Management of Practitioners in North America

Welcome to the official website of an assistant to Master Li Hongzhi, Special Coordinator John Pratt.

With respect to this role, all Falun Dafa practitioners must adhere to the same requirements. All that matters is that a person truly practices cultivation. An assistant’s role, at any level, is not for the gain of status, money, or participation in political struggles. No donations are solicited or accepted in the practice of Falun Dafa.

AT THE CURRENT TIME, I AM FIERCELY OPPOSED BY THE BODY OF AVERAGE PRACTITIONERS IN NEW YORK AT EPOCH TIMES, NTD, SHEN YUN, AND PRACTITIONER-RUN ORGANIZATIONS. THAT IS TO SAY, MY AUTHORITY IS NOT RECOGNIZED BY THESE PRACTITIONERS BUT THEY HAVE NOT BEEN TOLD OFFICIALLY THAT IT IS REAL. THEIR REJECTION IS HAPPENING BECAUSE WHAT I AM CARRYING OUT IS AN INTERVENTION AND THIS WEBSITE DISCUSSES ALL OF THE PROBLEMS THESE PRACTITIONERS HAVE CAUSED THAT ARE INCONTROVERTIBLY WRONG ACCORDING TO THE PRACTICE, NOT MY PERSONAL OPINION.

YOU CAN ASK MASTER LI HONGZHI IF YOU WANT TO VERIFY:

• I AM MORE ADVANCED IN THE PRACTICE OF FALUN DAFA THAN ALL PRACTITIONERS WHO ARE AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC (THESE PLACES).
• I AM MORE ADVANCED THAN ALL PRACTITIONERS IN NEW YORK, INCLUDING THOSE AT EPOCH TIMES, NTD, SHEN YUN, MINGHUI, SOUND OF HOPE, AND ALL ASSISTANTS AT ANY PRACTICE SITE IN NORTH AMERICA.
• PRACTITIONERS LIKE ME ARE NORMALLY NOT AVAILABLE. WE ALMOST NEVER PARTICIPATE IN PROJECTS AND ACTIVITIES WITH THE AVERAGE PRACTITIONERS AT THESE PLACES. THIS IS DISCUSSED IN THE BOOKS THAT WE HAVE REACHED THIS STATE.
• NO ONE AT THE DRAGON SPRINGS CAMPUS IS ABOVE ME AND ALL NEED TO LISTEN TO WHAT I SAY.

Among practitioners, the Special Coordinator has a background in Qimen School or The Great Primordial-Tao School and cultivates in Dafa with a path carrying these characteristics.

For Multiple Reasons, This Position Has Not Been Formally Confirmed to Epoch Times, NTD, or Performers in Shen Yun

Among average practitioners, many are causing problems, which this website discusses and seeks to address. Because they are so resistant to acknowledging their own shortcomings, the role will not play out in a conventional way with binding dictates. Practitioners expect to be told of this position by Master Li Hongzhi but they don’t need this, like many pieces of information, and should just listen directly to Special Coordinator John Pratt, because he is a practitioner and his communications can be judged as genuine based on their conformance to the books and lectures. The continued presence of this title is also proof that it is real. Anything after that is combativeness and sometimes denial by practitioners informed of this role.

Many practitioners wish not to believe what the Special Coordinator says because they have fallen short in their cultivation practice, having carved out some minor exceptions for themselves, let them grow, then taken the lack of correction by Master Li Hongzhi as acceptance and a compromise with their desires. It can’t work that way. That isn’t practice of Falun Dafa, which has standards that cannot be compromised. When they do this as a large group, either at Epoch Times or Shen Yun, a different approach is required to correct them. As far as my position plays out, I just point out what I see is bad and the practitioners should, if they are practicing well, respond and fix it.

To the practitioners, if this position is real and the issues it brings up are indeed problems, this will cause many of them great distress. For this reason, an alternative title would be Interventionist Coordinator. Practitioners carry a lot of incorrect views they developed, such as that dancers and performers in Shen Yun carry seniority. Shen Yun is the best show performing in the world and no dancers can match, but in actuality they are guided by Master Li Hongzhi closely and that is the reason for their success. Otherwise something as foreign as Classical Chinese dance could never be seen the West and no practitioners are capable of making that bridge in the show business. Their fine status as dancers is arranged by Master Li Hongzhi and is a separate issue from whether they have cultivated well. Many performers in Shen Yun, reporters and staff at Epoch Times, and practitioners across the country have formed a complacent and incorrect self-image and believe they are doing well in cultivation practice just because they are associated with these entities or have spent time promoting them. There is no basis for thinking that. For example, a certain group of performers in Shen Yun believe they can produce social media on the side but this has interfered with normal promotions of the show and is their attachment to fame flaring up. They have developed an ego after being given successes by Master Li Hongzhi, and now look at themselves as the flawless elite of the practice, but no such concept exists in Falun Dafa, which is all about finding faults in oneself amidst ordeals. Just because they work for the show or dance well doesn’t mean they have cultivated well and this is a crucial point they reject. It isn’t a debatable point in the practice, and if you don’t know, this is according to the books. Many practitioners have come to believe what they want to believe about how well they are doing and what they have done. When the opposite is explained, they fight the Special Coordinator, so it is not revealed to them as real until a late stage.

All of these individuals have stonewalled the Special Coordinator, whose job is to deliver the unpleasant news, and this is a trap. Yet it isn’t a trap, also, because who told them to be cold to others and stonewall a person because he said things they didn’t want to hear and show so little tolerance? You have to be able to tolerate hearing things that are unpleasant, things that are critical of you, not just to tolerate things but so that you can evaluate whether they are true and you can improve in cultivation practice, and this is, among other places, spelled out in the 2006 Los Angeles lecture (not directed at non-practitioners, who can start with the beginner book Falun Gong).