Falun Dafa

also known as Falun Gong

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Falun Dafa is an ancient Chinese meditative practice. It is a form of qigong that has brought better health and inner peace to millions around the world. One "cultivates" (self-improves) one's heart and mind in accordance with the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance.

The main principles of Falun Dafa are explained in their entirety in the book Zhuan Falun, and in the beginner's text, Falun Gong, both written by Falun Dafa's founder, Mr. Li Hongzhi. These books can be found @ the UNSW Main Library: Level 4,Call no. S 294.34/9 and S 294.3444/5 or downloaded for free at http://www.falundafa.org/eng/books.html

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Supplementary to the teachings are the five gentle exercises, including a sitting meditation, which are easy to learn and suitable for all ages.

All are welcome to join in our weekly exercise sessions and reading + discussions on campus! If you are unable to make it at uni, there are many other volunteer practise sites around Sydney and throughout the world. We would love to share this beautiful, peaceful practice with you. Visit http://www.falundafa.org/eng/contacts/area/index.html

  • Relieves stress and anxiety

  • Increases energy and vitality

  • Greatly improves physical health

  • Promotes spiritual growth

  • Has benefited millions in over 80 countries

*All Falun Dafa activities are free of charge

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Contact Details

O-Week Events

You can find us at our stall where you can get further {i} about the teachings and the practice, or just drop in for a chat :) We will be decorating our stall with gorgeous lotus flowers and you can come to learn how to make one yourself! Lotus flowers represent the personal growth in cultivation practise. We will also be collecting membership applications for the year.

Look out for our dance and a quick exercise demo on the stage:

  • Wed 24th February 10:30-10:45am

Also, we call upon everyone to help us raise awareness about the ongoing persecution of Falun Dafa in China. It is believed that Falun Gong practitioners, along with many other individuals from various religious and ethnic groups are forcedly having their bodily organs removed against their will and sold for profit! This is because the Chinese Communist Government has no appreciation for the basic freedoms of speech and belief; it illegally detains its own citizens, then subjecting them to unspeakable forms of torture.

So drop by the stall anytime from Mon 22nd to Fri 27th February. YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE AND HELP STOP THE KILLING!! It's as easy as dropping by the stall and signing a petition, postcard or writing a letter to the PM voicing your concerns about human rights abuses in China. Also, telling family and friends about these horrendous crimes so that more people know can put pressure on China to stop these inhumane acts!

Visit http://cipfg.org/en/news/petition.html to sign the online petition

How to experience Falun Dafa for yourself

Come along to our Session 1 2010 events

Early-bird Classes Tuesday 8-11 am Location: TBA (Village Green/Scientia Lawn)

Afternoon Classes TBA

  • (please call Melanie: 0430 196 283 if unable to find us)

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Feel free to come along to any of our relaxing, easy-going group practices throughout the session or contact Melanie or Jessie; we'd be happy to answer any of you queries {OK}

The Situation in China

You may have heard about the massive crackdown against Falun Dafa currently going on in China.

It must first be understood that modern day China, run by the Communist Party, is officially atheist, so anything of a spiritual nature is discouraged and often outlawed because it is not in keeping with Communist ideology. For us in nations with democratically elected governments, freedom of belief is considered to be one of the most basic universal rights, but in China, such fundamental human rights are rarely protected.

How are practitioners being persecuted?

Since July 20, 1999, Jiang Zemin (the then president of China) and his accomplices in the Chinese Communist Party have applied the most brutal physical and mental tortures ever seen in history on kindhearted Falun Gong practitioners in order to make them renounce their belief. At present in China, more than 100 different kinds of torture methods are used on Falun Gong practitioners, including long-term sleep deprivation and shocking practitioners simultaneously with several high-voltage stun batons for a long time in sensitive places, including the mouth, chest, armpits, breasts and private parts. They use all kinds of handcuffs and shackles, such as "smoke pipe cuff," "wolf fang handcuff" and "back cuff." They use rubber clubs, wolf fang clubs, the dungeon, the water dungeon, the "dead person's bed" and sitting planks to torture the practitioners. They use leather whips, copper wires, steel bars, thorny plants, spiked bamboo sticks and "tying the rope" to torture the practitioners. They hammer metal nails under the practitioners' fingernails, they pinch the practitioners' bodies with pliers; they pull out the practitioners' nails with pliers and lock them up in solitary confinement; they force practitioners to sit on metal chairs, they force-feed the practitioners (using non-medical plastic tubes) with pepper sauce, concentrated saline solution, human urine and feces. They inject and force-feed Falun Gong practitioners drugs, which are damaging to their central nervous system. There are many other forms of torture.

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University students persecuted in China

Many students cannot enter universities or are expelled if they practice Falun Gong. Children at schools are forced to answer anti-Falun Gong questions in exams and are humiliated.

Organ Harvesting

Recently, international human rights lawyer, David Matas, and former Canadian Secretary of State, David Kilgour, investigated the allegations that in China Falun Gong practitioners have had their organs removed whilst alive for use in transplant procedures. They concluded in a July 2006 report that “there has been and continues today to be large scale organ seizures from unwilling Falun Gong practitioners.” Their evidence includes admissions from medical officials who have used Falun Gong organs; extremely short waiting times for organ transplants in China, despite the scarcity of organs around the world; systematic blood testing of practitioners - a prerequisite of organ donation; family members seeing their loved ones’ bodies with surgical incisions; and the confession of a surgeon to his wife that he had personally removed the corneas from 2,000 Falun Gong Practitioners. 'A man who… got out of Auschwitz and told the world what was going on there in I believe 1943 and everyone said "This can't be happening”…and of course we all know what was happening in Auschwitz.' David Kilgour

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What Can You Do to Help?

Stay Informed

Raise Awareness

  • Let your family and friends know about the facts of the situation of Falun Dafa in China and around the world.
  • Inform your local newspaper and radio station of the facts.

Show Your Concern- visit, write a letter, email, fax or call expressing your concern to:

Become a Friend of Falun Dafa

Please note that Falun Dafa does not accept donations of any kind.

Your kind support will make a difference. THANK YOU!!

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