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originally posted by: Blue Shift
Does he have any... you know... "proof?"
Oh, why am I even bothering?
originally posted by: elementalgrove
a reply to: LitriumGem
Thank you for sharing this, as this has reignited my drive to read the book I was given awhile ago and have simply forgot about, perhaps I was not ready until now to read through its wisdom!
TIME: In your book [Zhuan Falun] you talk about people levitating off the ground but you say that they should not show other people. Why is that?
Li: It is the same principle that Western gods in paradise should not be seen by ordinary mortals because they cannot understand its meaning.
TIME: Can you describe any that you have known?
Li: David Copperfield. He can levitate and he did it during performances.
TIME: Would you use qigong to cure an illness?
Li: I can do all of this, but I won't do it.
TIME: Why not?
Li: Because I only teach people how to learn this dafa [great law] and to practice cultivation. I only teach the principles of fa to mankind. I won't do anything else.
TIME: What is the final goal?
Li: The ultimate purpose is to enable people to attain the Tao and to complete their cultivation practice. In the end they can free themselves from the worldly state. I know that human lives are not created from the dimension that human beings think they know.
TIME: Why does the master reveal this path to the qigong now?
Li: Mankind has many things that it never knew before. What I can tell you is that human moral values are no longer good. In the course of the cultivation practice, one can upgrade oneself. Many people will be able to complete their cultivation and attain the Tao. There will be some who will not be able to complete cultivation but will become very good people.
TIME: Why did you come to New York?
Li: In China, the government is a centralized government. Because the number of our practitioners is large, the government may feel pressure.
TIME: It is difficult to teach in China?
Li: In China, there are more than 100 million who practice this.
TIME: When did you learn about qigong?
Li: I started to learn when I was four years old. I was very young, and my teachers taught me aspects that were very simple.
TIME: Who were your teachers?
Li: I do not wish to have their names known.
TIME: What made you finally come out?
Li: When these masters asked me to come out. At the time I said that there were too many people practicing qigong, and I said that I did not want to cure illnesses or to help people keep fit. They said, What you do will be different. These people who are teaching how to cure illnesses and teaching fitness, are paving the road for your coming out.
TIME: Where were these masters?
Li: They were in the mountains.
TIME: You talk about placing the wheel into the body.
Li: I can use my mind to direct and order things to happen.
TIME: Can qigong prevent death?
Li: In the West, one can reach paradise through cultivation practice after death. In the East, one can achieve a divine status through cultivation practice while one is still alive.
TIME: Why does chaos reign now?
Li: Of course there is not just one reason. The biggest cause of society's change today is that people no longer believe in orthodox religion. They go to church, but they no longer believe in God. They feel free to do anything. The second reason is that since the beginning of this century, aliens have begun to invade the human mind and its ideology and culture.
originally posted by: LitriumGem
originally posted by: Blue Shift
Does he have any... you know... "proof?"
Oh, why am I even bothering?
Qi Gong Masters can detect things that our current scientific instruments cannot. Scientific experiments are also showing this to be true:
www.theepochtimes.com...
TIME: Would you use qigong to cure an illness?
Li: I can do all of this, but I won't do it.
originally posted by: StallionDuck
TIME: In your book [Zhuan Falun] you talk about people levitating off the ground but you say that they should not show other people. Why is that?
Li: It is the same principle that Western gods in paradise should not be seen by ordinary mortals because they cannot understand its meaning.
If you can do it.... Don't show anyone. No one needs proof of what I'm teaching...
Reply: The reason why in cultivation schools they don't explicitly show supernatural things is talked about here:
falundafa.org...
TIME: Can you describe any that you have known?
Li: David Copperfield. He can levitate and he did it during performances.
Does he know what David Copperfield does for a living?
Reply: He's a magician as we both know. However he may also have some supernatural abilities which he puts into his show. Case in point, explain to me scientifically how he did this magic trick infront of a live audience:
www.youtube.com...
TIME: Would you use qigong to cure an illness?
Li: I can do all of this, but I won't do it.
That's stingy of him!
Reply: Falun Dafa has healed thousands of people the world over but it's not the goal of this system. This QiGong goes far above and beyond just healing and fitness things. Actually a book has been written about Falun Dafa's healing affects:
en.minghui.org...
Some scientific tests have also been performed on Falun Dafa and it's healing effects:
www.pureinsight.org...
www.pureinsight.org...
TIME: Why not?
Li: Because I only teach people how to learn this dafa [great law] and to practice cultivation. I only teach the principles of fa to mankind. I won't do anything else.
He's only a preacher, not a do'er. Guess he didn't get the memo about practicing what you preach.
Reply: There are many QiGong schools that are only about healing and fitness things. Falun Dafa goes far and beyond that, it also heals but it's just actually a form of purification so that all pathogenic Qi is discharged from the body. This builds a foundation where one then is able to gradually acquire Gong (Spiritual Energy). This is all expounded in Zhuan Falun in detail.
TIME: What is the final goal?
Li: The ultimate purpose is to enable people to attain the Tao and to complete their cultivation practice. In the end they can free themselves from the worldly state. I know that human lives are not created from the dimension that human beings think they know.
Seems it would be more effective if someone wrote all the information down in a Gong For Dummies book and proved it to people by gathering the masses and poofed themselves away from this worldly state. That would sell way more books. Errrr did I say "sell"?
Reply: Falun Dafa is completely free and open to practice, money is strictly forbidden. In Cultivation schools they never flaunt their abilities openly in public, then people would flock just to find how to get abilities and not truly Cultivate and improve and rectify their minds and hearts which is what all righteous Cultivation schools focus on.
Take a read of this, it explains this matter: falundafa.org...
TIME: Why does the master reveal this path to the qigong now?
Li: Mankind has many things that it never knew before. What I can tell you is that human moral values are no longer good. In the course of the cultivation practice, one can upgrade oneself. Many people will be able to complete their cultivation and attain the Tao. There will be some who will not be able to complete cultivation but will become very good people.
People are no longer good.... So many people running around trying to sell their crazy beliefs to others for the purpose of money or god status self gratification.
Reply: In Dafa no money is involved, it's totally voluntary and theirs no organized structure. People take the practice up usually because of it's healing and rejuvenating effects:
www.pureinsight.org...
Also, the whole world supports Falun Dafa apart from the Chinese Communist Party who is still persecuting Falun Dafa practitioners:
By April 2001, Li Hongzhi had received over 340 awards and proclamations from Australia, Canada, China (before crackdown), Japan, Russia, and the U.S. in recognition of the extraordinary contributions to people's spiritual and physical health, and to freedom of belief in the world.
Source: en.wikipedia.org...
originally posted by: bobs_uruncle
Qi Gong Masters can detect things that our current scientific instruments cannot. Scientific experiments are also showing this to be true:
www.theepochtimes.com...
originally posted by: hombero
a reply to: LitriumGem
I thought Buddhism is about finding what you need internally, and that in fact there is no seperation between you and I or anything and we are just being, one moment unfolding to the next. This seems an odd school of Buddhism.
originally posted by: Ridhya
a reply to: LitriumGem
TIME: Would you use qigong to cure an illness?
Li: I can do all of this, but I won't do it.
LOL
-i'm magic but I just dont wanna show you right now
-you can free yourself if you follow my commands
-claim moral superiority over others
-whoever taught me is conveniently untraceable
-present religions not good enough
-science inadequate
-vague answer implying supernatural origin
-salvation from above
-believe me because im special
-you wouldn't understand so im not going to explain
originally posted by: Erno86
a reply to: LitriumGem
The smile of a Zen Buddhist that has just achieved satori...might be the most prevalent smile in the universe, that is, among like-minded sentient beings.