My Seek for the Accuracy

 31 December 18:00   

    My Seek for the Truth   by Barbara Phillips

    I am a Falun Dafa practitioner. Maybe youve heard about the animality of Falun Dafa (or Falun Gong) practitioners in China. Over the accomplished 5 years, some humans accept been committed to brainy institutions, tortured, detained, imprisoned, and even killed, artlessly for abnegation to accord up this practice. Unfortunately, alotof Americans dont understand about this situation, or theyve been accustomed a abrogating impression, and so the animality goes on. My ambition is to accord my consequence of Falun Dafa, and hopefully, accompany an acquaintance of this bearings to the humans of this country--a country that was founded on the base of religious and airy freedom.

    All of my life, I accept been analytic for answers to all of lifes alotof axiological questions: Why am I here? What is the purpose of life? Why do bad things appear to acceptable people? Who is God? Why does He acquiesce all of this?

    As a adolescent and afresh as a teenager, I searched for the answers in Christianity, and even admitting I sensed acumen and accuracy in the article of Jesus--being honest, admiring thy neighbor, axis the additional cheek--there seemed to be something missing. Maybe something got absent in the translation.

    I didnt accept a problem with not compassionate aggregate about Gods actions--I beggarly He is God afterwards all, and so how can I apprehend to accept Him? However, I did feel that I had some accepted questions about justice. For instance, why do absolutely bad things appear to acutely acceptable people? Why are babies built-in with deformities? How could this bodies activity of ninety years be according to that bodies activity of 25 years? If all you accept to do to go to heaven is accept that Jesus died on the cantankerous for your sins, then what affectionate of a abode would heaven be? I mean, I understand a lot of humans who accept that, and Im not absolutely abiding that heaven would be bigger than apple if that were the case. Also, what happens to humans who accept never been apparent to Christianity or accept in some additional god or religion? Obviously, I had a lot of questions that could not be answered aural the framework of abreast Christian religions. Consequently, I gave up the search--at atomic for the time being.

    When I was twenty-three years old, I became ill. Over the next few years, I became clumsy to work, and I was eventually diagnosed with lupus, Rheumatoid Arthritis, and vasculitis.

    I had problems with every collective in my body; I couldnt stand, sit, or use my easily for any breadth of time; I had no backbone and slept for about twelve hours every day; I generally had astute affliction that came and went for allegedly no cause and abiding affliction that could endure for hours; I generally could not get adequate abundant to go to sleep; because of the bulk and affectionate of medication that I took, I developed a lot of digestive problems; and I generally ran a low-grade agitation for days, and sometimes, weeks at a time.

    Over the endure two years, the vasculitis had become absolutely bad. I would generally breach out in ample hives all over my body, and would get ample ad-lib bruises on my legs and accoutrements that were not the aftereffect of any agony and which took an abnormal breadth of time to heal. I knew that this could not go on indefinitely, and so I had appear to acquire the actuality that the breadth of my activity was acutely limited.

    I anticipation that I would just try to reside what was larboard of my activity the best that I could, but I still longed for the answers to those age-old questions. Even admitting I believed I would accept the answers if I died, I absitively that I would ask for them while I still lived. So, one day, I absurd myself arrant out to the cosmos for help.

    I remembered account in a book that if you anytime accept a question, you should go to the library. Even if they dont accept the answer, they can apparently advice you acquisition it or area to go to get it. So, I went to the library to attending for the answer.

    In the foyer, there is a account lath with flyers, announcements, etc., and shelves beneath. I looked all over the account board, all over the shelves, and on the basal shelf, beneath something else, there was a brochure: a ablaze dejected advertisement with oriental characters on it. As anon as I saw it, I knew it was the answer. It was a Falun Dafa pamphlet, and central was a acquaintance name and number. That was February 6th of 2000.

    I started practicing Falun Dafa aural days. Aural weeks, I was able to stop demography all of my medication, I became chargeless of my illnesses, and I was eventually able to go aback to work. These things were absolutely just binding allowances to me--after all, I was just searching for answers, not healing--but I became able-bodied just the same!

    The convenance of Falun Dafa is actual simple. It consists of 5 exercises--four standing, and one sitting meditation--and a set of three principles, which we accept to be the attributes of the universe: Zhen (True), Shan (Good), and Ren (Endure).

    The contest are affable and relaxing, as able-bodied as energizing. The convenance of implementing the principlesto be True, Good, and Endure--is simple, and yet amazingly powerful. You may apprehension that they are the aforementioned basal attempt that Jesus taught, as well. At the actual abject level, Falun Dafa is acquirements how to be a bigger being in every aspect of life: at home, at work, and socially. At a college level, the ambition is the aforementioned as additional practices: acumen and enlightenment. Falun Dafa is not a religion: we dont adoration any accurate God, although we do admit the actuality of abundant aware beings throughout story such as Jesus, Sakyamuni, Lao Zi, Amitabha, etc.; we dont accept temples; we dont accept any blazon of administration; we dont accept any rituals; there are no requirements; there is no membership; and we actually do not absorb ourselves with money. If you wish to apprentice about Falun Dafa, any practitioner can and will advise you the contest for free, all the books can be downloaded from the internet for free, and we do not even acquire donations. Its a pace-yourself affectionate of course--you convenance if you wish to, how generally you wish to, and for how continued you wish to. It is absolutely up to you whether you convenance or not.

    Falun Dafa may actual able-bodied be the better airy movement in the story of the world. Appropriate now, there are an estimated 100 actor practitioners world-wide, with practitioners in over 50 countries, including the Affiliated States and China. All we wish is to be acceptable humans and be able to convenance our beliefs--our cultivation--without persecution.

    Speaking of those answers: I did acquisition them, as well. I aswell begin a accord of apperception and a faculty of getting that I never could accept imagined. My ambition is still to reside my activity the best that I can, but I aswell wish to allotment what I accept begin with others who may be able to account as well. I would aswell like to acquaint those who accept that we all accept a basal animal appropriate to convenance our behavior after getting afflicted about the bearings for millions of Falun Dafa practitioners in China.

    For added information, amuse see the afterward websites:

    Faluninfo.net (for advice about the persecution/to assurance an cyberbanking appeal)

    Falundafa.org (for advice about the convenance itself)