1.   A recent Sabbath eve service, traditional in other respects, began with words that resembled a meditation exercise.

2.   Late in the summer, the site began offering a guided meditation exercise, which was culled from a CD-ROM project that never quite got off the ground.

3.   An ex-government grain clerk, Li combined traditional meditation exercises with Buddhist, Taoist and his own unorthodox ideas to create Falun Gong.

4.   Before the crackdown, practitioners met in parks at dawn to perform breathing and meditation exercises.

5.   Falun Gong members claim the group has no political ambitions but want the freedom to practice their meditation exercises, which they claim promote health and morality.

6.   Falun Gong members claim the group has no political ambitions but want the freedom to practice their meditation exercises, which they say promote health and morality.

7.   Falun Gong spokesman Kan Hung-cheung said Saturday that followers were still negotiating with police to find a place where several hundred people could practice their meditation exercises.

8.   Rachlin, the Falun Gong spokeswoman, said the group could not say if the people featured in the exhibit were true practitioners of the meditation exercises.

9.   They also performed slow-moving meditation exercises to recorded Chinese music.

10.   With their eyes shut, followers performed meditation exercises to tapes of Chinese music for more than an hour before assuming a cross-legged meditation position for another half hour.