Falun Gong, or Falun Dafa, is a high level body and mind cultivation practice of the Buddha school. Through assimilating with these characteristics, the practitioners will achieve a high moral standard , healthy physical body , and finally return to their original true self. Since it was first taught in public in May 1992, in just a short period of eight years, Falun Gong has been spread around the world in more than forty countries and regions. 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.