noah

I have been a Falun Dafa Practitioner for six years. I have to say that everything it discusses is real and genuinely upright. There are no rituals, membership, costs, and no worship. It discusses all aspects of cultivation in general (buddha, tao, qimen etc), and all of the info can be found for free on the internet. If you see what is really there, you will absoutely gain things you never knew existed. As far as the previous comment, I question whether they are just repeating Chinese Communist Party propaganda. We only get together to do exercises. Also many practitioners protest the vicious persecution going on in china, but people together reporting on persecution can hardly be called a cult. It has been verified by the U.N., U.S. Congress, E.U. etc. The CCP outlawed the practice when a countrywide survey showed 100 million practitioners. they also outlawed other Qigong as well. If you want proof, check this independent investigation out. http://investigation.go.saveinter.net/ As far as the practice goes though, I have only found amazing things from it. Noah

http://www.falundafa.org/eng/books.htm Both Zhuan Falun, and the book Falun Gong are excellent. FG contains the actual meditation exercise, but Zhuan Falun is far more comprehensive. It is all in there.

The issue you have encountered is discussed in the first couple of pages of Zhuan Falun by Li Hongzhi. http://www.falundafa.org/book/eng/pdf/zflus.pdf If you aren't able to see it, email me at [email protected] Noah

I just happened to come across your site when I saw a video of John Chang on youtube. He was the first genuine modern taoist master I had run across (not literally). I becam a Falun Gong practitioner in 2001 right after reading Magus of Java, ironically. The Falun Dafa book Zhuan Falun was even more in depth and I have had a very good cultivation experience. Anyway, that is who I am. I hope everyone is finding what they are looking for. It is real. Noah