Does Falun Gong oppose killing lives?
“If there are fliers, mosquitoes in our living place, we may let them out or set a screen to keep them out. But if we can not let them out, we may as well beat them to death.” (“Zhuan Falun”) In his lection in Switzerland, Li Hongzhi made it more clear, “Since we care about nothing of love, fame and profit, why can not we drop out the fear of killing lives? Isn’t it an elimination of pertinacity?” “(In the practicing) we can not kill lives. But Da Fa is flexible on a higher level, which manifests the truth in the ambit of Buddha.” In his essay “Da Fa is Flexible”, Li Hongzhi equaled killing lives as salvation, “the killed lives were in a miserable situation and suffered losses of materials. In the pursuit of consummation, the practitioners should rescue them with their own achievements. Thus, from this angle, the compensation that the killed lives obtain is much greater than what they could get as a living being. This is to get rid of the evil with the good.” As is shown, at a certain
