Falun Gong (tunnetaan myös nimellä Falun Dafa) on tehokas kiinalainen mielen ja kehon harjoitusmenetelmä. Se yhdistää fyysisiä qigong-liikesarjoja "kultivoinnin harjoittamista" käsitteleviin oppeihin, jotka muistuttavat buddhalaisuutta ja taolaisuutta. Menetelmän tärkeimmät periaatteet ovat totuudenmukaisuus, laupeus ja kärsivällisyys, joiden mukaisesti omaa mieltä ja moraalista luonteenlaatua on määrä harjoittaa.
Falun Gong esiteltiin julkisesti vuonna 1992 ja saavutti Kiinassa valtavan suosion 1990-luvulla. Kiinan valtiollinen qigong-tutkimuslaitos sertifioi Falun Gongin vuonna 1992 ja alkoi edistää sen leviämistä. Muun muassa Kiinan terveysministeri suositteli Falun Gongin harjoittamista julkisten terveydenhuoltokustannusten alentamiseksi. Harjoittajia oli New York Timesin ja Associated Pressin mukaan noin 70 miljoonaa vuonna 1998. Seuraavana vuonna arviot olivat kasvaneet jopa 100 miljoonaan.
Vuodesta 1999 Kiinan hallitus on vainonnut Falun Gongin harjoittajia Manner-Kiinassa väkivaltaisesti, kun presidentti Jiang Zemin alkoi pelätä kommunistipuolueen ideologisen yksinvallan puolesta. Harjoittajien määrä oli tällöin ylittänyt kommunistisen puolueen jäsenmäärän.
Falun Gongissa ei ole jäsenyyttä. Suomen Falun Dafa -yhdistys ry järjestää mm. ryhmäharjoituksia, opiskelua ja ihmisoikeustapahtumia. Aktiviteetit ovat avoimia kaikille ja aina maksuttomia, eikä yhdistyksellä ole kaupallista toimintaa.
Kiinan hallitus on käyttänyt miljardeja dollareita Falun Gongin vastaiseen propagandakampanjaan sekä Kiinassa että ulkomailla leimatakseen sen "pahaksi kultiksi". Lisäksi se on tappanut Kiinan vankiloissa ja pakkotyöleireillä vähintään kymmeniätuhansia Falun Gongin harjoittajia, joista suurin osa on menehtynyt, kun heidän sisäelimensä on ryöstetty myyntiin.
Lisätietoja saat esim. osoitteesta www.faluninfo.net (englanniksi), organharvestinvestigation.net tai Falun Gongia käsittelevistä Wikipedia-artikkeleista. Voit myös perehtyä Euroopan parlamentin päätöslauselmiin, Amnesty Internationalin tietoihin sekä palkittuihin dokumenttielokuviin (esim. Peabody Award -palkinnon vuonna 2015 voittanut Human Harvest).
Falun Gongilla ei ole mitään poliittisia tavoitteita tai yhteiskunnallista agendaa vainokampanjan lopettamista lukuun ottamatta.
Falun Dafa, also known as Falun Gong, is an advanced self-cultivation practice that improves
mental and physical wellness through physical exercises and the development of one's character.
In China, cultivation practices have a history of thousands of years and form the spiritual
foundation of Chinese civilization.
In 1992, Falun Dafa was introduced to the public by Master Li Hongzhi.
The practice quickly spread because of its profound principles and proven health benefits.
By 1999, with over 100 million practitioners, Falun Dafa had grown to become the largest
practice of its kind in China and around the world.
Traditional Chinese medicine focuses on energy channels and believes that the health of the
body is related to the health of the mind.
Falun Dafa cultivates mind and body simultaneously, improving the body's natural immunity.
I had a very, very bad immune system.
I was sick all the time.
And I came to the practice for spiritual reasons, but I immediately stopped getting sick.
I kept thinking, why am I not getting sick?
What's wrong?
As a matter of fact, I go to parties now, and they used to say, oh, give the sick babies
to Jeannie.
She never gets sick.
I feel an energy in my body that's very subtle and hard to describe, but it feels very good.
I could have very little sleep, and I'll feel awakened, but not like a coffee energetic,
like a very calm and collected energy.
And that one hour can feel like a day.
And then I'm refreshed and ready to go.
Before I practiced Falun Gong, when I got scolded by my boss or supervisor, I was very
annoyed.
And immediately, I would complain about others or felt it wasn't fair.
But after I stopped practicing, the biggest lesson I learned was looking inside and always
find something to improve within myself.
If I didn't like something that another person did, I would think about, oh, I don't like
that.
I don't like that that person does that.
And I realized that it was having a direct effect on my health by having that bad thought
about that person.
And as soon as I realized that, I changed my thinking so that I wouldn't think about
what things I didn't like or liked about other people and more just how I should be responsible
to being a good person and controlling my thinking and quieting my thinking.
And then the headaches went away.
The first time I heard about Falun Dafa was actually when I was 12 years old.
At the time, I was going through a rebellious stage.
I barely talked to my parents.
I come home, slam the door.
Meditation taught me to look within.
I started talking to my parents more.
I started respecting them more.
So my mother was very happy because it's like she got her son back.
In 1983, I was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy, which is incurable in Western and Eastern
medicine.
In February 1998, a friend from China wrote me a letter.
She told me that Falun Dafa is a true practice that can improve people's morals as well
as physical health.
So I began to practice Falun Gong.
After three months, I totally recovered.
At the core of Falun Dafa are the values of truthfulness, compassion, and forbearance.
Falun Dafa teaches that these are the supreme qualities of the universe and takes them to
be a guide for daily life and practice.
Well, when I was little, I would stare at night, just sit in my bed and look at the
stars and think, like, why were you here in the first place?
Why do you even exist?
And most of all, where do you come from?
First time I read John Falun, the book on Falun Dafa, I felt a lot of those questions
were just immediately answered.
I think the best benefit is the peace of mind.
I have incredibly peace of mind.
My family certainly has benefited.
My husband said to me within a month, I was much easier to live with.
Applying truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance to my daily life is the greatest challenge
of my life, actually.
You would think it's so simple, but therein lies the challenge.
But everybody else around you feels it, because you become lighter, you smile a lot more,
and you become much more genuine.
It was like I was always searching for something, and it's so easy to think that what we're
searching for is outside, whether it's money or clothes or beauty or whatever.
And Falun Dafa just provided me with an inner peace that I just feel like whatever happens
around me, I'm fine.
Like I have these values and principles that I can follow.
It's just like a sense of, not security, but inner security and a sense of calm and peace,
which I didn't have before.
