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Falun Gong and the Persecution in China
Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a tradidional Chinese sacred practice in the Buddhist tradition and consists of upright instructions a sitting meditation, and four simple exercises that are a truly unique and highly effective way to enhance your well being and energy levels. Please type the phrase on the Google search engine for additional facts: An Introduction to Falun Gong.
At the core of Falun Gong are the values of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Tolerance (or in Chinese, Zhen 真 Shan 善 Ren 忍). Falun Dafa instructs that these are the fundamental characteristics of the universe and takes them to be a blueprint for everyday life and practice .
In 1998, to ascertain the health benefits of Falun Gong, a survey was conducted among Falun Gong practitioners in five districts in Beijing, with 12,731 bona-fide questionnaires. The results show that Falun Gong’s recovery rate from illness is 99.1% with a relief rate of 58.5%; Improvement rate is 80.3% in physical wellbeing and 96.5% in mental health . The survey signifies that Falun Gong has a significant effect in disease healing and wellbeing promotion . Falun Gong is an excellent Qi-gong practice that benefits people both physically and mentally.
The health and wellness benefits of Falun Gong have been witnessed by people around the world, while the practice continues to develop in 114 countries. It has been well-received by governments. But yet, in China where it was introduced to the public in 1992, it has beenill-treated .
In July 1999, Falun Gong became state opponent number one in China. A paranoid dictator's fear of Falun Gong's exponential growth resulted in intense jealousy of Falun Gong’s popularity . Since the beginning of the suppression, many practitioners have been sentenced to ‘reform through labour’ camps, where they are starved , beaten, and tortured with electric batons. By 2008, there were over 3,000 registered cases of practitioners who were killed as a result of the state-run persecution . Increasingly, solid proof suggests many more, at least 60,000 until several years ago, have been targetedas unwilling donors of kidneys, livers, and hearts.
To comprehend the severity of this situation, let me give a small example: Envision you practiced yoga in India and one fine day you were captured and put into jail for practicing it. Then you were tortured and pushed to stop practicing. Then, when you refused to stop since it has given you only good things, you were put through more torture and denied meeting with your family members, who did not know where you were. No court would take your case. You were put through physical and mental torture and then subjected to the worst crime of all: Your organs, having been tissue typed, were against your willextracted from your body, to be sold at a high price to affluent Chinese or foreign patients. You die from this process. And this was all done by the government of your own country. This is unfortunately happening in China right now to Falun Gong practitioners, whose only crime is an adherence to the principles of truthfulness, compassion and tolerance.
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