People from different ethnic backgrounds, different races, and different ages are now practicing Falun Gong. The way it has been spread is by word of mouth, particularly so in China. People tell friends and family, because they all feel good after they have learned it. Without media involvement, it was spread like an undercurrent. Falun Dafa ' s classes, seminars and activities are free and open to the public.
All participants are volunteers.
The true practitioners cultivate themselves according to the strict mind nature requirements of Falun Dafa . Cultivation and practice is not for health and fitness, nor is it for exhibiting supernormal powers or for self-interests, but for true cultivation and improvement of the kind mind nature. This is why so many practitioners, when facing the government's vicious allegations and persecutions, still keep their faith and have shown great benevolence and endurance. Gu Zhiyi, a woman over sixty years old, arrested on July 19, 1999. Zhao Jinhua, an ordinary village woman, was arrested in the field while working.