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Confidence
Belief overview
Truth, Compassion, and Tolerance
The three central moral principles guide spiritual cultivation.
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Neutral
What it is: Truth, Compassion, and Tolerance form the best-known ethical core of Falun Gong.
How the tradition understands it: These principles function as a measure of inner cultivation, moral correction, and proper relation with others and with the universe.
Textual basis and context: The triad appears repeatedly in introductory materials and in the central discourse of the movement.
Debates and variations: The practical application of these principles is widely affirmed, although interpretations of their scope can vary by pedagogical and apologetic context.
Documentary evidence
Supportive
Falun Dafa.org on Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance
An official synthesis of the three central principles.
Reference: Official introductory materials of Falun Dafa.
Content: The texts explain Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance as principles of the universe and guides for the practitioner.
Use in debate: It is a direct source for the movement's central ethics.
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.