Who is Li Hongzhi

**sophie** · 22nd October 2009 08:26 AM

Li Hongzhi who was born in China, on May 13, 1951 fabricated Falun Gong in 1988. Influenced by the "qigong fever" among the mass, Li Hongzhi started to practice under a master named Li Weidong in 1988, with whom he studied a form known as Chanmi Gong. Li took part in two training courses, and then went on to study Jiugongbagua Gong from another master, Yu Guangsheng. Combining these two forms of qigong, along with some movements from Thai dance that he picked up on a visit to Thailand, he came up with Falun Gong. After founding Falun Gong in 1992, Li established the Research Society of Falun Dafa in Beijing, and became its president. Following that, he set up 39 Falun Gong teaching centers in various provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities in China. Under these were more than 1,900 places of instruction and more than 28,000 group exercise venues. Li claimed that there existed a kind of white material, called "de" (morality), along with a mirror image that was dark, called "ye" (evil). He said that he "put the falun (Dharma Wheel) in the bellies of practitioners while teaching", and "when the wheel runs forward, it will absorb energy from the universe and supply it to your body, which means saving yourself from sin; when it runs backward, it will discharge energy to benefit all others beside you, that is, to save others from sin". By practicing Falun Gong, he said, people could be helped by Falun. They could improve their "de" and reduce the "ye" force, purify their bodies and achieve final "enlightenment and immortality". Practitioners could ultimately attain salvation and reach the "heavenly kingdom" or paradise. Li also spoke of karma, or predestination, and said that "illness and other sufferings were retribution for evil deeds one has done in the past or in a past life, and by enduring this suffering one can repay his or her evil debt". He said that "taking medicine while practicing means one does not believe that practicing can cure the illness" and "anyone who believes in and practices Falun Gong need not take medicine to cure disease". Li called people who tried to persuade others not to practice Falun Gong "demons", saying that they have harmed the Falun Dafa and have prevented people from attaining "salvation".

This is Li Hongzhi.

**One** · 23rd October 2009 12:45 AM

From wikipedia...

Falun Gong

Falun Gong (alternatively Falun Dafa) is a system of beliefs and practices founded in China by Li Hongzhi in 1992. The practice emerged at the end of China's "qigong boom" as a form of qigong practice. Its teachings are influenced by both Taoism and Buddhism.[1][2][3]

The number of Falun Gong practitioners is unknown, and the group has no organized membership system. In 1998, the Chinese government published a figure of 70 million practitioners in China.[4] Falun Gong asserts over 100 million practitioners of Falun Dafa in "114 countries and regions around the world".[5]

Falun Gong differs from competing qigong schools through its absence of daily rituals of worship, its self-consciousness about outside critics,[6] its greater emphasis on morality and the apparently theological nature of its teachings.[7][8] There is on-going debate about Falun Gong's classification as a religion, or new religious movement (NRM), and "cult", a term used by the Chinese government to describe the movement.[9]

In April 1999, over ten thousand Falun Gong practitioners gathered at Communist Party of China headquarters, Zhongnanhai, in a silent protest following an incident in Tianjin.[10][11][12] Two months later the Chinese government banned the practice through a crackdown and began a large propaganda campaign.[13][14][15] Since 1999, Falun Gong practitioners in China have been reportedly subject to torture,[16] illegal imprisonment,[17] beatings, forced labor, organ harvesting, and psychiatric abuses.[18][19] Falun Gong has responded with their own media campaign, and have emerged as a notable voice of dissent against the Communist Party of China, by founding organizations such as the Epoch Times, NTDTV and the Shen Yun Performing Arts to publicize their cause.[20]

So, who is really the bad guy here?

**Mr. Knight** · 23rd October 2009 08:21 AM

[quote name='sophie' date='22 October 2009 - 10:26 AM' timestamp='1256221586' post='42532']

Li Hongzhi who was born in China, on May 13, 1951 fabricated Falun Gong in 1988. Influenced by the "qigong fever" among the mass, Li Hongzhi started to practice under a master named Li Weidong in 1988, with whom he studied a form known as Chanmi Gong. Li took part in two training courses, and then went on to study Jiugongbagua Gong from another master, Yu Guangsheng. Combining these two forms of qigong, along with some movements from Thai dance that he picked up on a visit to Thailand, he came up with Falun Gong. After founding Falun Gong in 1992, Li established the Research Society of Falun Dafa in Beijing, and became its president. Following that, he set up 39 Falun Gong teaching centers in various provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities in China. Under these were more than 1,900 places of instruction and more than 28,000 group exercise venues. Li claimed that there existed a kind of white material, called "de" (morality), along with a mirror image that was dark, called "ye" (evil). He said that he "put the falun (Dharma Wheel) in the bellies of practitioners while teaching", and "when the wheel runs forward, it will absorb energy from the universe and supply it to your body, which means saving yourself from sin; when it runs backward, it will discharge energy to benefit all others beside you, that is, to save others from sin". By practicing Falun Gong, he said, people could be helped by Falun. They could improve their "de" and reduce the "ye" force, purify their bodies and achieve final "enlightenment and immortality". Practitioners could ultimately attain salvation and reach the "heavenly kingdom" or paradise. Li also spoke of karma, or predestination, and said that "illness and other sufferings were retribution for evil deeds one has done in the past or in a past life, and by enduring this suffering one can repay his or her evil debt". He said that "taking medicine while practicing means one does not believe that practicing can cure the illness" and "anyone who believes in and practices Falun Gong need not take medicine to cure disease". Li called people who tried to persuade others not to practice Falun Gong "demons", saying that they have harmed the Falun Dafa and have prevented people from attaining "salvation".

This is Li Hongzhi.

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Uh, huh.............

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**sophie** · 23rd October 2009 09:08 AM

China government banning Falun Gong has its reason. If practising Falun Gong is beneficial for public, it must be helped publish by the government. However, it is not true. More and more people were suffered from the practice. For example, more and more practitioners who don't go to hospital to do any treatment, just stay at home to do worship to "xiaoye"(means suffered by the illness to reduce the sins commited before). They do that because LI Hongzhi tells them to do so. But when Li Hongzhi's brother got ill, he asked him to go to hospital earlier. What the difference! Can we say he is a good guy??