Take a minute or two—or more—and just sit, meditate, or pray in your way, and donate those minutes of meditation to help stop the persecution of Falun Gong by going to our website. Our goal is to raise over a Million Minutes of Meditation by July 20.
---July 20, 2009 marks exactly 10 years since the Chinese Communist Party began a campaign of imprisonment, propaganda, torture, and murder to eradicate Falun Gong, a practice of meditation and spiritual cultivation based on the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Tolerance. Falun Gong was once celebrated by the Chinese government for its health benefits and moral teachings, but as the practice grew in popularity throughout the 1990’s, the Communist Party began to see it as an ideological threat, eventually banning it outright. Practitioners of Falun Gong have maintained their peaceful beliefs in the face of this oppression, and their efforts to regain their freedom have always been non-violent and in line with the tenets of their faith. Hundreds of thousands have been imprisoned without trial. Millions have lost jobs, homes, and loved ones. Over 3,200 have been tortured to death for their beliefs.
So here’s what you can do to help.
Take a minute or two—or more—and just sit, meditate, or pray in your way. Think about the principles that guide your life or what freedom of belief means to you, and then simply donate those minutes of meditation to help stop the persecution of Falun Gong by going to our website. If you find the experience rewarding, do it again another day, and ask a few friends to do the same. Our goal is to raise over a million minutes of meditation by July 20.
Website:
http://www.MillionMinutesofMeditation.org
Please encourage your friends to join us in this effort as well!