فالون صلح و آرامش بوجود مي آورد.تزکيه فالون دافا سرشت بنيادين کيهان، حقيقت، نيکخواهي، بردباري را داراست. صليب شکسته، به عنوان سمبل مدرسه بودا (سمبل بودا)، نماد هر آنچه در روش تزکيه فالون دافا خوب و مقدس است می باشد.کيهان بطور پيوسته درحال چرخش است، درحال گرفتن انرژي و آزادکردن آن است. نماد فالون اين تغيير و حرکت پيوسته را منعکس مي‏کند. فالون نماد يين و يانگ مدرسه دائو و نماد صليب شکسته مدرسه بودا را بکار مي برد و با چرخش خود جهان همیشه در حال تغییر را به عنوان اهداکننده انرژي و حيات منعکس می نمايد.  

                                                       The symbol of Buddha

The entire universe is rotating and changing. The falun rotates at all directions. When turning inward it generates energy, when turning outward it gives energy. This is the symbol of Falun Gong also known as Falun Dafa, the cultivation practice introduced by Master Li Hongzhi in 1992.

Practitioners of Falun Gong cultivate the essential nature of the universe, truthfulness, compassion, forbearance. Many people of good will, especially in western cultures, might question why the Swastika is front in center in the Falun symbol and wonder why this used in spiritual practice centered on non violence peace and harmony.

The Swastika enjoys a long history within varied religious traditions that transcends its misuse in mid twentieth century Germany. Originally from India, the word Swastika comes from the Sanskrit words: Su, which means “good” or ”Well” and asti, which means “being” or “state”. Within the Buddha’s tradition, Swastika means “state of well being” or “letting good things occur”. Many Buddha’s texts begin and end with the symbol to signify the value of what was written. In ancient spiritual traditions of the Middle East, the Swastika has been depicted within a triangle symbolizing the god as Astarte. In Chinese Buddhism the symbol itself represents the number 10000 (ten thousands) and in the more symbolic sense, the number stands for timelessness or eternal existence. For this reason depictions of the Buddha in those cultures often show him with the Swastika on his chest. Some legends of the Buddha suggest that he was actually born with the symbol on his chest.

American - Indians traditionally have used it as the symbol for the thunder bird, also known as the Phoenix. The Swastikas have been found in Burial mounds in Tenecy and Ohayo. The Potawatomi Hobby, Zuni, Kike pu and plain’s tribes among others to pick the symbol on clothing and artifacts. Now the whole blanket is rewoven with Swastikas.

The discovery of images in America said to be of the Lord Buddha signifies the close connection between the Swastika and religious personages in the new world. Pre-Christian Britons used it to honor the god as brigit who later became saint brigid to Christians and today closely resembles saint brigid’s cross.

Within the catacombs of Rome Swastikas marked the number of early Christian’s tombs. It was an early custom to mark the tombs with this symbol or to place vases with Swastika symbols in tombs to ensure the safety of the departed soul or to fend off demonic spirits. As late as the eighth and ninth century, it has been found embroidered on Christian vestments. It was inscribed on the ring of Pop Lio the first. Even more amazing, Swastika Mosaics have been founded in ancient Jewish synagogue in northern Africa and Palestine. The Swastika has been associated with the Sun Wheel, the spinning hammer of Thor and the footprints of Buddha. They were use by Vikings, The old Norse, Greeks, Romans, Celts, Anglo- Saxons, Mayans, Aztecs, Persians, Christians, and Neolithic tribes. Ancient Romans honored it as the symbol of Jupiter. The earliest known picture of Swastika was scratched on a cave wall. Many other historic uses documents the Swastika as a totem, a decoration or good luck charm in ancient civilizations including the Mesopotamians Hindus, north and south native Americans and Scandinavians. The first examples are found in Sumeria, an earlier cultures that existed in what is now Pakistan around three thousand BC. Around one thousand BC the Swastika was commonly used in China, India, Japan, in southern Europe. It is estimated that Indo-Aryans traveling to Europe around two thousands BC and brought with them the Swastika symbol (Sun Disc) as a part of the religious art at that time as shown by excavations of Kurgan graves on the steppes of Russia and Indo-Aryan graves in Xinjiang, China.

The Swastikas have been discovered at several locations in the new world. It was considered in auspicious sign by some of the originally inhabitants of America. Swastikas are found in monumental remains of the primitive Mexicans and Peruvians. The discovery of the Swastika in the new world might indicate that it was carried to the New World by ancient traiders in pre historic times.

The Swastika symbol has been used for thousands of years among practically every group of humans on the planet. The symbol of various cultures are strikingly similar. In Europe it had many different names. “Gammadian” in ancient Greece on a rune stone from Norway, “crux gammata” in Christian symbolism, “fulfot” in England, “tetraskele” in Greece and “sauvastika” or reverse swastika. It should be noted that in ancient cultures, the reverse Swastika was considered a bad element and carried bad fortune. Although ancient Germanic tribes knew the Swastika as the cross of Thor; the Nazis did not use that term .But instead, misappropriated the Indian term Swastika as their nationalist symbol.

As the cross of Thor the symbol was brought to England by Scandinavian settlers in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire, long before Hitler.     

As the sign has been on Jewish temples from 2000 years ago in Palestine, Hitler would seem to have stolen a Jewish symbol as well as an Indian one.

Germen militaries groups adopted the reverse Swastika in the 1920s, and it began to be identified with the Germen military power and might. Upon close examination of the Germen symbol and the Buddha symbol, we find significant differences. While the Germen symbol is usually black and red background, the Buddha symbol is brightly colored, usually yellow or gold. The Germen symbol is tilted, while the Buddha symbol is upright and although not usually pointed out. The Germen symbol is reversed Swastika. When Germany was defeated, the symbol that define its power was now seem as a symbol of evil. The Swastika came down as quickly as it descended. In 1946 it was constitutionally ban from any public display in Germany.

It was not the symbol that was evil however but those in power who used it for the most evil purposes the world had ever seen. Hitler stole the symbol from those who came before, including honored spiritual traditions where it was a sign of good fortune.

In modern American culture before and after world war 2 the Swastika was common place and a universal sign of good luck and harmony.

A post card from 1907 describes the Swastika as a combination of four L’s, standing for luck, light, love and life. This postcard copyright by E.Philips a US card publisher speaks for the universally high regard in which the Swastika was held.

The loftier Squadron, American pilots who fought with the Allies before America’s entry into World War 1, wore it as their insignia. During World War 1 the American 45th infantry division worn orange Swastika on a shoulder patch. Turn-of-the-century greeting cards, displayed it to reach the recipient Good Luck. Coca Cola issued a Swastika pendent. Until 1940 the boys scouts gave out a Swastika badge and early women Hockey Clubs displayed it on their uniforms. The first Chinese church of Chris in Hawaii displays Swastikas carved in the sides of the pews. And there is a town on Ontario Canada called Swastika.

Today many cultures use the Swastika as a sign of good fortune and well being. Taipei - Taiwan is the home of largest collection of Chinese art in the world. Statues and images of Buddha that are hundreds of years old, have the Swastika carved on the forehead and palm. The Buddha Statue on Lantao Island in Hong Kong is the largest in the world. Swastika’s a door in the walls near the stairs up to the Statue. Visitors from all over the world come to see an honor the Lantao Island Buddha which bears Swastika on his chest.

We might well ask ourselves why should this symbol revered for millennia be held hostage for the axe of a mad man.

The Falun engenders peace and harmony. The cultivation of Falun Dafa encompasses the essential nature of the universe, truth, compassion, forbearance. As the symbol of the Buddha school, the Swastika (symbol of the Buddha) honors all that is good and sacred in the cultivation practice of Falun Dafa. The universe is continually rotating. Tacking energy and releasing energy. The Falun symbol reflects this continual change and movement. The Falun uses the Daoist’s symbol of Ying and Yang and the Buddha’s symbol of the Swastika rotating to reflect the ever-changing universe, giver of energy and life.