Facts of the Persecution

• Exposing the Chinese Communist Regime's Recent Abuse and Killings of Falun Gong Practitioners (Photos)
• Crimes Perpetrated Against Falun Gong Practitioners at the Brainwashing Center in Langfang City, Hebei Province
• Persecution of Falun Dafa Practitioners in Yongchuan Prison, Chongqing City
• Practitioner Mr. Huang Xiaojie from Liaoning Province Sentenced to Eight Years of Imprisonment With No Legal Procedure
• Additional Persecution News from China - June 1, 2007 (44 Reports)
• 46 People Declare that their Words and Deeds Under Forced Brainwashing are Null and Void

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• The Undermining Effect of the Theory of Evolution On Human Morality

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• Buryat Republic, Russia: "Now There's a Practice Site Even in this Remote Village" (Photos)
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• Toronto: Practitioners Clarify the Facts at the International Dragon Boat Festival (Photos)
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• Saving Sentient Beings from All Walks of Life Using the Telephone

(Clearwisdom.net) The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) continues committing crimes, even though its persecution of Falun Gong has been widely exposed and spurns widespread condemnation from the international community. Instead, the Party has resorted to more sinister and concealed methods. When physical torture and brainwashing fail to "transform" practitioners, CCP police and doctors use poisonous drugs and other treacherous methods to torture and kill Falun Gong practitioners. In an effort to evade justice, the Party uses lies and violence to keep a lid on an already sizzling pressure cooker. What is exposed in this article represents only a minute portion of history's most brutal persecution.

Qingyang District People's Hospital

The Party promises promotions and bonuses in exchange for the hospital staff's devotion to the gross abuse of Falun Gong practitioners who persist in their beliefs. During the process, the Party has turned hospitals into slaughterhouses where Falun Gong practitioners are systematically killed, step-by-step, unbeknownst to the outside world.

The Qingyang District People's Hospital in Chengdu City, Sichuan Province is directly affiliated with Chengdu Detention Center and receives orders from the Chengdu City 610 Office. Falun Gong practitioners there undergo brutal force-feeding and are injected with poisonous drugs. As of now, ten Falun Gong practitioners are known to have been killed at this hospital, including Zhao Zhongling, Deng Jianping, Chen Guijun, Duan Shiqiong, Huang Lisha, Hu Hongyue and Shen Lizhi.

Photos of those who were tortured and killed at Qingyang District People's Hospital:

Deng Jianping

Chen Guijun

Duan Shiqiong

Hu Hongyue

Falun Gong practitioners are detained in a heavily guarded zone located in the left wing on the fourth floor. Fully armed military police work in three shifts. Each shift has three officers standing outside the entrance, around the clock, to make sure that no one escapes the wards without permission. To cover up their crimes, the hospital fabricates names, ages and medical records for the practitioners. The bodies of practitioners who are killed are transported to a morgue at the No. 2 Railroad Bureau Central Hospital in Chengdu City and are subsequently cremated at the designated Wenjiang Funeral Home, without any records of the deceased being kept.

One practitioner in her sixties who narrowly escaped death recounted the horrors she witnessed at this hospital:

"Huang Lisha, a woman in her thirties from Emei, Sichuan Province was transferred there from a detention center because she went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution and refused to renounce her belief. Her bed was next to mine. She was given an unknown drug, non-stop, via an IV infusion until she vomited and defecated blood. The day after I was taken to the hospital I heard her screaming in pain all night long. She passed away on the morning of October 17, 2002. Her body was removed for cremation minutes after her passing."

Huang Lisha before the persecution. Falun Gong practice cured a terminal illness that was tormenting her. She also developed a rosy complexion and was often mistaken for a teenager.

"Two more practitioners, Hu Hongyue and Zhang Yalin were brought in on the sixth day of my stay there, which was October 21, 2002. They had been on a hunger strike for more than 30 days. Each day the police verbally abused them with terrible insults as well as beating and kicking them. They kept the two practitioners shackled in bed. They had no choice but to relieve themselves in bed and sleep in their own excrement. In November 2002, the doctors started injecting them with nerve-damaging drugs, which caused delirium and memory loss. Hu Hongyue struggled for her life through an entire night on November 11, 2002, and died the following morning. Zhang Yalin suffered a mental collapse and was also incontinent. I witnessed the hospital personnel destroy two people within one month!"

It was heard in early May 2007 that Zhao Zhongling, a worker from the Jinjiang Motor Factory in Chengdu City, was killed at the hospital. Zhao Zhongling was kind and well-liked. She had been illegally detained five times for persisting in her belief in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. Officials from the Jinniu District Procuratorate in Chengdu City repeatedly called Zhao Zhongling on March 22, 2007, and urged her to come to their office. She went there and never returned. Several days later her elderly parents, nearly hysterical from worry, finally learned that their daughter had been sent to the Pi County Detention Center where she held a hunger strike. The persecutors transferred her to the Qingyang Hospital where she was given drugs that made her lose her speech. She died early in the morning on May 5, 2007.

The officials refused to let her family see her body. Her mother angrily asked, "You charged her with 'disrupting social order.' What exactly did she do? Which law did she violate?" The officials yelled, "We can arrest a Falun Gong practitioner whenever we want!"

Several other practitioners are currently held at the hospital including Huang Min, the former deputy head of the Chengdu City Township Enterprise Bureau, who has been on hunger strike for 80 days. Another practitioner who refused to give his name to the police is now near death.

The Harbin City Police Hospital has a secret building in the back where Falun Gong practitioners are brutally murdered. Practitioner Zhang Zhong from Daqing City was killed there in October 2006, as was another practitioner from the countryside.

After entering through the front entrance, the second door from the left leads directly to the secret backyard where a four-story building stands. All of the windows are completely covered with white shades. The building is surrounded by a three-meter tall (9.8 ft.) metal fence. Two brawny men guard the front office. After Zhang Zhong's death, this building was named Hospital for Sick Inmates, but there is no sign.

Secret backyard building at the Harbin City Police Hospital

Mr. Zhang Zhong worked at the Lahua Factory in Daqing. Falun Gong practice transformed Zhang Zhong into a very considerate person. However, he was ruthlessly persecuted for persisting in his belief and for clarifying the facts about Falun Gong. After Falun Gong practitioners in Changchun broadcast truth clarification videos in 2002, Zhang Zhong was sentenced to 12 years in prison and held at the Daqing Prison. He suffered from torture-induced multiple organ failure and fell into a coma, and his blood pressure dropped to 40 mmHg (systolic). He was very emaciated. The authorities finally approved his release on medical parole when he was hovering at death's door.

Mr. Zhang Zhong before the persecution

Mr. Zhang Zhong, emaciated and in a critical condition as a result of persecution (picture taken in July 2004)

While at home, Zhang Zhong listened to Master Li Hongzhi's lectures with the help of fellow practitioners. He started doing the exercises when he was able to move. Miraculously, he recovered within a month and subsequently left town to avoid the police.

He was arrested again in August 2006 while meeting with friends at the Honglang Garden in Harbin City. The persecutors took him to the Nangang Police Department Detention Center where he was savagely tortured. Two weeks later he was taken to the Harbin City Police Hospital to be further persecuted. After one month his friend(s) visited the hospital but were prohibited from seeing him. Official Xin, who received his friends, said that Mr. Zhang was examined at the hospital and no illness was found. On October 16, 2006 the hospital suddenly announced Zhang Zhong's death, but refused to let his family and friends view his body.

Many recent incidents of Falun Gong practitioners' deaths from persecution reveal that widespread forced drug intake still exists in prisons, labor camps, brainwashing classes, mental hospitals, police hospitals and even civil hospitals. After the Party fails to "reform" Falun Gong practitioners, the officials insidiously destroy their nerves and physically annihilate them. Such Communist-sanctioned horror is taking place throughout China on a daily basis.

Mr. Zhao Wenpeng, in his forties, worked at the Guiyang Telecommunication Equipment Factory in Guizhou City. He explained to people how he benefited from Falun Gong practice and exposed the brutal facts of the persecution in August 2006. He was arrested at home and taken to the Yunyan Detention Center in Guiyang City where he was savagely tortured. He experienced whole body edema. The flesh on his left leg ulcerated into a large hole that constantly seeped pus and fluid. He was transferred to the Guiyang Police Hospital for "treatment" consisting of injections, pills and IV infusions. His condition deteriorated drastically as a result of the drug combinations, and he lost the feeling in his limbs and became incontinent. He died at the Guiyang Police Hospital on March 7, 2007.

Mr. Zhou Zuofu, 57, worked at the Ruichang City Linen Factory in Jiangxi Province. Agents from the Ruichang City 610 Office and the police had arrested and sent him to brainwashing classes and labor camp(s) eight times. His weight dropped from 65 kg. (143 lbs.) to 40 kg. (88 lbs.) as a result of torture. Authorities at the Majialong Labor Camp subjected him to various types of torture, but they could not bend his belief in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. They eventually mixed drugs into his food that led to a mental collapse. He passed away on March 6, 2007.

Ms. Xu Hongmei and Ms. Xu Zili from Qiqihar City, Heilongjiang Province were arrested on January 13, 2007. Participating in the arrest were officers from the Qingyun Street Police Station. The police coerced the two women into betraying other practitioners. After five days of around-the-clock torture, both practitioners developed organ failure. They vomited blood and went into convulsions. They were carried into a ward at the Department of Internal Medicine at the No. 2 Hospital on February 17, 2007 while wearing shackles. Their families could not afford the 20,000-yuan "release fee" the 610 Office agents demanded. The officials vowed they would not let the practitioners go, even if they died. On February 27, 2007, each practitioner was given an injection of albumin (blood plasma). Afterwards their eyes became blank and they lost consciousness. They passed away several hours later, in terrible agony. Xu Hongmei was 37 years old, and Shen Zili was 49 years old.

Ms. Xu Hongmei

Ms. Shen Zili

Mr. Chang Yongfu lived in Mulan County, Heilongjiang Province. He was arrested at his home on July 26, 2004 for posting truth clarification materials. The persecutors took him to the Changlinzi Forced Labor Camp in Harbin City, where the guards and inmates savagely beat him. Labor camp authorities and 610 Office agents secretly took him to the Puning Mental Hospital in Harbin City. Two years later the hospital officials told his sister to take him home. That was in October 2006. His face was deformed and his body was swollen. He could not sleep due to pain and suffered a nervous breakdown. During the moments when he regained mental clarity he told his family that he had been injected with unknown drugs at the hospital. His condition worsened, and he gradually lost sight in both eyes. In the meantime, his nose swelled grossly out of proportion and bled nonstop. Early in the morning on January 18, 2007, 44-year-old Chang Yongfu stopped breathing. He was bleeding from his eyes and ears, and dried blood filled his nose and mouth at the time of death.

Mr. Chang Yongfu at the time of death

Mr. Shi Baoqi, 40 years old, and lived in Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province. He was arrested in November 2006 and taken to the Taiyuan City Detention Center where he was cruelly tortured. He was transferred to the No. 109 Police Hospital on December 5, 2006. The doctor gave him drugs via an IV infusion. He then sweat profusely and died suddenly after he was taken back to his room. The police offered his family 50,000 yuan in exchange for silence. His family refused the offer.

Many Falun Gong practitioners had been killed at the No. 109 Police Hospital prior to the murder of Shi Baoqi.

Mr. Shi Baoqi

Ms. Bo Shufen, 59 years old, lived in Fuxin County, Liaoning Province. She suffered from liver cirrhosis that resulted in whole body edema (swelling) before she practiced Falun Gong. After she began the practice however, all of her illnesses disappeared. She was able to do housework and work in the field. Her family was extremely grateful to Dafa for saving her. After the Party started persecuting Falun Gong, she appealed for justice for Falun Gong with her firsthand experience and was sent to the Fuqin Detention Center. She was forced to sit on a wood board. She also was subjected at different times to solitary confinement, the tiger bench and being handcuffed behind her back. She was later transferred to the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp where she was frequently shocked with electric batons and tortured with a method called the big hang-up. (1) After one year she was injected with nerve-damaging drugs, which caused a mental collapse. She passed away on November 15, 2006.

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Nearly 1,000 similar reports have been published on the Minghui/Clearwisdom website. Numerous Falun Gong practitioners have suffered mental collapses and disabilities, and were even killed by the Party's orders to inject them with toxic drugs. According to joint investigations by the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG) and China Mental Health Watch (CMHW), psychiatric abuse of Falun Gong practitioners is commonplace in 23 provinces, cities and autonomous regions. Most mental hospitals and psychiatry departments were coerced into participating in the persecution by being ordered to ignore medical ethics. Most doctors told investigators that they clearly knew Falun Gong practitioners were good and healthy people, yet they went against their own conscience and administered large doses of extremely toxic drugs, "because it was a political assignment, and they would be fired if they did not follow orders." During the systematic persecution, arranged and implemented from the top down, countless people's minds were poisoned by lies and forced into complicity. These people are also victims of the persecution.

Officials at some labor camps order inmates to tighten a rope around the practitioner's neck and then whack their head against a hard object to cause an intra-cranial hemorrhage, while avoiding leaving external signs of injury. One might think this method is only seen in movies and novels, but it is actually being used on Falun Gong practitioners who refuse to renounce their belief at the Beijing Women's Forced Labor Camp.

How much unspeakable crime does the luxurious outside appearance at the Beijing Women's Forced Labor Camp conceal?

The guards ordered inmates to tighten a rope around Zhang Lianying's neck and punch her head when she has nearly suffocated, all in an attempt to make her give up Falun Gong, although Falun Gong had given her a new life. They tightened the rope further while whacking her head until Zhang Lianying suffered a widespread intra-cranial hemorrhage and fell into a coma. She was taken to the Renhe Hospital in Daxing District of Beijing for emergency treatment and was in critical condition for more than ten days. This was the ninth time the guards at this labor camp had subjected her to this torture. Twice before she was nearly suffocated and beaten until she became incontinent.

Forty-six year-old Ms. Zhang Lianying was a division head and a registered accountant at the China Everbright Group in Beijing. She never asked for a single day of sick leave after she started practicing Falun Gong, a sharp contrast to her former self, afflicted with numerous illnesses. She worked hard and never took bribes. She voluntarily gave to a colleague a new, 120 square-meter [1,291 sq. ft] apartment the company had assigned to her. Her family stayed at their old 40 square-meter [430 sq. ft] apartment. One colleague said, "I wish all officials would practice Falun Dafa." She was arrested seven times within the past eight years. She and her family endured brutal persecution simply because of her belief in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance.

Ms. Zhang Lianying before the persecution

Ms. Zhang Lianying and her daughter

Ms. Zhang Lianying after surgery at the Renhe Hospital in Beijing

Ms. Zhang was arrested again at her home on June 14, 2005, while taking care of her infant daughter who was still nursing. She was sentenced to two-and-a-half years of forced labor. During ten months of detention at the Beijing Forced Labor Re-education Dispatch Division, guard Zhang Dongmei ordered eight inmates to whip her with flyswatters for more than ten hours a day. She was not allowed to wash herself or use the restroom. She had to relieve herself in her clothing, even during menstruation. She was deprived of sleep for extended periods of time, and she was hung up with her feet barely touching the ground. She was also tied to a wooden bench, with her torso twisted in a painful position. She was beaten all day long until her body was covered with wounds, she bled from her eyes, she lost her hearing, and she was near a mental collapse. She could barely move. The abuse again escalated after she was transferred to the Beijing Women's Forced Labor Camp. She was locked in a two-square-meter (22 sq. ft.) solitary confinement room at the Group Drill Division where she ate, slept and relieved herself all in this tiny place.

Zhang Lianying's husband, Falun Gong practitioner Niu Jinping, overcame extreme difficulties and met with Mr. Edward McMillan-Scott, vice-president of the European Parliament, on May 21, 2006, to expose the Party's persecution of Falun Gong and especially the harvesting of living Falun Gong practitioners' organs. Despite intense focus from the international community, a division head at the labor camp ordered inmates to strangle Zhang Lianying and strike her head. Ms. Zhang Lianying was on a hunger strike at the time.

After the camp authorities' violent treatment of Zhang Lianying was exposed, the officials tried to cut off her connection with the outside world and secretly transported her to the Tiantanghe Hospital affiliated with the labor camp while she was still in a critical condition.

Falun Gong practitioners came to great insights as to the true meaning of life through cultivating Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance in their hearts. They experienced physical and spiritual improvement. They and their families all benefited from Dafa more than words can describe. The wicked Party carried out an inhuman persecution of these innocent, kind people that has lasted eight years.

Why is it that Falun Gong practitioners persevere in the face of terror, danger and tribulations? Why do they clarify the truth and oppose the persecution against all odds?

People who have learned the facts say that Falun Gong practitioners are validating and safeguarding Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance with their lives, and they are dispelling the Party's poisonous lies and awakening their conscience, so every precious person can have the opportunity to see the Party's evil nature, sever any contact with the Party and choose a bright future for themselves. Commentators have pointed out that Falun Gong practitioners' exposing this persecution is resisting the Party's contamination and destruction of humanity. The Falun Gong practitioners' endurance and sacrifice has successfully prevented justice from collapsing during the most wicked persecution in history. Their acts of compassion point out and direct people's attention to reflect on the Party's corruption and vicious nature. In a society where moral corruption is common, the practitioners' feats illuminate the magnificence and preciousness of their belief in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, and they are bringing great hope to mankind.

Note:

(1) Big hang up - There are two forms in this torture: (1) With both hands cuffed behind the back and only the toes touching the ground, one is hung by a rope that is tied to the metal window frames; (2) One hand of a practitioner is cuffed to one bunk bed and the other hand to another bed, and the two beds are pulled in opposite directions.

(Clearwisdom.net) The brainwashing center in Langfang City of Hebei Province has illegally detained thousands of Falun Gong practitioners since 2000. The brainwashing center has now been combined with a detention camp. It is called the "legal education center" to the outside world. It is, in fact, a place where laws are broken and Dafa practitioners are brutally persecuted.

During the past several years, practitioners who were sent there by force had their personal freedoms taken away. The brainwashing center flooded them with twisted ideology and humiliated them. Other persecution methods included long periods of forced standing and sleep deprivation. Those who persisted in practicing Falun Gong were treated more harshly and threatened with being sent to forced labor camps. The practitioners were beaten and verbally abused, and guards flicked the practitioners' eyeballs to keep them from sleeping. They also used toxic oral and intravenous drugs that damaged the nervous system. When practitioners went on hunger strikes to protest the persecution, they were force-fed with a tube inserted into their stomachs. The prison personnel also put drugs into the food and drinking water when they carried out this brutal torture. They sometimes administered injections into the armpit. When small doses were used, the practitioners would become disoriented. Large doses of such drugs, on the other hand, would cause severe pain. The practitioners who received this kind of persecution often experienced headaches, dizziness, and disorientation. More serious symptoms included memory loss, a hard tongue, blackouts and severe headaches. Some felt extremely lethargic, while others could not fall asleep. This type of torture caused tremendous suffering for the practitioners, and some were hospitalized for emergency treatment.

The crimes committed at the brainwashing center are not all so obvious, as part of the brainwashing process involves false kindness from some of the guards and administrators. The ultimate purpose of these displays is to persuade practitioners to give up their belief in "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance." If practitioners refuse, they would then begin a systematic process to increase the pressure, including various forms of psychological abuses. Some people were pushed to the point of mental collapse.

Han Zhiguang and Zhao Lihua, heads of the Langfang City 610 Office, have brutally persecuted Falun Gong practitioners since July 2000. During the past few years, they have been promoted several times for their roles in persecuting Falun Gong. In addition, they have reaped huge financial gains from the persecution. Every time they were able to force one practitioner to give up Falun Gong, they received 2,000-10,000 yuan in bonuses. The practitioner's workplace or the practitioner also had to pay thousands in fines. In the past several years, thousands of practitioners have been sent through this brainwashing center, so the amount of money involved is huge. For example, the Fangzheng Computer Corporation in the Hongchang Electronic Plaza was funded by Zhao Lihua. 610 Office agents have been seen arguing over how to divide their spoils, while practitioners are torn away from their families and subjected to brutal persecution.

Langfang practitioner Wan Hongxia was arrested and sent to the brainwashing center for telling people the facts about Falun Gong and the persecution. She persisted in her belief and protested the persecution by holding a hunger strike. After a few days of being subjected to severe abuse, she was partially paralyzed and unable to take care of her own daily needs. She was sent to a detention center, but was rejected due to her terrible condition. However, the 610 Office agents forced the detention center to accept her. On August 16, Wan Hongxia was carried into a courtroom, still half-paralyzed, and was unlawfully sentenced to three years in jail.

Head of the 610 Office in Langfang: Han Zhiguang
Home telephone: 86-316-2128956, 86-316-6833781, 86-316-6837916
Cellular phone: 86-13832626952
Office telephone: 86-316-2015211 ext. 6162

(Clearwisdom.net) The authorities of Yongchuan Prison have been persecuting Falun Dafa practitioners for several years using brutal methods. Dafa practitioner Tan Xueli was sent to Yongchuan Prison and persecuted to death in six days. Torture methods used included beatings, sleep deprivation, starvation, forcible brainwashing, forced written "thought reports" daily, and abuse and monitoring by other inmates. They designated criminals to monitor Falun Gong practitioners, promising them a reduction in their sentences in return. Every year Falun Gong practitioners are forced to give blood. Now persecution and forcible brainwashing are still going on in Yongchuan Prison.

The districts where the most Falun Gong practitioners are illegally detained are the fourth and second districts. Some of the Dafa practitioners detained in Yongchuan Prison's fourth district include Tian Yicheng, Wei Xia, Deng Liang, Xiang Renyuan, Wu Zhicheng, Lv Yuanjian, Dai Dakui, and Wang Xian'an. In the second district there is Wang Rong, Zhang Shengquan, Zhang Quanliang, Dai Xianming, Tang Jinming, Wang Qi, Zhang Qike, and Gao Hongwei. A few other practitioners detained in Yongchuan Prison include Wang Jingfei, Hong Dongqiang and Gu Xiaomin.

The seventh team in the fourth district is a "strict discipline team." Policemen Zheng Ke, Lin, Wang Jing and Xie Di designated a gang of drug addicts, thieves and rapists led by Yu Tao to brutally persecute Falun Gong practitioners. These criminals include Zhang Dahong, Wang Qiang, Tang Yibin, Luo Desen, Tang Jiyun, Li Shihu, Yang Tianhua, Zhang Chonghua, Ma Yongqing, and Du Changhai. Dafa practitioner Tian Yichen was persecuted very seriously. He was punished by being forced to stand continually for dozens of days in a row. His legs were thickly swollen, and he received only 500g of food in each meal. Mr. Deng Liang, a former flight attendant for Southwest Airlines and Falun Gong practitioner, was persecuted by three criminals day and night. He was even monitored when he was washing his face and brushing his teeth, or when using the restroom. He was forced to work 14 hours per day, sewing beads on women's dresses. He was tortured to the point of it having little effect--he was practically blinded and down to skin and bones. Dafa practitioner Mr. Deng Xia was sent to Yongchuan Prison on July 3, 2003. The authorities did not allow him to meet with his mother, because she is also Falun Gong practitioner. Some people coming out of the prison reported that he was physically abused frequently.

A former detective, Falun Gong practitioner Wang Rong, was detained in the second district. One of his cell mates, a fellow practitioner, completely negated the forced brainwashing. The authorities put them both in solitary confinement, not allowing their families to visit them for several months.

A graduate student at Southwest Financial University, practitioner Mr. Wang Qi, was persecuted to the point of having his shoulder bones broken, rendering him unable to take care of himself. The prison authorities continued to refuse his mother's demand of his release for medical treatment. An engineer at the Coal Design Institute, Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Zhang Quanliang was detained separately all the time, within a whole room of regular inmates. In the winter, guards forced him to sit on the cold ground for dozens of hours. They also forced him to bow down, while they repeatedly elbowed his back. They gave him too much food for one meal, and if he could not finish it all, they punched him in the stomach. In the second district, the policemen directing the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners are Zhou Qiang, Li Caisheng and Li Tao.

Note: There are three doors from the gate of the prison to each district. The high walls for the second door are surrounded by electric fencing, and one also has to get through barbed wire to get by.

Luo Changming, director of the prison: 86-23-49890566
Hu Maping, political commissioner: 86-23-49890500
Yang Liming, deputy director of the prison: 86-23-49890503
Wang, deputy director of the prison, in charge of persecution of Falun Gong
Li Huiming, chief of Administration Department of the jail: 86-23-49890529
Zhang Longjian, chief of Education Section: 86-23-49890532
Second district: 86-23-49891142, 86-23-49891141, 86-13752873948 (Cell)
Thirteenth branch in the second district: 86-23-49888605
Fourth district: 49306176, 86-23-49306172, 86-23-49306170
Second branch of the fourth district: 86-23-49306193
Sixth branch of the fourth district: 86-23-49306199
Seventh branch of the fourth district: 86-13883681674 (Cell)
Fifth district: 86-23-49834201
Sixth district: 86-23-49800572, 86-23-49890598
Seventh district: 86-23-49839938, 86-23-49890575
Ninth district: 86-23-68892505
Eleventh district: 86-23-41735115

(Clearwisdom.net) Practitioner Mr. Huang Xiaojie lives in Zhizhushan Town, Fuxin City, Liaoning Province. Because of his steadfast belief in Falun Gong, he has been the target of persecution by the Zhizhushan Police Station. Huang Xiaojie was forced to become homeless, and while staying at his cousins' home he was arrested. His family members were also harassed by the police.

Liu Wanquan, the police station director, tried to force him to write a letter denouncing Falun Gong and he refused, so the policemen beat him with thick wooden and rubber clubs until his whole body was covered in bruises. Huang Xiaojie was unable to sit down for two months after being released. The police also took away his two cell phones. Huang Xiaojie's mother, aunt, cousin's husband, and another cousin were all arrested by Liu Wangquan and taken to the police station. Huang's mother's face was swollen from being beaten by the policemen. The cousin's husband and another cousin were beaten severely too, besides being extorted 17,000 yuan as a "fine." Huang Xiaojie's son was forced to stop going to school and stayed with a relative in another city, and his wife also had to go to another place for two months to try and avoid being persecuted.

On August 12, 2001, Liu Wanquan, policeman Li Shuoguo and others arrested Huang Xiaojie again. In order to avoid the torture, Huang Xiaojie tried to escape from the police station. Liu Wanquan ordered his assistant to shoot Huang Xiaojie with his gun to stop Huang from escaping. Huang was shot in the left leg, and the bullet broke his leg. Huang was then brought back to the police station. His family didn't receive any further information about him until later, when with much effort, they found out that Huang Xiaojie was detained at the Dabei Prison. They found out from the prison that Huang Xiaojie had been sentenced to eight years of imprisonment. Almost six years past since Huang Xiaojie was imprisoned, Huang and his family still don't know what crime Huang was charged with because no legal procedure or trial was held.

Huang Xiaojie is only one of the Dafa practitioners that Liu Wanquan has persecuted in Zhizhushan Town. For example, Liu Wanquan arrested another practitioner, Li Guangfu, and his parents the day after he arrested Huang Xiaojie. The elderly parents were forced to watch their son being beaten by the policemen with a thick wooden club until the club broke. Liu Wanquan also tried to forced Li Guangfu to write a letter denouncing Falun Gong, but Li refused. In the end, Li Guangfu was framed by Liu Wanquan and sentenced to six years of imprisonment. Li Guangfu is currently detained at the No. 1 Prison of Shenyang Province.

Due to his role in the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners, Liu Wanquan was promoted to Fuxin County. Two years later however, Liu Wanquan was reported to the police regarding some of his earlier crimes and he was sentenced to 12 years of imprisonment as karmic retribution for his sins. Later, it was said that he was diagnosed with cancer while in prison.

(Clearwisdom.net)

Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Jin Chengshan from Hulan District in Harbin City was persecuted and now has bedsores on both sides of his body at Gezhi Prison in Hulan City. He can only lie on his stomach and has been this way for several days.

Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Xu Yong is currently being illegally detained at the No. 2 ward in Shenyang No. 1 Jail due to his not cooperating with the police's demands to give up his beliefs. He is being held in solitary confinement and has been on a hunger strike for 10 days.

Dafa practitioners are tortured cruelly at Tailai Prison in Heilongjiang Province. None of the Dafa practitioners being held at Tailai Jail are allowed to make phone calls to their families. Two Dafa practitioners were tortured to the point of not being able to walk.

On May 20, 2007, police officers found truth-clarification materials in the home of Dafa practitioner Mr. Qu Xingwu from Wangqing County and arrested him. On the afternoon of May 30, Dafa practitioners Mr. Lin Qingping, Ms. Chen Guifen and her husband were arrested.

On May 31, 2007, Dafa practitioner Mr. Jiang was reported when he was surfing on the Internet, and he was arrested by police officers from the Jingyu County Police Bureau.

On May 30, 2007, of two arrested Falun Dafa practitioners, Ms. Xu Lanzhen managed to escape with righteous thoughts. Ms. Zhao Guiqin is still being detained at Guangming Police Station in Jinzhou District.

On the evening of May 29, 2007, Dafa practitioner Mr. Zou Youjie from Dalian City was illegally arrested at Jinzhou Railway Station in Dalian City while he was making truth-clarification materials.

As of May 9, 2007, Dafa practitioners Mr. Gao Weixi, Ms. Wang Fuxia, Mr. Shi Guoliang and Ms. Yang Fang are being illegally detained at the Changchun City No.3 Detention Center. Their families are not allowed to visit them.

On May 25, 2007, Dafa practitioner Ms. Yang Yumin was tricked into going to the police bureau. He was taken on the same day to Anshan City and then transferred to Youyan Detention Center. On May 29, he was illegally sentenced to one year imprisonment and taken to Masanjia Forced Labor Camp to be detained. Dafa practitioners Ms. Zhao Yuhua and Ms. Zhao Yonghua were also taken to Masanjia Forced Labor Camp.

Ms. He Shuhua, a Dafa practitioner from Qingguang County in Heilongjiang Province, has been detained at Qingguang for a long time. It was said recently that the authorities intended to take her to a forced labor camp for detention.

On the evening of May 8, 2007, Dafa practitioners Ms. Gao Chunzi, Ms. Yan Shuyu and Ms. Wang Xiuzhi were illegally held at the detention center and then transferred to the Acheng No. 1 Detention Center.

Chief of the Acheng District Police Bureau in Harbin City of Heilongjiang Province Zhang Yabin: 86-451-53778889
Secretary of the 610 Office Wang Xiaoguang: 86-451-53760501, 86-451-53734388
No. 1 Detention Center: 86-451-53714847
No. 2 Detention Center: 86-451-53714265

At about 10:00 a.m. on May 21, 2007, Dafa practitioner Mr. Liu Zhigao was arrested by six to seven people from the 610 Office in his workplace, Daqing City Police Bureau. Currently he is being held at Daqing City Detention Center. Later they went to Liu Zhigao's home to ransack it. They confiscated a printer, a computer, repair tools he used at work and other items. Altogether they took away a dozen boxes worth of items.

Dafa practitioner Mr. Jiang Bai was tortured to the point of losing unconsciousness at the Daqing City Detention Center.

On the afternoon of May 22, 2007, when Dafa practitioners Mr. Xiao Shusheng and Ms. Wei Mingzhen were handing out truth-clarification materials at Shaguotun Market, they were arrested by police officers from the Shaguotun Town Police Station.

On May 30, 2007, Dafa practitioner Mr. Liu Egui from Fangshan was arrested by police officers from Liulin Police Station in Beijing, and his home was illegally ransacked.

After Dafa practitioner Ms. Liu Jialing was persecuted at the Tianjin Banqiao Women's Forced Labor Camp for 20 months, she managed to escape with righteous thoughts. Her workplace, the Tianjin Jinghai Environmental Protection Bureau, forced her to write a so-called guarantee statement, otherwise they wouldn't allow her to come back to work. Liu persistently resisted the persecution. The Jinghai 610 Office and the National Security Team have been looking for Liu Jialing all over the place in order to persecute her further.

Dafa practitioner Mr. Gao Changze, who is currently being illegally detained at the No. 2 Team in Beijing Tuanhe Forced Labor Camp, was gagged with a cloth tied around his mouth for months due to shouting "Falun Dafa is good" when he was lining up.

At Tuanhe Forced Labor Camp, it is stipulated that prisoners need to report when they want to use the bathroom, and they can't go until they get permission. They are not given enough food. One time, when one practitioner was having his meal, an inmate didn't give him soup. The practitioner wanted to report it to the guards, and ended up having his nose broken.

On April 27, 2007, Dafa practitioner Mr. Li Yue from Shijingshan District was arrested from his home by police from the Mentougou District.

On the evening of May 29, when Dafa practitioner Mr. Ding Eryi from Wulian County in Rizhao City, Shandong Province was clarifying the truth at Wulian County, he was arrested by police officers from Wulian Police Bureau.

Ms. Xu Xiuchun is currently being illegally detained at Tangshan City Kaiping Forced Labor Camp.

In March 2007, police officers arrested 40-year-old Dafa practitioner Mr. Wang Min from Hongqiao District in Tianjin. He managed to escape and come home with righteous thoughts. After that, police officers kept going to his home to harass him and attempted to further persecute Wang Ming. On the morning of May 30, police officers from Shuanghuan Village Police Station affiliated with Hongqiao Sub-Bureau took warrants to Wang Min's home with the intention of arresting him.

On May 28, Dafa practitioner Ms. Wang Shuhui from Shandong Province, who is about 50 years old, was arrested again. Currently her whereabouts are unknown.

At about 8:00 a.m. on May 26, 2007, when Ms. Hui Ruiying, a 70 year-old lady who retired from the Light-Industrial Machinery Factory, was clarifying the truth at the market when she was arrested by police officers from Dongguan Police Station. Her home was subsequently ransacked. Later she was held at the Anqiu City Detention Center.

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wu Zhihong from Zhuozhou was arrested in Beijing. Falun Gong practitioners Ms. Zhang Yuming and Ms. He Yuhua from 173 Coal Field Geology General Team were arrested from their homes, and their homes were ransacked by police officers from the Beijing Police Bureau. Later the police went to the home of a female Falun Gong practitioner by the last name of Zhao to arrest her, but didn't find her. Ms. Zhao was forced to leave home and go from place to place. Currently their whereabouts are unknown.

On May 23, 2007, Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Jiang Xifeng from Jiangdian Village in Gaotang County, Shandong Province was arrested by police officers from Jiangdian Village Police Station. Currently, he is being illegally detained at the County Detention Center.

On May 15, 2007, Dafa practitioner Ms. Wang Bo and Ms. Liu Shuqin from Shijiazhuang were illegally transferred to the Hebei Province Women's Prison. Mr Wang Xizhong's situation is unknown.

On the morning of April 26, 2007, Dafa practitioners Ms. Bai Mei, Ms. Zhang Fenghua, Ms. Shi Yuhuan, and Ms. Liang Xiutao were illegally arrested and sent to Shisanli Detention Center by numerous police officers. On May 25, 2007, four of the practitioners managed to come home with righteous thoughts. Police officers fined their families from 3,000 yuan to 4,000 yuan.

Ms. Huang Jinlian, who has been detained for over four months at Shisanli Detention Center, has been abused by criminals Wu Dongmei and guard Cao Ailin, who has been beating her at will.

On September 23, 2006, Dafa practitioner Mr. Qi Lihe was arrested at his home in Shenzhen City and illegally held at Shenzhen Luohu Detention Center. On March 23, 2007, in the so-called "open trial" in Shenzhen Luohu Court, there was no verdict made and the trial was finished in haste.

Currently, Ms. A Xia, who was arrested at the same time, is still being illegally detained at Futian Detention Center.

In April 2005, Dafa practitioner Ms. Zhang Xinqi and Mr. Luo were arrested at the same time. Currently they are still being detained at the Shenzhen Futian Detention Center.

Dafa practitioner Mr. Yan Zhiqiang's illegal trial is about to open at Yuanbaoshan Court.

30. [Chengdu City, Sichuan Province] Zheng Yingqiu Illegally Detained at Chengdu City Huacheng District Brainwashing Center

At about 5:30 p.m. on May 14, 2007, when Ms. Zheng Yingqiu was taking care of her daughter, who had just given birth to her child, she was arrested by two male officers. Currently Zheng Yingqiu is being illegally detained at Shihua District Brainwashing Center located at Shizi Village, Qinglong Town, Chenghua District, Chengdu City.

From May 10-12, 2007, people from the Comprehensive Management Office in Panzhihua City of Sichuan Province and Miyi County Police Bureau in Miyi Comprehensive Management Office arrested Dafa practitioners Mr. Gao Longyu, Mr. Jiang Yilan, Ms. Peng Kaiju, Ms. Yu Lan, Mr. Xiao You, Mr. Hu Guangxian, Mr. Xiong Zefu, Mr. Xiong Daoxian, Mr. Li Wenkang, Ms. Li Zhengju, Mr. Hu Xingyu, Ms. Zhang Kaiqiong and her sister, all from Miyi County. They also illegally confiscated Dafa books from Dafa practitioners' homes. Police officers Zhou Lin and others arrested Peng Kaiju and took her to Panlian Township Police Station, where she was hung up while handcuffed for over two hours.

Mr. Huang Xuejun is a pharmacist from Puai Hospital in Anlu City of Hubei Province. Due to clarifying the truth, he was arrested and detained in a forced labor camp and a brainwashing center a total of five times. On March 22, 2007, when he went back to work, he was arrested by people from Puai Hospital in Anlu City of Hubei Province, who were assisted by police officers from the Anlu City National Security Team and police officers from Yunmeng County in Hubei Province. Mr. Huang has been held at Yunmeng Detention Center to this day.

At about 9:00 a.m. on May 30, 2007, Dafa practitioner Ms. Ren Shuzhen from Yongdeng County in Gansu Province was reported by someone while she was clarifying the truth. At about 9:00 a.m. on May 30, 2007, police officers broke into her home and confiscated Dafa books and a large amount of truth-clarification materials. As a result, she was forced to leave home and go from place to place.

On May 29, 2007, Dafa practitioner Ms. Zhang Kecong, who is 65 years old, and Ms. Zhu Youe, who is 60 years old, both from Ning Town in Hunan Province, were reported when they were clarifying the truth in Zifu Town. Police officers handcuffed them behind their backs and arrested them. Then they illegally ransacked the practitioners' homes. Police officers confiscated a copy of Zhuan Falun and other Dafa books. Currently both of them are likely being held at the Huitang Center Police Station.

On the afternoon of May 13, 2007, Dafa practitioner Ms. Chen Jie, Ms. Xie Wenju, Mr. Zhong Chongwen and his wife were reported when they were clarifying the truth at Qingbaijiang District in Chengdu. Then police officers from Kangjiadu Police Station arrested them. After that, police officers ransacked their homes.

Between May 25 and 29, Mr. Wei Denghui and Ms. Zhang Hong were arrested at home as well. Currently both of them are being illegally held at Qingbaijiang Detention Center.

Dafa practitioner Mr. Li Fulin from Shenzhen City, about 40 years old, is currently being illegally held at Shenzhen City Futian Detention Center. He will be brought to trial at Futian Court at 3:15 p.m. on June 7, 2007.

Ms. Xu Xiani, a 51-year-old Dafa practitioner from Baoshan District in Shanghai, was reported when she was clarifying the truth in 2006. People from the Shanghai 610 Office arrested her. Xu has been sentenced to four years imprisonment.

On May 30, 2007, Dafa practitioner Ms. Xu Xiao from Gulou District in Nanjin City was arrested at her workplace by police officers from the National Security Team. Her home has been ransacked, and currently she is being detained at the Jiangdongmen Women's Detention Center.

At about 10:00 a.m. on May 28, 2007, Dafa practitioner Mr. Jin Fengtian from Longjing City was arrested at Yanji City by four police officers from the Longjing City Police Bureau. His Dafa books and computer were confiscated.

On the morning of May 29, 2007, Dafa practitioner Ms. Li Yanqun and Ms. Xia Wencong from Foshan City were arrested by police officers from Gaoming County and their homes were ransacked subsequently.

At about 8:00 a.m. on May 28, 2007, Yang Qinglin, who is the head of the Xinhuang County 610 Office in Hunan Province, took a dozen people and broke into Dafa practitioner Ms. Yang Faxiu's home and arrested her. She is currently being held at the Huaihua City Brainwashing Center to be persecuted.

At 3:00 a.m. on May 29, 2007, Dafa practitioners Ms. Li Jing, Ms. Chen Xiaoyu, and Mr. Chen Zhijian from Nanning City in Guangxi Province were arrested by more than 20 people from Guangxi Zhuan Minority Autonomous Region Safety Bureau after their residence located at Nanning City Jiangnan Xinwu Village was broken into. Currently, their whereabouts are unknown.

In May 2007, Dafa practitioner Ms. Mo Xiaomei was illegally sentenced.

On May 24, 2007, Dafa practitioners Ms. Lai Yuwen, Ms. Tang Qiong, and Ms. Wu Silian from Sichang City were arrested by police officers and are being illegally detained at Sichang City Tuohuang Detention Center.

(Clearwisdom.net) A "solemn declaration" is a person's public statement declaring to the world that whatever he or she has done or said under duress or deception that was against Falun Dafa is null and void. Most of these statements have come from Falun Dafa practitioners in China who wished to express regret that, in the face of physical torture and brainwashing, they had signed documents renouncing Dafa and guaranteeing not to practice again. Also, as more and more people in China learn the truth about how they have been deceived and lied to by the Jiang regime, many non-practitioners are also submitting "solemn declarations."

Here are some examples of the Solemn Declarations:

• Dafa Practitioners' Solemn Statements [4/18/2007]
• Solemn Declarations by Young Dafa Practitioners [4/18/2007]
• Solemn Declarations By People Who Have Awakened to the Truth about Falun Gong [4/18/2007]

Please click here for more Solemn Declarations

(Clearwisdom.net) We are common Chinese citizens. Among our acquaintances and family members are many Falun Gong practitioners. We know them well, including their daily conduct and we know about the brutal persecution to which they are subjected. We are the best observers and witnesses of Falun Gong practitioners' efforts to follow the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion -Forbearance, to become good people. They are not at all what the government and media have described them to be. On the contrary - their conduct is guided by the principles of their cultivation practice: Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. They do not bow to corruption but treat others honestly. They do not fight back when struck or insulted, and they're humble and tolerant and consider others first when taking any action. They strive to be good people under any circumstances and constantly raise their xinxing to become even better. In today's China, with the sunken moral standards, people harm each other and will do all kinds of evil things to each other, but Falun Gong practitioners are truly outstanding human beings. Every person who understands Falun Gong will show them empathy and condemn the regime's atrocities.

Falun Gong has been subjected to the persecution for eight years now. We do not know how many practitioners have been sentenced to forced labor, or have been detained, tortured and murdered. But just in the area where we live, more than 100 Falun Gong practitioner were sentenced to forced labor, and three of them died as a result of torture during detention. Two of them died at home a few days after they were released, and one died inside the labor camp. We have learned that the situation is the same in other areas, even in the entire country. We have heard a police officer who came to arrest Falun Gong practitioners saying, "There is no law protecting Falun Gong. They deserve it if they're killed."

We then thought, "Chairman Hu and Prime Minister Wen have repeatedly emphasized establishing a society based on a legal system and even declared that we are already a society based on a system of law." But, confronted with the facts, we have been shocked and disappointed again and again. Chairman Hu and Prime Minister Wen, you have been in power for several years now, but the lawless persecution that confuses good and evil, this money-consuming and resource-squandering persecution, has not abated, but has actually accelerated and become increasingly vicious. We are truly distressed.

Everyone knows that the culprits who launched this unprecedented ruthless persecution was the Jiang-Luo group. In the people's opinion, Chairman Hu and Prime Minister Wen have done some positive things for the people and for that the people praise you. But we honestly do not understand why, as high-ranking and powerful as you are, you are willing to assume the guilt and become accomplices to the murderers. We had assumed that this was absolutely impossible. Why would you ever be willing to carry the guilt of a blood debt, unless you were supporters and participants in this barbaric persecution - something we refuse to believe.

As a matter of fact, many common folks as well as officials know about Falun Gong. They understand that Falun Gong is wrongfully persecuted, and that the government's indictments of Falun Gong are all fabricated. We have read the three open letters that Mr. Gao Zhisheng has written to you, and have read the "Bloody Harvest" investigation report into the government's illegal organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners. Our hearts, minds and souls were so profoundly shocked that we find it difficult to bear. Based on our knowledge of the suffering of the Falun Gong practitioners with whom we are acquainted, we believe without a doubt, as stated in the investigation report, that the organ harvesting is "a new form of evil on this planet never before seen." With the gradual exposure of the atrocities in China, we believe that when the majority of people have come to know about these unprecedented immense crimes, the evildoing political power and forces will become extinct amid the roar of people from China and around the world. That day is just around the corner.

We are proud of China hosting the Olympic Games, but we are more shamed by the humanity-shaking crimes happening in China right now. We do not know how many people will be wrongfully persecuted, imprisoned and even killed under the guise of ensuring the security of the Olympic Games, and what kind of red terror the Falun Gong group, who have already been suffering the most chilling persecution, will face.

Any Chinese person with a conscience will not be unmoved after learning that tens of thousands of our country's innocent citizens are being tortured to death or being cremated after their vital organs are extracted while they are still alive. We are gratified to see those upright groups and brave heroes standing up courageously and saying "No" to the ruthless persecution. The formidable calls from both inside and outside of this nation are igniting a holy flame that is inextinguishable and is driving the darkness away like a prairie wild fire. History will severely punish and eliminate any persons or forces from the face of this Earth that attempt to stop this righteous conflagration!

Recently, the Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong in China (CIPFG), as well as some of the world's prominent people led by the Hon. David Kilgour, former Member of Parliament of Canada, former Canadian Secretary of State, Asia-Pacific, wrote to you proposing a timetable to end the persecution, expressing the aspirations of countless people. Today we represent the Chinese people of conscience and call on you once again, most sincerely and strongly, to end this disaster that has harmed almost every Chinese individual.

We sincerely anticipate that you, Chairman Hu and Prime Minister Wen, will make the correct decision at this important historic juncture, one that will go down in history and win the people's praise. It is a matter of obvious right and wrong for the country and the people, and it also has a profound affect on your own bright future and destiny!

June 13, 2007

(Clearwisdom.net) Nowadays when people talk about the theory of evolution, they consider it a part of biology. As a matter of fact, the reach of the theory of evolution has far exceeded the field of biology.

If a theory can improve or maintain the basic morality of society, we may call it a righteous theory. If a theory undermines human morality, then this theory should undoubtedly be regarded as being a wicked one. This article attempts to elaborate on the impact of the theory of evolution on humankind.

The major difference between human beings and animals is that humans are bound by ethics. The theory of evolution essentially undermines human ethics, which have been passed down generation after generation for thousands of years, and it promotes the bad side of human nature, that of selfishness and the pursuit of self-interest.

In the past few thousands years of history, Westerners truly believed that gods created human beings, that God created Heaven and Earth, whereas in the East, people believed, "in early days, people's nature was kind," and "divine beings are just three inches above your head." Chinese Confucianism is centered around "how people cultivate their bodies and value virtue." Morality Scripture has many words, but it's essence is "follow Heaven and cherish virtue." A story with which people may be familiar talks about Confucius carefully studying Zhou Yi (an ancient Chinese text) in order to improve his morality and level of cultivation. Which is to say, for many years, people believed that one should emphasize the benign side of human nature, whereas the demon nature of our human self, demonstrated as being selfish and pursuing self-interest, is understood as the ugly side of human nature. Historically, people have been taught to put effort into eliminating this ugly side. "Cultivating ourselves, governing the country, and making the world peaceful" refers to subduing the evil nature of human beings, in order to cultivate to be a noble and well-mannered person. Respecting one's parents and being loyal to one's country are human behaviors with deep historical roots. Under the binding force of human basic morality, people are not as susceptible to being influenced by their demon nature; the kind side of human nature will thus play the leading role. This enables society to progress normally and in a healthy way, and prolongs human civilization.

What the theory of evolution has people believe--from a biological perspective--is that humans "evolved" from animals. So, fundamentally, what it did was to have people ignore their own true origins and Buddha nature. When this happens, one turns to the other side and unknowingly accepts to opposite, that human nature is animalistic, selfish and unrestrained. Under the influence of desire, people came up with words and actions to describe human nature that go against human morality. Desires are treated as part of an inescapable "nature." Human morality, which has prevailed for thousands of years, has become marginalized. The idea of "Good is rewarded with good, and evil meets with retribution," which had been upheld through history, became something hard to feel or sense, so it lost its place. Morality lost its effect in restraining people's evil nature, and people lost the most basic notions of morality. To satisfy their unlimited desire has become the impetus of many people. When people's demon nature gained the upper hand, that's when human morality began to completely deteriorate.

The detrimental effect of the theory of evolution on human beings has far exceeded what has been described above. Its core concept of "survival of the fittest" encouraged modern people to find ground for their deviated notions and excuses for their deterioration, enabling them to go against their consciences. Under this theory, "survival" has almost become the only meaning of life, which means, as long as you can survive in what is described as an inherently cruel environment, you are the winner, no matter what kind of approach you take. Other notions followed, such as "If you don't beat him down, he will beat you down;" "If a person is not after self-interest, heaven and earth will remove him," and so on. Notions that represent the evil, demon nature of humanity, selfishness and the pursuit of self-interest, have replaced the traditional concepts of the human morality.

In such a society where this theory is predominant, the emphasis is on being the "fittest", regardless of things like kindness and compassion. A person who thinks of others all the time and contributes to society quietly, and a person who improves his moral standards, is not praised but rather pushed down, often to the point of losing their basic living space. A saying in China -- "laughing at the poor instead of the prostitutes" -- has emerged, where it is implied that wealth and power are much more important than morality. Even mafia leaders have become role models and heroes. Let's think about the saying "early bird gets the worm," is the implication that birds who get up late end up dying of hunger? Is that right? In a real life setting, even though a person desperately strives for his own self-interest with no consideration of the means he adopts, can he necessarily achieve his goals?

Influenced by the theory of evolution, many people are most preoccupied with how to make themselves more competitive. When they found that people who are honest and law-abiding were easily taken advantage of, they made themselves out to be very cunning in order to "keep up with the ever-changing trend." Everyone is bending their values for a little more perceived personal gain. Seldom is there anyone who dares to challenge whether moral implication is right or not. Under such an environment, many parents are focusing so much attention on how to make their child adjust to this "competitive society." The schools' education doesn't emphasize ethics and only counts academic achievement. Therefore, students in China nowadays have to study day and night. Their parents can see this situation and know that it's not right, but can't help them. Many hate the current way of education and desperately want to lesson the students' burdens, but all of their hopes are riding on this academic measure of success.

Many have lost themselves in competition and spend all of their time and energy running around in circles in pursuit of something. Even for those who have gained the upper hand, they don't have a moment of real peace. In addition, they have to watch out for the competition behind them! People feel that they are leading such arduous lives and are worn out. They are struggling under the concept of "survival of the fittest" in order to gain a foothold in a society where morality has completely deteriorated. People are hurting one another in order to win, and they do whatever it takes, even if it is wicked. Social problems spring up one after another and human morality has declined to this dreadful stage. Even the natural environment, being the indispensable part of human life, has suffered from unprecedented destruction.

Therefore, we need to completely abandon the theory of evolution in our society and rebuild human morality. This has become a responsibility that can't be shirked, because it affects each one of us and the generations that come after us.

(Clearwisdom.net) Father's Day comes, but for Danielle Wang her Father's Day is blank, her letters and gifts to her father are unable to reach him. Her father has been incarcerated in a prison in China, oceans apart for eight years. But since his incarceration Father's Day has never be the same. Danielle decided to come forward to rescue her father, and today she stood in front of the Texas State Government Building to hold a press conference, another step forward in rescuing her father from prison. For Danielle, the best present for her father is to rescue him from prison and be reunited with her overseas.

Danielle Wang hold press conference in front of Texas State Government Building and calls for the rescue of her father, Mr. Wang Zhiwen, who was illegally sentenced by the CCP for practicing Falun Gong

People show concern about her father's plight, and express sympathy and support

Danielle's father, Mr. Wang Zhiwen, was dragged away from home by the police on July 20 eight years ago. That was at the beginning of the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) brutal persecution of Falun Gong. Danielle had moved to the U.S. a year earlier with her mother. Since that time, she has not seen her father. Again she heard the news of her father on TV. CNN reported that Wang Zhiwen was sentenced to 16 years in prison.

Wang Zhiwen had not committed any crime, but had firmly practiced Falun Gong, so the CCP took him as the backbone of Falun Gong, and sentenced him to 16 years in prison. In Danielle's memory, her father was a very good person. In her young mind, she did not understand why a good person would be imprisoned. In order to learn more about Falun Gong, Danielle also started practicing Falun Gong with a genuine heart. Gradually, she understood that the practice her father practices cultivates Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, and has great benefit to humanity and society. She understood the significance of what her father had done, and that he should not be imprisoned.

Her time in the U.S. has been the most important period of time in Danielle's life. After graduating from high school, Danielle was admitted to a university, and after completing her university education, she began working. She experienced all of this without her father's care and love. Danielle misses her father day and night, looking forward to days when she and her father will be reunited. These past years for her have been difficult and harrowing, but she knows that her father is suffering even more than she while in prison, and that kind of endurance is hard for others to understand.

In the hot June sun in front of the Texas State Government Building, Danielle made a solemn appeal, demanding that the CCP immediately release her father, and asking people to lend a helping hand to stop the persecution. Many of Danielle's friends came to offer their encouragement. Some were Falun Gong practitioners from Austin, Houston and Dallas. Passersby and visitors learned about Danielle's story, they all expressed their sympathy and signed a signature collection book to express their support for her to rescue her father and stop the persecution.

Danielle believes that when more and more people learn about the truth, they will see clearly the CCP's brutal nature and choose to quit the CCP and its affiliated organizations. Her father and countless other illegally detained Falun Gong practitioners will soon breathe fresh air. The day will soon come.

(Clearwisdom.net) On Saturday June 16, six Falun Gong practitioners traveled to a small city in Norway called Fredrikstad. This city in the Southeast part of Norway has a little over 70,000 inhabitants and is the sixth largest city in Norway. In the hot summer sun a group of practitioners gathered to clarify the truth and tell the local people about the atrocities being committed in China under the Communist Party's dictatorship. The local people traveling along the main street where horrified by the persecution taking place in China, and the majority had already heard about it before. Many people were moved and showed a genuine wish to help. Many read the fliers attentively and signed the petition supporting an end to the persecution.

The local paper Fredrikstad Blad, which has reported on this issue before, covered the event with a brief editorial on what the practitioners were doing.

Practitioners in Norway will continue to hold similar activities until the persecution of Falun Gong ends.

Practitioners handing out fliers

Photo taken by the local newspaper

(Clearwisdom.net) The Buryat Republic, also known as Buryatia, is a vast but thinly populated place in the mountainous southern extremes of Russia's Siberia. Most residents are descendants of the Mongolians. In a remote village, there live one thousand seven hundred Buryats who are mainly engaged in animal farming, with no computer or internet connection. They know very little about what happens in the outside world.

One of the villagers has a relative who is a Falun Gong practitioner in Irkutsk, Siberia's largest city. One year ago, the villager was lucky enough to learn Falun Gong and started to practice cultivation. Through doing the exercises, the severe arthritis that had bothered him for years was miraculously cured. This became big news in the small village. The practitioner from Irkutsk promoted Falun Gong in the village, bringing along Falun Gong books and materials. A practice site was thus established here.

At present, seven or eight people show up regularly for Fa study and exercises. Everyone feels healthy and energized since they began practicing Falun Gong.

Several practitioners from Irkutsk recently came to study the Fa, do the exercises, and share cultivation experiences with local practitioners. They were also invited to the local school to promote Falun Gong and clarify the truth about the persecution.

A poor, remote village now has a new life. Falun Gong brought health, beauty and hope to the villagers.

Group exercises

Teaching the students

Discussing Falun Gong and the persecution to the students

Learning about Falun Gong

(Clearwisdom.net) On June 17, 2007, the Global Service Center for Quitting the CCP held a press conference, a rally and a parade in Puli, Nantou, Taiwan to support the 23 million people who have withdrawn from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated organizations. The Divine Land Marching Band performed at the rally, as did the Qiankun Drummers. Falun Gong practitioners demonstrated the exercises as well.

Divine Land Marching Band

The parade

Qiankun Drummers

Professor Liu Chengyi from Chunghsing University spoke at the rally. He condemned the CCP for ruining moral standards, traditional culture and the environment in China. He expressed that 23 million withdrawals from the CCP foretells the inevitable fall of the CCP.

Professor Liu Chengyi from Chunghsing University

Mr. Pan Jianhsun, the representative of Tang Huosheng, the Legislative Member of Nantou, expressed that the world is witnessing the brutality of the CCP, particularly with respect to Falun Gong.

Mr. Pan Jianhsun, the representative of Tang Huosheng, the Legislative Member of Nantou

Practitioners re-enacted CCP organ harvesting atrocities, which shocked many spectators.

Re-enacting organ harvesting atrocities

Professor Hou Nianchu from Asian University in Taichung spoke on behalf of the Service Center for Quitting the CCP. He expressed that the CCP is the most brutal communist power in the world and volunteers at the service center have the responsibility to prove the principle that the evil can never triumph over justice.

Prof. Hou Nianchu

Spectators learn about the movement to quit the CCP

(Clearwisdom.net) On June 17, 2007, Falun Gong practitioners in Toronto, Canada participated in the annual Oshawa Fiesta held in Oshawa, Durham. Fiesta means "festival" in Spanish. The Oshawa Fiesta is a week-long multi-cultural festival of activities, providing local residents with an opportunity to experience the foods and cultures from Europe, Asia and the Caribbean without going too far away from home. This year was the 35^th anniversary of the festival. The festival has a long history, and has become one of the biggest multi-cultural festivals in Canada. Falun Gong practitioners were the first time to take part in it.

Canadian Divine Land Marching Band performs in the parade

Waist drummers perform in the parade

The celebration began with a grand parade. Participants included several dozen bands of different sizes, several dozen floats and performing groups representing a variety of cultures. Marching bands dressed in military uniforms of ancient, contemporary and modern times displayed the best of their skills. With trumpets and tubas big and small playing together, the drumbeats were thunderous. The Canadian Divine Land Marching Band and waist drummers composed of Toronto Falun Gong practitioners made its debut at the Fiesta parade. The audience found everything in their performances new and refreshing, and gave them warm applause, and the local Chinese people had looks of approval.

A member of the Popular Arts Commission in Oshawa was in the audience. He said that he was glad to see Falun Gong practitioners take part in the parade. He was aware that Falun Gong has suffered severe persecution in China, and he had read many stories about Falun Gong. Whenever he read about their great deeds, he could not help crying.

After the parade, the Divine Land Marching Band played several pieces of music on the festival stage, including the Canadian anthem "O, Canada," "Falun Dafa is Good" and "Fa Drums and Fa Trumpets Shake Heaven and Earth." Waist drummers and the lion dance troupe gave exquisite performances enthralling the audience both young and old.

The Divine Land Marching Band performs on the stage

Lion Dance

Members of the Divine Land Marching Band have a photo taken with government officials participating in the Fiesta (From right to left: Oshawa Mayor Join Gray, MP Colin Carrie, Secretary to the Minister of Industry, Ontario MPP Jerry J. Ouellette, MP Jason Kenney (Secretary of State for Multiculturalism and Canadian Identity )

The reporter interviewed Oshawa Mayor John Gray and MP Jason Kenney.

Mayor John Gray highly praised Falun Gong practitioners' participation in the parade. He said that it was the first time that practitioners had participated in this parade. He said that Falun Gong practitioners came to Oshawa every year, and should be issued a proclamation.

MP Jason Kenney is also Secretary of State for Multiculturalism and Canadian Identity. He said that the Oshawa Fiesta is one of the oldest multi-cultural festivals in Canada, and that it was remarkable that Falun Dafa participated. It can help build Falun Gong's status in the community. He also complimented the Divine Land Marching Band, saying that they were marvelous. He said the band is one of the most outstanding, most disciplined and the largest bands he had seen. He was very surprised to see them in the parade. He hoped that practitioners would participate in more of such activities to improve their name recognition and show that Falun Gong practitioners are also ordinary members of society. They give something back to society and make contributions to the community, and thus convey a very important message to society.

Falun Gong practitioners distributed many truth clarification materials. Rogers Cable broadcast the whole parade procession live to local residents.

(Clearwisdom.net) On June 16, 2007, the 19th Annual International Dragon Boat Festival was held on Centre Island, in Toronto. The organizers estimated that more than 120 thousand people would attend the festival. Falun Gong practitioners had a booth at the festival to demonstrate the exercises and clarify the facts of Falun Gong. They also offered CCP members the ability to quit the Party on the spot.

Practitioners' booth

Learning the facts of Falun Gong

Demonstrating the exercises

Young practitioners from the Minghui School demonstrated the exercises on the lawn, which attracted many tourists, most of whom left with truth-clarifying materials in hand

Young practitioners demonstrate the exercises

Six year-old Lingwen, who came to Toronto from Mainland China three months ago, told this reporter, "Nobody will come to arrest me today. In China, I cannot do the exercises in park." His mother said, "We are very glad that we can bring him to the activity today. It is impossible to have such an activity in China."

A family from Anhui, China, ran into practitioners and talked to them. The father said, "It feels really good to live in such a free country. I didn't understand why the Chinese government persecutes such a peaceful practice. I read the The Epoch Times every day in Toronto, then I realized the reasons." A young practitioner gave him a copy of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party. He said that he was not a member of the CCP, but he asked practitioners to help him and his wife to quit the Communist Youth League.

Mr. Wang, a Falun Gong practitioner, told the reporter that many tourists came to the festival today and many of them came to practitioners' booth, asking for Falun Gong materials. He said, "We exposed the evil history of the CCP today. Many people read our display boards carefully. One lady told me that she knows the facts of the persecution and later she quit the party at my booth."

(Clearwisdom.net) On June 9, 2007, area practitioners participated in the Lind, Washington parade for the second year. When picking up our parade number, the organizer was so pleased to see us, as there were many favorable comments about our group last year.

Origami lotus flowers and fliers were passed out along the parade route. The crowd was pleased to see us and we noticed that people were more interested in accepting fliers this year.

June 13, 2007

Chennai

When it comes to stress busters, people usually turn to yoga, reiki or meditation. Falun Gong is a more popular form of Chinese meditation. Of late, in the city, Falun Gong workshops are getting more popular with people.

Suman Srinivasan, who has been conducting this workshop for a few weeks, says that this Chinese form of meditation aims at a holistic improvement of the mind and the body. "It does not focus on breathing whereas in yoga it is very essential. In yoga there are various aasans for different types of ailments. As far as Falun Gong is concerned there is only a set of five exercises which can be practiced by everybody."

People who have attended the Falun Gong workshops have noticed a difference. "As far as Falun Gong is concerned this is my first experience. I fee it is quite stress buster for hypertension especially," says N. Natarajan, a HR Consultant.

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"Predominantly Falun Gong workshops are conducted for free. The aim behind these workshops is to share the benefits of an art form with more number of people.

Anybody who has practiced Falun Gong even for a year can conduct these workshops. It is open for all age groups but more so for office goers. In fact Falun Gong is also being practiced in schools across Bengaluru, and results have shown that students have benefited a lot by practicing it everyday." says Sai Krishna, a Falun Gong expert who has come down from Hyderabad to enlighten interested people on Falun Gong.

(Clearwisdom.net) I began my cultivation in 1998. Immersed in Teacher's boundless benevolence, I have traveled along with other Dafa disciples through the path of Fa-rectification cultivation amidst the roughest storms. Recalling my cultivation experiences in the past few years, I find it difficult to describe my feelings and cannot help but sigh, and I cannot stop my tears from falling. It is a combined emotion involving my steadfast belief in Teacher and Dafa, and my fellow practitioners' helping me along the way with their unselfishness and righteous thoughts. I want to share my experiences by describing an incident below. I hope that by discussing them with my fellow practitioners, it will help us do better in the future on our Fa-rectification path.

It was June 2006. With the care of Teacher and Dafa disciples' righteous thoughts, I was released from a local detention center. The rough treatment of forced-feeding by prison guards during my hunger strikes in the detention center led to my tuberculosis and having much liquid accumulated in my lungs. It got worse after I came home. I coughed day and night and was unable to breathe. I threw up phlegm one mouthful after another, followed by blood and black phlegm. My lung was failing. My family wanted to take me to the hospital, but I knew that it was not an illness and refused. I struggled in pain for over a month, but things did not improve any. Often times I could not breathe and nearly died as a result. I began to worry. I thought that if I died, it would impede the salvation of some sentient beings. I lost my righteous thoughts and let my family take me to the hospital. I did not know at the time that by doing that I was acknowledging the persecution by the old forces. My husband borrowed some money and took me to the TB hospital. I was too weak to hold a book, and thus could not study the Fa. I did not know what to do since there were no practitioners around me. I hope that practitioners will avoid having conflicts with each other in the future. We need to communicate and visit each other more often and help each other, and not leave the practitioners that are under tribulations alone.

We went to the hospital in the afternoon. While capable of being on my feet at home, I could not do it as soon as I was in the hospital and my condition worsened dramatically thereafter. I began to lose it at 11 PM, not able to breathe on my own and having to rely on oxygen. I was not getting any better after four bags of oxygen in one shot. I told my husband to switch hospitals immediately and in the meantime I kept asking Teacher in my mind, "Teacher, please save me. I cannot die no matter what. While whether I die or not is unimportant, and I have no problem letting go the attachment to my own life, I am concerned that my dying will affect Dafa. I can never let myself taint Dafa's reputation." I thought that if I died, the impact would be huge. The whole city would know. My own little town all knew that I had been persecuted and put in jail many times because of my doing exercises and not giving up my beliefs. Despite my family being broken up by the persecution, I did not give up my beliefs. Now, if suddenly I died, they would think that Dafa was no good and it was all fake. It would have affected all of my friends and relatives, and more sentient beings would have missed the opportunity to be saved. So I had a steadfast thought in my mind: "I cannot die no matter what, and please, Teacher, save me." I asked my husband help me to switch hospitals and I asked for help from Teacher whenever my head was clear.

My husband found a taxi, put me in it and had the taxi drive toward the city hospital. I passed out after that, knowing nothing about what happened on the road, how we got up the floors in the hospital, how the doctor took my blood samples, how he could not find my vein, and how he told my husband to prepare for my funeral, etc. When I woke up, I felt that something was in my nostril that made me uncomfortable (the oxygen tube). I lied there motionlessly, not knowing where I was. Then my husband came in. He was excited seeing that I was awake and came to hold my hand, and he told me what had happened while I was unconscious. Then, I knew that I was lying in a room in the internal medicine department on the sixth floor of the city hospital.

My husband told me, "The day is breaking soon. Your parents will be here. You are okay now. Just rest quietly." He then pointed to the two IV bottles overhanging my head and said, "They are saline solutions. Only one has some medicine in it. We had almost used up all the money at the TB hospital and had only one hundred Yuan left. The hospital refused to give you medicine without our paying first, so only a saline solution was used."

I cried. I knew that Teacher had saved me again upon seeing my precious few righteous thoughts. Right after daybreak, my brother and sister-in-law, nephew, and niece all came. I cried again. I knew that they had come to bid me farewell. If it weren't for the benevolence of Dafa and Teacher, I would not be still alive in this world. My family members would not be seeing a living me.

Through negating the old forces' attempt to take away my life, taint Dafa's reputation, and interfere with saving sentient beings, I came to understand that no matter what the environment is like, or however dangerous the situation is, we need to put away our attachments to ourselves while validating Dafa. We need to forget about our own gain or loss, eliminate the selfish nature of the old universe, and unconditionally think of others. We need to think for the sentient beings and the needs of Fa-rectification. Only then will we no longer be selfish and become a "for-others" life that is assimilated with Dafa. We will then be able to escape from the control of the factors of the old universe. Teacher will be able to help us, turning dangerous situations into safe ones, and let us reach the good state beyond the turmoil. While our own fame or interests are being harmed, or we ourselves are being tortured and in pain, or we are on the verge of losing our lives, as Dafa disciples we need still be thinking about whether others are being affected and whether sentient beings can be saved. Not being concerned about oneself and entirely being for the good of others is indeed the manifestation of a Dafa disciple's greatness and benevolence. It is the manifestation of Dafa in the human world and it is the everlasting virtue and power of Dafa in the universe.

It has been four years since Teacher and Dafa gave me a second life. But every time I think of it I cannot help but cry. I cannot describe my deep gratitude for Teacher's benevolence and the immense compassion of Dafa. All I can do is to trust Teacher and Dafa even more steadfastly. I will work with fellow practitioners to use our actions to validate Dafa and to accomplish what Teacher wants us to do for the Fa-rectification. This way we will be able to meet Teacher's expectations when he saved us, and will meet sentient beings' hopes for us.

I am writing this article to let everyone know my personal experience of being saved by Teacher and Dafa, which is a realization of Teacher and Dafa's saving disciples, rectifying the Fa, and saving sentient beings. I hope this will help all of us in our cultivation. We will be more steadfast in our belief in Teacher and Dafa, and will walk the future path better. Thank you everyone.

(Clearwisdom.net)

Dafa disciple Lao Li was illegally detained in a brainwashing center. During the first ten days of May, his wife (practitioner), daughter (non-practitioner) and another two relatives (practitioners) went to the brainwashing center three times to ask for his release and to clarify the truth about Falun Gong. The head of the brainwashing center called the police and threatened to abduct them each time. Dafa disciples clarified the truth to the police and were able to rescue Lao Li.

On the second day they went to the brainwashing center again. People in the brainwashing center refused to open the door. The head of the brainwashing center opened the door briefly and shouted fiercely, "You wait!" After a while one police car arrived, and three officers came out and stood around them. They did not fear and told the policemen again and again that Falun Gong practitioners are all good people and that if they persecuted Falun Gong, they would bring harm to themselves in the end. The policemen nodded frequently and then retreated. The head of the brainwashing center did not have any way to stop them.

When they went to the brainwashing center the third time, the head of the brainwashing center called the police again. Two police cars arrived and six policemen tried take them away. Li's wife said, "Is there anything wrong with coming to visit our relative? Isn't it illegal to arrest people without just cause? You did not succeed in brainwashing him after such a long time. You want to change him, change him into what? Before cultivation he smoked, drank alcohol, played Mahjong and stayed out all night. Since practicing Falun Gong, he got rid of all his bad habits, worked hard, and helped me do the housework, and he became a good person. If you want to change him back, I will not agree to it." The head of the brainwashing center had nothing to say. At last, the policemen said, "Leave here as soon as possible. We will never arrest you."

One morning in April, one senior Dafa disciple went to the bank to deposit 70,000 yuan, but the clerk wrote it down as 700,000 yuan. The Dafa disciple went back home and found out there was an extra zero after the seven and it was 700,000 yuan. He talked about it with his wife, also a practitioner, and they both went back to the bank to do the correction immediately. After they explained it to them, the clerk and the chief were moved and thanked them again and again. They wanted to send them gifts and wrote them a thank you letter. The Dafa disciple said, "My wife and I are Falun Gong practitioners. You can thank our Master if you want. It is our Master who teaches us to be honest and considerate of others."

At the same time they clarified the truth about Falun Gong and quitting the CCP (Chinese Communist Party). The clerk said that someone had already helped him to quit the CCP, and the chief also agreed to quit. At last, he said they should not fire this clerk due to a mistake. The clerk was moved to tears. The chief said, "You are so compassionate!" Normally, when something like this happens in a bank, the person who made mistake and the chief would both be punished.

Several days later, the Dafa disciple went to the bank again, took truth-clarifying materials to them and clarified the truth to them again. Many employees at the bank learned the truth about Dafa because of this incident.

(Clearwisdom.net) Teacher tells us in "Fa Teaching at the 2007 New York Fa Conference,"

"It's not that Beijing Dafa disciples are not doing a good job. As you know, the largest amount of evil forces are concentrated in Beijing, so in terms of the effectiveness of clarifying the facts and the state of the practitioners, things there definitely lag behind other places. It's not because the practitioners are lacking, but rather, that the evil forces are greater there and are more concentrated there."

After I read this, I decided to extend the amount of time I devote to sending forth righteous thoughts.

I think we should intensify our efforts to send powerful righteous thoughts towards Beijing in order to thoroughly eliminate all the evil in that area. Through the Minghui/Clearwisdom website, some practitioners have called upon Dafa disciples in Beijing and the surrounding areas to focus on sending forth righteous thoughts every hour to the other dimensions in the Beijing area. As a Dafa disciple in Tianjin City, I was happy to join them. If more practitioners could assist in intensifying our efforts to eliminate the evil, it would be unable to escape. In addition to the four set times used around the world, I try to send forth righteous thoughts for twenty minutes every hour. Normally I stop what I am doing and sit down with palm erect to send forth righteous thoughts. If I am distributing materials outside, I stop and send righteous thoughts on the street, or I send righteous thoughts before distributing the materials. I do not want to miss a single chance to eliminate the evil.

I have felt very good since beginning to devote additional time to sending forth righteous thoughts. Not only has it eliminated large amounts of evil, but it has also strengthened my concentration. It produces better results with less effort. I would like to share some of the states of mind I experience while sending forth righteous thoughts.

When I recite, "The Fa rectifies the cosmos, the evil is completely eliminated," the thought arises and the energy emerges. I see the golden energy from my body reaching the horizon. It truly "encompasses everything and leaves out nothing."

I have felt a deeper understanding of the concept, "When sending forth righteous thoughts, the practitioner in this dimension does something (eliminating the evil) in other dimensions." It enables the supernormal abilities of practitioners to play a more effective role.

When I send forth righteous thoughts, I see my "self" coming out of my body, as if it were a sack. The sack is sealed, and all distracting thoughts remain enclosed within the sack while a pure "self" goes to the other dimensions to eliminate the evil. I travel within the other dimensions and fly freely. Whether I am standing or sitting, I have no distracting thoughts and do what I am supposed to do wholeheartedly.

After I clear away all undesirable elements from myself and hold my palm erect, I see my body in many dimensions, layer upon layer, wearing yellow clothing. I think of myself as a divine being as tall as the heavens and incomparably noble. Whenever I pass a different dimension, one of my bodies is in that dimension eliminating the evil. When I send forth righteous thoughts with a focused mind, I see that my body has become enormous and powerful.

I have recorded these states of mind to encourage fellow practitioners to place a greater emphasis on sending forth righteous thoughts. Teacher has asked us to do the three things well. Studying the Fa and saving sentient beings are fairly straightforward tasks with results that are easy to see. Sending forth righteous thoughts, however, is a little bit different. Although all practitioners do it, the effects are not so apparent, so it becomes easy for us to slack off. Teacher says in "Fa Teaching at the 2007 New York Fa Conference,"

"But that said, when Dafa disciples around the world send righteous thoughts together at the same time, the power is boundless. So, if each person had been able to handle this matter with very strong righteous thoughts and been doing it very well from the beginning, then perhaps there would be no evil remaining now. It's precisely because many practitioners have been interfered with by one thing or another that it hasn't been done well."

Teacher has pointed this out to us. As Dafa disciples, we should pay closer attention to it.

I suggest that in addition to sending forth righteous thoughts at the four set times used around the world, we do it every hour if our situation permits. This applies particularly to those older practitioners who are at home much of the time and who are not always able to distribute materials or clarify the truth. We should do whatever we can. Dafa disciples who have jobs could set aside time during breaks to send forth righteous thoughts, without having to make a large time commitment. If we focus our attention and efforts, a lot of evil can be eliminated quickly.

(Clearwisdom.net) I walked into the Public Security Bureau building to apply for an identification card. The lobby is the size of two to three basketball courts. There are marble counters on three sides of the lobby. Behind the counters there were a few dozen police officers, each with a computer in front of them processing entry and exit affairs, as well as domicile affairs. Although there were people in front of each counter waiting to be helped, the lobby still gave a cold and still feeling due to its enormous size.

I walked up to a middle-aged policewoman's counter and took a seat. Next I submitted my application for a passport. The policewoman checked my application form and copies. After she verified the required information was put into the form correctly, she returned my domicile record and my identification. Then she started to enter my personal information into the computer.

Silently I watched her inputing the data. She had a relaxed and carefree expression on her face while she was typing on the keyboard quickly. All of sudden, she leaned forward staring at the computer monitor, holding her breath. She now looked nervous. The air seemed to have frozen suddenly. I immediately knew what was going on.

One evening about six months ago, the police discovered that I had been producing large numbers of Falun Gong truth-clarification materials at my home. The police came and confiscated a batch of materials and equipment. They illegally arrested my wife, who is also a Falun Gong practitioner, and confiscated my passport. In addition, the police put my home under watch for long periods of time. Later my wife was illegally sentenced to prison.

That evening I was not home, so I escaped the raid, but I could not return home again. I had no choice but to leave for another city and found a new job. The loss of my passport ruined many of my arrangements. My work was affected as well. Several times I was unable to go on overseas business trips because my passport had been confiscated.

Six months later, I took the opportunity of a domestic business trip to return to my hometown. I decided to have my passport replaced. I prepared all the documents and information required to replace my passport and went to the Public Security Bureau's building. That is how I ended up there that day.

As the policewoman was reading the message on the computer monitor, she looked increasingly nervous. After she read the message, she pressed something under her desk. (I guessed it must be an alarm button.) In a short while, a policeman and a policewoman came and were pointed to the computer monitor. The woman did not say anything after she read the message, but the man gave an order, "Bring him to the room in the back!"

While the two police officers were reading the computer monitor, the first policewoman took out a phone book from one of the drawers. She looked up a phone number in the phone book and began to make a call. She heard the man's order, but it appeared that she decided to ask her boss for instructions first.

What was I doing at this pivotal moment? As soon as I walked into this big cold lobby, I felt it was enveloped with a strong ghostly energy. Never had I stopped sending forth righteous thoughts. Especially after the computer system displayed a warning message, I intensified my righteous thoughts. I felt a large spatial dimension surrounding me filling up with positive energy.

While I was sending forth righteous thoughts, I kept saying in my heart, "Teacher, please help me! Teacher, please help me!" I believe that they noticed my calm demeanor. Because I have a steadfast faith in Teacher, the Fa, and the power of righteous thoughts, powerful righteous thoughts made me feel very peaceful and calm. I didn't have any fear.

While I kept sending righteous thoughts, the policewoman kept making calls. The two police officers she summoned were also waiting for her to take action. Time passed by slowly. The strange thing was that the line was either busy or she could not get any specific instruction from her superiors. Less than ten minutes passed. Her facial expression began to soften. Finally, she told me politely, "We cannot process your application today. Why don't you come back another day?"

Thus I calmly walked out of the lobby and got into a taxi cab.

Afterwards, I got insider information that the police were targeting me when they raided my home six month ago. When they failed to arrest me, they listed me on the watch list on the police intranet. In their internal system, I was listed as a Falun Gong practitioner "on the loose." That I was able to walk out of the Public Security Bureau both amazed and frightened my friends and family members who supported my decision to have my passport replaced. After all, the police missed me in the house raid. Now that I walked into their building, they let me go! It was simply incredible!

The cultivation of Falun Gong requires its practitioners to cultivate amidst everyday society and to transcend the realm of everyday people, eventually reaching Consummation. Many veteran Falun Gong practitioners have been cultivating for many years and have reached the final stage of their cultivation practice. Our divine side should become stronger and stronger. With that in mind, how can a divine being possibly be arrested by everyday people, unless he responds with human thoughts such as fear or uses human logic to design means of escape at the time of the potential arrest? These are everyday people's thoughts and notions that are forms of attachment.

Since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started to openly persecute Falun Gong on July 20, 1999, there were six times when I had a close encounter with danger. The first four times, I lacked righteous thoughts and responded with human thoughts, so I ended up being arrested. Once I was even illegally sentenced to serve time in a forced labor camp. The last two times, I had no fear or I had very strong righteous thoughts. Hence, I had a close shave but never any real harm. This trip to the Public Security Bureau was a particularly memorable experience. I truly realized that one thought will differentiate a divine being from an ordinary person!

Through Fa study we should have learned that a field of karma will permeate your entire body when you have a strong attachment. If you can see things with your Celestial Eye, I believe that you would see a living being made of karma dominating this person's body in another dimension. How could Teacher help you at that moment? That would be the same as helping karma. If your master soul can dominate your body, instead of karma, Teacher will be able to help you. Teacher is capable of changing everything, let alone changing the thoughts of everyday people.

Lately there have been reports on the Minghui website about fellow practitioners being arrested all over China and it seems that the number is climbing. Some fellow practitioners even predicted that the number of arrests will continue to rise as the 2008 Beijing Olympics approaches. It appears that such practitioners have acknowledged the escalation. Aren't they accepting the old forces' arrangements? Although we know that we ought not to acknowledge any of the old forces' arrangements, we are not always able to do what we say. That's why problems pop up every now and then.

Nevertheless, we must not make the same mistake again if we should face the danger of being arrested. We must never regard ourselves as everyday people again. If we fail to think of or have faith in Teacher, or if we cannot regard ourselves as Falun Gong practitioners or send forth powerful righteous thoughts, it is definitely not a small problem. It is definitely not about failing to pass one individual test of facing a possible arrest. This is a critical period of time when the Fa-rectification is about to conclude. A Falun Gong practitioner, once arrested, might face imprisonment for a long period of time. Imagine the number of people that might lose their opportunity of being saved! With this in mind, whether we are able to do well as genuine Falun Gong practitioners is a serious matter of saving sentient beings.

(Clearwisdom.net) I started clarifying the truth using the telephone about two and a half years ago when I first came abroad. At the beginning, I was really afraid. Once I dialed the number, I always hoped that people would pick up. Once they picked up, I would speak very loudly and fast, and I was not compassionate. As a result, the person on the other end often hung up quickly. Since I could not do it well, I then studied the Fa. One day I suddenly realized, "Who should be afraid?"

In fact, I was truly not good at speaking before I started practicing Falun Gong. Today, when I can talk for five hours over the phone every day to clarify the truth with a compassionate heart, I truly feel that everything is actually achieved by Teacher. Teacher gives me the wisdom. When a life is saved, I am moved to tears by compassion, which is given by Teacher. Nowadays, I not only can suffocate evil using the phone, but can also easily clarify the truth and convince others to withdraw from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) through chatting with them.

While I clarify the truth, I also help people to withdraw from the CCP. The people I've successfully chatted with include the head of a public security bureau, a director of a 610 Office, a head of a 610 Office and secretary of a political and law committee, a director of an Education Bureau, a school president, many policemen and village officials, as well as many reporters who were deceived by the propaganda. After knowing the truth, they not only withdrew from CCP, but were also willing to ask their families to withdraw as well.

Two days ago, I was connected to a head of a public security bureau. The person said, "You have the wrong number." I thought it might have been connected to a different place (in fact compassionate Teacher connected me to the field site). I then told him, "Mister, I am actually looking for you...." That person listened to me quietly. I heard many people speaking in the background and knew that the call was on a speaker-phone. I said to him happily, "You are truly lucky. There are billions of people in China and you are fortunate enough to hear the truth. Withdraw from the CCP and be saved." The people on the phone said repeatedly, "We don't know how. We detest the CCP...." I then told them that Dafa practitioners clarify the truth in order to save them. I heard that person say loudly, "Falun Dafa is good." People surrounding him repeated twice, "Falun Dafa is good."

I told them, "You are saved. You will have bright futures if you withdraw from the CCP." They wanted to use their real names to withdraw through the hotline, so I gave them the hotline number and told them to hurry up because life is precious, as the CCP could collapse at any time. They thanked me repeatedly and I wished them my best and hung up.

The other day I called a judge who was to preside over a trial against several practitioners. I said gently, "Hi. Do you know that it has been exposed to the international community that you will be the judge of six practitioners. Don't you feel uneasy that you will generate so much karma by sentencing them? What we do is truly for your sake. I believe that you initially must have been a kind person who wanted to eliminate evil and promote kindness. However, the CCP uses you to send innocent people who believe in 'Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance' to prison. It is actually pushing you into hell. Think about it, do you have a conscience ? When the truth of Falun Gong is known to the world, how can you face your parents, husband and children?" I then told her about the fact that Gods will eliminate the CCP, about the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party, the stone with characters carved by nature predicting doom for the CCP, and the number of people who had already withdrawn from the CCP. She listened quietly and suddenly cried. Her conscience was awakened. I continued, "I once lived in the same city as you. But I was twice abducted and taken to a detention center because I told others the facts..." I told her with tears, "Do you know how many children have been orphaned because their parents were sentenced to prison and tortured?" She was shocked and crying. I felt a communication of our hearts. I believed that she already knew the truth. I asked her to cherish her life and withdraw from the CCP, but the prerequisite was to treat practitioners kindly. We ended our conversation after an hour. Another life was saved. Actually, it was actually way more than one life.

A director of a union security team in a rural area reported on a practitioner who distributed materials at night. It turned out that the practitioner was his brother-in-law. Later his sister was also detained. I told him over the phone, "What a silly thing you have done! Persecuting Falun Gong will not be tolerated by heaven and earth." He said, "I truly regret this. I hate myself and get drunk every day." I clarified the truth and he immediately withdrew from the CCP. Meanwhile I asked him to request the release of his family from the public security bureau to make up for his mistake. When I was ready to hang up, he said, "No, I want to know more." He also said, "Sister, now I know that you are saving people when practitioners distribute materials. You are truly thinking of others..." At last he said, "I also want to practice Falun Gong. Can you call me again? I like what you have told me.."

Another 610 Office director withdrew from the CCP after he heard the facts. He told me, "Although this is our first conversation, I feel as if I have known you. Sister, I wonder if we will ever be able to meet." I was surprised, but replied immediately, "Yes, when heaven eliminates the CCP and the Chinese people are free, we overseas practitioners all over the world will certainly come back to visit our country." I then told him seriously, "From now on, you can no longer persecute practitioners. It does not matter what your position is. It all depends on you how you deal with it. Since we have a predestined relationship, you may call me sister. I may call you unexpectedly and ask you what you have done recently." He agreed.

One time after a long conversation with a policeman in a labor camp who had some exposure to the facts about Falun Gong, he even asked me to say something to a practitioner whose life was in danger because of hunger strike. I then asked him to tell this practitioner, "Overseas practitioners give their regards to you. You need to live with courage. Our future is bright." I found during the process of making phone calls that there are many policemen who already know the truth!

The persecution launched by Jiang's regime will not last long. Every phone call we make with righteous thoughts suppresses them. The Minghui website reported in the news briefing on May 29 that two practitioners had been missing for two weeks. I repeatedly called the people who were involved. The director of the 610 Office had the following conversation with me with a frightened voice:

610: "He died. We need to deal with the case right away."

Me: "Please listen to me first. This is another debt of blood. The CCP and the 610 Office must take full responsibility for this."

610: "We did not arrest him. His family sent him here."

Me: "He died in your detention center. How can you not be held accountable?"

He lowered his voice and said in a frightened voice, "He was ill when he was home."

Me, "This further demonstrates the CCP's cruelty. They even take an old and ill person and torture him to death."

610: "Now we need to deal with the funeral. Bye!"

Torture is happening every day in China. Our practitioners are a whole body and we need to stop the evil from endlessly committing crimes, and save sentient beings.

In fact during the process of making phone calls, we come across all kinds of people. Therefore it is very important to keep righteous thoughts all the time. For example, if we had an angry and ruthless person, we then eliminate the evil with our supernormal abilities because every sentence we say is powerful and can eliminate the evil. I once had a person who shouted as soon as he picked up the phone, "I will kill you!" Following Teacher's words, my heart was not moved. Meanwhile I told him, "The CCP has been harming Chinese people for over half a century and eighty million of our countrymen died of unnatural causes. After the Cultural Revolution, all those policemen became the scapegoats..." He slowly calmed down and listened to me. I told him, "You are actually a victim who was deceived by the CCP. They used you to torture innocent people. In the future you might go to hell along with them. What is the use even if you have power and money? You will be rewarded if you treat practitioners kindly, and you will receive karmic retribution if you torture practitioners. Hurry up and release practitioners with your power to make up for the crimes you have committed." I also told him the importance of withdrawing from the CCP. After listening to me all along, he hung up gently.

Fellow practitioners, the power of making phone calls is immense. We should not be afraid as we are disciples of Teacher. We bear the name of Dafa disciples and the mission of saving sentient beings. When you take it as a wall in front you, it is difficult to push it down. If you take it as a piece of paper, you will break through with ease. We came through to the Three Realms, risking everything and following our Teacher, so how can we fear making phone calls, which frighten the evil?

Please point out anything that's inappropriate. I wanted to share this so that we can all improve together. Thank you!