Karma and its elimination

What it is: Falun Gong teaches that actions and moral states generate karma, understood as a real factor that weighs on existence.

How the tradition understands it: Karma can be reduced by suffering, moral transformation, correct practice, and genuine cultivation.

Textual basis and context: The notion dialogues with Buddhist and qigong vocabularies, but is reorganized in the movement's own system.

Debates and variations: External observers criticize simplistic uses of the concept when applied to illness or adversity; internally it is integrated into a broader cosmology.

Supportive

Zhuan Falun

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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.

Zhuan Falun on karma

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Passages on karma, suffering, and purification.

Reference: Zhuan Falun, passages on karma.
Content: The text describes karma as accumulated negative reality and its relation to tribulations and purification.
Use in debate: It is the central source for this doctrine.

Neutral

Texts on health and healing in Falun Gong

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Materials of the movement relate correct practice to bodily and energetic benefits.

Reference: Introductory and testimonial materials of the movement.
Content: The material links cultivation and exercises to physical changes, well-being, and purification of the body.
Use in debate: It is relevant for body and mind in joint cultivation.