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      Falun Gong originates from
      the Falun Xiulian Dafa
      practice in the Buddhist system. It is one of the Buddhist system’s
      special qigong methods, yet it has its own distinct qualities that
      set it apart from the usual ways of Buddhist cultivation. This cultivation
      system is a special, intense cultivation method that used to require that
      cultivators have extremely high character and a great underlying base. In
      order for more practitioners to improve, while also meeting the needs of a
      massive number of dedicated cultivators, I have redesigned and made public
      this set of cultivation methods that are now suitable for popularization.
      Despite the modifications, this practice still far exceeds other
      practices, their teachings, and levels.  1. The Law Wheel’s Function 
      The Law Wheel of Falun Gong has the same nature as the
      universe, for it is a miniature of the universe. Cultivators of Falun Gong
      not only rapidly develop their supernatural abilities and gong 
      potency, they also develop an incomparably powerful Law Wheel in a brief
      period of time. Once developed, a person’s Law Wheel exists as a living,
      intelligent entity. It automatically spins ceaselessly in the
      practitioner’s lower abdominal area, constantly absorbing and transforming
      energy from the universe and ultimately evolving the energy in the
      practitioner’s innate body into gong. Thus the effect of “the Law
      refines the practitioner” is achieved. This means that the Law Wheel
      constantly refines the person even though he or she doesn’t perform the
      exercises every minute. Internally, the Law Wheel offers salvation to
      oneself. It makes a person stronger and healthier, more intelligent and
      wise, and it protects the practitioner from deviation. It can also protect
      the cultivator from people with inferior character interfering with him.
      Externally, the Law Wheel can both heal sickness and eliminate evil for
      others, rectifying all abnormal conditions. The Law Wheel rotates
      continuously in the lower abdominal area, turning clockwise nine times and
      then counterclockwise nine times. When rotating clockwise, it vigorously
      takes in energy from the universe and that energy is very strong. Its
      rotational power becomes stronger as a person’s gong potency rises.
      This is a state that can’t be attained by deliberate attempts to pour 
      qi into the top of the head. When rotating counterclockwise, it
      releases energy and provides salvation to all beings, rectifying abnormal
      conditions. People around the practitioner benefit. Of all the qigong
      practices taught in our country, Falun Gong is the first and only
      cultivation method that has achieved “the Law refines the practitioner.” The Law Wheel is most precious, you can’t
      put a price on it. When my shifu passed the Law Wheel on to me, he
      told me that the Law Wheel shouldn’t be passed on to anyone else, and that
      even those people who had cultivated for a thousand years or more might
      want to have it, but could not. The discipline could only be passed on to
      one person after a very, very long time, unlike those that are passed on
      to one person every few decades. The Law Wheel is thus extremely precious.
      It’s still extremely precious even though we now make it public and have
      adjusted it to become less powerful. Cultivators who have acquired it are
      halfway through their cultivation. The only thing that remains is for you
      to improve your character, and then what awaits you are quite high levels.
      Of course, people who aren’t predestined might stop after cultivating for
      a little while, and then the Law Wheel in them will cease to exist. Falun Gong is Buddhist qigong, but
      it far exceeds the scope of the Buddhist system: what we cultivate is the
      entire universe. In the past, Buddhist cultivation only taught Buddhist
      principles, while Daoist cultivation only taught Daoist principles.
      Neither one gave a full explanation of the universe from its fundamental
      level. The universe is similar to human beings in that it has its own
      nature, along with its material composition. Its nature can be summarized
      in three words: True, Kind, Tolerant (zhen, shan, ren).
      Daoist cultivation focuses its understanding on the True part: telling the
      truth, doing truthful deeds, returning to one’s original, true self, and
      finally becoming a true being. Buddhist cultivation focuses on the Kind
      part: developing great compassion, and offering salvation to all beings.
      Our discipline cultivates Truth, Kindness, and Tolerance simultaneously,
      and we directly adhere to the fundamental nature of the universe in our
      cultivation, ultimately assimilating with the universe. Falun Gong is a cultivation system of both
      mind and body. When a practitioner’s gong potency and character
      have reached a certain level, he or she is bound to attain in this world
      both Enlightenment (the state of Unlocked Gong) and an indestructible
      body. In general, Falun Gong is divided into Triple-World-Law and
      Beyond-Triple-World-Law, which include many levels. I hope that all
      devoted practitioners will cultivate diligently, improve their character
      without letup, and manage to reach Spiritual Perfection.  2. The Law Wheel’s
      Configuration 
      The 
      Law Wheel
      of Falun Gong is an intelligent, spinning body of high-energy matter. It
      rotates according to the laws of the vast universe’s entire motion. In a
      sense, the Law Wheel
      is a miniature of the universe. 
      In the center of the Law Wheel there is a Buddhist
      symbol of srivatsa, 
      卍,
      (in Sanskrit, srivatsa means “the gathering of all good fortune”
      (to check [the Chinese term], look in the Ci Hai Dictionary)),
      which is the core of the Law Wheel. Its color is close to golden yellow,
      and its base color is bright red. The base color of the outer ring is
      orange. Four Taiji symbols
      and four Buddhist srivatsas are placed alternately in eight spots.
      The Taiji that are red and black are of the Daoist system, while the Taiji
      that are red and blue are of the Great Anterior-Heaven Daoist system. The
      four small srivatsas are also golden yellow. The base color of the
      Law Wheel changes periodically from red, to orange, to yellow, green,
      blue, indigo, and violet. They are extraordinarily beautiful colors (refer
      to the color insert at the front of the book). The colors of the central
      srivatsa, 卍,
      and the Taiji don’t change. The srivatsas, 
      卍,
      of different sizes rotate on their own, as does the Law Wheel. The Law
      Wheel is rooted in the universe. The universe is rotating, all galaxies
      are rotating, and so the Law Wheel is rotating as well. Those whose Third
      Eyes are at lower levels can see the Law Wheel spinning like a fan; those
      whose Third Eyes are at higher levels can see the whole image of the Law
      Wheel, which is incredibly beautiful and brilliant, and this encourages
      practitioners to more boldly forge ahead cultivating.  3. Characteristics of Falun
      Gong Cultivation (1) The Law Refines the Practitioner 
      People who practice Falun Gong are able to not only
      rapidly develop their gong potency and supernatural abilities, but
      also gain a Law Wheel through cultivation. The Law Wheel can form in a
      short period of time, and once formed it is powerful. It can protect
      practitioners from going awry as well as from people with inferior
      character interfering with them. The principles of Falun Gong are
      completely different from those of conventional cultivation methods.
      That’s because after a Law Wheel forms, it rotates nonstop on its own; it
      exists in the form of an intelligent entity, constantly collecting energy
      in the practitioner’s lower abdominal area. The Law Wheel automatically
      takes in energy from the universe by rotating. The Law Wheel achieves the
      goal of “the Law refines the practitioner” precisely because it rotates
      nonstop, which means that the Law Wheel cultivates people ceaselessly even
      though they aren’t performing the exercises at every moment. As you all
      know, everyday people have to work during the day and rest at night. That
      leaves limited time for exercises. Thinking all the time about performing
      exercises certainly won’t serve the purpose of constant performance
      twenty-four hours a day. The goal of around-the-clock performance can’t be
      met by any other method. The Law Wheel rotates ceaselessly, and when
      rotating inwards it absorbs a great amount of qi (the first form
      that energy takes). Day and night, the Law Wheel keeps storing and
      transforming the absorbed qi in each and every location of the Law
      Wheel. It converts qi into high-level matter, ultimately changing
      it in the cultivator’s body into gong. That is “the Law refines the
      practitioner.” Falun Gong’s cultivation is entirely different from all
      other practice systems or qigong cultivation methods, which
      cultivate elixir. 
      The principal feature of Falun Gong is its cultivation
      of a Law Wheel rather than elixir. Until now, all the cultivation methods
      that have been made public, regardless of which school or cultivation way
      they came from—be they branches of Buddhism or Daoism, of the Buddhist or
      Daoist system, or of any of the ways spread among people—all have
      cultivated elixir. And so do many side-door cultivation ways. They are
      called elixir-method qigong. The cultivation used by monks, nuns,
      and Daoists has taken the path of cultivating elixir. If these persons are
      cremated at death, they produce sariras, which are composed of a
      hard and beautiful substance that modern scientific equipment can’t make
      out. Actually, they are high-energy matter, gathered from other
      dimensions—not our dimension. That is elixir. It’s hard for those who
      practice elixir-method qigong to achieve Enlightenment during the
      person’s lifetime. It used to be that many people who practiced
      elixir-method qigong tried to lift their elixir. It couldn’t be
      lifted out once it was raised to the Niwan Palace,
      and so it got stuck there and the person died. Some people wanted to
      deliberately burst it but they had no way of doing so. There were some
      cases like this: A person’s grandfather didn’t cultivate to success, so at
      the end of his lifetime he spat the elixir out and passed it on to the
      person’s father; his father didn’t cultivate to success, so at the end of
      his lifetime he spat it out and passed it on to the person. Even then this
      person still didn’t achieve much. It’s really difficult! Of course, there
      are many decent cultivation methods. It’s not so bad if you can receive
      genuine teaching from someone, but chances are he or she won’t teach you
      high-level things.  (2) Cultivating the Main Consciousness 
      Everyone has a main consciousness. A person usually
      relies on his or her main consciousness in order to act and think. Along
      with the main consciousness, a person also has one or more assistant
      consciousnesses and spirits inherited from ancestors. The assistant
      consciousness(es) has the same name as the main consciousness, but in
      general it’s more capable and of a higher level. It doesn’t become deluded
      by our human society and it can see its own particular dimension. Many
      cultivation methods take the route of cultivating the assistant
      consciousness, whereby one’s flesh and main consciousness only function as
      a vehicle. Those practitioners are generally unaware of these things, and
      they even feel good about themselves. It’s incredibly hard for a person to
      break away from practical things while living in society, especially the
      things he or she is attached to. So, many cultivation methods emphasize
      performing exercises while in a state of trance—complete trance. When
      in-trance transformation occurs, the assistant consciousness actually gets
      transformed in a different world, and it is through that transformation
      that it improves. One day the assistant consciousness will complete its
      cultivation and leave with your gong. Nothing will be left for your
      main consciousness and your innate body, and your lifelong cultivation
      will fall short of success. That’s a great pity. Some well-known qigong
      masters command great abilities of all kinds, and along with those come
      prestige and respect. Yet they still don’t know that their gong has
      not in fact grown on their own bodies. Our Falun Gong directly cultivates the
      main consciousness; we ensure that gong actually grows on your
      body. The assistant consciousness of course gets a share too; it improves
      as well, though it is in the secondary position. Our cultivation method
      has strict character criteria that allow you to temper your character and
      improve while in human society, under the most complicated
      circumstances—like a lotus flower emerging out of the mud. Because of this
      you can succeed in your cultivation. This is why Falun Gong is so
      precious: It’s precious because it is you, yourself, who gets gong.
      But it’s also very hard to do. The difficulty lies in the fact that you
      have chosen a path which will temper and test you in the most complicated
      environment. The main consciousness must always direct
      your cultivation, since the goal of our practice is to cultivate the main
      consciousness. The main consciousness should make the decisions, rather
      than turning them over to the assistant consciousness. Otherwise there
      would come a day when the assistant consciousness would finish its
      cultivation at a higher level and take your gong with it, and your
      innate body and main consciousness would be left with nothing. When you
      are cultivating to high levels, your main consciousness shouldn’t lose
      awareness of what you are doing, as if it were asleep. You need to be
      clear that you are the one performing the exercises, ascending through
      cultivation, and improving your character—only then will you be in control
      and able to gain gong. Sometimes when you are absentminded you
      might accomplish something without even knowing how it was done. That is
      actually your assistant consciousness taking effect; your assistant
      consciousness is in command. If you open your eyes to look around while
      you are sitting there in meditation and you see that there’s another you
      across from you, then that is your assistant consciousness. If you are
      sitting there in meditation facing north, but all of a sudden you find
      that you’re sitting on the north side, wondering, “How did I come out of
      my body?”, then that is your true self that has come out. What sits over
      there is your flesh and assistant consciousness. You can tell them apart.
       You shouldn’t lose all awareness of yourself when you
      do the exercises of Falun Gong. Doing so is not in line with the Great Way
      of Falun Gong cultivation. You have to keep your mind alert when doing the
      exercises. There won’t be any deviation in the practice if your main
      consciousness is strong, for nothing will really be able to harm you. Some
      things might come onto your body if your main consciousness is weak.  (3) Doing the Exercises Regardless of
      Direction and Time 
      Many cultivation methods are particular about a time
      and direction in which it’s best to perform their exercises. We aren’t
      concerned with those things in the least. Falun Gong cultivation is done
      according to the nature of the universe and the laws by which the universe
      evolves. So direction and time are not important. We are, in effect,
      situated within the Law Wheel while doing the exercises, and it is
      omni-directional and in constant rotation. Our Law Wheel is synchronized
      with the universe. The universe is in motion, the Milky Way is in motion,
      the nine planets are revolving around the sun, and Earth itself is
      rotating. Which way is north, south, east, or west? People who live on
      Earth devised those directions. So you will be facing all directions no
      matter which direction you face. Some people say that it’s best to do the
      exercises at midnight, while some say that noon or another time is best.
      We aren’t concerned with that either, for the Law Wheel cultivates you
      even when you are not doing the exercises. The Law Wheel is helping you
      cultivate at every moment—the Law refines the practitioner. In
      elixir-method qigong, people cultivate elixir; in Falun Gong, it is
      the Law that cultivates people. Do the exercises more when you have time,
      and do them less when you have less time. It’s flexible.  4. Cultivation of Both Mind
      and Body 
      Falun Gong cultivates both the mind and body.
      Performing the exercises changes a person’s innate body first. The innate
      body won’t be discarded. The main consciousness merges into one with the
      flesh, achieving complete cultivation of one’s entire being.   (1) Changing One’s Innate Body 
      A human body is composed of flesh, blood, and bones,
      with different molecular structures and components. The molecular
      composition of the human body is transformed into high-energy matter
      through cultivation. The human body is then no longer composed of its
      original matter, as it has undergone a change in its fundamental
      properties. But cultivators live and cultivate among everyday people and
      they can’t disrupt the way human society is. So this kind of change alters
      neither the body’s original molecular structure nor the sequence in which
      its molecules are arranged; it just changes the original molecular
      composition. The body’s flesh remains soft, the bones are still hard, and
      the blood is still fluid. The person will still bleed when cut with a
      knife. According to the Chinese Theory of Five Elements, everything is
      composed of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. The human body is no
      different. When a cultivator has undergone the changes in his or her
      innate body whereby high-energy matter replaces the original molecular
      components, the human body at that point is no longer composed of its
      original matter. This is the principle behind what is known as
      “transcending the five elements.” The most noticeable feature of cultivation methods that
      cultivate both mind and body is that they prolong a person’s life and
      deter aging. Our Falun Gong also has this noticeable feature. Falun Gong
      works this way: It fundamentally changes the molecular composition of the
      human body, storing the gathered high-energy matter in each cell and
      ultimately allowing the high-energy matter to replace the cellular
      components. Metabolism will no longer occur. The person thus transcends
      the five elements, having turned his or her body into one composed of
      matter from other dimensions. This person will be young forever, freed of
      the constraints of this space or time. There have been many accomplished monks in
      history who had very long life spans. There are today people who are
      hundreds of years old walking on the street, only you can’t tell who they
      are. You can’t distinguish them, as they look young and wear the same
      clothes as everyday people. The human life span shouldn’t be as short as
      it is now. Speaking from the perspective of modern science, people should
      be able to live for over two hundred years. According to historical
      records, there was a person in Britain named
      Femcath who lived for 207 years. A
      person in Japan named Mitsu Taira lived to be 242 years old. During the
      Tang Dynasty in our country, there was a monk called Hui Zhao who lived to
      be 290 years old. According to the county annals of Yong Tai in Fujian
      Province, Chen Jun was born in the first year of Zhong He time (881 
      AD)
      under the reign of Emperor Xi Zong during the Tang Dynasty, and he died in
      the Tai Ding time of the Yuan Dynasty (1324 
      AD),
      after living for 443 years. These are backed up by records and can be
      investigated—they aren’t fairy tales. Our Falun Gong practitioners come to
      have noticeably fewer wrinkles on their faces, which take on a rosy,
      healthy glow, thanks to cultivation. They feel energetic, and they are not
      a bit tired when walking or working. That’s common. I’ve cultivated for
      decades and others say that my face hasn’t changed much in twenty years.
      Now you know why. Our Falun Gong contains powerful things for cultivating
      the body. Falun Gong cultivators look quite different in age from everyday
      people—they don’t look their actual age. So the primary features of
      cultivation methods that cultivate both mind and body are: prolonging
      life, deterring aging, and lengthening life expectancy.  (2) The Falun Cosmic Orbit 
      Our human body is a small universe. The energy of the
      human body circles around the body, and this is called the circulation of
      the small universe, or the cosmic orbit. Speaking in terms of levels,
      connecting the two major meridians of Ren and Du is only a superficial
      cosmic orbit. It doesn’t have the effect of cultivating the body. The
      Small Cosmic Orbit, in its true sense, circulates inside the body from the
      Niwan Palace to the elixir field. Through this internal circulation, all
      of a person’s meridians, or energy channels, are opened up and expanded
      from the inside of the body to its outside. Our Falun Gong calls for all
      meridians to be opened at the outset. The Great Cosmic Orbit is the movement of
      the eight Extra Meridians,
      and it goes around the entire body to complete one cycle. If the Great
      Cosmic Orbit is opened, it will bring about a state in which a person can
      levitate off the ground. That’s what is meant by “ascending in broad
      daylight,” as mentioned in The Book of Elixir. But that said, an
      area in your body will usually be locked so that you can’t levitate or
      fly. Yet it will bring you to a certain state: You will walk quickly and
      effortlessly, and when you walk uphill you will feel as if someone were
      giving you a push from behind. The opening of the Great Cosmic Orbit can
      also bring about a type of ability. It can enable the qi that
      exists in different organs of the body to exchange positions. The qi
      of the heart will move to the stomach, the qi of the stomach will
      travel to the intestines, and so on. As the person’s gong potency
      strengthens, if that ability is released outside the human body it will
      become the ability of telekinesis. This kind of cosmic orbit is also
      called the Meridian Cosmic Orbit, or the Heaven and Earth Cosmic Orbit.
      But its movement still won’t achieve the goal of transforming the body.
      There has to be another corresponding cosmic orbit, called the Borderline
      Cosmic Orbit. Here’s how the Borderline Cosmic Orbit moves: It emerges
      from either the Huiyin acupuncture point
      or the Baihui acupuncture point,
      and it travels along the sides of the body, where yin borders 
      yang. The cosmic orbit in Falun Gong is much
      greater than the movement of the eight Extra Meridians that are discussed
      in regular cultivation methods. It is the movement of all the
      crisscrossing meridians located throughout the entire body. All meridians
      of the entire body need to be thoroughly opened at once, and they all have
      to move together. These things are already embedded in our Falun Gong, so
      you don’t need to deliberately do them or guide them with your thoughts.
      You will go awry if you do it that way. During my classes, I place energy
      mechanisms outside your body that circulate automatically. The
      energy mechanisms are something unique to high-level cultivation, and they
      are part of what makes our exercises automatic. Just like the Law Wheel,
      they revolve ceaselessly, leading all internal meridians to rotate. Even
      if you haven’t worked on the cosmic orbit, those meridians have in fact
      already been driven into motion, and deep inside and outside they are all
      moving together. We use our exercises to strengthen the energy mechanisms
      that exist outside the body.  (3) Opening the Meridians 
      The objective of opening the meridians is to allow
      energy to circulate and to change the molecular composition of cells,
      transforming them into high-energy matter. The meridians of
      non-practitioners are congested and narrow. The meridians of practitioners
      gradually brighten and have their congested areas opened. The meridians of
      veteran practitioners widen, and they will widen even further during
      cultivation at higher levels. Some people have meridians as wide as a
      finger. Yet the opening up of meridians itself reflects neither one’s
      cultivation level nor the height of one’s gong. The meridians will
      be brightened and widened by doing the exercises, and eventually connect
      to become one large whole. At that point, this person will have no
      meridians or acupuncture points. Put another way, his or her entire body
      will be meridians and acupuncture points. But even this state doesn’t mean
      that the person has completed cultivation. It’s only the manifestation of
      one level during the process of Falun Gong cultivation. Arrival at this
      stage signifies that the person has reached the end of Triple-World‑Law
      cultivation. At the same time, this brings about a state quite noticeable
      from its outer appearance, called Three Flowers Gathered Atop the Head.
      The gong pillar will be rather high at that point and a great deal
      of supernatural abilities will have been developed, all of which will have
      a shape and form. The three flowers appear on the crown of the head, with
      one resembling a chrysanthemum and the others a lotus. The three flowers
      spin individually while revolving around each other at the same time. Each
      flower has an extremely tall pillar on top of it that reaches to the sky.
      These three pillars rotate and spin along with the flowers, and the head
      will feel heavy. But at that point the person has merely finished the last
      step of Triple-World-Law cultivation.  5. Thought
      Falun Gong cultivation involves no directing with
      thought. A person’s thoughts don’t accomplish anything by themselves,
      though they can send out commands. What is really at work are supernatural
      abilities, which have an intelligent being’s capacity to think and can
      receive commands from the brain’s signals. Yet many people, particularly
      those in qigong circles, have different theories about it. They
      think that thought can accomplish many things. Some talk about using
      thought to develop abilities, using it to open the Third Eye, to do
      healing, to perform telekinesis, etc. Those views are incorrect. At lower
      levels, among everyday people, thoughts direct the sensory organs and four
      limbs. At higher levels, a cultivator’s thoughts elevate a notch and
      direct abilities to do things. In other words, abilities are dictated by
      thought. That’s how we look at thought. Sometimes we see a qigong
      master doing treatments on others. Before the master lifts a finger, the
      patient says that he or she has become well, and thinks that the healing
      was done by the master’s thoughts. In fact, what the master does is
      release a type of ability and dictate it to give the treatment or to do
      something. Abilities act in another dimension, so everyday people can’t
      see them with their eyes. Those who don’t know think that it’s the
      thoughts that are doing the healing. Some people believe that thoughts can
      be used to do healings, and that has misled people. That idea had to be
      straightened up. Human thinking is a type of message, a
      type of energy, and a form of material existence. When a person thinks,
      the brain produces a frequency. Sometimes chanting mantras can be very
      effective. Why? Because the universe has its own vibrational frequency,
      and an effect will be produced when the frequency of your mantra coincides
      with that of the universe. For it to be effective, though, it certainly
      has to be benign in nature, since wicked things aren’t allowed to exist in
      the universe. Directing with thought is a specific way of thinking. The
      Law Bodies of a high-level, grand qigong master are controlled and
      dictated by the thoughts of his main body. A Law Body also has his own
      thoughts and is able to solve problems and carry out tasks independently.
      He is an entirely independent self. At the same time, Law Bodies know the
      thoughts of the qigong master’s main body and will carry out tasks
      according to those thoughts. For example, if the qigong master
      wants to treat a particular person’s illness the Law Bodies will go there.
      Without that thought they won’t go. But when they see a really good thing
      to do they will do it on their own. Some masters haven’t achieved
      Enlightenment, and there are things that they still don’t know but that
      their Law Bodies do know. There is another form of thought called
      inspiration. Inspiration doesn’t come from a person’s main consciousness.
      The knowledge base of the main consciousness is quite limited. It won’t
      work if you depend solely on the main consciousness to come up with
      something that doesn’t yet exist in this society. Inspiration comes from
      the assistant consciousness. When some people who are engaged in creative
      work or scientific research get stuck after exhausting all of their
      brainpower, they put things aside, rest for a while, or take a walk
      outside. Inspiration then comes suddenly without them thinking. They right
      away start to quickly write things down, and something is created. That’s
      because when the main consciousness is strong, it controls the brain and
      nothing will come forth, despite its effort. Once the main consciousness
      relaxes, the assistant consciousness starts to function and control the
      brain. The assistant consciousness is able to create new things, for it
      belongs to another dimension and is not restrained by this one. Yet the
      assistant consciousness can’t surpass or interfere with the way human
      society is; it’s not allowed to affect society’s development. Inspiration comes from two sources. One is the
      assistant consciousness. The assistant consciousness isn’t deluded by this
      world and can produce inspiration. The other source is the direction and
      guidance of high-level beings. When guided by high-level beings, people’s
      minds are expanded and able to create groundbreaking things. The entire
      development of society and the universe each follow their own specific
      laws. Nothing happens by chance.
 6. Levels of Cultivation in Falun Gong (1) Cultivation at High Levels 
      Since Falun Gong cultivation takes place at really high
      levels, gong is generated quite fast. A great cultivation way is
      extremely simple and easy. Falun Gong has few movements. Yet viewed from a
      larger scope it governs all aspects of the body, including the many things
      that are to be generated. As long as a person’s character keeps rising,
      his or her gong will grow rapidly. There is little need for
      intention-filled effort, the use of any specific method, setting up a
      crucible and furnace to make elixir from gathered chemicals or from adding
      fire and gathered chemicals.
      Relying on the guidance of directing with thought is rather complicated,
      and it can easily lead to deviation. What I’m giving you here is the most
      convenient discipline, the best discipline, but it is also the hardest
      one. In order for a cultivator to reach the Milk-White Body state using
      other methods, it would take more than a decade, several decades, or even
      longer. Yet we bring you to that stage immediately. That level might
      already pass by before you even feel it. It might last for just several
      hours. There will be one day when you feel quite sensitive, and only a
      little while later you won’t feel as sensitive. In fact, you will have
      just passed a significant level.  (2) Manifestations of Gong 
      After students of Falun Gong go through adjustment of
      the flesh, they will reach the state that is suitable for Dafa
      cultivation: the Milk-White Body state. Gong will only develop
      after that state is reached. People with a high-level Third Eye can see
      that gong develops on the surface of a practitioner’s skin and is
      then absorbed into his or her body. That process of gong generation
      and absorption keeps repeating itself, going level after level, and
      sometimes very rapidly. This is the first stage of gong development. After the first stage, the body of the
      practitioner is no longer a regular one. A practitioner will never again
      get sick after reaching the Milk-White Body state. The pain that might
      emerge here and there or the discomfort in a certain area is not sickness,
      though it may appear similar: It is caused by karma. After the second
      stage of gong development, a person’s intelligent beings will have
      grown very large and are able to move around and talk. Sometimes they are
      produced sparsely, sometimes in great density. They can talk to one
      another. There is a great deal of energy stored in those intelligent
      beings, and it is used to change his or her innate body. At a certain advanced level of Falun Gong
      cultivation, cherubs sometimes appear all throughout a practitioner’s
      body. They are mischievous, enjoy playing, and are good-natured. Another
      kind of body can be produced as well: the Immortal Infant. He or she sits
      on a lotus flower throne that’s gorgeous. The Immortal Infant that is
      generated through cultivation is created by the merging of yin and
      yang in the human body. Male and female cultivators alike can
      cultivate an Immortal Infant. At the beginning the Immortal Infant is very
      small. He gradually grows larger and ultimately grows to be the
      cultivator’s size. He looks exactly like the cultivator and is indeed
      present inside the cultivator’s body. When people with supernatural
      abilities look at him or her, they will say that this person has two
      bodies. This person has actually succeeded in cultivating his or her true
      body. Also, many Law Bodies can be developed through cultivation. In
      short, any ability that can be developed in this universe can be developed
      in Falun Gong; the abilities developed in other cultivation methods are
      all included in Falun Gong.  (3) Beyond-Triple-World-Law Cultivation 
      By performing Falun Gong exercises, practitioners can
      make their meridians wider and wider, connecting them to become a whole.
      That is, a person cultivates to a state in which there are no meridians or
      acupuncture points, or conversely, meridians and acupuncture points exist
      everywhere. That still doesn’t mean that he or she has attained the
      Dao—it’s only one form of manifestation in the process of Falun Gong
      cultivation, and a reflection of one level. When that stage is reached,
      the person is at the end of Triple-World-Law cultivation. The gong
      he or she has developed will be quite powerful and will have finished
      taking shape. Also, the person’s gong pillar will be really high
      and the three flowers will appear atop his or her head. But at this point
      the person has merely taken the last step of Triple-World-Law cultivation. When another step forward is taken, there
      will be nothing left, as all of the person’s abilities will be pressed
      into the body’s deepest dimension and he or she will enter the Pure-White
      Body state, where the body is transparent. With one more step forward,
      this person will enter into Beyond-Triple-World-Law cultivation, which is
      also known as “cultivation of a Buddha’s body.” The abilities developed at
      that stage belong to the category of supernatural powers. The practitioner
      will have unlimited powers at that point and will have become incredibly
      mighty. Upon reaching higher realms, he or she will cultivate to become a
      great enlightened being. All of this relies on how you cultivate your
      character. Whichever level you cultivate to is the level of your celestial
      rank. Dedicated cultivators find a true cultivation way and achieve their
      ultimate rank, which is Perfection. |