李洪志，原名李来，乳名小来子。1952年7月7日出生于中国吉林省怀德县公主岭镇(现为公主岭市)。
1960年7月至1966年7月在长春市珠江路小学读书。
1966年7月至1969年7月在长春市四中读书。
1972年12月至1978年5月在吉林省森林警察支队文艺宣传队吹小号。
1978年5月到森警支队招待所当服务员。
1982年4月到长春市粮油供应公司工作，一直到1993年12月离开这个单位。
不诚实的李洪志
为了给法轮功披上神秘的外衣，李洪志编造了虚假的经历，把自己打扮成神人、奇人。
李洪志1993年编造的个人简历，其中自称8岁时修炼圆满。实际上，李洪志8岁时正在长春市珠江路小学读书。
1994年9月24日，李洪志将出生日期由1952年7月7日改为1951年5月13日，因为这天恰好是农历四月初八，相传为佛祖释迦牟尼的生日。
李洪志说： “我对着空间一说形成什么，马上就形成了。还可随意造出任何东西，在空中一画就会形成。”
李洪志还为自己编造了许多荒诞离奇的故事，藉以神化自己，蒙骗他人。其中一个故事说自己有隐身功能，他只要一想 “别人看不见我”，谁也就发现不了他。
当年要求法轮功练习者花重金 “请回”、每日朝夕膜拜的 “法像”出笼于1992年，是将李洪志照片拼接上莲花瓣剪纸，再画上背后的 “佛光”拼凑制版而成。李洪志所穿的 “神袍”，是在商店里买的戏装。
李洪志前头说话后头赖
李洪志满口“真善忍”，惯于把自己装扮成德行高洁的“圣人”。但他经常对自己说过的话矢口抵赖，其反复无常的行径，尽显无赖本色。
“4.25”法轮功围攻中南海事件发生时我不知道此事。
——知道又怎样？我还嫌去的人少了呢！
李洪志亲自策划和组织了1999年的“4•25”围攻中南海事件，之后却声称当时不知道此事的发生，“北京发生事的时候，我正在美国赶往澳洲的路上。”随着他4月22日至24日确实在北京的事实被揭露，他又改口了：“关于学员去北京中南海反映情况一事，我当时是去澳洲的路上在北京转机，也根本不知道北京出了什么事就离开了。”
但是，连李洪志身边的亲信也揭露了他策划和组织围攻中南海事件的事实，使李洪志没有了退路。于是他干脆挑明了：“一个普普通通的人要达到一个圆满的境界，对你没有真正的考验，那能算数吗?一个人一个人去考验还不如来这么一下子。其实我觉得去的人太少了，才去一万多人，零头儿还不够呢?”
地球要爆炸了！人类要毁灭了！
——我没说过这些话，只有邪教才说地球爆炸、人类毁灭。
李洪志在一次“讲法”时说：“这个世界，炸得很空了。本来这个地球去年就应该炸掉的! ”(李洪志讲话录音)他说：“我们这个地球不是这个宇宙中的惟一有生命的星球，地球也不只这一次。在这个地球这个位置上以前曾经有过以前的地球。以前那个地球废掉了，也有的是炸掉了。”(《法轮佛法——在瑞士法会上讲法》，1999年5 月版，第75页)
关于人类又要毁灭的问题，李洪志在《转法轮》一书中说：“有一次我仔细地查了一查，发现人类有81次完全处于毁灭状态，只有少数人活了下来。”(《转法轮》，1 994年12月版，第18页)
“历史上许多大觉者、先知都预言过人类在此日将有大劫之忧 。今天的人类比先知预言的还要恶劣。”“人类道德急速地向下滑，已经在危险的边缘了。”(《转法轮》卷二，1995年11月版，第142、143页)
“你回头看一看人，今天的人类社会就会发现很可怕!真的很可怕!你看现在这个人类真是十恶俱全”。 (《法轮佛法——在悉尼讲法》，1997年3月版，第17页)
我跟大家讲，到了末法时期的人类社会，觉者们都撒手不管了，也不允许他们管了。不但人类社会都撒手不管，而且末劫中他们的处境也很困难，都顾不过自己来了。……我说现在没有人管了，我不是说耸人 听闻的事。我告诉大家，这些事是千真万确的。你拜佛也好，你拜各种宗教的像了，上面什么也没有。……这是末劫了，到了这个时候就这样。”(《法轮大法义解》，199 5年2月版，第74-75页)
李洪志后来发现，“地球爆炸”说、“人类毁灭”论说得太多了，使法轮功的邪教组织特点过于明显，于是他开始在一些小场合矢口否认曾极力宣扬的这些理论。他在法兰克福的一个“法会”上说：“还有一些专门讲什么世界末日的这种宗教，这都百分之百的是邪教。”“ 4•25”后，李洪志多次通过因特网散布说，他根本没有说过地球要爆炸、人类要毁灭，谁说他说过这些话，就是对他的诬陷。
我有无数法身，法力象佛一样
我从来没叫人把我当神看，我从没叫人称我为大师。
实行教主崇拜是法轮功邪教组织的特征，也是李洪志对“法轮法”练习者进行精神控制的重要手段，因此他始终把自己打扮成宇宙间最大的佛，还自称能创造万物生灵。李洪志说：“我今天做的这件事情，是要想把整个地球上的人类啊，物质啊都做好，我都可以做。因为其他生物、植物、动物不需要它去认识法，我直接就可以把它们做过去，直接就把它再造或者同化了。”(《法轮佛法——在北美首届法会上讲话》，1999年1月版，第47 页)
“我讲的是宇宙从上至下的一个最大的、能够给宇宙的众生、不同层次的神和人开创生命环境这样一部大法。”(《法轮佛法——在欧洲法会上讲话》，1999年1月版，第57页)
相比之下，释迦牟尼“确确实实没有系统地把修炼的原理、宇宙的特性、人为什么会提高上去等等讲出来。这就是为什么很高的神 (对我)讲：你给人留下了一部上天的梯子——《转法轮》。”“我有无数的法身，和我长得一样……，法力像佛一样。”“他们会看护你，保护你。”(《法轮佛法——在悉尼讲法》，1997年3月版， 第15-16、70页)
“你思想中想的是什么，在另外空间里我的法身什么都知道。”“多少人我都能管，全人类我都能管。”(《转法轮》，1994年12月版，第71、82页 )
“再讲多了讲高了人就不相信了。因为人毕竟是人的思想。我在这儿讲，神听了他相信，因为他是神的思想。”(《法轮佛法——在美国讲法》，1997年9月版， 第39页)
“不得管传播法轮大法的学员(弟子)叫做老师、大师等，大法的师父只有一个”。 (《转法轮》，1994年12月版第123页)
除了自吹，他对法轮功练习者还有硬性要求：“一切法轮弟子在传法时，只能用‘李洪志师父讲……’，或者是‘李洪志师父说……’”(《法轮佛法——大圆满法 》，1997年3月版，第144页)
而2000年5月2日，随着李洪志及其法轮功的本质被不断揭露，李洪志在外国记者面前忽然 “谦虚”起来：“有人说我是神，有人说我是佛，有人管我叫大师，我封不住每个人的嘴， 可是我从来没叫人把我当作神看，也从来没有叫人把我当作什么大师。我坐在你们面前的就 是一个人像俱全的人，我就是一个普普通通的人。”
李洪志的一个重要特点，就是敢把荒诞离奇、愚昧无知的话说成是“宇宙真理”，能把前面刚说过的话转眼就赖掉。
病就是“业力”，“消业”要靠练功，而吃药是在积攒“业力”，最终不可救药
——我没说过有病不吃药
“人为什么有病呢?造成他有病和所有不幸的根本的原因是业力，那个黑色物质业力场。… …它是导致人有病的根本原因，这是最主要的一种病的来源。”(《转法轮》，1 999年12月版，第251页)
“因为常人社会就是这样的，生老病死就是这个状态，都是有因缘关系的，都是业力轮报， 你欠了债就得还。”(《转法轮》，1994年12月版，第255页)
“我们所说那个病的实质是在另外的空间里的问题反映到这个空间来，如身体哪里长东西了 、发炎了等等，产生了病毒和细菌。……我们看就是这东西，在另外空间里存在，人怎能根治呢?因为这层空间里你还突不破哪。……所以我们在修炼界不讲病，不谈病，都是业力， 就是这个问题。我刚才讲了，实质上那个病不能随便动的。”(《转法轮法解》 ，1997年11月版，第68页)
“炼功吃药就是不相信炼功能治病，信你还吃什么药，……真正修炼大法的人，身上带的都不是常人的东西，常人得的病都不允许在你身上得，你的心如果摆正的话，相信炼功能炼好 ，把药停了，不去管，不去治，就有人给你治了。……好多人身上有我的法身不断地进出， 忙忙活活的，就总在帮你做这些事。”(《中国法轮功》，1994年6月版，第114- 115页)
但后来李洪志又不认账了。他在1999年7月22日《我的一点感想》一文中说：“有消息说我不叫人吃药，事实上根本没那回事。我只是讲了一个修炼与吃药的关系。”
Who is Li Hongzhi
Li Hongzhi has an old name Li Lai and an infant name Xiao Laizi. He was born on July 7, 1952, in Gongzhuling Town of Huaide County (now Gongzhuling City) in northeast China's Jilin Province.
From July 1960 to July 1966, he studied at Changchun Zhujiang Road Primary School.
From July 1966 to July 1969, he studied at Changchun No. 4 Secondary School.
From December 1970 to May 1978, he served as a trumpet player in a band of the Jilin Provincial Forestry Armed Police Corps.
In May 1978, he began to work as an attendant at a guesthouse run by the Jilin Provincial Forestry Armed Police Corps.
In April 1982, he began to work at Changchun Municipal Cereals and Oils Company and left the company in December 1993.
Dishonest Li Hongzhi
In order to guise and mystify Falun Gong, Li Hongzhi fabricated his life story, tricking up to be a god and supernatural man.
In his fabricated resume, Li Hongzhi boasted to have completed his cultivation at the age of eight. In fact, Li Hongzhi was studying at Changchun Zhujiang Road Primary School at the age of eight.
On September 24, 1994, Li changed his date of birth from July 7, 1952 to May 13, 1951, a day happened to be the eighth day of the fourth lunar month in the Chinese lunar calendar which is believed to be the birthday of Sakyamuni, founder of Buddhism.
Li Hongzhi said, "If I said towards to air that I want to be transformed into certain object, I can turn into it in a second. I can also create anything as I wish just by a single stroke in the air."
Li Hongzhi fabricated a lot of absurd and uncanny stories about him in an aim of deifying him and deceiving others. In one of the fabricated stories, he said that he had the function of making himself invisible, boasting that nobody could find him as he just thought about "nobody can see me".
The Buddha figures that the Falun Gong practitioners purchased with high price and worshiped day and night appeared in 1992. The so-called Buddha was a patchwork of Li Hongzhi's photo with paper-cuts in the shape of lotus flower and backed with drawn light beams. The cassock that Li Hongzhi wore was theatrical costume bought from a toggery.
A Man Who Often Goes back on His Words
Li Hongzhi frequently speaks of "truth, compassion and forbearance" and always pretend to be a noble and unsullied sage. Nevertheless, he often capriciously denies stoutly what he has said, which completely exposes the nature of a rascal.
I knew nothing about the April 25 Incident of besieging Zhongnanhai compound when it occurred.
--I knew, so what? I even think there should have been more people to go!
Li Hongzhi himself plotted and organized the April 25 Incident in 1999. However, he alleged later that he didn't know it at that time as saying, "I was on the way to Australia from the U.S. when it happened in Beijing."Then he withdrew his previous remark after he was proved to be in Beijing during April 22 to 24, "At the time my disciples went to appeal to Zhongnanhai, Beijing, I was at a stopover in Beijing on the way to Australia and left there without knowing anything about what happened."
However, even his favorites disclosed the fact that Li Hongzhi had plotted and organized the besiegement of Zhongnanhai compound, which left no leeway for him. So he said publicly, "If an ordinary person doesn't undergo real trials, how could he reach consummation? It's better to test so many people than to test one by one at a time. Actually I think the participants are too few, with only over ten thousand people, far from enough."
The earth will soon explode! The human race will be destroyed!
--I've never said such things. Only cults say the earth will explode and the human race will be destroyed.
Li Hongzhi once preached, "This world is very empty due to explosion. Our planet should have been totally destroyed in an explosion last year."(record of Li Hongzhi's speech) "Our earth is not the only planet that has life in the universe and it doesn't exist for only once. At the same place of the earth there had been an earth in the past which was destroyed or exploded." (Falun Fofa -- Lecture in Sydney, May 1999)
About the destruction of the human race, he wrote in his book Zhuan Falun, "I once reviewed carefully and found that mankind has experienced 81 calamities in the past, and each time only a few people survived. "(Zhuan Falun, December 1994)
"There have been many oracles and prophets in history who predicted that human kind would suffer from serious disaster nowadays. Human race at present is more evil than expected... The morality of human kind is declining quickly to the edge of danger." (Zhuan Falun, Vol. II, November 1995)
"If you look back, human society today is very terrible! It's indeed full of all the ten sins." (Falun Fofa -- Lecture in Sydney, March 1997)
I want to tell everyone around you that the present time is near the point of extinction of the human race. The wise just stand aside, nor are they allowed to interfere. They not only don't interfere with the affairs of the human society, but they may not even take care of themselves in doomsday...I don't mean to exaggerate things to frighten you as to say that nobody is taking control. I want to tell all of you these things are absolutely true. No matter you worship Buddha or any statue of other religions, actually there in nothing on it... It's the point of extinction. It's like that when the time comes." (Interpretation of Falun Dafa, February 1995)
Later Li Hongzhi found that Falun Gong's cult features have become very obvious with too many words about "explosion of the earth" and "destruction of the human race", so he began to deny stoutly these theories he once advocated at his utmost. He said at a dharma conference in Frankfort, "There are some religions that talk about doomsday. All of them are 100 percent cults." He spread on the Internet after the April 25 Incident that he had never said the earth would explode and the human race would be destroyed and that it would be a defamation if any one said he had spoken such words.
I have countless dharma bodies and I have the same dharma power like that of a Buddha.
I have neither asked anyone to regard me as a god, nor told anyone to call me master.
Worshiping Li Hongzhi as a hierarch is a feature of the cult Falun Gong and also an important means for him to manipulate the Falun Gong practitioners, so he always counterfeits himself as the supreme Buddha in the universe and boasted that he could create everything. He once said, "What I am doing today is to deal with human kind and substances. I can create everything. Because other lives including plants and animals don't know dharma, I deal with them directly, that is, rebuilding and assimilating them directly." (Falun Fofa -- Lecture at the First Dharma Conference in Northern America, January 1999)
"What I teach is the biggest top-down Dafa in the universe that can create a living environment for everything in the universe including the spirits and human beings at various level." (Falun Fofa -- Lecture at the Dharma Conference in Europe, January 1999)
By contrast, Sakyamuni "actually hasn't explained systematically the doctrine of cultivation, the features of the universe and the reason that people promote their level. That's why the upper god told (me): you have left people a ladder to the heaven – Zhuan Falun...I have numerous dharma bodies who look the same as me ... with the same dharma power like that of a Buddha... They will look after you and protect you."(Falun Fofa -- Lecture in Sydney, March 1997)
"My dharma bodies in another space know all about what you are thinking... No matter how many people there are, I can take care of all of them, and I can take care of the entire mankind." (Zhuan Falun, December 1994)
"People will not believe if I say more or talk big because they have the thoughts of human kind after all. I speak here and a god believes what he hears because he has the thoughts of a god. " (Falun Fofa -- Lecture in America, September 1997)
"The disciples who disseminate Falun Dafa are not allowed to be called as teacher or master. I'm the only master of Dafa." (Zhuan Falun, December 1994)
Apart from blowing his own horn, he has also made compelling requests for Falun Gong practitioners, "All Falun disciples preaching Fa can only say like this, 'Master Li Hongzhi has said...'or 'Master Li Hongzhi has told us...'" (Falun Fofa – Big Consummation, March 1997)
However on May 2, 2000, with the exposure of the nature of Li Hongzhi and his Falun Gong, he suddenly became "modest" in front of foreign reporters as saying, "Some people call me a god, some Buddha, some master. I cannot close the mouth of every body, but I have neither told anyone to look me as a god nor a master. Now the one who sits in front of you is a real man. I am just an ordinary man."
One of Li Hongzhi's important features is that he dares to call his absurd and fatuous words as "universal truth" and often goes back on what he's just said.
Illness is "karma forces". To eliminate your karma, you must practice Gong. If you take medicine, "karma forces" will accumulate and you can't be saved at last.
--I've never said a patient shouldn't take medicine.
"Why do people fall ill? That illness and misfortune of people are caused by karma -- that black-matter karmic field ... that's the root cause of people's health problems. It's the chief source of them ... ( Zhuan Falun, December 1999)
"Because the normal society is as it is, and birth, age, illness and death, all have causes from the past and are karmic retribution. If you owe a debt you have to pay it off." ( Zhuan Falun, December 1994)
"What we call illness is problems in another space being inflected in this space, such as something grown in the body, inflammation, virus and bacteria... We know these things exist in another space, so how can they be cured radically since you cannot even break through this space? ... So in the world of cultivation we don't talk about illness. All we talk is karma forces. That's the point. I said just now that actually illness can't be treated at will." (Explaining Zhuan Falun, November 1997)
"If you take medicine while practicing Gong, that means you don't believe practicing Gong can cure illness. You won't take medicine if you believe... A person who is sincerely practicing Dafa has something uncommon in his body and doesn't have illness that common people may have. If you place your heart on the proper position, believing that your illness can be cured by practicing Gong, stop taking medicine and don't care for it, someone will heal it for you... A lot of people have my dharma bodies going in and out their body and helping them do such things." (Chinese Falun Gong, June, 1994)
However, Li Hongzhi didn't admit what he had said later. He wrote in "A few of My Opinions" on July 22, 1999, "It's said that I didn't allow them to take medicine. In fact, it's not true at all. I only talked about the relation between cultivation and medicine-taking."