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Where Does the Money Come From? By Yeqiao (Canada) (Clearwisdom.net) Some people wonder about where the money comes from
for Falun Gong activities. They often ask us how we are able to print materials
to clarify the truth, hold activities, and host big events. They wonder,
"Where does the money come from to cover your expenses?" Then, not
knowing the facts, they wrongly speculate that Falun Gong must have political
supporters or donors. In fact, nobody has been able to provide evidence to
support this conclusion because it doesn't exist. Sometimes people speculate in
this manner because they are led to these thoughts after being directly or
indirectly influenced by Jiang's propaganda, which claims that "Falun Gong
has political intentions" or "Falun Gong is behind political parties
opposing the Party leadership." The following two stories about some Falun Gong practitioners may answer
these questions for those who are puzzling over where the money comes from. In the first story, Falun Gong practitioners wanted to rent a high quality
conference hall to hold a Falun Gong experience sharing conference. When it was
time to pay the rental fee, a practitioner took out from his pocket over forty
personal checks of varying amounts and from different banks and handed them over
to the manager. The manager asked, "Could you write me one check instead of
giving me so many?" The practitioner answered with a little embarrassment,
"I'm sorry. The checks are from different practitioners' personal
donations. We have to share the cost to cover the rental fee." In the second story, Falun Gong practitioners were handing out materials that
clarified the facts of the persecution in various Chinatowns every day of the
year over several years in order to help the public learn the truth about the
situation of Falun Gong practitioners in China. The owner of a nearby shop often
mocked a female practitioner who was always seen giving out the information
materials by saying, "How much money are you paid to work so hard for the
one who takes advantage of you?" The lady just responded to him with a
smile without saying anything. At last her son, who brought her to Chinatown
every day could not bear listening to this man's mockery any longer and asked
the owner, "Could you find me a few people? I will pay them to give out the
materials. But I have one request: they have to work as hard as my mother. No
matter how windy, how rainy, how heavy it snows, or how low the temperature is
below zero, or how high the temperature, they have to do the same thing every
day just like my mother." The owner became silent and never spoke rudely
again. These two stories are very representative. They demonstrate two facts. 1. Falun Gong practitioners, of their own free will, have paid every cent for
all the Falun Gong activities they have held. Nobody has coerced them to do so.
There is never any request for donations asked for among the practitioners. All
the Falun Gong activity fees are paid by practitioners from their own earnings
and paid voluntarily. We never receive any money from any government or any
group. 2. Falun Gong is practiced by many practitioners, from many different social
classes, age groups, and races. Is it likely that so many practitioners could be
easily controlled by somebody and do whatever was asked for money? In fact, all
the practitioners are very rational. Everything they do is scrupulously examined
against the teachings of Falun Dafa and by their own rational thinking, too. The
real power driving Falun Gong practitioners is not any person, any group, or any
government, but their righteous thoughts and righteous understanding of the
universal principles, Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance. Their faith is not some
dogma taught by somebody else; it is developed after pondering the teachings of
Falun Dafa very rationally, and practicing the teaching diligently day after
day. It is because they hold such strong righteous faith that they have had the
strength to endure the last arduous five years. Posting date: 5/29/2004 |