(Clearwisdom.net) Since the day I obtained the Fa, I have relied on my belief. I believe in Master and Dafa, and I also believe that my choice of cultivating Falun Dafa is correct. To be a good person is not wrong. No matter what happened in human society, my determination to cultivate never fluctuated. Following Master on the path to godhood is walking on a bright path. During my first five years of personal cultivation, I had never been interrupted with studying the Fa, doing the exercises, and spreading the Fa. During my later 5 years of cultivating during the persecution, I persisted in reading Teacher's books and new articles every day. Even when I was detained, I still recited the Fa, clarified the truth, and sent forth righteous thoughts to eliminate the evil.
I'm now 67 years old; I obtained the Fa in 1994. Before that time, I always held a pessimistic view of human life. I thought that a human in this world had only several decades to live and there was no need to compete with one another. I cared little about personal fame and gain, never competed with others, and had no so-called pursuits in life. I thus even looked down upon all sorts of Qigong practices that were popular at that time. One day in November 1994, I read Falun Gong, which my spouse had given me and I entered cultivation in Falun Dafa as if a predestined relationship connected me. After I listened to Master's lectures on tape and watched Master's videotapes of Fa-lectures, my belief in Master and Dafa was deeply rooted in my mind. My cultivation continued for ten years, and was never interrupted.
1. Being detained and persecuted for appealing in Beijing
On July 20, 1999, Jiang's regime, in violation of the constitution, started the brutal persecution of Falun Gong based on Jiang's own will. Since then they have detained practitioners, sent practitioners to labor camps, sentenced practitioners to jails, and forced them to be brainwashed and "reformed". They used the army, the police, and the local political thugs to round up and intercept practitioners who tried to go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. They forced all television stations, radio stations, and the press to overwhelmingly slander, fabricate stories against and frame Falun Gong. In order to speak out for justice, my spouse and I went to Beijing to appeal many times. But every time, we were arrested, locked up, fined and detained. Our house was also searched and ransacked.
On July 20, 1999, all the trains, buses, flights, and ships across the country were controlled and no tickets to Beijing were sold. Thus, seven of us rented a taxi to Beijing. However, we were intercepted before we even left town. The next day, we planned to go to Beijing by bicycle, but failed once again. On the third day, four of us bought tickets to a station that was about 250 kilometers further than our normal route to Beijing. We thus managed to get to Beijing on our return journey. Tiananmen Square and Fuyou Street were crowded with police who were there to arrest practitioners.
In 2000, we went to Beijing to appeal on two more occasions. In March, we were detained right after we registered in the Appeals Office of the National People's Congress. We were then taken back by the officers from the Local Liaison Office in Beijing. We were detained upon our return. Later, we were taken home and monitored by our work units. On December 6, 2000, we went Tiananmen Square again. As soon as we shouted, "Falun Dafa is good! Restore our Master's innocent name," our banner was torn away by the police. They pushed us into the police vehicle and then detained us in the Tiananmen Square Police Station.
On the way to Xicheng Detention Center in Beijing, we hung a banner with the words "Falun Dafa is good!" in the police wagon so that people walking on both sides of the street could see it. Because we didn't give them our names, we were detained there for 16 days. At that time, because there were a large number of practitioners detained in every detention center in Beijing, the police started to transfer practitioners to other cities near Beijing. I was sent to Baixiang County Detention Center in Xingtai City, Hebei Province for another two weeks. Simply for being good people and following "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance" we were detained for one month.
On December 23 (lunar), 2000, while I was passing out truth-clarification materials, I was arrested. I was detained for two days in the police station before I was sent to the detention center. Because I didn't report my name, they could only use a code. A police officer said to me, "In no more than 2 days, you will confess." I told them, "I didn't commit any bad deed. The detention is illegal."
At the time, there was another detained practitioner. I recited new articles and "Lunyu" for him. We clarified the truth together, recited the Fa, and held upright palms to eliminate the evil whenever we had a chance. We wrote down Master's Fa-rectification formulas on the walls of the jail cell and the walls of other places with chopsticks, hard objects, or our fingers. We wrote as long as we had the chance. In the detention center, we were forced to sit orderly on the beds except when it was the time for eating, sleeping, or using the restrooms. Whenever we sat down, I would hold my palm upright to send forth righteous thoughts. The cell heads all knew that I did this. They also knew the truth about Dafa. Sometimes, they asked me to write Master's poems from Hong Yin for them. At least 5 people there learned the truth and obtained the Fa.
After finding out where I was detained, my family members asked for my release. Finally, after the political head of the police station extorted 5000 yuan from my family without even issuing a receipt, they released me.
2. Clarifying the truth about Dafa and helping predestined people obtain the Fa
Since 2001, my spouse and I have been passing out truth-clarification materials, putting up posters, and hanging banners. We went to places 10 to 20 kilometers from our home to clarify the truth. We also went to small towns and the countryside. We visited relatives, friends, schoolmates, and colleagues. We delivered truth-clarifying materials to mail boxes, baskets on bicycles, carriages for farm goods, vegetable markets and farmers' houses. We put up posters on electric poles, walls, and bridge railings. We passed out the truth-clarifying materials, distributing at least 10-20 copies each time and sometimes as many as 100 copies. Our individual activities were coordinated with that of the whole body.
In 2001, I was forced to become destitute and homeless to avoid arrest. In a town, I helped four members of a family of six obtain the Fa through my clarifying the truth to them. An elderly woman in the family recovered from severe heart disease without any treatment. The family runs a business of raising chickens. When SARS and bird influenza was prevalent, not even one chicken from their flock of 5,000 was affected. The egg yield didn't decrease either, but instead increased. The son was working in another area and had a family of three, two of whom obtained the Fa. The son was laid-off in 2000, but he soon found a job with another business. The owner saw that he did very well, and thus increased his monthly salary from 600 yuan to 1200 yuan and promoted him to group leader. He has since been promoted to manager of the materials department. Since he obtained the Fa, he has done everything according to the requirement of "Truthfulness- Compassion-Forbearance." He tells everybody he comes into contact with that Falun Dafa is good. When Jiang's regime extended its persecution of Dafa into the schools, he told his daughter that if she were asked to defame Dafa on her test papers, she shouldn't answer them and that she should lose the points rather than answer those questions. Although she missed some points by not answering the questions that defamed Dafa, she was admitted to a model high school.
In the days when "The wind and clouds suddenly change, and the heavens seem to crumble" and "the ferocious waves billow," (from "The Knowing Heart" Hongyin, provisional translation) my belief in Dafa was never put into question, which was also the basis that enabled me to "Follow Teacher closely, steadfastly cultivating Dafa" (also from "The Knowing Heart"). There have been things that I have not done well. I will make full use of my time to do well the things that I did not do well in the Fa-rectification period, and be worthy of Master's merciful, arduous salvation.
