Li Hongzhi is the founder of Falun Dafa, also called Falun Gong, who brought the Great Law to the public in Changchun and taught the cosmic principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance. What was it like to stand in a Changchun park in the spring of 1992 before anyone understood the scale of the Fa they had received?
The record opens in the air of a Changchun park in May 1992, where a small group of students gathered to learn five exercises from a Teacher who asked for nothing in return. From that first morning, Master Li traveled by hard-seat train to fifty-four cities across China, sleeping in modest accommodations to bring the teachings to the public. The narrative follows the rapid expansion of the practice as millions took up cultivation, leading to the peaceful gathering of ten thousand practitioners in the rain near Zhongnanhai on April 25, 1999. Through the predawn arrests of July 20 and the violent suppression that followed, Master Li continued to issue guidance from outside China to students facing torture. The account leaves the reader standing in public squares around the world on May 13, witnessing a global community gathered to celebrate the day the Great Law was given.
- Fifty-four cities: a detailed account of Master Li traveling by hard-seat train to teach the Fa across China.
- A spoken text: the history of how nine public lectures became Zhuan Falun and reached millions of students.
- Ten thousand standing: a view of the April 1999 demonstration in Beijing where practitioners waited quietly in the rain.
- Letters of guidance: a record of the ongoing essays and teachings issued to support cultivators through the persecution.
Book Two of Turning the Wheel: The Life and Teaching of Master Li Hongzhi. The Vessel the Heavens Prepared details his upbringing in Jilin and the quiet spiritual preparation that preceded his public teaching, while What the Wheel Carries examines the cosmic significance of his lectures and the precise path of cultivation presented in Zhuan Falun.
Readers seeking the history behind the rapid expansion of Falun Dafa together with the inner life of Master Li Hongzhi during the violent suppression.
