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Falun Gong
When most people think about religion in China they think about such things as the well known religions like Buddhism and Daoism. This is not the case anymore as a new group called the Falun Gong has quickly swept across China and the rest of the world in a few short years. ... This paper is designed to give you a better understanding of certain parts of the Falun Gong. ...
To get a full understanding of the Falun Gong you must first know about the man who started it all, Mr. ... Before starting the Falun Gong he worked for the People’s Liberation Army in Mongolia, a hotel service staff, and then the security department of the Changchun Grain and Oil Company. ... org/falungong) In 1992 he the Falun Gong Research Institute in Bejing. ... Since the people do not go to the doctor when they get sick it is estimated that nearly 2,000 Falun Gong followers have died due to preventable illness and malnutrition from fasting. ... (Xiao 126)
Although Li is the leader of all of the Falun Gong it’s organizations are divided up into a pyramidal four-level structure. ... Below the Research Institute are the 1,900 general training stations which are used to train people on how to be teachers of Qigong and other Falun Gong practices. Each general training station is over a group of branch training sites whose job it is to organize exercise sites which is where Falun Gong followers go to practice Qigong exercises. ... (Xiao 129)
People who follow Falun Gong believe that they have a Tianmu or Third Eye passage way located between the middle of their forehead and the area between their eyebrows. ... This means performing Qigong exercises, fasting, reading, and the other practices of the Falun Gong. The second thing that must be done is that a Falun Gong master must place an eye in the passage way. ... A Falun Gong master can often take a young child under the age of six and open their Third Eye simply by talking to them. Only supreme masters who have been studying Falun Gong for many years can open their Third Eye at the Buddha Level. ...
The second exercise is Falun Zhuang Fa or The Falun Standing Stance. ... As a person gets better at this exercise they will begin to feel a Falun rotating between their arms and their body will begin to open up and allow the energies power to increase. ... The fourth exercise is the Falun Zhou Tian Fa or Falun Heavenly Circulation which allows energy from the body to circulate over a large area. ... Falun Gong followers are expected to spend at least two hours daily in meditation.
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Title: falun gong
Words: 2225
Rating: None
Pages: 8.9
submitted by: wffootball01
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