Why are those who practice Falun Gong imprisoned in China?
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Any person who practices a religion (other than the state-sponsered church) or anti-government politics is jailed. This has happened for chinese Muslims, Christians and pro-democracy advocates.\n\nFalun Gong is seen as a anti-government organization that is hidden being the face of a religion, by the Chinese government.  I think one fear by the China is that as they gain more followers, their leader (some say it is cultist) will order the faithful to turn against the government.
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Exactly. Prison restricts your freedom but body helps the soul to have new experiences that the soul cannot have on its own. It is a useful tool given to a soul so that it can explore life.\nYou are put into a prison but you are not put into a body. You choose to be ina body because you want to experience what you have missed.\nGiving you the freedon is in other people's hands depending on your behavior in the prison, who are there to judge, but the soul passes its own judgement. When we die, we judge for ourselves. We may not realize that we are dead and haunt the place. We may be miserable over something we did or something we could not do and just refuse to pass on and live as ghosts. We may want to repent and choose a more miserable life for ourselves. We may want to see something new that we wanted to so much in the past life but couldn't and plan our own life and lessons we think we will learn while being there. Our soul is the piece of God, pure and just and we are our own authorities. We are not guided by others.\nWe choose to keep on learning until our desire to see more, to experience more, ultimately gets quenched and we go back to join the Whole or get 'Moksha', as you call it.\nYou get a body as a tool it. You use it, misuse it, abuse it is all up to yourself. You are your own authority in this world too. As a soul, you plan some events for yourself with a view to learn something from it and gain Consciousness but in this world, we may refuse to learn the lesson and gain the experiences, we planned for ourselves, and may wish to get liberated again. Then, after death, we may regret our decision and would want to come back again to learn what was left and then we get lazy and leave it unfinished, to regret it later again.\n\nThe only catch is we do not remember about the world beyond Death in this world and only realize what we have done, when we are a Soul. This is the reason that it is said that people who can detach themselves from the body and understand that it's a tool, can retain their Consciousness. We get Enlightened when we retain Consciousness in both the worlds.
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Most of them don't know about it.  It is never mentioned on the news or in text books.  Censorship is alive and well in China.\n (I had a friend who was studying in China at the time it happened, when he got home about six weeks later and I asked him about it - he hadn't even heard of it).
186390
To them its not natural.  Its something that was punishable by at least imprisonment. Its like with other countries with oppressed societies.  If you are different in some way you are out casted.  In some societies its imprisonment, while others its death.
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it is very unfair isn't it! unfortunately this is the way there gov. is run, can you imagine the poor person being in a prison in china.although he should be punished for taking another life but only once
887028
Nope your right these folks committed crime and were sentenced to a term in jail. Jail is a place where you have restricted freedom and privileges. The human writes brigade think this is wrong. I think it is character building keep them swilling out there own pig pens this way they may begin to learn the advantages of not living in a prison. From there its not a great leap for them to understand what they did wrong that got them there in the first place. All while they have PlayStation's, television, three square meals, books, education, medical system better than NHS, drugs, you name it they got it where's the deterrent????
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The reasons are so many. Some western people go there sent from their companies to supervise or to help business relations. There are lot of people interested in Chinese culture or people who have studied Chinese linguistic so they get lot of opportunities to work in China.\nChina becomes very open market and big economy so no wonder this is happening. I've been to China. I found it extremely interesting though quite different from my culture. The hardest thing to fit into was the high humidity climate and the lack of good yogurt, milk and cheese.
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To honor one's dead relatives in known to be the tradition of the Eastern world in many countries.\n\nBuddhism in its inner most essence, has no ground for such practices.\n\nAlso, in most Eastern traditions, people would ask certain special people to help with the ceremony or praying. In ancient China, it was the taoist, but then certain Buddhist monks began to do the same as well.\n\nSimilarly in Japan, there were people who specialized in such practices... and apparently the Buddhist monks in Japan learned to began to practice it as well.\n\nThings are bundled together... but monks engaging in such practice is not taught by the Buddha.
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First you have to be an absolute FREAK that doesnt ming killing people.  Also think that its illegal and u will go to jail.  What kind of person even asks such a question
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http://www.religioustolerance.org/falungong.htm\n\n Falun gong and falun dafa is a largely spiritual movement that incorporates:\n\n Buddhist principles, \n Taoist principles,  \n Qigong: body, mind and physical exercise, and  \n Healing techniques.  \n\nHowever, the Falun Dafa is taught as more than this; it is seen a way of life. 1  \n\nThe movement has experienced horrendous levels of persecution in China. Chinese government is against any form of religion they believe in themselves as gods...or taoism
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Yes. China and North Korea both have huge work camps for political prisoners.\n\n\npeace
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hope this might help:\nhttp://www.buddhanet.net/budwork.htm\n\nby the way, previously in mainland (communist) china, it was a rough place to live in. anything can happen, in order to keep surviving.
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By allowing all different opinions and grievances to be publically heard and discussed. For example, the Chinese shot people who spoke out against some of their governmental policies rather than let them publically air their grievances. In this way, those in power there remain in power because there is no way for like-minded people to band together since they don't know who would be like-minded and who would turn them in to the government.
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This guy's actually got a point. I'm not so sure on the specifics of any yahoo involvement, but I do know for certain that the Chinese government is very oppressive to anyone who questions its motives or policies. Instances may have tailed off over recent years, but beatings and torture are still a regular part of protocol there. America simply chooses to ignore it because we're more concerned with preserving our good economic relations with China, even though a lot of the cheap labor we outsource there is indeed done by slaves. We really should wake up and start seeing the truth.
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Can't recommend any books,just do a yahoo search on falun gong,there is an organization that documents abuses,with pictures of torture victims ,that did not survive and the methods used ,as well as individual stories and pictures of those who were tortured and did or did not survive,there are also links to places where you can practice or order books about zhuan falun,but I do not recall books about the persecution aspect
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well they are a communist nation, and censorship is what communists do. impure communism is corrupt and the ruling group still feels it needs to crush dissent. if the chinese government allowed uncesored blogs and search engines, the people would organize and overthrow the communist regime. china is just trying to hold to to what will soon be an extinct form of government.
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Silly question.  People are punished for all kinds of unjust reasons.  It's like asking why do bad things happen to good people or something.