Case Analysis
ⅡHow Does Falun Gong Treat Family Affections?
Li Hongzhi, just like other founders of evil cults, takes advantage of Falun Gong practitioners' thirst for Consummation, gives his followers the assurance that by practicing Falun Gong they can "remove the Karma and avoid calamities" or they can even free themselves from worldly sufferings and ascend to Paradise with Consummation. Gradually obsessed by Falun Gong heresies, many of the Falun Gong practitioners have been utterly manipulated by Li Hongzhi. They blindly discard everything and try to reach Consummation regardless of the consequences. They cast off the love between man and wife, disregard the affections of kinship and even bring about the tragedy of broken family or deaths. Yet how comes that Li Hongzhi has managed to lure his followers into disregarding their family affections?
Li Hongzhi purposely differentiates Falun Gong practitioners from the ordinary people, making his followers believe that they are different from the man in the street. Some obsessed Falun Gong followers even consider themselves immortals. Later on, they would proceed to the extent of despising their family affections.
"But as a cultivator you can't confuse yourself with an everyday person. To put it a bit seriously, you are no longer human…humans have various emotions and desires, and live for emotion (qing). During the course of cultivation you are gradually taking these things more lightly and gradually letting go of them until you completely discard them."
"The truth is, you're no longer one of the ordinary human beings, and you couldn't even go back anymore, you really can't. The difference between you and ordinary people has grown downright large."
"We don't seek the things ordinary people want, but what we gain is what ordinary people can't, even if they want to."
Since emotion (qing) is just a life necessity for ordinary people, and the cultivators are different from them, so what the cultivators gain is something the ordinary people cannot obtain even if they want to. For the Falun Gong disciples, the human emotion is just garbage by which they should never be preoccupied at the expense of losing an opportunity for Consummation. This opportunity, as far as the disciples are concerned, is absolutely a great occasion of "once in a thousand years."
Zhang Biao, the victim mentioned in The Demon Makes Me Desert My Family; I Start My Life Afresh after Waking up Completely, is a good example in this regard. His wife eventually became pregnant after they got married for nine years. Zhang should have been happily staying at home and expecting his first child, yet he went everywhere possible to "spread the Fa" and distribute Falun Gong leaflets instead, regardless of the kinship feelings and the worldly emotions. He became crazy about the fallacy of Consummation. Even after his wife gave birth to a child, he was still determined to continue his "spreading the Fa." In spite of the fact that his wife badly needed his assistance since their daughter was no more than a month old, Zhang resolutely got on a train heading for Beijing, leaving his wife and daughter unattended at home, leaving the responsibilities of husband and father to Hell…At last, he divorced his wife or "the ordinary person" in his own word, to seek "getting into a higher level."
In order to dilute the disciples' worldly emotions, Li Hongzhi claims that the ultimate purpose of cultivation is to escape from earthly trifles and reach Consummation. Li Hongzhi preaches:
"Gong is formed, Consummation is reached – Buddha, Dao, God."
"Throughout the ages, only the Buddha Fa has been able to perfectly provide a clear exposition of humanity, every dimension of material existence, life, and the entire universe."
Since the Consummation is the ultimate purpose of cultivation and practice, the Dafa disciples should certainly change their life objectives accordingly. That is why the Dafa disciples do not long for a better life, cherish their happy families, or pursue life values. Their only goal of life is to cultivate themselves into Buddha-hoods.
Zhang Zhenyu, the victim mentioned in Falun Gong Deprives Me of the Last Chance to Requite My Mother, came into contact with Falun Gong in 1995 with an innocent wish of "cultivating mind and heart and following the good." Soon he was obsessed by Li Hongzhi's fallacies such as "Getting into a higher level" and "Reaching Consummation." He kept practicing Falun Gong every day, gave up his hobbies and even rejected information except about Falun Gong (He did not communicate with other people, rejected books common people read, and even did not watch CCTV news programs). He had no worldly pursuits, no sense of responsibilities, even no interest in daily work and farming, living totally in isolation and the obsession of "People are all dead drunk except me." The Autumn Harvesting is the busiest season in the countryside. Yet in order to go to Beijing and "spread the Fa," Zhang left his 60-year-old father to attend to everything: taking care of his 80-year-old grandma, attending his seriously ill mother, and looking after his 5-year-old son.
Li Hongzhi preaches: "Those who are attached to affection for family will definitely be burned, entangled, and tormented by it. Pulled by the threads of affection and plagued by them throughout their lives, they will find it too late to regret at the end of their lives."
"If this sentimentality is not relinquished, you will be unable to practice cultivation."
"Whether you can let go of ordinary human attachments is a fatal test on your way to become a truly extraordinary being."
"Maybe now you've experienced how hard cultivation is. Because it is hard, your cultivation can meet with success. Many people in history sought the Dao - they wanted to cultivate, to reach Consummation, and to go beyond the human cycle of death and rebirth. But it was very hard. There is absolutely no way a person can reach Consummation if he doesn't go through arduous cultivation to get rid of every kind of attachment he's developed among everyday people."
"Cultivate away fame, material interest, and emotion, Reach Consummation, ascending the firmament."
"When he succeeds in cultivation in the future, he will get whatever he wants just by extending out his hands, and he will have anything he desires. He can do anything he wants, and there is everything in his paradise."
Since sentimentality is the obstacle of cultivation, and to reach Consummation the cultivator has to give up emotions. Because one can get whatever he wants after reaching Consummation, the Falun Gong cultivators do not cherish worldly affections any more. As for the harm they have done to their beloved, they just consider it a test for them to pass. Some of the practitioners even regard their beloved as "the demons" in their cultivation way, and kill them to "eliminate the demons for Consummation."
