Frequently Asked Questions on the Issue of Falun Gong
2004-03-09 11:54
Q: Why is Falun Gong a cult?
A: Like many other cults in the world, Falun Gong has
the nature of being anti-mankind, anti-science and
anti-society. It practices cult leader worship, spreads
fallacies, exercises mind control, ruins human lives and
endangers society.
Like what all cults did, Li Hongzhi, the leader of Falun
Gong, preaches "doomsday" and "catastrophe for mankind".
He said that the catastrophe could not be avoided. The
only way of escape is to believe in "Falun Dafa". Only
he could save the "incurable" mankind to another
"beautiful world". He also threatened the practitioners
that they would become ordinary people if they did not
practice Falun Gong. Then nobody would protect them and
the demons would come to take their lives. Ordinary
people will inevitably go to destruction. The body will
be destroyed, and the soul will be lost too.
The most direct social damage caused by Falun Gong is
destruction of the practitioners' lives and health. In
the guise of health-building, Falun Gong uses suggestion
psychology, and exaggerates its efficacy. It claims that
those who sincerely practice Falun Gong will not fall
sick or encounter danger. It also says that birth, old
age, disease and death are karma retribution. Taking
medicine merely presses back karma, so one can not cure
disease by taking medicine.
Deceived by such fallacies, many Falun Gong
practitioners refuse to take medicine or consult doctors
when they fall ill. According to statistics, up to now,
over 1600 people in China have died of committing
suicide or refusing medical treatment. On January 23 of
this year, 7 Falun Gong practitioners set themselves on
fire at Tiananmen Square in order to achieve "complete
perfection". This is another monstrous crime committed
by Falun Gong to its followers by mind control, and it
has further revealed its anti-mankind, anti-society and
anti-science nature.
At the request of all people, the Chinese government has
banned the Falun Gong cult in accordance with the law in
order to protect human rights and safeguard social
stability. This is also a great contribution to the
world anti-cult course.
Q: What does Li Hongzhi really advocate?
A: The main points of Li Hongzhi's Falun Dafa are as
follows: "The present mankind is full of evils". The
doomsday is near and the mankind will be destroyed soon.
Li Hongzhi is the sole savior. Only he can lead his
followers to "go up to higher levels" by practicing
Falun Gong, and finally become Buddha or immortals. Thus
they can fly to the sky and achieve "perfection" and
leave the human race. As a result, the "doomsday"
theory and cult leader worship have become the ideals of
the Falun Gong practitioners. One of them said, " I am
determined not to be a human being any more. I must
cultivate myself into an immortal." In order to realize
their "ideal" of becoming immortals, some practitioners
were willing to follow any of Li Hongzhi's instigations.
Q: Falun Gong claims to believe in "Truth, Benevolence
and Tolerance". Why does the Chinese government say it
deceives the public?
A: Li Hongzhi advocates that "Truth, Benevolence and
Tolerance" is the supreme character of the universe. The
human being is the product of this character of the
universe. But because the mankind morality has declined
sharply, the bad humans have fallen down to the center
of the universe--- the earth. The earth has thus become
a garbage dump. He advocates "Truth, Benevolence and
Tolerance" just for the sake of saving the mankind.
This fallacy advocated by Li Hongzhi is totally
hypocritical, because what he has done runs counter to
"Truth, Benevolence and Tolerance". For instance, he
said that people should tell no lies, while he himself
changed his birthday from July 7, 1952 to May 13, 1951,
so as to have the same birthday as Sakyamuni, the
founder of Buddhism. He advocated "Benevolence" and
mercifulness, but he himself showed no sympathy to those
Falun Gong practitioners who died of refusing medical
treatment. He even denied they were his followers. He
advocated "Tolerance", but he did not tolerate any
different opinions on Falun Gong, and even incited his
followers to besiege those who have different opinions.
Recently, Li Hongzhi even advocated "put down life and
death", "go beyond Tolerance", and "Eliminate the
devils" in order to incite the practitioners to fight
openly against the society and government. Can this be
called "Tolerance"? Li Hongzhi also declared that Falun
Gong does not seek profits. But a survey shows that from
May 1992 to the end of 1994, Li Hongzhi and his
followers collected more than three million yuan by
running Falun Gong training classes.
Q: Since Li Hongzhi's Falun Dafa is all fallacies, why
there are so many believers?
A: The majority of Falun Gong practitioners did not see
its true nature as a cult. They were deceived by some
people in the Falun Gong organization who had ulterior
motives. They practiced Falun Gong for various reasons.
Some people believed that it might help build up health
and cure illness. Some people were deceived by Li
Hongzhi's "Truth, Benevolence and Tolerance" and
believed that it might help purify minds. And some
people believed in the fallacy that "the earth will
explode and the date will be decided by Li Hongzhi" due
to their low education level and shortage of scientific
knowledge.
In the last two years, the Chinese government and people
have made unremitting efforts to educate, convert and
redeem the Falun Gong practitioners. Now the
overwhelming majority have waken up and got rid of its
mind control.
Q: Does Falun Gong really have the effects of overcoming
illness and building up bodies?
A: Some Falun Gong practitioners claimed that they felt
much better and their illness was gone after practicing
Falun Gong. In fact, it was not due to any miraculous
effects of Falun Gong. People with common medical
knowledge will know that human beings can build up
bodies by doing exercises, adjusting mood, or
cultivating mind quietness.
Unlike the normal Qigong exercises, Falun Gong uses
suggestion psychology and exaggerates its efficacy.
Falun Gong repeatedly stimulates the practitioners by
suggesting that it "gives them supernatural perception"
and "the wheel of law resolving constantly in the
abdomen". As a result, some people with weak psycho
characters will have fantasy and fall into mental
distress. They may do some extremist things and result
in tragedies. Up to now, over 1600 people in China have
died of committing suicide or refusing medical treatment
as a result of practicing Falun Gong. Besides, over 650
people got mental distress, 11 people killed others, and
144 people became disabled. All these facts prove that
Falun Gong will do great harms to practitioners'
physical and mental health rather than have any
miraculous effects.
Q: Why there are no instances of death of Falun Gong
practitioners abroad, and in some countries it is even
praised as a peaceful, morality improving spiritual
movement?
A: In foreign countries, Li Hongzhi dared not to
advocate his fallacies such as no doctors and medicines
are needed for illness. He also denied that he had said
such words in China. He was afraid that the local
practitioners would accuse him if some of them lost
lives. That might result in cracking down by the foreign
governments, like what they did to the "People's Temple"
and "Branch Davidians." So, he transformed Falun Gong
into a kind of Gymnastic show. Hence some curious
foreigners take Falun Gong as an exercise to build up
health. They can not understand why China has banned
Falun Gong and hold that the Chinese government violated
human rights.
We believe that Falun Gong's true nature will be exposed
to all when people know more about the great harms it
has done to the thousands of families in China and its
society.
Q: What is the legal basis for maintaining Falun Gong as
an evil cult and banning it?
A: The Regulatory Rules for Social Groups of China
stipulates that any social group should make
registration before it is established, and should abide
by the Constitution, laws, legal regulations and state
policies. Social groups should in no way run counter to
the basic principles in the Constitution, cause harm to
the state and public interests as well as the legal
rights and interests of other organizations and
citizens, or violate the social morality and social
mode. The Falun Dafa Research Society, without
registration in accordance with the law, has conducted
such illegal activities as advocating superstition and
fallacies, deceiving the people, provoking incidents and
disturbing social order. Hence, the Chinese government
decided to ban Falun Gong in accordance with The
Regulatory Rules for Social Groups of China.
Q: How does the Chinese Government deal with Falun Gong
practitioners?
A: Falun Gong is an evil cult. However, most of the
practitioners are not aware of the true nature of this
cult organization. They have been taken in by some
people with ulterior motives in the organization and are
victims themselves. The government and people have made
great efforts to persuade, transform and redeem them.
The overwhelming majority of the Falun Gong
practitioners have now waken up to their errors and are
free from the mind control of this cult.
Once practitioners disengage themselves from Falun
Gong organization and refrain from taking part in any of
its activities, they will not be held accountable by the
Chinese government. However, the few diehard elements
and obsessed practitioners who engineer, organize or
incite disturbances and poison ordinary people's mind in
the name of practicing health exercises will be punished
according to law.
Q: Falun Gong advocates non-violence and its
practitioners held peaceful demonstrations. Why is this
considered violation of the law?
A: Falun Gong practices cult leader worship, fabricates
and spreads heretic fallacies, exercises spiritual
control on its practioners, tramples on human rights,
ruins the lives and endangers the society. On 22 July
1999, in accordance with the demand by the people, the
Chinese government decided to outlaw Falun Gong. The
Ministry of Public Security of the People's Republic of
China issued a public notice prohibiting the hanging or
posting anywhere of the banners, pictures, emblems
advocating "Falun Dafa" (Falun Gong) and all activities,
including assemblies, processions and demonstrations
etc., organized by "Falung Gong" in the name of
"promoting the Dafa." By confusing and poisoning
people's minds in the name of "promoting and
safeguarding Falun Dafa", Li Hongzhi induced a small
number of practitioners to openly challenge the law,
disturb social order and damage social stability. Their
acts are illegal. Recently, some Falun Gong addicts,
bewitched by Li Hongzhi, committed self-immolation at
the Tiananmen Square. This incident has further exposed
the sinful nature of the so-called non-violence and
peaceful demonstration as advocated by Falun Gong.
A: Like many other cults in the world, Falun Gong has
the nature of being anti-mankind, anti-science and
anti-society. It practices cult leader worship, spreads
fallacies, exercises mind control, ruins human lives and
endangers society.
Like what all cults did, Li Hongzhi, the leader of Falun
Gong, preaches "doomsday" and "catastrophe for mankind".
He said that the catastrophe could not be avoided. The
only way of escape is to believe in "Falun Dafa". Only
he could save the "incurable" mankind to another
"beautiful world". He also threatened the practitioners
that they would become ordinary people if they did not
practice Falun Gong. Then nobody would protect them and
the demons would come to take their lives. Ordinary
people will inevitably go to destruction. The body will
be destroyed, and the soul will be lost too.
The most direct social damage caused by Falun Gong is
destruction of the practitioners' lives and health. In
the guise of health-building, Falun Gong uses suggestion
psychology, and exaggerates its efficacy. It claims that
those who sincerely practice Falun Gong will not fall
sick or encounter danger. It also says that birth, old
age, disease and death are karma retribution. Taking
medicine merely presses back karma, so one can not cure
disease by taking medicine.
Deceived by such fallacies, many Falun Gong
practitioners refuse to take medicine or consult doctors
when they fall ill. According to statistics, up to now,
over 1600 people in China have died of committing
suicide or refusing medical treatment. On January 23 of
this year, 7 Falun Gong practitioners set themselves on
fire at Tiananmen Square in order to achieve "complete
perfection". This is another monstrous crime committed
by Falun Gong to its followers by mind control, and it
has further revealed its anti-mankind, anti-society and
anti-science nature.
At the request of all people, the Chinese government has
banned the Falun Gong cult in accordance with the law in
order to protect human rights and safeguard social
stability. This is also a great contribution to the
world anti-cult course.
Q: What does Li Hongzhi really advocate?
A: The main points of Li Hongzhi's Falun Dafa are as
follows: "The present mankind is full of evils". The
doomsday is near and the mankind will be destroyed soon.
Li Hongzhi is the sole savior. Only he can lead his
followers to "go up to higher levels" by practicing
Falun Gong, and finally become Buddha or immortals. Thus
they can fly to the sky and achieve "perfection" and
leave the human race. As a result, the "doomsday"
theory and cult leader worship have become the ideals of
the Falun Gong practitioners. One of them said, " I am
determined not to be a human being any more. I must
cultivate myself into an immortal." In order to realize
their "ideal" of becoming immortals, some practitioners
were willing to follow any of Li Hongzhi's instigations.
Q: Falun Gong claims to believe in "Truth, Benevolence
and Tolerance". Why does the Chinese government say it
deceives the public?
A: Li Hongzhi advocates that "Truth, Benevolence and
Tolerance" is the supreme character of the universe. The
human being is the product of this character of the
universe. But because the mankind morality has declined
sharply, the bad humans have fallen down to the center
of the universe--- the earth. The earth has thus become
a garbage dump. He advocates "Truth, Benevolence and
Tolerance" just for the sake of saving the mankind.
This fallacy advocated by Li Hongzhi is totally
hypocritical, because what he has done runs counter to
"Truth, Benevolence and Tolerance". For instance, he
said that people should tell no lies, while he himself
changed his birthday from July 7, 1952 to May 13, 1951,
so as to have the same birthday as Sakyamuni, the
founder of Buddhism. He advocated "Benevolence" and
mercifulness, but he himself showed no sympathy to those
Falun Gong practitioners who died of refusing medical
treatment. He even denied they were his followers. He
advocated "Tolerance", but he did not tolerate any
different opinions on Falun Gong, and even incited his
followers to besiege those who have different opinions.
Recently, Li Hongzhi even advocated "put down life and
death", "go beyond Tolerance", and "Eliminate the
devils" in order to incite the practitioners to fight
openly against the society and government. Can this be
called "Tolerance"? Li Hongzhi also declared that Falun
Gong does not seek profits. But a survey shows that from
May 1992 to the end of 1994, Li Hongzhi and his
followers collected more than three million yuan by
running Falun Gong training classes.
Q: Since Li Hongzhi's Falun Dafa is all fallacies, why
there are so many believers?
A: The majority of Falun Gong practitioners did not see
its true nature as a cult. They were deceived by some
people in the Falun Gong organization who had ulterior
motives. They practiced Falun Gong for various reasons.
Some people believed that it might help build up health
and cure illness. Some people were deceived by Li
Hongzhi's "Truth, Benevolence and Tolerance" and
believed that it might help purify minds. And some
people believed in the fallacy that "the earth will
explode and the date will be decided by Li Hongzhi" due
to their low education level and shortage of scientific
knowledge.
In the last two years, the Chinese government and people
have made unremitting efforts to educate, convert and
redeem the Falun Gong practitioners. Now the
overwhelming majority have waken up and got rid of its
mind control.
Q: Does Falun Gong really have the effects of overcoming
illness and building up bodies?
A: Some Falun Gong practitioners claimed that they felt
much better and their illness was gone after practicing
Falun Gong. In fact, it was not due to any miraculous
effects of Falun Gong. People with common medical
knowledge will know that human beings can build up
bodies by doing exercises, adjusting mood, or
cultivating mind quietness.
Unlike the normal Qigong exercises, Falun Gong uses
suggestion psychology and exaggerates its efficacy.
Falun Gong repeatedly stimulates the practitioners by
suggesting that it "gives them supernatural perception"
and "the wheel of law resolving constantly in the
abdomen". As a result, some people with weak psycho
characters will have fantasy and fall into mental
distress. They may do some extremist things and result
in tragedies. Up to now, over 1600 people in China have
died of committing suicide or refusing medical treatment
as a result of practicing Falun Gong. Besides, over 650
people got mental distress, 11 people killed others, and
144 people became disabled. All these facts prove that
Falun Gong will do great harms to practitioners'
physical and mental health rather than have any
miraculous effects.
Q: Why there are no instances of death of Falun Gong
practitioners abroad, and in some countries it is even
praised as a peaceful, morality improving spiritual
movement?
A: In foreign countries, Li Hongzhi dared not to
advocate his fallacies such as no doctors and medicines
are needed for illness. He also denied that he had said
such words in China. He was afraid that the local
practitioners would accuse him if some of them lost
lives. That might result in cracking down by the foreign
governments, like what they did to the "People's Temple"
and "Branch Davidians." So, he transformed Falun Gong
into a kind of Gymnastic show. Hence some curious
foreigners take Falun Gong as an exercise to build up
health. They can not understand why China has banned
Falun Gong and hold that the Chinese government violated
human rights.
We believe that Falun Gong's true nature will be exposed
to all when people know more about the great harms it
has done to the thousands of families in China and its
society.
Q: What is the legal basis for maintaining Falun Gong as
an evil cult and banning it?
A: The Regulatory Rules for Social Groups of China
stipulates that any social group should make
registration before it is established, and should abide
by the Constitution, laws, legal regulations and state
policies. Social groups should in no way run counter to
the basic principles in the Constitution, cause harm to
the state and public interests as well as the legal
rights and interests of other organizations and
citizens, or violate the social morality and social
mode. The Falun Dafa Research Society, without
registration in accordance with the law, has conducted
such illegal activities as advocating superstition and
fallacies, deceiving the people, provoking incidents and
disturbing social order. Hence, the Chinese government
decided to ban Falun Gong in accordance with The
Regulatory Rules for Social Groups of China.
Q: How does the Chinese Government deal with Falun Gong
practitioners?
A: Falun Gong is an evil cult. However, most of the
practitioners are not aware of the true nature of this
cult organization. They have been taken in by some
people with ulterior motives in the organization and are
victims themselves. The government and people have made
great efforts to persuade, transform and redeem them.
The overwhelming majority of the Falun Gong
practitioners have now waken up to their errors and are
free from the mind control of this cult.
Once practitioners disengage themselves from Falun
Gong organization and refrain from taking part in any of
its activities, they will not be held accountable by the
Chinese government. However, the few diehard elements
and obsessed practitioners who engineer, organize or
incite disturbances and poison ordinary people's mind in
the name of practicing health exercises will be punished
according to law.
Q: Falun Gong advocates non-violence and its
practitioners held peaceful demonstrations. Why is this
considered violation of the law?
A: Falun Gong practices cult leader worship, fabricates
and spreads heretic fallacies, exercises spiritual
control on its practioners, tramples on human rights,
ruins the lives and endangers the society. On 22 July
1999, in accordance with the demand by the people, the
Chinese government decided to outlaw Falun Gong. The
Ministry of Public Security of the People's Republic of
China issued a public notice prohibiting the hanging or
posting anywhere of the banners, pictures, emblems
advocating "Falun Dafa" (Falun Gong) and all activities,
including assemblies, processions and demonstrations
etc., organized by "Falung Gong" in the name of
"promoting the Dafa." By confusing and poisoning
people's minds in the name of "promoting and
safeguarding Falun Dafa", Li Hongzhi induced a small
number of practitioners to openly challenge the law,
disturb social order and damage social stability. Their
acts are illegal. Recently, some Falun Gong addicts,
bewitched by Li Hongzhi, committed self-immolation at
the Tiananmen Square. This incident has further exposed
the sinful nature of the so-called non-violence and
peaceful demonstration as advocated by Falun Gong.