by a Chinese practitioner in Japan　　　

　　I obtained my bachelor's degree from China’s Western Medical Science University and my master's degree from the Chinese Medical Science Research Institute. I have a master's degree in Qigong and Acupuncture certified by the State Education Commission of China, and have served as the Deputy Chairman of the Heilongjiang Provincial Qigong Science Research Society and counselor to the Liaoning Provincial Qigong Science Research Society. I was also nominated and recommended by Mr. Zhang Zhenhuan, formerly Director of China National Defense Science and Industry Commission and now Chairman of the China Qigong Science Research Society and China Human Body Science Society, as academic counselor of therapeutic Qigong. Since 1985, I have had many opportunities to give lectures in European and American cities by invitation. In 1989, I came to Japan to teach. In 1990, I accepted an appointment to work in Japan and settled down in Tokyo. Prior to coming to Japan, I worked as a leading attending physician for China's State Chinese Medical Science Research Institute in Beijing and a Specially Invited Lecturer for the therapeutic Qigong Research Institute of the Beijing Chinese Medical Science and Medicine University.　　　

  To a Falun Dafa practitioner, the education, degrees and titles mentioned above are of little significance. I list them here just to show that I have received formal training in modern science and I am not a novice at Chinese and Western medical sciences, qigong and human body science research. In addition, being a senior high school graduate in the early 1960's and having gone through the Cultural Revolution and all types of ideological movements, I am used to evaluating various theories and doctrines with a critical eye. I would not carelessly believe in or blindly follow anyone or any theory. As to things new to mankind, I am of the opinion that we should not carelessly believe them, or carelessly deny them. Rather, we should avoid the influence of our acquired perceptions and probe them with rational thinking and personal experience. Only after that shall we be able to draw a conclusion.　　　

　　Today I will talk about my personal experience in choosing to practice Falun Dafa. What I will talk about here is from a beginner's perspective, and won't be of much help to veteran practitioners. But to beginning practitioners and those interested in learning Falun Dafa, it may help them learn more about Falun Dafa and start the practice.　　　

　　In mid-1993, I let Japan for China to conduct research on various schools of qigong practices. Near the Golden Fish Pond in Zhongshan Park in Beijing, I heard pleasant music and became curious about the source. I saw dozens of people practicing a qigong system that I had never seen before.　　　

　　After the practice finished, I had a conversation with the practitioners. hey told me that the practice was called Falun Gong and the teacher was Mr. Li Hongzhi. hey also mentioned that Falun Gong was a cultivation practice and Master Li not only taught the practice, but also lectured on the Fa (law and principles), which guide spiritual cultivation at a high level. I thought to myself: this might be the advanced cultivation Dafa (Great Way) I have been seeking for years. Then, I started learning Falun Gong in the park every morning. Upon hearing that Master Li was going to give another series of lectures in Beijing, I asked the contact person of that practice site to enter my name too.　　　

　　August 27, 1993 was a day most worthy of celebration in my life. On that day I became a practitioner at the 13th Falun Gong lecture series in Beijing.　　　

　　During that period, every evening I went to attend the lectures given by Master Li at the No.27 Beijing Locomotive Factory way outside the city proper. Returning home after the 3rd lecture, I practiced the fifth set of exercises for 30 minutes and felt light and comfortable all over my body, with no numbness or pain when doing the cross-legged meditation. hat was the first time I physically experienced the great power of Falun Dafa. Before I attended the lectures, when I practiced lotus sitting for up to 30 minutes, I would feel swelling pains. In the past, I had been involved in human body supernormal capability research conducted by China's science and technology communities. In those days, the People's Daily (the official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party) published a commentator's article denying the existence of human supernormal capabilities. At the same time some people in the literature and science circles also published articles in central and local government newspapers and magazines to attack qigong, labeling human body supernormal capabilities as pseudo-science, ignorance and superstition. The overall situation turned ominous under the circumstances. As a result, many people who had come to probe supernormal capabilities were scared away, and only a few serious scientists continued their research.　　　

　　At that time, under the sponsorship of the renowned scientist Qian Xuesen, we called together people with supernormal capabilities from across the country. With the coordinated effort of researchers from the Physics Research Institute, the High Energy Physics Institute and the Biophysics Institute of the Chinese Academy of Science and the No.1129 Institute of the Public Security Ministry, we made use of such hi-tech instruments as micro-beam video cameras, reaction testers and brain electroscopes and testified to the validity of human body supernormal capabilities, including capabilities of peering through objects with the celestial eye, clairvoyance and moving objects through dimensional barriers. Therefore, we came to conclude that besides the existing physical dimension we live in, there also exist other dimensions. The human body experiments conducted by China's upper-level science circles at that time also confirmed the existence of other dimensions, which were called by the researchers "hidden states" or "field states". Later on, with the help of high-speed cameras, researchers from the National Defense Science and Industry Commission even succeeded in capturing tablets of medicine passing through the dimensional barriers of a glass bottle under the energy effect of supernormal capabilities. It was because of this series of successful experiments in the human body sciences that the Central Committee of the Communist Party and the State Council at that time formulated the "Three Nos" policy regarding human body science and qigong (that is, No Promoting, No Criticizing, No Debating). However, since 1996 some Chinese media, including the Guangming Daily, violated the central government's "Three Nos" policy by openly attacking Falun Gong. The situation later escalated to the public security bureau arresting Falun Gong practitioners in Tianjin and the April 25, 1999 peaceful appeal in Beijing.　　　

　　In the recent anti-Falun Gong campaign waged by the Chinese regime, a few so-called experts or scholars have relied on the limited knowledge and assumptions of today's human sciences to rashly deny phenomena yet unknown to them. heir attitude of jumping to conclusions subjectively itself is unscientific and unsupported. Even from the perspective of experimental science, we should not recklessly negate things that we cannot understand temporarily.　　　

　　In this article, I have talked about things related to empirical sciences and cultivation theories that are often very close to theories in human society, in hopes of having society understand us, or at least to avoid some misconceptions. It is also our wish that the Chinese regime and its top leaders will clarify their misunderstandings of Falun Dafa and its kindhearted practitioners.　　　

　　Personally, I like to practice cultivation alone quietly and enjoy the peace. However, when Falun Gong is being mistreated like this, as a veteran practitioner, I have the obligation to stand up to clarify some facts and reveal the truth.　　　

　　Recently, the People's Daily carried a commentator's article accusing Falun Gong of "amassing wealth". That is totally groundless. For the 10-day Falun Gong teaching series given by Master Li in Beijing that I attended, I only paid 40 yuan, the equivalent of 500 Japanese Yen (or $5), which was the lowest charge I have ever known for qigong teaching sessions in China. Even now I still have the Completion Certificate issued at that time, with the cover signed by the China Qigong Research Society. It was the China Qigong Research Society that had organized the event. At the Falun Gong practice sites I had visited in several parks of Beijing, all of the Falun Gong classes were free of charge and given by volunteers. Furthermore, the Beijing Assistance Center did not even have an office. I personally had offered to make a donation to Falun Gong, but the Falun Gong Research Society graciously declined my request after asking Master Li. According to the staff of the Research Society, Master Li said that no individual donations would be accepted, because after affluent practitioners made a donation, the less well-off practitioners might also want to make a donation. However, their financial inability would make them feel bad. That's why no individual donations were accepted. I was deeply moved by the reply. This was real, selfless benevolence and compassion! I also knew that the contact person of the Dalian Assistance Center had purchased a villa in her personal capacity and wanted to give it to Master Li as a gift. But Master Li did not accept the gift. I had also proposed to donate the 6 suites of real estate investment I purchased in Beijing to Falun Gong, but Master Li rejected my proposal again. All the above facts are what I have personally seen or heard.　　　

　　Since 1995, the Public Security Ministry has carried out two nation-wide investigations into Falun Gong and concluded that Falun Gong had no political background and should be regulated as per the Regular Public Group Security Rules. In fact, Falun Gong teaches good citizenship and offers instructions to genuine practitioners in cultivation practice. It brings only benefits and no harm to society. In short, the accusations made by the Chinese Communist Party against Falun Gong are non-factual. We believe that history will give a fair judgment on Falun Gong.