Thursday, July 31, 2014

A Spiritual Journey to Ladakh, India

A Falun Gong practitioner’s calling to spread truthfulness, compassion and tolerance in mountainous, northern India

By Epoch Times | July 29, 2014
Falun Gong practioner Christiane Teich, from India, poses on a street in New York City on May 19, 2014. (Benjamin Chasteen/Epoch Times)
Christiane Teich, who prefers to be called “Chris,” made her pilgrimage to India over the course of 30 years, in search of something. Originally from Germany, Chris lived in Africa and South America before making her way to India.
Throughout her travels, Chris had tried many different kinds of spiritual practices, including qigong, transcendental meditation, yoga, Indian philosophies, Jainism, and Buddhism, yet still was not fulfilled.
Ladakh
Chris heard about a wonderful little place in the mountain area of the northernmost part of India called Ladakh. Although she lived mostly in Sarnath, India (the place where Buddha gave his first teachings), Chris preferred to go to Ladakh where the climate was unlike other parts of India—in Ladakh the air is cool and the weather is nice. “The climate is totally different in the high altitude, dry and just pleasant in the summers,” she said
She visited Ladakh nearly every summer since living in India, and usually stayed 3-4 months.
Ladakh lies between the Kunlun mountain range in the north and the main Great Himalayas to the south. It borders Tibet to the east and is inhabited largely by Tibetan Buddhists. The sparsely populated region is known for its remote mountain beauty and Tibetan culture.
When she first went to Ladakh around 23-24 years ago, there were very few TVs. “It’s a very small area, very few with TV, only two police stations,” said Chris.
But over the years and with the increase of both Western and Indian tourists, this has totally changed, and now TV is everywhere.
It was here that Chris was introduced to the meditation practice of Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa.
Falun Dafa
Chris fondly recalls attending an annual women’s meeting where women from many near and far villages gathered to cook, sing, dance, and weave. Nearby was a local temple situated high on a mountain, where a Chinese American woman was standing, looking down upon the crowd of women. She suddenly decided to come down from the mountain and began demonstrating the Falun Dafa exercises together with a local Tibetan person.
Falun Dafa is a spiritual cultivation practice that was introduced to the public in China in 1992. It involves five sets of meditation exercises and teachings of the universal principles of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance. In 1999, fearful of its popularity, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) launched a persecution against adherents. Since then, millions of Falun Gong adherents in China have been illegally detained, with the vast majority of them abused in custody by police, according to the Falun Dafa Information Center.
Chris had never seen these qigong exercises before but she was able to ask the woman a few questions and was directed to a shop where she was able to purchase the only available copy of Zhuan Falun, the book that practitioners read everyday and which expands on the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Tolerance.
It took Chris a few years to let go of all of her previous teachings, so she did not become a practitioner of Falun Dafa right away.
Spreading Falun Dafa
Once Chris became compelled by her spiritual calling, she began putting up posters and stickers about Falun Dafa all over the biggest town in Ladakh every summer—so much so that in 2007 one of the local schools asked her to come and teach the students the exercises.
She went to the school and taught the exercises, but felt that something was missing. “I was not very drawn to introducing Falun Dafa, as mostly only the exercises were done in schools, often for days in a row, which just didn’t appeal to me at all,” she said.
In 2008 and 2009, Chris began to educate the public about the persecution of Falun Dafa practitioners in China by setting up an information booth and passing out truth clarification materials. After working with another practitioner and visiting schools with her, Chris rededicated herself to spreading the Fa to local schools.
In 2010, she went to a different school and began to teach the exercises again, but this time she also set up an information booth and clarified the truth to them. The administration and students had a lot of exposure to Falun Dafa.
“This is a Tibetan school, where regularly the director and teachers had been given truth clarification materials, and many materials were in the school library for years. Many children had already received Falun Dafa and Truth Clarification flyers at outside displays over the years, so this school was very much prepared,” she said.
Chris stayed at this school and two small branches of it until 2013. “Besides, realizing the impact on the children and teachers, I was in many other schools, often in villages, and realized the wonderful opportunity. While creating a very good atmosphere doing the exercises, one can easily build on that with Truth Clarification, in the form of posters, Ipad, short films, and singing Falun Dafa Hao [is good],” she said.
Chris recalled that one time she returned to Ladakh a little later than usual and was touched by how much the people missed her. With a tear in her eye, Chris spoke about how they asked, “Where have you been; why didn’t you come?”
For Chris, this pilgrimage that started some 30 years ago had culminated into a mission to spread the teachings of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance in schools. She continues to visit Ladakh every summer—and even before she gets there, Chris sends posters, stickers, and flyers to residents who are eager to pass them out far and wide, including to the most remote regions.
Just last year, Chris sent over 220 pounds of materials to Ladakh.
“There’s still not many modern amenities, so I send cargos of materials to Ladakh and they distribute them,” said Chris.

图片报道:巴厘岛学员反迫害 民众支持

【明慧网二零一四年七月二十六日】二零一四年七月二十日下午,数百名巴厘岛法轮功学员在著名的旅游胜地库塔-来吉安海滩(Legian Kuta Beach)举行公众集会、游行和烛光悼念,谴责中共对法轮功持续了十五年的反人类的群体灭绝罪行,并呼吁所有善良的人们伸出援手,支持正义,制止迫害。一些当地的媒体和电视台对本次活动進行了采访报道。
在游人如织的海滩上,学员们身穿黄色T恤衫和白色长裤,整齐的跟着柔和的炼功音乐演示着法轮功功法,同时,学员还将被迫害致死的中国大陆法轮功学员的遗照与揭露和谴责中共迫害的横幅一字排开。祥和,同时庄严肃穆的场面,吸引了大批游客的关注,他们有的跟学员攀谈,了解真相。当人们听说,这些法轮功学员是为坚守真理而失去生命后,他们纷纷走到遭中共迫害致死的法轮功学员的遗照前献花敬意。他们有的还在“反对中共迫害”的征签表上签名。
图1:马代•苏拉萨(Made
图1:马代•苏拉萨(Made Sulasa Jaya)先生是巴厘岛的一位宗教领袖,他前来参加集会,他在发言中说,“我认为,我们所有在场的人都应该支持正义和真理。”
图3-4:在游行队伍中沙滩行走时,有的学员向身边的游客们讲真相,发资料,帮助中国游客退出党团队。游客们专心的倾听法轮功学员讲真相。
图3-4:在游行队伍中沙滩行走时,有的学员向身边的游客们讲真相,发资料,帮助中国游客退出党团队。游客们专心的倾听法轮功学员讲真相。
图5:明白真相的人们,在制止“中共活摘器官”的征签表上签名。
图5:明白真相的人们,在制止“中共活摘器官”的征签表上签名。
图6-11:游客们在被中共迫害致死的法轮功学员遗照前献花。
图6-11:游客们在被中共迫害致死的法轮功学员遗照前献花。

图12:夜幕慢慢降临,学员们继续在沙滩上集体炼功。
图13:傍晚时分,学员们点燃了点点烛光,悼念被中共迫害致死的法轮功学员,呼吁共同制止长达十五年的对法轮功学员的迫害。
图13:傍晚时分,学员们点燃了点点烛光,悼念被中共迫害致死的法轮功学员,呼吁共同制止长达十五年的对法轮功学员的迫害。

Wednesday, July 30, 2014

US State Department’s International Religious Freedom Report Condemns Persecution of Falun Gong

July 30, 2014 | By a Minghui correspondent in Washington DC
(Minghui.org) “Today the Chinese Government often severely restricts the ability of unregistered religious or spiritual groups to meet, sometimes banning them outright, as in the case of the Falun Gong, persecuting their defenders, like the human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng.”
So stated Tom Malinowski, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor with the Department of State, at a July 28 press briefing of the release of the agency’s International Religious Freedom Report for 2013.
“The same law that mandated the International Religious Freedom Report and created the Office of International Religious Freedom also gave us a series of powerful mechanisms to promote the cause of religious freedom worldwide,” the report illustrates that the mechanisms include sanction of individual rights offenders and/or governments that engage in or tolerate “particularly severe” violations of religious freedom.
The report highlights the following case in its executive summary:
“In September Falun Gong practitioner Yu Jinfeng was reportedly arrested and then taken to a former reeducation-through-labor (RTL) facility. Her lawyer, Tang Jitian, was refused access to Ms. Yu and then detained for five days.”
The China section of the report cites increased detention of Falun Gong practitioners around sensitive dates, even though the Masanjia Labor Camp was reported to have closed at the end of 2013.
The Hong Kong section of the report mentions “a significant increase in harassment from a pro-Beijing group called the Hong Kong Youth Care Association (HKYCA) which started immediately before the July 2012 inauguration of Hong Kong Chief Executive C.Y. Leung.”
The report also highlights the brainwashing, psychiatric abuses and denial of legal rights of Falun Gong practitioners.

周永康核心罪涉“政变和活摘器官” 国际曝光

周永康被“立案审查”,活摘法轮功学员的器官、多次政变、多次暗杀习近平等核心的罪行,早已在全球大曝光。(大纪元合成图)
【大纪元2014年07月29日讯】(大纪元记者张顿综合报导)中共前政法委书记、前常委周永康被“立案审查”,至此已传的沸沸扬扬的周永康案,历经近1年的时间,终于有了初步结果。周永康的罪行虽然当局未公布,但其核心的罪行:活摘法轮功学员的器官、多次政变、多次暗杀习近平等,早已在全球大曝光。
7月29日,中共喉舌《新华网》报导,周永康涉嫌“严重违纪”,被中纪委“立案审查”。
周永康是中共前政治局常委、中央政法委书记。周的落马,是中共建政以来立案调查的最高级别的官员,也是中共自 “四人帮”以来最大、最严重的案件;打破了邓小平复出后,“罪不及常委”的惯例。
目前,周永康案还未进入司法,仅是被中纪委“立案审查”阶段,据港媒此前报导,周永康涉及贪污金额高达1000亿人民币,足以判死。然而周永康的真罪是大量活摘器官、政变、多次谋杀习近平等,早已在社会上广传。
周永康2次政变未果 至少2次谋杀习近平
周永康是中共前党魁江泽民的死党,在习、江斗的过程中,曾至少2次企图政变、至少2次企图谋杀习近平。
大纪元早有报导,中共江泽民集团核心人员都身负法轮功学员的血债,为了逃避被清算,不愿也不敢放弃中共的最高权力,为了窃取中共权力,曾先后多次谋杀胡锦涛、习近平未果,多次发动政变未果。
2012年2月6日,与时任重庆市委书记薄熙来翻脸的重庆市公安局局长王立军,为了免遭如海伍德式的被杀人灭口,携带机密资料出逃到美国驻成都领事馆。随后,由中共前党魁江泽民主导,江派二号人物、军师曾庆红主谋,前政法委书记周永康、政治局委员薄熙来实施的薄周政变阴谋曝光,政变计划因此中途流产。
3月15日,政变主角薄熙来被免职; 3月19日,据多方消息,周永康与温家宝为了抢夺薄熙来的“财政部长”徐明,发生了“3.19北京政变”。报导称,最早带走徐明的是周永康的人马。温家宝命亲信、中纪委副书记马馼设法把徐明尽快掌握到中纪委手中。
据中南海核心层人士披露,3月19日夜,“周永康调动北京地区附近的武警,规模非常大,包围了新华门和天安门,并控制了中南海的新华门”。时任中办主任、胡锦涛的大内总管令计划也随即调动中央警卫局的兵力进行抵抗。周永康调派的武警在中南海门前迟疑不前,未敢有进一步的行动。
胡锦涛得知中南海突然被武警包围起来,紧急调动38军进入北京。38军的精锐部队数秒内将武警们缴械。当晚,无论是政法委总部还是周永康的私邸,都没有发现周永康。
2013年12月,据多家媒体报导,薄熙来事发被捕后,周永康为自保,竭力争权,摆脱习近平。在北戴河会议前后,周永康至少两次试图暗杀习近平:一次是在会议室置放定时炸弹,另外一次是趁习近平在301医院做体检时打毒针。
在北戴河会议上,周永康认为末日来临,于是孤注一掷,策划暗杀。消息人士透露,这些暗杀由他的助理和警卫谭红实施,谭红在12月1日已经被捕。
习近平上台后,胡、江斗迅速转变为习、江斗,而且来势凶猛。习近平为了以防不测,曾将他身边原有的警卫排全部换掉;而且一度移居西山军事指挥中心。
周永康主管活摘法轮功学员器官
此外,周永康最大的罪是迫害法轮功,活摘法轮功学员器官。2013年9月11日,“追查国际”公布了题为《追查国际关于中共活体摘取法轮功学员器官证据专辑》。《专辑》公布了20个调查电话录音,其中一个录音显示,李长春亲口说,周永康具体管(活摘法轮功学员器官)这个事。
《专辑》称,经持续的调查,活摘法轮功学员器官的事件,是由江泽民、周永康等中共最高当局利用国家机器统一组织下的大规模的涉及全国范围的群体灭绝性大屠杀,是在官方的组织和保护下,由司法系统和军队、武警、地方等医疗机构联合进行的系统犯罪。
据加拿大前亚太司司长、资深国会议员大卫‧乔高(David Kilgour)和国际人权律师大卫‧麦塔斯(David Matas)于2006年7月6日向国际社会公布的《中国活体摘取法轮功学员器官指控的报告》显示,有6.5万法轮功学员涉嫌被活摘了器官;《报告》称,活摘法轮功学员器官的指控是真实存在的,是“这星球上前所未有的邪恶”。
周永康是中共前党魁江泽民一手提拔起来的“左膀右臂”,是替江把握“刀把子”(公安、武警)的人;也是江泽民迫害法轮功的主要帮凶。
1999年~2002年,周永康出任中共四川省委书记时,四川成为当时全国迫害致死法轮功学员人数最多的省份之一。2002年,周永康升任中共中央政法委副书记、公安部部长,成为时任政法委书记、常委罗干迫害法轮功的“得力干将”;2008年,周永康升任政法委书记、常委,成为江泽民集团迫害法轮功的直接代言人。
活摘器官的罪行在全球曝光 江泽民、周永康等被全球起诉
中共前党魁江泽民发动迫害法轮功以来,已有上百万法轮功学员被迫害致死,数万法轮功学员的器官被活摘。全球上亿法轮功学员坚持不懈15年的讲真相,使江泽民、周永康等的滔天大罪已大白于天下。中共的罪恶遭到全球的谴责与唾弃,呼吁中共停止迫害法轮功。
2014年2月26日,美国伊利诺伊州众议院在年度全体大会上,全票通过了HR0730号议案,要求中共“立即停止迫害法轮功学员”。
2014年3月25日,《乌克兰青年报》报导了中共活摘器官事件。另外,波兰广播电台(Pik)、葡萄牙主要电视台等也先后播出了中共活摘法轮功学员器官的真相。
2013年12月12日,欧洲议会通过一项紧急议案,要求中共立即停止活体摘除器官;并呼吁中共“立即释放”包括法轮功学员在内的所有良心犯。
目前,包括联合国,美国、澳洲、欧洲、以色列、加拿大、台湾等国家与地区,要求中共停止迫害法轮功;全球有近150万人联署签名,要求制止中共活摘器官。
今年中国新年之际,大陆民众反活摘签名持续发酵,仅第三批就有11,015人联名签字,要求查处中共前政法委书记周永康活摘器官的罪行。
到目前为止,大陆民众在了解中共的邪恶后,有逾1.7亿中国民众选择退出了中共的党、团、队组织,中共已走向瓦解。
同时,全球法轮功学员以反人类罪、酷刑罪及群体灭绝罪,在30多个国家及地区起诉江泽民、罗干、周永康、薄熙来等50多迫害法轮功的中共高官。
2009年11月,法轮功学员以群体灭绝罪及酷刑罪在西班牙国家法庭起诉江泽民、罗干、薄熙来、贾庆林和吴官正等5名中共高官,西班牙国家法庭要求被告须在4到6周内回应。法院通知书表示,若被告罪名成立,将面临至少20年徒刑,并附带经济惩罚。
2009年12月17日,阿根廷联邦法院第九庭法官奥克塔维奥•阿劳德•拉马德里(Octavio Araozde Lamadrid)作出裁决:下令阿根廷联邦警察局国际刑警部逮捕因犯残酷迫害法轮功而犯下了危害人类罪行的江泽民、罗干二名中共官员。
周永康作为江泽民的主要帮凶,已在美国、加拿大、法国、瑞典等国家,以酷刑罪、反人类罪、群体灭绝罪、杀人罪等遭到起诉。
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From: http://www.epochtimes.com/gb/14/7/30/n4212411.htm