Most of the 100 practitioners are between 50 and 70 years of age. Among them there are cadres, teachers, doctors, college students, engineers, self-employed business owners, workers and housewives.
I am an ordinary Australian with no Chinese background or connection. Yet I
have had some experience of Falun Gong.
I will no longer need to criticize myself from my conscience when I make a wrong choice between truth and falsehood. It is high time I spoke the truth from my heart. How uncomfortably I have lived throughout my life!
Present-day China, recently ruled by Jiang Zemin, has experienced an increasing number of natural and man-made disasters. Rather than following the lessons left by Confucius and previous emperors, Jiang has never admitted his mistakes and wrongdoings, nor asked for punishment from his people.
“How many people have indeed benefited from the development of science?” Ismail Serageldin, the director of the Library of Alexandria in Egypt, wrote an article to pose this question.
At last the Dove said: “I am a man of peace but perhaps it is time for me to go out of my comfort zone and actually do something. Perhaps I have been thinking only of myself, not of others.”
Here in this compressed three dimensional space
We are chained by the bonds of our little minds and heart.
As we struggle to break free from this small time and space
We can learn to expand our hearts.
Fears over the whereabouts of a Beijing-based
member of the Falungong spiritual movement grew Sunday after she was
reportedly arrested by mainland Chinese State security.
Tang Yiwen, younger sister of Australian citizen Lisa, has been illegally detained at the Chatou Labor Camp in Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province for over two years. Upon completing her term, this young and beautiful teacher was not released.
We cannot change others
We can only look within
and change ourselves
Foreign Minister Phil Goff added New Zealand’s voice to a growing international chorus urging the Hong Kong government to reject the mainland-sponsored law when it comes up before the legislature on 9 July.
In June 2003, practitioners participated in the local ‘World Environment Day’, an annual event on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, to promote Falun Dafa. Practitioners from Brisbane and the Gold Coast travelled hundreds of kilometres to attend the day’s activities.