Regular textual study

What it is: Falun Gong values frequent study of Li Hongzhi's texts and their practical application.

How the tradition understands it: Reading, memorizing, reflecting, and aligning conduct with the teaching are essential parts of spiritual discipline.

Textual basis and context: Joint and individual study occupies an important place in practitioners' communities.

Debates and variations: In many contexts, textual study functions as the main organizing axis, more than formal sacramental rituals.

Supportive

Li Hongzhi's teachings on studying the Fa

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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

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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

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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.