Falun
Gong originates from the Falun Xiulian Dafa[1]
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).[2] 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,
, (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[3] 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,
, and
the Taiji don’t change. The srivatsas,
, 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,[4]
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,[5]
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[6] or
the Baihui acupuncture point,[7] and
it travels along the sides of the body, where yin borders yang.[8]
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.[9] 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[10] 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 Attainment
Status. Dedicated cultivators find a true cultivation way and achieve Rightful
Attainment, which is Perfection.
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In
Chinese thought and medicine, these exist in addition to the twelve Regular
Meridians.