The Search for Peace in Times of Chaos—Volume A person’s attitude toward marriage should acknowledge that marriage is a normal state of human life, and it carries with it responsibility for each other and the family, including responsibility for the emotional and financial aspects of the union and in m any other areas as well When conflict arises, each should look within to find ways to improve and their best for each other eliefs about omosexuality and Premarital elations The Falun Gong movement appears to treat homosexual behavior, not homosexual orientation, as a degenerate behavior at par with sexual promiscuity When asked in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1998, whether gays could practice Falun Gong, Li answered, to a round of applause, “ Y ǡ .” Death and Afterlife Li states that an important aspect of his system is its cultivation of the main spirit He says that a person is made up of a primordial spirit, which could be composed of one’s main spirit and one or more assistant spirits Li states that the main spirit is the part of one’s consciousness that one perceives as one’s own self and is the spirit that humans must cultivate to ascend to higher levels A person can also have one or more assistant spirits Zhuan Falun says that upon death, all spirits split from the body and go their own ways Falun Gong teaches that the main spirit is locked in the cycle of rebirth, also known as samsara due to the accumulation of This is a negative, black substance that accumulates in other dimensions lifetime after lifetime, by doing bad deeds and thinking bad thoughts Falun Gong states that Karma is the reason for suffering, and what ultimately blocks people from the truth of the universe and attaining enlightenment At the same time, is also the cause of ones continued rebirth and suffering Li says that due to accumulation of Karma the human spirit upon death will reincarnate over and over again, until the ǡ ǤͳͶ ~ ~