2 Falun Gong led its followers to homicide
Compared with those disciples who died of Falun Gong practice, more innocent people (some are relatives of Falun Gong followers) who had little or nothing to do with Falun Gong were also killed by it.
2.1 Li Hongzhi doesn't value human life as others do.
Li Hongzhi borrowed many concepts from Buddhist when he created the "creed" of Falun Gong. As is well known, it is highly forbidden for Buddhists to kill livestock, let alone human life. However, according to Li Hongzhi's theory, Falun Gong practitioners needn't follow this commandment strictly.
"For example, if you're walking and some ants and insects run under your feet and get stepped on and killed, then maybe they were supposed to die…When there are flies and mosquitoes in our homes we can drive them out and install screens to keep them from getting in. But if you can't drive them out sometimes, it's okay to kill them."
"The First Emperor of Qin killed many people in the course of unifying China. He killed the rulers of many states, and everyone cursed him...It was the outcome of celestial changes. Had he not acted in accord with the will of Heaven, he would not have succeeded and unification would have failed. Human affairs are thus no more than that. As cultivators we never comment on them. A cultivator will not take an interest in politics, lest he be a politician, not a cultivator...When mankind reaches a certain point in time, its karma is enormous, and it is beyond redemption. Enormous karma such as that is something man can never pay off. He accumulates, over the course of many lifetimes, karma so massive that it is impossible to pay off, and thus these people are destined to be destroyed. What is meant by "be destroyed"? Small disasters take place and destroy people. War is the most expedient way, and that's why history is what it is."
Li Hongzhi demanded his disciples repeatedly to do well "three things." One of them was to "send forth righteous thoughts" to "wipe out the devils in other spaces." Li Hongzhi once said that bad things in the other space were also spirits and had lives. Consequently, the idea "sending forth righteous thoughts" initiated by Li Hongzhi was actually the synonym of "killing others."
"Sending righteous thoughts, that's eliminating those hopeless, filthiest beings' persecution of Dafa disciples."
"All Dafa disciples, new and veteran students alike: when you send righteous thoughts, besides the targets that you specifically lock in to, aim directly at those dark minions and completely eliminate them."
Instigated openly and strengthened continually by Li Hongzhi, those who were besotted with Falun Gong set little by others' lives; some of them go to such an extent as to kill people to "wipe out the devils" and to "save people."
2.2 Some people are considered as "devils" hindering the cultivation and killed cruelly by Falun Gong practitioners.
"The wretched demons just deserve to be killed."
"Since humans have come to this stage, demons certainly won't allow it when people want to obtain the Fa – they'll obstruct you...All kinds of factors are at work acting as a kind of obstruction."
"I've got to tell you, in the end there will still be many beings that can't be saved – they're doomed to be weeded out."
"If the evil has already reached the point where it is unsavable and unkeepable, then various measures at different levels can be used to stop it and eradicate it…Completely eliminating the evil is for Fa-rectification, and not a matter of personal cultivation."
Therefore, the disciples consider those interfering in studying the Fa as "devils." In order to wipe out the devils, clear up the interference, and to get into a higher level, they use every possible means to stop and wipe the "devils." Many innocent lives are hurt. The family members of Falun Gong practitioners are usually hurt most. As mentioned above, Guan Shuyun throttles her own daughter to wipe out the "devil." It is distressing that there are too many such tragedies.
On August 23, 1996, Wang Xuezhong, a Falun Gong practitioner from Jiahe, Hunan Province, thought his father was a devil and cut his father 17 times on the head, in the neck and the chest and killed him on the spot.[9]
On the night of February 25, 1998, when Wu Deqiao, a native of Jiangsu Province, was practicing Falun Gong at home, his wife dissuaded him. Wu thought his wife was a "devil" interfering in his cultivation and killed her with a kitchen knife.[10]
On April 8, 1998, Wang Anshou, a worker from Shandong Province, was dissuaded by his father when he was practicing Falun Gong. Wang thought that his father was a demon and beat him to death with a spade.[11]
On March 20, 1999, Li Ting, a Falun Gong practitioner of less than 18 years old from Chengde City, Hebei Province, considered his parents as devils. In order to "wipe out the devils," Li Ting killed cruelly his own parents at home. [12]
On February 20, 2001, Wei Zhihua, a Falun Gong practitioner from Longgang District, Shenzhen City of Guangdong Province, realized the vicious nature of Falun Gong and swore "never to be Li Hongzhi's disciple again." More than a dozen obsessed Falun Gong practitioners including her husband thought she was a "devil" damaging reputation of the "Dafa." As a result, they bound her and covered her mouth and nose in cold blood. Wei Zhihua was suffocated to death.[13]
2.3 Influenced by Li Hongzhi's remarks of "saving people," some Falun Gong practitioners "save people" by killing them.
"If a large being is killed by someone, then that person's sins and karma become enormous, especially when it's a human being who is killed. So when someone has generated such karma he has to pay it off…But as for the very real, awful situation the beings are in, their painful enduring, and their material loss after they are killed, the cultivator will have to, in the process of consummating everything of his own, save those beings or repay them with blessings using the fruits of his cultivation. Then from that perspective, the compensation the killed beings receive far exceeds what they would have received among humans. And this has thus settled malevolent predestined relationships with benevolent solutions."
"At the same time, a portion of the lives that you harmed will become beings in the paradise you will have after you Consummation, so it will turn into a good thing. If the to-be-harmed life knew, ‘Oh, I'll go to a Buddha's paradise in the future,' it would stretch its neck out to let you kill it. It would happily, cheerfully let you kill it."
"The Three Realms are the reverse of everything in the cosmos, so the Fa's principles have also provided beings at this level with reversed principles suitable for the existence of everyday people."
When Falun Gong disciples think they are at a high level and have the power of "saving people," they may kill others. After all, the disciples still care about their family members most; therefore they will certainly "save" them first. According to them, it is the most benevolent conduct to save their own family members. It is wrong in the human society to kill people, but the principles of human society are opposite to that at the high level. In the eyes of the Falun Gong practitioners, killing is not a murder, it is called "solving malevolent predestined relations with benevolent solutions" or "saving people."
Fu Yibin, a Falun Gong practitioner from Xicheng District, Beijing, killed his father and his wife and wounded his mother seriously at his parents' home at about 5 p.m., November 25, 2001. According to Fu's confession, he "realized" that his father and family members should all "leave this world" on the very afternoon of November 25; so he killed his father and his wife and wounded his mother with a kitchen knife.[17]
From May 25 to June 27, 2003, strange homicides of poisoning happened one after another in Longgang Town, Cangnan County, Zhejiang Province, 17 people were killed. 16 of them were beggars who died accidentally in the streets. The other one was a Buddhist believer who died at hospital after all possible rescue measures. What shocked the world was that this series of homicides were committed by Chen Zhaofu, an obsessed Falun Gong follower. According to Chen's confession, he killed people time and again by poisoning because his master Li Hongzhi instructed him to do so. He heard his master telling him to "increase the power of Gong by killing, save all sentient beings and reach the highest level of cultivation."[18]
Tetramine used by Chen Zhaofu
Li Hongzhi, Fa-Lecture During the 2003 Lantern Festival at the U.S. West Fa Conference (February 15, 2003)
Li Hongzhi, Eliminate the Dark Minions With Righteous Thoughts (March 16, 2004)
People.com.cn, Cheating The Public and Impairing People
Chinanews.com, 17 Selected Murder Cases of Falun Gong Obsessed Followers (June 5, 2001)
People.com.cn, Cheating The Public and Impairing People
Li Hongzhi, Dafa Is All-Encompassing (July 30, 2001)
Li Hongzhi, Teaching the Fa at the Conference in Switzerland (September 4, 1998)
Xinhua, Another Murder Stemmed from Falun Gong – an Follower in Beijing Kills His Father and Wife (December 17, 2001)
Xinhua, Crimes of Falun Gong – Series Murder Cases of Poisoning in Zhejiang (July 14, 2003)
Kaiwind, Holland Falun Gong Practitioner Judged to Receive Psychological Therapy for Killing a Person and Cooking the Body (July, 27, 2007)
