I know Larry Bobo but he probably doesn't remember me. I was from Seattle, travelling in an orange van with my large family.
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Recently, I saw a message posted by QuWenFuZheng in Tianjian message board(One of China’s biggest anti-cult website). It said Mr. Jing’s new book Li Hongzhi in My Eyes held a press conference in Hong Kong during Hong Kong Book Fair. I translated its post into English: I’ve read Li Hongzhi in My Eyes recently. On July 21, I fortunately attended the discussions about this book during Hong Kong B
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IX Will true laws be unnecessary when people possess high-level morality? Li Hongzhi once said when disseminating the cult in the US: “Will laws still be necessary when everyone focuses on morality? As you know, in ancient China, as well as in the other regions of the world, people had high-level morality even though there were not so many laws.” He was possibly intending to tell practitioners
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VIII Calumniations of the Falun Gong against Confucianism and Taoism Since ancient times, the Chinese have appreciated Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism in the following ways: 1. The common quintessence of Chinese Confucianism and Taoism lies in the claim for unification, including a unified nation, a unified country and a unified world, which make up the cultural deposits of the Chinese nation
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VII Is the “Falun Gong” a cult? We must first figure out the differences between a religion and a cult. These differences are recognized worldwide and were not invented by the Chinese government. According to accepted standards, it is not hard to judge whether the “Falun Gong” is a cult. A French anti-cult ministerial committee report says that a “cult organization is an authoritarian regime.”
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VI Is the “Falun Gong” involved in political activities? First of all, we must understand what politics is. Politics refers to the activities of governments, political parties, social organizations and individuals that get involved in internal affairs and international relations. Politics is the concentrated expression of an economy, serving an economic base. From a political perspective, there
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V Antiscience facts In March 1996, Li Hongzhi told me: “Science develops to the end. The further it develops, the more ropes it will tie on the people’s necks.” This clearly shows Li Hongzhi’s attitude towards science. Following Li Hongzhi’s view of science, the idea that science restricts the evolution of humankind leads it to blindness, it will never be possible to discover of master the l
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IV Exploration on the origin of the life in the earth After being educated with incontestable facts, many Falun Gong practitioners, including me, realized it is not a cultivation organization but an evil one with political plots. Some people may still have questions such as how does life appear? Does God create life? Or did it naturally evolved after billions of years of natural development
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Appendix I have described the psychological changes in my practice of Falun Gong and give a faithful introduction to my experience. Now, I¡¯d like to talk about Li Hongzhi¡¯s heretical ideas about the Falun Gong and his nasty tricks. I The truth about the ¡°4.25¡±Event On April 25, 1999, the ¡°Zhongnanhai Event¡± took place in Beijing. Some 10,000 Falun Gong practitioners surrounded Zhongn
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CHAPTER 18 Conclusion In early 1990, with only 50 Yuan in his pocket, Li Hongzhi was a rather ordinary grain store security guard and a nameless qigong practitioner. Several years later, Li Hongzhi had become a moneybags settled in the US, a world-renowned master and a Universe Dominator worshipped by the masses. All of these surprised the public and caused it to reflect. All this was due
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CHAPTER 15 Flam On September 4, 1998, at a small meeting convened in Geneva, Ye Hao encouraged a practitioner to ask Li Hongzhi a question: “Master, do we still need Jing Zhanyi to promote our cult?” Li Hongzhi replied: “The situation has changed and Jing Zhanyi promoting the cult has changed too…Jing Zhanyi was of the good race left by the previous Earth explosion.” Li Hongzhi’s reply ref
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CHAPTER 11 Views Of Americans Toward Li Hongzhi’ Unfair Accumulation Of Wealth In November 1999, the Wall Street Journal published a report by Craig S. Smith under the headline “Chinese hierarch realizes his American dream”. The article showed that it is impossible for Li Hongzhi to live such a luxurious life depending on “a small amount of author’s remuneration”. The report said Li Hong
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CHAPTER 9 The Greatest Human Tragedies Are Selfishness And Insincerity Li Hongzhi said in his Zhuan Falun that “Buddha dharma, as a supernormal science, is the most profound doctrine in the world. To accept the doctrine, the mind of ordinary people should be completely changed; otherwise, the truth of the universe shall be ever a myth for people, who shall be always crawling under fatuous
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CHAPTER 8 Story About The Plaster Statue In the spring in 1996, a sculptor surnamed Liu from Handan, Hebei Province, also a practitioner of the “Falun Gong”, secretly made a plaster bust of Li Hongzhi without soliciting opinions from anyone in an attempt to elevate his practicing of the “Falun Gong” to a higher level land to spread “Falun Gong.” He based the facial features of Li Hongzhi on
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CHAPTER 7 Does The Fig Really Have Any “Divine Power?” Li Hongzhi resorted to empty promises, cheap almsgivings and unknown “supernatural and divine power” to enthrall and trap many people to follow him. Many people, king and pure in their hearts, were deceived by his fallacies. Many of them are still kept in the dark and could not liberate themselves. My experiences at the beginning could
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CHAPTER 6 Learning gFalun Gongh When Trapped By The gkarma Doctrine of Li Hongzhih Now, I want to recount in detail some misfortunes and sufferings in my life, because I want to truly analyze the changes in my inner world before and after I practiced gFalun Gong.h Through recounting and analysis of these stories, it would be easy to notice that I share a similar fortune with many ot
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CHAPTER 5 Making Ultimate Efforts During the period of making “Falun Gong preaching lectures” at Peking University and T singhua University, I stayed at the temporary office of the “Society” with Ye Hao, deputy director of the Beijing “Falun Gong” instruction station and liaison official for overseas operations. In mid-March 1996, Ye Hao told me: “The master has been critic
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CHAPTER 4 Patents Would Be Meaningless If Not Associated With “Falun Gong” On March 5, 1996, Li Hongzhi left Handan. On March 6, I completed the patent application formalities. On March 18, the State Intellectual Property Office accepted the application and issued the approval documents for the patent applications. On March 20, I took the two approval documents for patent applicat
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CHAPTER 3 His Tricks Worked In February 1996, after I made the lecture at Peking University, Li Hongzhi and the “Society” plotted to further make use of my patents to “preach Falun Gong,” and to spread and disseminate “Falun Gong” in the country or to an even large scope. To achieve their goals and meticulously plotted by Li Hongzhi and the “Society,” Li Hongzhi led Ji Liewu and Liu Gui
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Falun Dafa Shows Magic and Divine Power -A Senior Engineer Makes New Breakthroughs in His Research after Practising Falun Gong Ifm Jing Zhanyi, and Ifm a senior engineer with Handan iron and Steel Company. I graduated from Beijing College of Iron and Steel Technology, the predecessor of the University of Science and Technology Beijing. In the three decades after graduation
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Here attached is a photo taken at the gate of Peking University with major members of the ¡°Society¡± before I made the so-called ¡°preaching Falun Gong lecture¡± at the university. From this photo, it is obvious that instructed by Li Hongzhi and plotted by the ¡°Society¡±, I was a tool used in spreading the ¡°Falun Gong¡± cult. Now, I feel deeply guilty and repentant for that. In my so-called ¡
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CHAPTER 2 “Preaching Falun Gong” At Peking University At the end of the 1990s, a “Qigong” (deep-breathing exercises) craze swept across China. Various types of “Qigong” emerged. The “Falun Gong” was one of the most active genres of “Qigong.” The period from 1992,when Li Hongzhi started the “Falun Gong”, to 1996 the “Falun Gong” spread the fastest. The “Falun Dafa society”, the
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Chapter 1 Foreword I have had personal contact with Li Hongzhi, with the principal leaders of the “Falun Dafa Society” in China and the “Falun Buddhism Society” in foreign countries. I used to practise with many followers of the “Falun Gong”. Thanks to these first-hand experiences I can relate many true and unknown stories about Li Hongz
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