Information on Falun Gong and the persecution in China. 2012.
June 2, 2012 Leave a comment
Falun Dafa Meditation. This picture was shared through facebook and the location is unknown, however it is speculated to be in a school Taiwan, some years after the persecution of Falun Dafa started in 1999.
June 1, 2012 Leave a comment
1. Mr. Mou Lunhui is a Falun Gong practitioner from the Wanzhou District, Chongqing. At 11 p.m. on December 30, 2008, as he was passing Jiuchichang Town on his way home after visiting a friend on some private business, he came across a group of local police officers from the Public Security office of Jiuchichang Town. Zhou Shiyin, Pan Ronghan, and Zhang Shimao were on their way to capture a burglar. Zhou and Pan had persecuted Mr. Mou many times. When they saw him, they gave up the burglar and turned to arrest him. Mr. Mou protested the arrest but was cruelly beaten till he fell unconscious. He was then taken to the Guanyinyan Police Station and later detained for 15 days in the Lijiahe Detention Center. Afterward, he was secretly sent to the Tangfang Forced Labor Camp, which is located in the Wanzhou District. Keeping Mr. Mou’s family uninformed about his arrest, the police then transferred him to the Xishanping Forced Labor Camp in Chongqing, after sentencing him to 21 months of forced labor.
What had Mr. Mou done to distract these Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officers, diverting their attention from a burglar to focus on him when they crossed paths? Why is it more important to arrest a Falun Gong practitioner than a burglar? The law in China claims to protect its civilians—with the exception of Falun Gong practitioners. According to the CCP officials, Mr. Mou does not have any civil rights, which led them to make this egregious arrest.
2. Let’s consider another incident that happened in Hebei Province. At about 2:40 a.m. on June 25, 2010, Ms. Han Xinlin, a Falun Gong practitioner from Qinghuangdao City, was walking to her night shift. When she passed by the city’s Jiaoyunli flyover, two villains jumped out at her and tried to assault her. She resolutely resisted and ran away while calling out for help. The villains seized her handbag and found some Falun Gong materials in it. They threatened that they would report her to the police unless she submitted to them, but she refused. The villains then dialed 110 and reported her to the police.
It was not long before two police officers arrived. The villains claimed that they were subordinates of the local gang leader Dazheng. The police understood and hinted at them not to say more for fear that their connections with other villains would be revealed. Ms. Han told the police about the assault, but they simply refused to listen and let the criminals leave. They then arrested Ms. Han and took her to the Jianshe Street Police Station of Qinghuangdao City.
In the station, the officers did not asked her any questions about the assault but interrogated her about practicing Falun Gong. They took her keys and went to ransack her home without a search warrant and without informing her family beforehand. They detained her for more than 10 days in a detention center and then sentenced her to forced labor.
In this incident, the guilty ones, the actual criminals, boldly accused their victim solely for being a Falun Gong practitioner. The police officers and the CCP authorities then sentenced her to forced labor without hesitation, although she did nothing wrong.
3. Who should be held accountable in these instances? The cases below may give us the answer.
At noon on May 26, 2001, the Chengbei Police Station of Jingjiang City, Taizhou, Jiangsu Province, rounded up several officers to arrest practitioner Mr. Chen Yanru, but he escaped. During a meeting with the local police, the secretary of the local Political and Legal Committee (PLC) of the CCP, Chen Hangao, claimed, “Putting aside all those trivial cases, homicide, and arson, we will pool all of our police forces to arrest Chen Yanru.” According to reliable sources, they paid 430,000 yuan for the arrest of Mr. Chen.
The PLC organ, which is in charge of China’s police, procuratorate, and courts—but largely stays above the law—plays a central role in the persecution Falun Gong. The irrational decision of the PLC secretary, the resources squandered on arresting innocent Falun Gong practitioners at the expense of ignoring major crimes, and the cruelty with which the CCP treats Falun Gong practitioners can all be traced back to the regime’s instigation and policies. The brutality of the persecution could never have reached this point had it not been for the pressures that were piled, layer by layer, upon all levels of communist officials. Jiang Zemin, who launched this tragic catastrophe, ranked persecution of Falun Gong as a crucial issue related to the survival of the CCP. Thus, the eradication of Falun Gong has become the CCP’s most vital task.
The accounts released by Falun Gong practitioners make up only small part of this cruel persecution. As a matter of fact, cases of good people being arrested while true criminals are released are quite prevalent across China. In a police station in Dalian City, Liaoning Province, a practitioner overhead a police officer taking a call about a thief being caught. The officer said, “No, you should not have arrested that thief.” The person on the other end said, “We have spend a lot of energy catching him. What should we do now?” The officer was quite annoyed and went into a frenzy, “What should you do? Release him! Our leader has said, ‘We only arrest Falun Gong practitioners, hands off everything else.’ Release him!”
Zhang Zhikui, a practitioner from Dazhuangjia Village, Xinzhung Town, Zhaoyuan City, Shandong Province, resided in Changchun City, Jilin Province, for many years. He was cruelly persecuted for going to Beijing to appeal for the right to practice Falun Gong. According to him, “Fifteen days later, I was transferred to Balibu Prison in Changchun City, where all of the prisoners were Falun Gong practitioners. To make space for the practitioners, they released all of the other prisoners.” During that time, about 800 practitioners were held there.
Falun Gong teaches its practitioners to conduct themselves according to the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance in their work and everyday life. To eradicate Falun Gong, the CCP releases the criminals who undermine social stability and focuses on arresting Falun Gong practitioners who merely want to be good people. In the history of mankind, has anyone seen such a society, where the good and bad are so totally reversed? The moral corruption of China’s society nowadays is closely related to the CCP’s persecution of Falun Gong.
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June 1, 2012 Leave a comment
May 21, 2012 | By a Falun Dafa disciple in China
Category: Opinion
(Minghui.org) The 20th anniversary of Falun Dafa’s dissemination in the world has arrived, and more people are discovering that Falun Dafa can be deemed the “World’s Conscience.”
Many noble people have once been considered “Hong Kong’s Conscience” or “China’s Conscience,” yet no one has ever heard of anyone being called the “World’s Conscience.” So why do I say Falun Dafa is the “World’s Conscience?”
Living in a world driven by material pursuit, Falun Dafa practitioners have always held firm to their belief of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance and put elevation of their morality, not fame and self-interest, as their first priority. They never bend their moral standards or give up their conscience for petty interests, even when faced with the loss of their lives.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) often promises freedom to practitioners if they agree to “no longer practice Falun Dafa.” If they insist on practicing Falun Dafa, practitioners are conversely threatened with grave consequences (such as detention, torture or loss of job or even life). Numerous practitioners not only refuse to give up their belief, but also advise the perpetrators to stop doing evil and to do the right thing.
Many non-practitioners feel that practitioners are too naïve and stubborn. Why not succumb to the pressure for the moment and then go home practice in secret? What they don’t get is that the “Truthfulness” that practitioners practice is pure truthfulness, meaning no cheating Heaven, Earth, other people or self. To practitioners, moral values are the most important thing and they, of course, will never tell a lie just for personal gain.
There are also people who don’t understand why practitioners have to step forward to clarify the facts, instead of just staying home and practicing. The reason is that the “Compassion” practitioners practice is altruistic compassion. Wouldn’t it be selfish if practitioners never told other people about the wonderful practice they’ve been benefiting from? Would there still be any compassion if practitioners remained indifferent when Falun Dafa is being viciously attacked by the CCP? Practitioners risk their lives to tell people about the truth of Falun Dafa because they want to stop the world’s people from committing crimes and to advise people to side with goodness for their sake. They are safeguarding the entire human race’s moral principles and this does not involve even one ounce of selfish motives. Their truth clarification efforts are the most benevolent acts.
Some people doubt whether unarmed practitioners can ever defeat the CCP. Actually, that is a misunderstanding, since Falun Dafa has never considered anyone its enemy. During the past 13 years of the CCP’s suppression of Falun Dafa, practitioners have never exhibited any irrational behavior, nor have they resorted to armed force or violence. The “Forbearance” practitioners practice is not treating anyone as an enemy and holding no grudges or hatred against anyone. Even when the CCP has committed such grave crimes, practitioners are still trying their best to save as many individual CCP members as possible. They advise people to quit the CCP and its affiliated organizations, not because they intend to overturn the CCP, but because they want to save those people.
Ever since Falun Dafa was introduced to the world in 1992, practitioners have been following the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance in earnest and working hard to elevate their own morality, thereby guiding the ascent of human morals in the process. Despite the past 13 years of persecution, they have never betrayed their conscience.
In a world with declining morality and an ever-worsening ecological system, people are witnessing nobility, kindness and dignity in practitioners. They are beginning to see hope for a bright future and an opportunity to transcend the warped society. More and more people are also noticing the moral gap between themselves and practitioners and are rediscovering their long forgotten conscience.
The nobility of Falun Dafa has illuminated numerous people’s hearts and given them courage to awaken their conscience. Abandoning evil and choosing kindness is becoming an unstoppable trend in the world.
History will prove that Falun Dafa is worthy of the title the World’s Conscience.
June 1, 2012 Leave a comment
May 31, 2012 | By Samet Mehmed from Germany
Samet Mehmed
(Minghui.org) I am originally from Bulgaria, and currently reside in Germany. When I lived in Bulgaria in 2009, I heard about Falun Dafa for the first time. I had been very interested in Asian cultures and practiced martial arts in high school. Regardless of whatever activities I engaged in or wherever I traveled, however, I had been searching for spiritual answers.
I also learned Chinese medicine. I was told that in Asian culture, medication and medical equipment were not the sole means of treatment; spiritual factors also played important roles. Therefore, I began to be interested in reading books on ancient mysteries, and at the same time, I also read materials that focused on spiritual subjects. However, nothing gave me the answers to the meaning of life. Some of the books that I read carried bad messages, which caused me to have depression.
When I returned home one day, I found a Falun Dafa flyer in my mailbox. I was about to throw it away, but an unknown power stopped me. After reading the flyer, I searched for Falun Dafa on the Internet. I spent hours on the website, and realized that I could not let it go. I was completely empowered by the teachings. Immediately, a brand new world opened up in front of me, and I realized that Falun Dafa was exactly what I had been looking for my whole life.
I still do not know how the flyer ended up in my mailbox, because back then the city that I lived in did not have a single Dafa practitioner. I later learned that everything had been well planned for me.
After reading Zhuan Falun, my depression disappeared, and at the same time, I also graduated from my study of traditional Japanese medicine. At the end of 2009, I came to Dortmund, Germany, and bought additional Falun Gong books. Since coming to Germany, I have read Zhuan Falun more than a dozen times.
In the first few months, I could not find any practitioners; hence I practiced the exercises by myself in a park. In August 2010, I went to the exercise site in Dortmund for the first time. Both the practitioners and exercise site were very tranquil and peaceful. It seemed like the exercise site was a peaceful island located in a bustling ocean. From then on, everything in my life became meaningful and well organized. Things that I had come across before seemed to be a ladder for me to climb up and eventually meet up with Dafa. I also found out that I had so many attachments and all kinds of human sentimentality before cultivating in Dafa. Now that I have found the Great Law or Dafa of the universe, I will follow it to cultivate myself. I am now one of the happiest beings in the universe.
I finally determined in 2010 that a requirement for being a cultivator means I must purify myself at every level. I immediately stopped drinking alcohol and smoking marijuana. I found out afterwards, that as soon as I truly realized that I was a cultivator of the Great Law of the universe, and once I had the desire to let go of bad habits, it was actually not hard to let them go at all. I also often came across conflicts with people, which helped me to improve my xinxing. Living in a complicated environment with conflicts is really very helpful. I saw how I changed into a peaceful island amongst the bustling and noisy ocean. From then on, I did not have any illnesses and my body felt very light. Because there are still many lives out there waiting to know the truth and be saved, I did my best to participate in truth-clarification activities.
I want to share about a car accident that I was involved in. One day in December 2011, while I was crossing a street, a car came speeding toward me. At that moment, some kind of force drew me about two feet backwards, and I could see that the car should have had enough space to stop, but it still hit my knees.
Very quickly I realized what had happened, and my mind was very clear. I was not angry and neither was I afraid; I was actually very calm. People stopped and looked at me. The lady who hit me was panicky and terrified. She sat in her car, unable to gather sufficient energy to come out. She could do nothing more than repeatedly say, “I’m sorry” to me. Smiling at her, I waved and told her that I was fine, and that she should be more careful in the future. After that, I continued on my way.
I checked my knees after I got home and found out that they were not hurt at all. As a matter of fact, my knees did not even have any bruises. People, including my father, told me that I could have asked that lady to pay me one thousand Euros for the accident, but I just laughed at the idea.
There is a lot more that I could write about, but I just want to say that I hope more and more people will be fortunate enough to learn Dafa and genuinely cultivate. I thank Master from the depth of my heart.
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May 25, 2012 | By Li Yan, a Dafa practitioner in mainland China
(Minghui.org) I started practicing Falun Dafa in 1998. As a child I was introverted and not comfortable socially, and as I grew up I felt that life was tiring and boring. Zhuan Falun changed my whole attitude. Upon reading this book, the goal of life became clear to me.
Even after the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started the persecution of Falun Gong on July 20, 1999, my cultivation in Dafa remained firm. My husband did not try to stop me from practicing Dafa either. However, in June 2001 I was illegally detained for a week because I went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Dafa. After I was released, my husband started to be against my cultivation practice due to fear. In order to reestablish support from him and to help him cause less karma for himself, I decided to have a heart to heart talk with my husband.
It was in November 2001. We talked late into the night for several consecutive nights. I talked about my mother, who used to have high blood pressure and heart disease. She so ill that she would not be able to get out of bed whenever she got upset at something. However, once she started practicing Dafa, she quickly regained her heath. She is almost 70 years old and rides a motorcycle just like a young person. I also told him that Dafa practitioners live by the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. I told him how the CCP had fabricated false information in order to persecute Falun Gong. I asked him to watch DVDs on the staged self-immolation and exposed more of the CCP’s lies.
Actually, my husband already knew most of the things I was telling him. However, our long talks deeply moved him. Eventually, he completely understood the truth about this persecution, and he changed his attitude and approved of my cultivation. He also agreed to let me move the equipment I used for making Dafa truth-clarification materials home, as I used to rent a place to make Dafa-related materials. My fellow practitioner and I moved two copiers and a DVD burner home. When my husband saw our large copier, he cried out in surprise, “This is a big one you have here!” He did not say anything else afterwards. Over the following few years, he had always helped us with the printing of Dafa materials.
My husband does not have much education or and he is not very sophisticated. However, he has a very kind heart and is very empathetic; he cries whenever he sees other people cry. When he sees the poor on the street, he’ll empty his pockets even if he had only ten yuan on him. He willingly lends money to friends and family when they need money for emergencies.
The first few years after 1999 was the period that the CCP persecuted Falun Gong most brutally. To protect me from harm, my husband took over the job of going into town to get CDs. During that time, policemen watched the roads closely. My husband smokes and uses vulgar language, so therefore, no one suspected him of being a Falun Gong practitioner. He safely brought home large amounts of CDs every time he went to town. In addition, he once protected non-local fellow practitioners. One time, my husband told me that after he got on the bus to come home one day, several policemen came up to the bus to question the travelers. Two other travelers also had large suitcases; they had kind faces, did not smoke nor talk, and in my husband’s words: “They looked just like one of you.” He then said to the policemen, pointing to the two travelers: “We are together.” The policemen saw that my husband did not look like a Falun Gong practitioner, so thus they did not bother the two travelers.
My husband also bought equipment for our printing center and helped me with transporting Dafa materials.
In September 2003, I was reported to the authorities. The police knocked on my door at 3 o’clock in the morning. I was not home. My husband hastily covered up the machines and hid what needed to be hid. Our balcony was full of empty CD boxes, so he quickly consolidated them and opened the door. My husband used his wisdom to talk to the policemen. They did not find anything and did not look on the balcony either. They took my husband with them to the police station. My husband used the excuse of going to the bathroom to call me and told me to hide for awhile. He likes to joke around so I did not take him seriously. He was anxious and found other excuses to call and text me. I then realized the severity of the situation. The policemen could not find anything against my husband and so he was released. Once he was released, he found a trusted friend and asked him to move all the printing equipment from our house. My fellow practitioners and I found a place to rent and established our printing center again.
In the winter of 2005, a fellow practitioner with whom we had contact was arrested, and our printing center needed to be relocated. However, we’d just finished printing three thousand copies of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party, and there was just an elderly fellow practitioner and I. Moving those books, other materials and our equipment would be very difficult. I asked my husband for his help. He immediately borrowed a motorcycle with a trailer attached. The trailer did not even have a door at the back, just a piece of cloth as a curtain. We used this motorcycle and relocated everything that needed to be moved.
My husband had a job involving business affairs. In 2004, he wanted to open his own factory. We took out our savings and borrowed some money and opened a factory that had only a net worth of a few tens of thousands of yuan. At that time, we were short ten thousand yuan, so I asked my fellow practitioners if they could lend us some money. They right away lent money to my husband. My husband was moved. He knew that under the CCP’s persecution, none of my fellow practitioners were doing well economically; however, they lent him the money when he needed help. I remembered after we left a fellow practitioner’s home with the money, my husband rode the motorcycle and shouted through the streets: “Falun Dafa is good! Falun Dafa is good!” He shouted this over and over without any fear.
Nearly nine years have past, and my husband’s net worth has increased from tens of thousand of yuan to over a few hundred million yuan. The change was unimaginable. Only a deity could make such a miracle happen. Several years ago, my husband bought a factory that had gone bankrupt for 10,000,000 yuan. Three years later, just the land itself was worth 70,000,000 yuan. He planed to buy one piece of production line equipment early this year. The market price would be 2,000,000 yuan, yet he bought the exact equipment for only 250,000 yuan through a court auction. The equipment had only been tested and had not been actually used in production. My husband now owns several factories.
Compassionate Master used to say that an ordinary person would be blessed by merely shouting “Falun Dafa is good!” Ordinary people that protect Dafa disciples and support Falun Dafa will be blessed. Through my husband’s experience, I have personally experienced the compassion of Master and Dafa.
My husband has a good understanding, and knows that it is Dafa that helped him with his business. It is because my husband supports his wife who is a Dafa practitioner and supports Dafa, that he is protected and blessed by higher beings.
(Note: to protect the safety of the author’s husband, their location is not disclosed in the article)
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May 31, 2012 Leave a comment
Taken from: NTDTV.com
Category: China
China’s tight internet censorship may be faltering as the Chinese regime’s factional infighting continues. The country’s largest search engine, Baidu, now gives search results including New Tang Dynasty Television reports on the Chinese regime’s persecution of the Falun Gong spiritual practice.
Analysts say these search results are a significant reflection of the power struggle that’s going on within the Communist Party. Both NTD and Falun Gong are considered taboo by the Chinese regime, and internet searches usually either turn up with no results or negative material.
But that appears to be changing. This Chinese NTD report turned up on Baidu with the search term “Beijing Trial of Jiang’s Blood Debt Faction.” It refers to bringing to justice the perpetrators of the 13-year-long persecution of Falun Gong.
A separate search also turned up this NTD report about a recent petition by 300 villagers to free a Falun Gong practitioner. This public petition has reportedly been circulated within senior Communist officials, with some urging a peaceful resolution to the issue.
The persecution of Falun Gong was led by former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin, and has been carried out by individuals including security czar Zhou Yongkang and disgraced Party official Bo Xilai. Current Chinese leaders Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao have not been directly involved in the persecution. The two factions are currently locked in a power struggle.
China analysts believe these Baidu search results are directly related to the political struggle.
[Wen Zhao, NTD Senior China Analyst]:
“The uncensored period for this report is quite long, it considered to be a very sensitive topic, and the result turned up at a very sensitive time, so it should not be considered a coincidence. It means that within the senior ranks of the Communist Party there are people who want to make breakthroughs on the Falun Gong issue, this is a key factor separating these leaders from that of Zhou Yongkang’s blood debt faction.”
[Xia Xiaoqiang, China Commentator]:
“I think Hu and Wen are both testing public opinion and paving the way for taking down Zhou, and also. Recent events have been clear that Zhou’s downfall is just ahead. For example, Hebei prosecutor sending back the case against the Falun Gong practitioner; Yunnan Communist Party members issuing an open letter to purge Zhou and Baidu recently allow searches on calls to remove the PLAC.”
This is not the first time that sensitive topics have appeared on Baidu since the factional infighting began. Back in March, after Chongqing Police Chief Wang Lijun ran to a U.S. Consulate, reports about his involvement in the organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners could be found using Baidu.
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By Gao Zitan
On May 27, 2012 @ 7:03 pm
The petition signed by 300 hundred from Zhouguantun Village, Botou City, Hebei Province calling for the release of Falun Gong practitioner Wang Xiaodong has shaken up China’s top leadership circle. (The Epoch Times)
In early April, in an unprecedented manner, 300 Hebei province households stood up for one of their fellows, a Falun Gong practitioner who had been arrested for his beliefs and tortured. Using their names and identities, knowing they would likely feel the full weight of the Chinese regime on their backs, together they petitioned the authorities for his release. Their act of courage, which marks them ‘the Brave 300,’ has shaken the upper echelons of the Chinese communist party, and prompted intellectuals in China and abroad to add their voices to those of the villagers.
Inspired by the Brave 300, a well known intellectual in mainland China spoke with the Epoch Times on May 25, on condition of anonymity:
“I think the significance [of this event] is it offers an opportunity to solve the ‘Falun Gong issue’ before 18th Congress. Falun Gong is not a cult and should be respected under the concept of freedom of belief,” the intellectual said.
“Even CCP top officials, or internal security people, will say the same thing. We need to give [Falun Gong practitioners] freedom of belief guaranteed by the constitution. Jiang Zemin’s attack on Falun Gong is a mistake. We need to apologize at the national level, and provide them economic compensation,” he said.
Back in 1978, villagers from Xiaogang (a village near Nanjing, China) signed a secret agreement, effectively privatizing village land among themselves, which was at the time a criminal offence. Subsequently, village crop yields and income increased many-fold, and under Deng Xiaoping, the unprecedented agreement marked the beginning of rural land reform in China, and beginning of the end of collectivized farming in the country. The intellectual believes that the Brave 300 petition is comparable in significance to the Xiaogang villagers’ agreement. He said if Chinese authorities don’t solve the issue (of persecution against Falun Gong) at the Communist Party’s 18th Congress, he and other intellectuals would start writing about it to the highest authorities.
“I have prepared for it,” he said.
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Zhong Weiguang, a Chinese scholar in Germany who is an expert on contemporary totalitarianism, said that based on the Brave 300 petition: “We can see that Chinese people are fed up with the practices of the communist party.”
While the Brave 300 are unique in using their real names and thumbprints on their petition, Zhong notes that in the past there were a number other petitions supporting Falun Gong practitioners.
“Chinese people already know that Falun Gong is a peaceful cultivation group, and at the same time they believe that ordinary people can create a positive change in society,” he said.
According to Zhong, Zhou Yongkang and the Bloody Hands faction (those responsible directly for the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners), are now effectively in the same situation as the ‘Gang of Four,’ the group who organized the Cultural Revolution in China in its latter stages.
Both groups were at the forefront of persecuting the general public. The public hated both groups for it. Ultimately, the ‘Gang of Four’ was purged by Deng Xiaoping, who aligned himself with the will of the people.
When Chongqing’s former top cop, Wang Lijun, fled for his life to the U.S. Consulate in Chengdu on Feb. 6, he set in motion a political storm that has not subsided. The battle behind the scenes turns on what stance officials take toward the persecution of Falun Gong. The faction with bloody hands—the officials former CCP head Jiang Zemin promoted in order to carry out the persecution—is seeking to avoid accountability for their crimes and to continue the campaign. Other officials are refusing any longer to participate in the persecution. Events present a clear choice to the officials and citizens of China, as well as people around the world: either support or oppose the persecution of Falun Gong. History will record the choice each person makes.
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May 30, 2012 Leave a comment
(Minghui.org) The Chinese character “righteousness” (義) contains a wide range of meaning in regards to morality. It is also one of the core elements of traditional Chinese culture. When mentioning the character “righteousness,” people might first think of “Romance of the Three Kingdoms,” one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese Literature. Although the novel chronicles the lives of feudal lords during the Three Kingdoms era, the interpretation of “righteousness” is expounded throughout the book. The stories of Zhuge Liang, who exemplified loyalty to the nation and trustworthiness, and the anecdotes of Guan Yu’s sense of justice have exerted tremendous influence for generations.
There is a story called “A Righteous Woman Preventing An Army From Advancement.” During the Spring and Autumn Period, the state of Qi attacked the state of Lu. In order to escape from the Qi army, a woman from the state of Lu was found running in the outskirts of the city. She carried a child in one arm, and dragged another child with her other hand. When a Qi soldier ran after her, she let go of the child in her arm, and kept the child she was holding in her hand. A soldier caught up to her and asked her, “Why did you let go of the child in your arm, and kept the child you held in your other hand?” She replied, “The child I held in my hand is my brother’s son, the child in my arm is my son. I was not able to take both of them, so I let go of my son.” When the general from the Qi army heard her response, he asked, “Which one do you love more, your brother’s son or your own son?” The woman replied, “The love I have for my own child is a selfish kind of love. But I have a sense of righteousness toward my brother’s son. Although it hurts to let go of my own child, keeping my brother’s son is the right thing to do.” The Qi general stopped the attack on Lu. He said, “Even a woman from the state of Lu understands the meaning of righteousness. How can I attack a righteous state like Lu?” He retreated his army and went back to Qi. The woman and her son returned home safely. When the Duke of Lu heard the story, he sent many gifts to the woman and bequested her the name of “Righteous Lady.”
There is an ancient saying, “I want to be both alive and righteous. When I’m unable to keep both, I shall give up my life and be righteous.” “Righteousness” enables one to tell right from wrong, be fair, rational, and moral. It is what keeps the society stable, and what keeps relations amongst people harmonious. However, since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) took over China, it has destroyed the 5,000 years of traditional Chinese culture, and treated the Chinese people with “treachery” and “infidelity.” It has taught people to fight and strike against each other, and to eliminate spiritual beliefs.
For example, although Peng Dehuai saved Mao Zedong’s life several times, Mao wanted to kill Peng because he criticized Mao at the Lushan Meeting. Pro-democracy activists, Zhang Baijun, Luo Longji, and Chu Anping, and hundreds of thousands of intellectuals who were encouraged by Mao to advise the CCP, were later labeled as “right wing,” and consequently tortured, insulted, and killed. During the Cultural Revolution, people lied, cheated, and betrayed their friends, family, and colleagues to protect themselves in order to survive. “Righteousness” no longer existed and morality declined rapidly.
After the “reform and opening-up policy,” the CCP promoted “money worship.” Without moral constraints, people pursued materialism, which created endless social problems. People came up with ruthless money making schemes and tricks to obtain personal gain.
Mankind has always yearned for goodness. In May 1992, Falun Gong (also known as Falun Dafa) was spread to the secular world. People recognized that the teachings were good. It brought health and wellness to practitioners, and taught people to be good and moral. It spread very quickly in China. In just a few years, practitioners were seen in parks, public plazas, and school playgrounds across the nation. Practitioners talked about being virtuous in life, at work, and in the society. They put others before themselves, and let go of selfishness and the pursuit for personal gain. They were not attached to fame and conducted themselves according to the principles of Dafa.
Millions of people believed in “Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance” and conducted themselves righteously. This became a force that raised people’s morality and conscience, stabilized society, and was a positive thing for any government or nation. Jiang Zemin, the previous head of the CCP, became jealous of Falun Gong’s influence. In 1999, he initiated the brutal persecution of Falun Gong and its practitioners.
The first thing the CCP did was to “expose and criticize.” They forced practitioners to betray their beliefs and to write a guarantee statement promising to quit the practice. If they refused, the CCP would do anything to “ruin their reputation, torture them physically, and bankrupt them financially.” As of today, more than 3,000 practitioners have died as a result of the persecution, hundreds of thousands have been illegally sentenced and sent to forced labor camps, thousands have been taken to mental hospitals and injected with unknown substances, and many practitioners’ organs have been harvested for profit, and their bodies cremated to destroy the evidence.
The CCP also fabricated lies to deceive the world, such as the Tiananmen Square “self-immolation” hoax, the alleged “1,400 deaths from not taking medicine,” “Psychotic Killer Fu Yibin,” etc.
Under the suppressive and life-threatening harsh environment, millions of practitioners chose to do the right thing, to let go of self and uphold righteousness. They are not afraid of the totalitarian regime, and have continued to inform people the truth about Falun Gong for the past thirteen years. They have conducted themselves with compassion and have warned the Chinese people that one day “heaven will eliminate the CCP.” They have encouraged people to quit the CCP and be good people. They have revived the ancient Chinese tradition of being righteous.
“Good always prevails over evil.” Millions of practitioners have persevered and continue to clarify the truth and people are gradually seeing the evil nature of the CCP. More than 115 million Chinese have quit the CCP and its affiliated organizations, and more and more people are supporting Falun Gong.
A Village Official Protects Citizens from Persecution
There is a party secretary who has a high reputation in the local government as well as in his village. When I talked with him about the corruption of the CCP and the dilemma many village officials face, he also felt very pained. Regarding how to handle the issue from upper leadership, he said, “To be a good village official, you have to think carefully and you cannot follow the CCP on the dark road to hell.”
I asked him what he thought about those in the village who practice Falun Gong. He said, “Living in the same village, people are all very close to each other. Why bother them? When the upper leadership inquires, it’s easy to just protect the people who practice Falun Gong and not report them. A party secretary of the neighboring village had a Falun Gong practitioner sentenced to several years in prison. Can you imagine what the villagers think of this party secretary? Besides, the people who practice Falun Gong all have good reputations in our village. Isn’t hurting them the same as doing a bad deed?”
Village Official Protects a Falun Gong Practitioner
In a village, people are very close to each other. Everyone knows about what has happened in each family, what kind of people they are, and who has done bad things, etc. When it comes to protecting Falun Gong practitioners, some village officials indeed show their sense of justice.
The following is a story of a party secretary:
One day, an officer from the local police station asked a village official to take him to a Falun Gong practitioner’s home. At the beginning, the village official didn’t think much about it and got on the road with the police. When they were near the practitioner’s house, the official asked, “What do want to see him for?” The police said, “Just to have a look.” The official said, “Just to have a look? What’s so good to look at? Is it so simple?” The police faltered, “I have to get him to make a statement and provide a signature.” The village official stopped walking and stood there saying, “What statement? What signature? I tell you that he is the best person in our village, and he is a very kind person. I will make the statement on behalf of him. You are not allowed to even enter his door. You can decide what to do about the signature. If you dare to come to my village again to do this kind of deed, don’t blame me for not being polite.” After saying this, the official turned around and left. The police stood there in awkwardness for a long time and finally had to leave too. Ever since then, no one else has come to bother this Falun Gong practitioner.
There is a saying about the state of Qin, “To please the state of Qin with your land is as if trying to extinguish fire with wood. The fire won’t be extinguished until the wood is burned.” It means that as long as you own a square inch of land, the greedy state of Qin will continue to attack your land. The CCP is like the state of Qin. After it took the land from the landlords, and property from the capitalists, it continues to take, little by little, a person’s life and destroy his morality. The CCP will never become good. The only choice for the Chinese people is to quit the CCP, and that is the righteous choice.
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Conscientious Village Officials Protect Citizens from Persecution http://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2012/4/18/132770.html
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