Estudo textual regular
A leitura constante dos ensinamentos é vista como parte essencial do cultivo.
O que é: O Falun Gong valoriza estudo frequente dos textos de Li Hongzhi e sua aplicação prática.
Como a tradição entende: Ler, memorizar, refletir e alinhar a conduta ao ensinamento são partes essenciais da disciplina espiritual.
Base textual e contexto: O estudo conjunto e individual ocupa lugar importante em comunidades de praticantes.
Debates e variações: Em muitos contextos, o estudo textual funciona como principal eixo organizador, mais do que rituais sacramentais formais.
Supportive
Li Hongzhi's teachings on studying the Fa
Texts that stress the importance of regularly studying the teachings.
Reference: Lectures and writings of Li Hongzhi on studying the Fa.
Content: The material insists that the practitioner's progress depends on constant reading and the correct assimilation of the teachings.
Use in debate: It is the best source for the discipline of textual study.
Texts on cultivation in ordinary society
The practitioner is instructed to cultivate while living within ordinary society.
Reference: Doctrinal passages on cultivation in everyday life.
Content: The material teaches that the practitioner need not abandon ordinary social life, but must transform conduct within it.
Use in debate: It is relevant for xinxing, textual study, and daily moral life.
Zhuan Falun
The central text of Falun Gong doctrine.
Reference: Zhuan Falun.
Content: The book sets out moral cultivation, karma, Falun, cosmology, body and mind, exercises, and the human spiritual destiny.
Use in debate: It is the most important source for almost every doctrinal formulation of the movement.