Li Hongzhi is the founder of Falun Dafa, a practice centered on the principles of Zhen, Shan, and Ren. What does it mean to live in a cosmos whose deepest law is compassion?
The volume begins with the memory of a particular light on the day a practitioner first opens Zhuan Falun. From that initial encounter, the focus turns to the core of Master Li's teaching: the cosmic principles of Zhen-Shan-Ren, the reality of karma, and the rigorous mechanics of xinxing cultivation. It traces how practitioners inside China endured labor camps and torture chambers by understanding forbearance as a strength the cosmos recognizes. The text closes by asking what the Fa requires of each cultivator going forward in the life they actually have.
- The cosmic nature: how Zhen-Shan-Ren functions as the fundamental characteristic of matter and energy.
- Inner energy mechanisms: what it means to carry the Falun in the abdomen as it rotates continuously to refine the body.
- Substance of goodness: the accumulation of de as a white substance when a person acts with integrity and endures hardship.
- Unbroken global community: the extraordinary endurance of practitioners navigating the same xinxing tests across every inhabited continent.
Book Three of Turning the Wheel: The Life and Teaching of Master Li Hongzhi. The Vessel the Heavens Prepared details the quiet spiritual formation of Master Li in Jilin during the Cultural Revolution; Turning the Great Wheel chronicles his travels across the provinces to spread the Fa to millions at public parks and lecture halls.
Readers seeking a companion to the cosmic principles of Zhen-Shan-Ren and a way into the rigorous mechanics of xinxing cultivation.
