From - http://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2013/6/28/140719.html (English),
Falun Dafa is Good!
Sunday, June 29, 2014
Friday, June 27, 2014
European Practitioners at New York Fa Conference Share Benefits of Falun Dafa (Photos)
He felt very lucky to find Falun Gong. All things in his life have been improved through his cultivation. “I rediscovered the happiness in my reporting career. I also feel motivated in my life.”
May 19, 2014 | By De Xiang, Minghui Correspondent in New York
(Minghui.org) Thousands of Falun Gong practitioners from all over the world held a rally and a parade in New York on May 14, 2014, showcasing the beauty of Falun Dafa and exposing the persecution of Falun Gong in China. Among them were many from Europe.
French Practitioner Anita: Cultivation Gives Me More Confidence
French Falun Dafa practitioner Anita was very happy that she was able to attend the 2014 New York Falun Dafa Experience Sharing Conference and activities. She said, “Falun Gong is the most important in my life. I know Dafa is the law of the universe. My life has been completely changed since I started cultivation. I’m more confident about myself.”
French Falun Dafa practitioner Anita
Anita added, “We hold a parade here today, hoping people will find out the true story of Falun Gong, no matter if they are Chinese or Westerners. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) smears Falun Gong. But everyone can see through his own eyes what Falun Gong is and what kind of people Falun Dafa practitioners are…It’s World Falun Dafa Day as well as Master’s birthday. It’s such a happy occasion for Falun Dafa practitioners. No words can describe how thankful we are to Master. ”
German Practitioner Gudrun: My Heart Brought Me to New York
German practitioner Gudrun told the reporter, “I have been practicing [Falun Dafa] for a long time and have been to New York many times. Upon hearing about the conference, my heart naturally brought me to New York.”
German practitioner Gudrun
Gudrun said, “I’m very grateful and feel very fortunate from the bottom of my heart. I hold deep gratitude to Master.” The first time Gudrun read Zhuan Falun , she couldn’t help crying, “This is the book I have been looking for in my life!” Gudrun said, “There wouldn’t be Falun Dafa or cultivation without Master. He gave us guidance and this great opportunity. No words can describe my gratitude…After hearing Master’s lecture at the conference, I realized I must work harder. Master alerted us in a very very compassionate way. I was deeply touched. I must do better on my cultivation.”
Gudrun came to the States to show people that Falun Dafa is great, and had been spread to the whole world. People should awaken to the facts. The persecution in China is completely unacceptable and must not continue.
Austrian Practitioner Isabella: Practicing Falun Gong Ended My Long Search
Austrian practitioner Isabella has been practicing Falun Gong for close to three years. She told the reporter, “It seems to me that practicing Falun Gong has ended my long search [for answers]…Ever since I was a child, I had many questions that no one could answer. I had been looking for answers through different paths and theories…I read Zhuan Falun and found the answers I had been looking for. I seem to find my own experience in the book. I started practicing Falun Gong… I’m especially thankful to Master…”
Austrian practitioner Isabella
When talking about changes since her starting cultivation, Isabella said, “I became more patient and more compassionate. My children have noticed my change. They said I became clear-minded, quiet and relaxed. Even though my children are in their rebelling ages, we don’t have any conflict. We can put anything on the table and discuss it.”
Austrian Practitioner Florian: Cultivation Made Me Happy and Motivated
Austrian practitioner Florian said he came to New York for many reasons, “It gives me a chance to see fellow practitioners from all over the world. It’s wonderful how everyone brings his own energy into the parade. On the other hand, we show people the beauty of Falun Dafa and the persecution by the CCP. It’s very important!”
Austrian practitioner Florian
Florian said he felt very fortunate to see Master at the conference. He held deep gratitude to Master. Before he started cultivation, he had been suffering a painful period of life. His life was in a mess. “I even thought about whether I should end my life.” He felt very lucky to find Falun Gong. All things in his life have been improved through his cultivation. “I rediscovered the happiness in my reporting career. I also feel motivated in my life.”
Russian Practitioner Ivan: Falun Gong Is the Best Practice in the World
Ivan Kugimov came from south Russia. Dressed in military uniform, he looked proud and dignified. Ivan explained why he chose to join the parade in military uniform, “Russian people have been persecuted by the Communist Party. I want to let people know there are Falun Dafa practitioners in Russia. I would like to show the beauty of Falun Dafa.”
Russian practitioner Anna (left), Ivan (middle) and Natalie
Ivan’s old illnesses were gone after he started practicing Falun Gong in 2005. He enjoyed a better relationship with his family. His daughter joined him in cultivation. Ivan said, “I used to be a stern soldier before cultivation. After I started cultivating myself, I became kind and thoughtful. I’m very lucky to practice Falun Gong. I have found the best practice in the world. Falun Gong has given me so much. I’m thankful to Master!”
German Practitioner Artjom: I Found a Complete System of Cultivation in Dafa
“It’s a wonderful feeling! We have just finished our parade. We distributed flyers to passersby and told them about Falun Gong.” said Artjom, a Falun Gong practitioner from Germany. He was happy to see fellow practitioners from all over the world and get a chance to expose the persecution of Falun Gong in China.
German practitioner Artjom
Artjom started practicing Falun Gong in 2008. He had been looking for a way of cultivation and tried many of them before then. He said, “I finally found a complete system of cultivation in Falun Dafa. There is no need to ask, all the answers are in it. All I need to do is to follow Dafa’s principles…I used to smoke and drink. I quit them easily after I started cultivation…If we can follow Master’s instruction and continue to improve ourselves, it’s what makes Master most happy.”
Artjom would like to take this opportunity to tell Chinese people, “Falun Dafa is great! Why do you have negative thought about it? You don’t have to cultivate yourself in Dafa, but you have to open your eyes and find out about it.”
德国劳动局报道法轮功学员励志故事
近居住德国的一名中国人在众多求职者中脱颖而出，他从中共劳教所奴工到德国跨国公司电气工程师的经历引起德国劳动局的关注，他的励志故事被刊登在劳动局每期三千份的报纸上，以此激励德国本地和外来移民中的求职者。
文／德国法轮功学员
【明慧网二零一四年六月二十一日】很多中国人带着梦想来到海外，但融入西方社会并不容易，很多人身怀技能却不得不从事和自己的特长与梦想不相干的职业，银行白领做起了清扫员，艺术家当起了导游。最近居住德国的一名中国人在众多求职者中脱颖而出，他从中共劳教所奴工到德国跨国公司电气工程师的经历引起德国劳动局的关注，他的励志故事被刊登在劳动局每期三千份的报纸上，以此激励德国本地和外来移民中的求职者。
 图1：德国劳动局报纸报道法轮功学员励志故事 标题：郭居峰又一个新的开始 |
 图2：郭居峰（右）在德国科隆讲述中共迫害法轮功真相，展板中他认识的十二名法轮功学员全部在迫害中失去了生命。 |
浴火重生 从头再来
或者因为中国环境和人文不断被破坏，或者希望让孩子在海外健康成长并受到良好教育，大批中国人选择移民海外。根据《中国国际移民报告（2014）》数据显示，截至二零一三年底，中国海外移民存量已达到934万人，这些人中，有富人、有穷人、也有怀揣梦想的人。好多人身怀技能却不得不从事和自己的特长与梦想不相干的职业，银行白领做起了清扫员，画家干起了导游都很常见。在国外陌生的环境，好多人都曾无数次的问过自己，要进行哪些改变？要怎样努力才能实现自己的梦想？最近德国多特蒙德劳动局报纸报道了法轮功学员郭居峰来到德国重整旗鼓，从头再来，实现梦想的励志故事，文章以《郭居峰又一个新的开始》为标题，报道了他积极融入德国社会，成就在跨国公司就职电气工程师的经历。
劳动局报纸中提到，众所周知，尽管是社会需求的专业，如果没有好的职业简介，要想找到合适的工作也不容易。哪怕是非常受欢迎的工程技术人才，比如机械制造和电气工程，在第一次进入职场的开始阶段也会困难重重。对于受过教育的移民来讲，或者因为德语不好，或者因为繁琐的职业认证的限制，在德国找工作就更不容易。“有一个案例很特别，是一个锲而不舍，值得推荐的故事。”多特蒙德劳动局学术职业介绍负责人舒勒女士说。这是关于中国工程师郭居峰的故事，二零零八年他不得不离开他的家乡。
报纸接着用一大段讲述了郭居峰在中国的特殊经历。作为法轮功学员，郭居峰遭到了中共当局的迫害。法轮功，也叫法轮大法，是佛家气功，法轮功学员以法轮功的法理“真、善、忍”为原则生活。在几年之内，法轮功弘传中国，受到七千万人的欢迎，可是这让前中共国家主席江泽民非常害怕，他怕自己失去权力而掀起了一场史无前例的迫害。郭居峰被绑架了四次，受到残酷的关押和迫害。二零零八年一月，这名中国电气工程师出差来到德国并居住在这里。郭先生的许多法轮功朋友都被迫害致死，其中五个人的孩子成为了孤儿。他到德国的第一站是拉文斯堡，在那里他很快开始学习德语。郭居峰告诉记者“我很清楚，要想在德国找到工作，语言是最重要的一个条件。”之后他搬到了多特蒙德，他的朋友告诉他，鲁尔区的物价比南部德国要低一些，各个国家的人在这里和睦相处。二零零九年六月郭先生和他的家人在德国团聚。
积极融入 成就梦想
根据联邦统计局的数据，去年移民德国人数达到122万人，仅次于美国，德国成为世界上第二大移民国家。德国的第七大城市多特蒙德市就有17万人具有移民背景，郭居峰就是其中的一个。郭先生为了让他的家庭走出困境，曾在工厂做过电工，做过投递员和搬家工人。在他成功完成了三个德语班不同级别的学习后，他遇到了劳动局学术职业介绍负责人舒勒女士。舒勒女士在郭先生求职路上助了他一臂之力。在中国郭先生虽然是一名工程师，但因为信仰被劳教迫害，甚至被强制做奴工，但德国是信仰自由的国度，在舒勒女士的积极推动下，一个在中国的奴工被打造成跨国公司的电气工程师。舒勒女士回忆说：“郭先生是一名积极乐观并受过良好教育的人才。我印象很深，他的德语进步的很快，郭先生在中国是一名电气工程师，他自己完成了同等学历认证，获得了德国认证的电气专业工程师的证书。”德国是工业强国，获得德国的专业认证让求职路上的郭先生离梦想更接近了。
德国联邦劳动局是德国官方的劳动就业管理培训机构，为德国公民和劳动者提供就业机会和培训服务，在全国范围内拥有就业机构和办事处，提供全面的网络信息服务。为了缓解德国专业人才不足的状况，德国联邦劳动局于二零一二年在多特蒙德、科隆、亚琛等七个城市开展一个试验项目，这个项目的宗旨是为了提高对工程师和医生的职业介绍。为了让郭先生提高对工作德语的熟练程度，舒勒女士将这个和工程师相关的项目介绍给郭先生。在这个项目中，郭先生获得了在面试求职过程中每个细节的专业训练。郭先生说，开始的时候，他不习惯推销自己。对中国人来说，突出的展示自己的能力是不习惯的，但最终郭先生被一跨国公司录取为电气工程师。郭先生说他真的很幸运，现在他已经工作快一年了，他的同事非常友好，他和他们相处得很融洽。
说到求职经历，郭先生也是感慨万千：“在我求职的过程中，我很难找到和我目标一致的中国朋友交流，值得参考的案例几乎没有。磨难中保持锲而不舍，挫折中保持理性平和，乐观感恩的心态很难做到，但是如果你把生活中的点点滴滴看作是一种修行就会变得简单，法轮功协助我做到了这一切。我每次打坐炼功后，心很静，那时烦恼、纠结、抱怨、失落的情绪通通不见了，看自己也很客观。我努力靠近‘真、善、忍’也使我在融入社会的过程中降低了难度、缩短了进程。疲惫时在祥和的音乐中打坐也让我迅速恢复体力，并获得积极的能量。如果说到诀窍，那就是我相信厚德载物，在（其他）善良的法轮功学员受到迫害时，我从来都是顺应自己的人性做一些力所能及的事情帮助他们，穷不失义，富而有德，当我守住了自己良知的时候，上天也赐予我一个厚重的果实。”
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【九评之五】评江泽民与中共相互利用迫害法轮功
Thursday, June 26, 2014
【庆祝513】绘画：真相条幅在乡村 [Celebrating 513] Painting: Falun Gong Information Banner in a Village
作者：大陆大法弟子
【明慧网二零一四年五月十二日】
May 13, 2014 | By a practitioner in China
From - http://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2014/5/13/948.html (English),
Monday, June 23, 2014
Torture Camp Rebranded in China
“If people weren’t working hard enough we would beat them with a one-meter board, or we would just kick them or beat them with our hands,” a former re-education through labor guard from Guangxi Province told Human Rights Watch.
“Sometimes people got beaten to death. About 10 percent of people who come into re-education through labor centers die inside.”
The Masanjia Women’s Labor Camp was supposed to be closed down, but now it simply has two names
By Carol Wickenkamp, Epoch Times | June 17, 2014
The main gates of the former Masanjia Women’s Labor Campin Liaoning Province, October 2004. Masanjia now appears to be divided between a drug rehab facility and a prison, though the same prisoners suffer there in the same way as before. (Minghui.org)
For years the tales of torture that came out of Masanjia Women’s Labor Camp in China’s northeast were a potent demonstration of the abuses of the country’s forced labor system. In turn, Masanjia’s apparent closure last year was seen as a hopeful sign that the system was, in fact, being closed down, as authorities had promised.
But recent reports from China tell a different story: the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp is alive and well, except for the fact that it’s no longer called the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp. Instead, the same sprawling set of buildings and facilities appears to be now put to use as both a “drug rehabilitation center” and as part of the Liaoning Province’s prison system. These bureaucratic modifications disguise the fact that the same guards, in the same buildings, abuse and exploit the same or similar prisoners—just as before.
Masanjia made world headlines in 2013 when an Oregon woman, Julie Keith, discovered a letter from the labor camp in a plastic Halloween kit shipped from China. Shocked, she contacted the media, which set about exploring the background of the camp.
It was exposure of that kind that the Chinese Communist Party found deeply embarrassing, and was part of the reason for its high-profile move to—on paper at least—close the system of re-education through forced labor, which has been part of the Party’s coercive toolkit since the 1950s.
When a CNN film crew visited Masanjia last year, it had every impression of being empty. No guards were in the watchtowers, and no one came to trouble CNN correspondent David McKenzie as he strolled within feet of the chain-link fence. Minghui.org, a website that carriesfirsthand reports from the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China, also reported last year that the remaining practitioners detained in Masanjia were being released. Falun Gong is a spiritual practice that has been persecuted in China since 1999.
The Same Camp
Shang Liping, a female Falun Gong practitioner, was recently transferred from Shenyang Women’s Prison to the Masanjia Addiction Treatment Center, according to a March report in Minghui. The report continued that staff and police were the same people that had worked at Masanjia when it was a labor camp.
Yu Shuxian and Chi Xiuhua, two other female Falun Gong practitioners, were put into the same drug rehab center in Masanjia this January,according to Minghui. When family visited Chi, they found that “she had completely changed; her face was pallid and listless, she neither lifted her head nor opened her eyes, and she had no energy to speak,” according to Minghui. “Her family was distraught, extremely scared, and could not guess what torment she had been put through.”
Other sections of the large labor facility have been transferred to the provincial prison system, and operate as the Masanjia Prison District of Liaoning Province’s Shenyang Women’s Prison, according to Minghui.
The Shenyang provincial prison for women is extremely violent, with Minghui reporting 20 Falun Gong deaths since 1999. At present at least84 Falun Gong practitioners are incarcerated in Liaoning Province’s women’s prison in Shenyang, many of them serving sentences of up to 13 years.
A group of Falun Gong practitioners who were held in the women’s prison in Shenyang were transferred to the Masanjia Prison District, most of them this year. Multiple telephone calls made by Epoch Times to phone numbers identified as belonging to Masanjia were not answered.
Niu Guifang, a female practitioner, in a trial thick with illegalities, was sentenced to the women’s prison in March 2013, and was transferred to Masanjia Prison District at the end of last year. Although her hands were injured by the prison police, and she couldn’t hold heavy things, she has still been forced to work every day in the workhouse at Masanjia,Minghui reported in April.
Administrative Switcheroo
When the Communist Party announced the death of the re-education through labor system in early 2013, seasoned observers of the regime’s security system began expecting what has now transpired.
“Cosmetic changes” won’t stop the abuses, said Sophie Richardson, the China director at Human Rights Watch. Instead, they “might only further entrench the system,” she said.
A detailed report by Amnesty International nearly one year later observed: “Abolishing the RTL [re-education through labor] system is a step in the right direction. However, it now appears that it may only be a cosmetic change just to avert the public outcry over the abusive RTL system where torture was rife,” said Corinna-Barbara Francis, China researcher, in a December 2013 paper.
“It’s clear that the underlying policies of punishing people for their political activities or religious beliefs haven’t changed. The abuses and torture are continuing, just in a different way,” she said.
That same month the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracynoted, in its own report in the matter, that re-education through labor has simply been replaced with other forms of detention, like forced drug rehab and “legal education classes.” The group said, “These systems are already used in Tibet and merely continue the abuses associated with RTL under a different name.”
The Same Work
While the new division at Masanjia appears to be between a prison and a drug rehabilitation center, the latter, as far as prisoners of conscience go seems to be used in the same way that the old labor camp was used: Falun Gong practitioners are sent there by police, without a trial, regardless of their drug-free lives.
The mixing of prisoner types has taken place for years in China. “People from the Liaoning Provincial Labor Education Bureau came to audit us in 2011, and ordered that every Falun Gong practitioner needed to take a test. Our medical examination document listed us as drug addicts, but in fact, out of the nearly 400 inmates, only four were drug users,” former Masanjia inmate Qiu Tieyan wrote in October 2013 about her incarceration.
“We had to work six hours every day making military coats, forest coats, and firefighter jackets for the Jihua 3504 Limited Corporation in Changchun City. Outside of the workshop, we had to load and unload things, clean, and do other chores. Guard Wang Guangyun brought in her dirty laundry from home, and we had to wash it. We had to keep this a secret and do it quickly,” she said.
The same Minghui report said there are about 300 prisoners in the Masanjia Prison District, but did not give a total for Falun Gong practitioners held there.
Drug offenders are treated in the same way in detention as when the facilities were called re-education camps. They are forced to do factory work, light manufacturing, and repetitive labor.
Once locked up, there is little rehabilitation either—only brutality and hard labor, said Human Rights Watch in a 2012 paper.
“If people weren’t working hard enough we would beat them with a one-meter board, or we would just kick them or beat them with our hands,” a former re-education through labor guard from Guangxi Province told Human Rights Watch. “Sometimes people got beaten to death. About 10 percent of people who come into re-education through labor centers die inside.”
Additional research and reporting by Lu Chen
韩国法轮大法九天班 首次在天梯书店举办
【明慧网二零一四年六月二十二日】韩国首尔天梯书店和咖啡屋试运行两周以来，已经收到诸多顾客好评。昨晚开始，韩国的法轮大法九天班首次得以在书店开办。虽然办班消息在一周前才公布，第一次开班便有十位主流社会人士参加。
 图一、二：韩国首尔天梯书店位于首尔古宫地带、文化保护地段 |
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 图三、中韩文大法书籍，更多语种的书籍将陆续到来 |
 图四：了解真相后的游客与负责首尔天梯书店运营的赵法官夫妇合影留念 |
 图五：顾客赞 |
韩国的第一家天梯书店和咖啡屋位于首尔古宫地带，过去是王宫大臣和各类重要人物集居之地，许多房屋建筑都位于文化保护之列。首尔天梯书店环境高雅、亲切，当地主流社会人士、居民、游客已陆续前来光顾。大陆游客的巴士也不时停留在天梯书店门前。
法轮大法九天班是免费学习班，每天二至三小时，连续九天播放李洪志师父的讲法录像，并教授法轮大法的五套功法。法轮功学员们说，因为九天所播放的讲法录像系统性很强，又是现场教功辅导，大家一起学，能量场强，还可以相互交流、互相促进，所以用这种方式开始学练是最好的。
首尔天梯书店的筹建与开张，受到韩国法轮大法佛学会的大力支持。他们认为，天梯书店和天梯咖啡屋的形式非常适合主流社会，在帮助人们购买法轮大法书籍、了解法轮功真相、与大法弟子交往等诸多方面，开启了一个以前没有的主流方式。
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【九评之五】评江泽民与中共相互利用迫害法轮功
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