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Teachings

Is medical treatment rejected?

1) Discouraging practitioners to believe they have illnesses. "As a cultivator, if you always treat yourself like an everyday person and always think that you have illnesses, how can you cultivate?" ("Lecture Six", Zhuan Falun)

"As a practitioner, if you always think that it is an illness, you are actually asking for it. If you ask for an illness, it will come inside your body. As a practitioner, your xinxing level should be high. You should not always worry that it is an illness, for this fear of illness is an attachment and it can bring you trouble just the same." ("Lecture Six", Zhuan Falun)

"Cultivation is a serious matter. That test of one’s mind is a black or white issue. The more attached you are, the worse you will feel. When you go to the hospital for an examination you will be made to see that your illness has gotten worse. Yet you still don’t enlighten to it. Since you still don’t enlighten to it, it becomes more and more serious, and in the end you truly can’t make it. That happens because you are not a genuine student, you don’t study the Fa, and you can’t let go of your attachment to your illness. You are just an ordinary person who wants to get his illness cured." (Teachings at the 2004 International Conference in New York)

2) Practitioners should suffer to reduce karma when ill

"Some people think that treating patients, curing their illnesses, and improving their health are good deeds. In my view, they have not really cured the illnesses. Instead of removing them, they have either postponed or transformed the illnesses. To really dispel such tribulations, karma must be eliminated." ("Lecture One", Zhuan Falun)

"Because of karma created from past wrongdoings, one has illnesses or tribulations; suffering is repaying a karmic debt, and thus nobody can casually change this. Changing it means that one would not have to repay the debt after being in debt, and this cannot be done at will. Doing otherwise is the same as committing a bad deed." ("Lecture One", Zhuan Falun)

3) Medical treatment is bad for cultivation

"Taking medicine while cultivating implies that you don’t believe in cultivation’s ability to heal; why would you take medicine if you believed in it." (Falun Gong)

"But the fundamental cause and the sickness don’t originate in this dimension. So when you take medicine now you’re killing this sickness or the virus at the surface. Medicine can truly kill viruses at the surface. Yet a practitioner’s gong7 is automatically destroying viruses and karma. But as soon as medicine kills the surface virus that has seeped over from other dimensions, the virus—karma—over on the other side will know, since everything is alive, and it will stop coming over. Then you feel that you’ve recovered because you took the medicine. But let me tell you that it nonetheless accumulates over there. Life after life human beings are accumulating this stuff. When the accumulation reaches a certain extent, the person becomes incurable and when he dies he’s totally destroyed. He loses his life—forever loses his life. That’s how horrifying it is." (Fa Teaching Given in New York City)

Falun Gong pseudoscience examples

Things that would be qualified as pseudoscientific by non-practitioners. This section is incomplete.

Astronomy

Gravity doesn't exist. In fact, objects are attracted to each other because of rubber band-like connections:

So next I’ll talk about another issue. What issue? You know, the theory of gravity that science believes in nowadays is altogether wrong. What’s behind the phenomenon of gravity as we know it? It happens because all lives and all matter, including air and water, that are on Earth and within the Three Realms—all things that exist in the Three Realms—are composed of particles of all the different levels in the Three Realms, and different particles of different levels are interconnected. This interconnection can, when there’s a pulling force, extend or move within the Three Realms. In other words, when you pull it, it can extend like a rubber band, and when you release it, it will go back. That is, there’s a basic, stable form of existence among particles. This is why any object in this Earth’s environment will come back to the ground after you move it. ... What I was trying to tell you just now is that “gravity” doesn’t exist. It actually is due to the fact that for particles to exist in this setting, they must be interconnected.

There are less than 3 billion galaxies in our universe. Truth: We know that there are at least 100 billion galaxies in our universe.

During my last trip to the U.S., I mentioned that an expanse of roughly more than 2.7 billion Milky Way-like galaxies—it’s around this figure, less than 3 billion—constitutes one universe.

For example, roughly less than 3 billion galaxies like the Milky Way comprise the expanse of one universe.

Mars is hot.

It’s similar to how human beings say that the Mars of this dimension is hot, but if one were to break through this dimension, it would prove to be somewhat cold over on the other side.

Physics

Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences once conducted tests on me to come up with an appraisal, and they could detect energy matter emitted when I was teaching the Fa. The Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences specializes in high-energy physics research. They placed instruments in the conference room’s four corners, as well as in various spots in the middle of the room. An instrument was also placed on the table behind where I was teaching the Fa. During the test, they found that the energies I emitted contained strong neutrons as well as atoms. Of course, that was as far as they could go in their testing, as they did not have instruments for more microscopic substances. They were really surprised that the energy fields I emitted were evenly distributed and the energy could be directed, because scientific research says that nuclear matter doesn’t have a specific direction when it is emitted and no one knows where it will go, and it’s stronger closer to the source of emission and weaker as it gets further away.

Criticism of science

Incomplete

Clearly, modern science is not perfect, and blindly believing in it will do extreme harm to humanity.