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Zhuan FalunLi Hongzhi(Pre-publication Version)2018 English VersionOnline edition, version 1.1Last updated: August 27, 2018

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On Dafa*(Lunyu)Dafa is the wisdom of the Creator. It is the bedrock of creation, what theheavens, earth, and universe are built upon. It encompasses all things,from the utmost minuscule to the vastest of the vast, while manifestingdifferently at each of the cosmic body’s planes of existence. Out of thedepths of the cosmic body, the tiniest of particles first appear, with layersupon layers of countless particles following, ranging in size from small togreat, reaching all the way to the outer planes that humankind knows—those of atoms, molecules, planets, and galaxies—and beyond, to what isstill larger. Particles of varying sizes make up lives of varying sizes aswell as the worlds of varying sizes that permeate the cosmic body. Lives atany of the various planes of particles perceive the particles of the nextlarger plane to be planets in their skies, and this is true at each and everyplane. To the lives at each plane of the universe, it seems to go on infinitely. It was Dafa that created time and space, the multitude of lives and species, and all of creation; all that exists owes to it, with nothing outside ofit. All of these are the tangible expressions, at different planes, of Dafa’squalities: zhen, shan, and ren.*However advanced people’s means of exploring space and probing lifemay be, the knowledge gained is limited to certain parts of this one dimension, where human beings reside, at a low plane of the universe. Otherplanets were explored before by humans during civilizations predating history. Yet for all the heights and distances achieved, humankind has nevermanaged to depart from the dimension in which it exists. The true pictureof the universe will forever elude humankind. If a human being is to understand the mysteries of the universe, space-time, and the human body,he must take up cultivation of a true Way and achieve true enlightenment,raising his plane of being. Through cultivation his moral character willelevate, and once he has learned to discern what is truly good from evil,and virtue from vice, and he goes beyond the human plane, he will see andgain access to the realities of the universe as well as the lives of otherplanes and dimensions.*Note: this and others terms marked with an asterisk appear in the Endnotes section atthe back of the book.2

While people often claim that their scientific pursuits are to “improvequality of life,” it is technological competition that drives them. And inmost cases they have come about only after people have pushed out thedivine and abandoned moral codes meant to ensure self-restraint. It wasfor these reasons that civilizations of the past many times met with destruction. People’s explorations are necessarily limited to this materialworld, and the methods are such that only what has been recognized isstudied. Meanwhile, things that are intangible or invisible in the humandimension, but that do objectively exist and do reveal themselves in realways in this immediate world—such as spirituality, faith, divine word, andmiracles—are treated as taboo, for people have cast out the divine.If the human race is able to improve its character, conduct, and thinking by grounding these in moral values, it will be possible for civilizationto endure and even for miracles to occur again in the human world. Manytimes in the past, cultures that were as divine as they were human haveappeared in this world and helped people to arrive at a truer understandingof life and the universe. When people show the appropriate respect andreverence toward Dafa as it manifests here in this world, they, their race,or their nation will enjoy blessings or honor. It was Dafa—the Great Wayof the universe—that created the cosmic body, the universe, life, and all ofcreation. Any life that turns away from Dafa is truly corrupt. Any personwho can align with Dafa is truly a good person, and will be rewarded andblessed with health and happiness. And any cultivator who is able to become one with Dafa is an enlightened one—divine.Li HongzhiMay 24, 20153

TABLE OF CONTENTSOnDafaTheFirstTalkTruly Taking You to Greater Spiritual HeightsThe Many Levels of the WayThe Sole Measure of Goodness: Zhen, Shan, RenEnergy Practices Predate HistoryEnergy Practices Are for Spiritual DevelopmentWhen Practicing Doesn’t Bring ResultsWhat Sets Falun Dafa ApartTheSecondTalkThe Inner EyeThe Power of ClairvoyanceThe Power of Knowing FateSurpassing This Material and Mortal RealmThe Problem with Having IntentionsTheThirdTalkI Regard All Who Learn as My StudentsBuddhist Energy Practices and Religious BuddhismStaying True to One PracticeSupernormal Powers and Spiritual PowerReverse Practice and the Borrowing of EnergyEntity AttachmentCosmic TonguesWhat I Do for LearnersThe Field That Our Energy HasHow to Introduce the Practice to OthersTheFourthTalkCosts and RewardsReworking Your KarmaPerfecting Your CharacterRitual AnointmentThe Mystery of the MandorlaTheFifthTalkThe Falun’s DesignThe Mystical WaysPracticing an Evil WayTantric Union Practices4

Practice for Both Mind and BodySpiritual BodiesThe Blessing of Sacred ImagesOccult HealingTheSixthTalkThe Fear of Practice Going WrongHow Practicing Provokes EvilHow the Mind Can Lead AstrayThe Importance of a Strong MindYour Thinking Needs to Be RightMartial Arts with an Energy ComponentShowing OffTheSeventhTalkTaking LifeEating MeatJealousyHealingModern Medicine and Energy HealingTheEighthTalkInediaStealing EnergyAmassing ChiThe One Who Practices AchievesThe Cosmic OrbitGetting Carried AwayPracticing SilenceTheNinthTalkEnergy Exercises Versus Regular ExercisesThoughts and the MindA Pure and Serene MindOne’s Innate FoundationEnlightenmentThe Spiritually AdeptPostscript5

The First TalkTruly Taking You to Greater Spiritual HeightsFrom the start, my teaching has been motivated by a sense of responsibility toward the world and to those who want to learn our practice. Peoplehave been very receptive to it, and the practice has had a widely positiveimpact. In recent years there have been many figures teaching energypractices, but their instruction has always been geared toward health andwellness. There’s nothing wrong with that, of course. My point is that theyhaven’t taught anything of a more advanced sort. I have a good sense forthe state of energy practices in China today, and can say that no one hereor abroad is offering a practice like this, which really takes you to greaterspiritual heights. As for why that is, there are bigger, and broader, reasonsat work, some of which stretch far back into the past and can be controversial. Not just anyone can teach something like this, as it entails dealingwith complicating factors from a host of other practices. The problem isespecially acute these days, when many people jump from one practice tothe next and make a mess of their bodies, ruining any spiritual aspirationsthat they may have had. They go in for all sorts of things, rather thancommitting to just one solid approach that could take them somewhere,and each new one that they dabble in only conflicts with the last. All ofwhich only dashes their spiritual prospects.We have to straighten out all of those things for you. What’s good willbe kept and what’s bad disposed of, and this will make spiritual progresspossible for you. But there’s a stipulation, which is that you have to be serious about this practice. It doesn’t work if you are motivated by thewrong things, like attachments, or wanting psychic powers, or healing, orare here out of intellectual curiosity. Remember that what I am doing isunique. Something like this is hard to come by, and I won’t be doing thisforever. So I think that by being able to sit here, and hear my teaching inperson, you are really you will grasp the significance of it later on, and6

realize how fortunate you were. We subscribe to the idea of destiny, and Iwould say it is your destiny to be here.It’s worth pausing to consider what it means to be learning a practicethat truly takes you to “greater spiritual heights.” It means deliverancefrom this world, for you will be engaging in genuine spiritual practice, andnot just something meant for health or wellness. This means that there arehigh expectations for your personal character. You are here because youwant to learn Falun Dafa, so you have to really see yourself as part of itand let go of whatever things might have initially motivated you. You willget very little out of the practice if there are impure motives still with youas you try to learn it. In truth, the spiritual journey is none other than anongoing process of learning to let go of the things of this world that wemay be attached to. If you are someone who competes fiercely with others,who tries to cheat and outwit people, or who even tramples on others tocome out on top, then you really have to change your ways. It’s especiallyimperative for you as someone who is here to learn the practice today.I won’t be teaching you how to heal, as that’s not part of our practice.But an ailing body is a real impediment to anyone serious about spiritualpractice. And so I will purify your body for you. But I can only do this forwhoever is sincere about the practice and the teachings. And so I have tostress that we will be powerless to help you if you are still set on gettinghealed and can’t get past that idea. Why, you might ask? It’s because theway that the universe works, according to Buddhist thought, is that everything in a person’s life normally has “causal reasons” behind it, and theordeals of existence—such as coming into the world, aging, getting ill, anddying—are as they should be. The ailments and travails that people experience result from their karma, and karma is the product of past wrongdoings. So the ordeals that people face are how they pay for their karma.This means that nobody may change them. Changing them would be likeletting people build up debt and never having to pay. So people’s livescan’t be freely changed, and it would be wrong to do so.Some people are under the mistaken impression that they are beinghelpful when healing people. But as I see it, in no cases are people actuallygetting healed. Their ailments are just being postponed or turned intosomething else, and aren’t really removed. To end their ordeals you haveto eliminate their karma. And to really, thoroughly do that and heal theperson you have to be someone quite spiritually advanced. And anyonelike that would be aware that the workings of this human world can’t rashly be tinkered with, as by healing. That said, it is allowed for those whoare in the process of spiritual development to do a few acts of charity, suchas healing someone or helping a person regain his health, if they aremoved to do so by compassion. But any healing done wouldn’t be thorough. That’s because it would not be right to remove the person’s ailmentat the source, by dissolving his karma, and completely free him of it, sincehe would still be his same old, worldly, self afterwards and go back to his7