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Materials of Falungong (Scripture) by Li Hongzhi:
China Falungong (FLG E)
Zhuan Falun (Translated by US Disciples, 02/2000) (ZFL E)
Zhuan Falun (Translated by Practitioners in China) (ZFL BJE)
Great Perfection Way of Falun Buddha Law (DYMF E)
Falun Dafa (Essentials For Further Advancement) (JJYZ E)
Falun Dafa Explication (DFYJ E)
Falun Dafa (Lecture in Sydney) (Sydney)
Falun Dafa (Lectures in the United States) (US)
Falun Dafa (Lecture at the First Conference in North America) (North America)
The Knowing Heart (released May 22, 2000, originally composed October 12, 1999)
http://www.falundafa.org/book/index.html
转法轮 ZFL C
转法轮法解 Fajie C
转法轮(卷二) ZFL II C
法轮大法义解 DFYJ C
法轮佛法(精进要旨) JJYZ C
法轮佛法(在悉尼讲法) Sydney C
法轮佛法(在美国讲法) US C
法轮佛法(大圆满法) DYMF C
中国法轮功(修订本) FLG C
法轮佛法(在北美首届法会上讲法) North America C
法轮佛法(在欧洲法会上讲法) Frankfurt C
法轮佛法(在长春辅导员法会上讲法) Changchuan C
法轮佛法(在新加坡法会上讲法) Singapore C
法轮佛法(在瑞士法会上讲法) Switzerland C
洪吟[无插图] 洪吟[附插图] Hong Yin
《心自明》
http://www.falundafa.org/book/chigb.htm
Notes:
There is often insistence from the disciples that this should be solved on their own term: abandoning the "common" people's thought and accept Falun Dafa. Thereafter, everything would be clear. However, we consider it as a matter of logic. If Li, being an absolutist, has discovered the Truth, it should be universal and not relative. It is tautological to claim that the Truth can only be revealed to and believed by disciples who have "faith" to believe. The substitution of "Truth talks" with "plain talks" to the media invalidates the value of such a discovery.
One of the authors here would not consider Yan Xin's Qigong as a cult despite various criticism against its metaphysical claims. The reason is, Yan's claim does not rest on the supremacy of his personality - at best, and he claimed to be one of the deities but not the only one. Yan also considers his path as a more general principle of Qigong toward some form of enlightenment. It does not have an exclusionary claim on Truth. We would not hesitate to call it pseudo-science for its claims of supernatural ability.
In "Stability of Fa" dated June 11, 1996, Li claimed the opposite: "To correct the rising problems promptly, I often intentionally write some short articles (called "scriptures" by practitioners) to guide practitioners in their cultivation practice. The purpose is to leave a stable, healthy, and correct way for Dafa cultivation practice. The future generations for thousands of years to come must follow in their cultivation the way I have personally left if they are to complete their cultivation" (JJYZ E, 33).
We should note this changing narrative of Li's careers. He started with a claim of being the sole recipient of great gong from "masters in the mountains," admitting the existence of superiority of others. As years progressed, he retracted this story, framing it as he taught his masters in their previous lives so that they served as vassals for his "first coming." However, this theory revealed a bigger problem to Falungong: Li could suffer knowledge loss in reincarnation, which was not what an enlightened bodhisattva would experience.
This is perhaps the most stylish, most theologically revealing in all Li's writings, though we suspected that it was "helped" by the god of time rather than Li's own authorship (in another occasion, Li complained that his disciples were busy comparing lecture notes taken on site and the published articles and disputing the authenticity). Here, we will present a line-by-line analysis of this piece (the italics are our comments).
(New Threads, Revised May 31, 2000)
