third thing everyone needs to know about Falun Gong is what to do now that you are aware of the facts. How do you show that you stand on the side of truthfulness, kindness, and tolerance; and how do you make it clear that you don’t support the CCP’s deceit and mass murder?

Chinese people have been doing it by quitting the Party. To date, over 218 million Chinese have declared that they quit the CCP and its affiliated organizations, according to tuidang.org, a website people use to quit.

They renounce the Party to show their support for Falun Gong, clear their consciences of the violent crimes the CCP has committed, and avoid being held responsible for these crimes in the future. In their statements of withdrawal from the Party, some people use their real names, and others use aliases for safety reasons.

Outside China, politicians and world leaders have been showing their support by passing resolutions to condemn the persecution.

Newspaper reporters can show support by reporting the real situation. The CCP has long bullied other countries’ media into reporting the way the CCP wants, which is why the persecution is not often discussed in mainstream news.

For everyone else, the important thing is to know that Falun Gong is good and that it is being wrongly oppressed. Sharing this information with others is helpful, too, since each person in the world who learns the truth means one step closer to the end of the persecution.

Sources: http://www.tuidang.org/
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