Teaching the Fa at the Western U.S. International Fa Conference

(Li Hongzhi, February 26, 2005)

(Long applause) Good afternoon! You've been working hard.

Winter is over and spring is here. Just like the cycle of spring, summer, fall, and winter, changes have been happening throughout the long process of humankind's history, and all kinds of things have been continually taking place, thereby establishing and creating for humankind the culture that would be needed at the final stage. Over the ages there have been many cultivators and many cultivation ways, but there are differences among all of the cultivation ways. During the last two thousand years or so some religions of upright faith emerged. Although the people in those religions believe in gods, the religions' cultivation methods are different, and they even oppose and disapprove of one another.

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published February 19, 2005

Turning the Wheel Towards the Human World

Those Dafa disciples who haven't lived in Mainland China find it hard to understand what goes on under the rule of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). In particular, when the Dafa disciples from Mainland China and Dafa disciples in Mainland China renounce the various organizations of the CCP, they see that many Dafa disciples were Communist Party members, and they can't come to terms with it and think, "How could Dafa disciples be Communist Party members?" It is especially hard for Dafa disciples in non-Communist countries to understand. The reality is, in Mainland China, before Dafa disciples took up cultivation they, too, were educated in the Party's culture.

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published February 18, 2005

February 20, 2005

The Voice of a Family Member of Falun Dafa Practitioners

(Clearwisdom.net) My mother started practicing Falun Gong in 1996. At first I thought that Falun Gong was just a qigong exercise that helps one to get rid of illness and maintain health. But after my mother studied the books and did the exercises for some time, I found out that Falun Gong is a form of high-level cultivation that teaches one to be compassionate and strive towards being a good person.

A Family of Six from Dalian City Are Pleased to Learn Falun Dafa

(Clearwisdom.net)

For a family from Dalian City, Liaoning Province, who used to practice another qigong, New Year's 2005 is a new beginning. Their family of six each firmly gave up their old practice, and together began to practice Falun Dafa.

Finnish Newspaper Kaleva: Hundreds of Harassing Phone Calls Target Finnish Falun Gong Practitioners

"The Foreign ministry will intervene if the Chinese Government is behind the calls."

[Note: On February 6, Falun Gong practitioners from countries all over the world became the target of a Chinese Government phone harassment campaign. In Finland and other countries of Europe, as well as in the United States and Canada, practitioners' home, work and mobile phones received continuous pre-recorded phone calls. When answering the phone, there were either English or Chinese propaganda recordings which attacked and slandered Falun Gong. The content of the recordings was identical to the propaganda that Jiang Zemin and his cohorts have used as a part of their persecution campaign against Falun Gong.]