(Clearwisdom.net) After reading the articles on the Minghui/Clearwisdom website about the persecution of Falun Dafa practitioners, I felt very sad in my heart. Although the sacrifice Falun Dafa practitioners have made is great, this kind of persecution should not exist, because this kind of cultivation proceeds at the expense of the old force's elimination of sentient beings. As Falun Dafa practitioners, how could we go towards consummation this way? I have enlightened that this is one of the reasons that Teacher does not recognize this kind of persecution.
Teacher's compassion is immense. Even under the circumstances in which the old forces have found our faults and accordingly tried to persecute us, they will not be able to succeed as long as our righteous thoughts come out. Whether we are facing arrest or imprisonment, righteous thoughts can always help reduce the persecution or even stop it.
Seeing my fellow practitioners suffer from torture, I would like to share my experience, so that fellow practitioners can take the necessary precautions.
In 2001, a few days before I was illegally arrested, my mother had a dream in which Teacher told her a particular date. At that time, I only felt something dangerous would happen around that time, but it turned out that I was arrested on that date and sentenced to one year of forced labor. The second time when I was abducted for brainwashing (the first time I almost stopped cultivation), I faced it without fear, while I contemplated in my mind how to find opportunities to escape. I continuously recited the formula for sending forth righteous thoughts in my heart. In the township administration building, I suddenly discovered that people there were all fixated, and I felt it was strange. I wanted to escape, but hesitated and thus lost the opportunity to escape. The third time was when I had just finished studying the Fa at noon one day, I suddenly felt uneasy. I immediately sent forth righteous thoughts. Later, I found that a large group of people was coming upstairs to my house while I was downstairs. I quickly ran away. This suggests that Teacher always tries to enlighten us before any danger occurs with the hope that we will not be persecuted. Once we are met with these situations, we should remember to search inward and eliminate the interference with righteous thoughts.
In fact, we should also use righteous thoughts to counter the persecution during the imprisonment. In 2001, I launched a hunger strike in the detention center where I was kept. When I saw the police force-feed a fellow practitioner, I went ahead and held off the feeding tube and bit it tightly with my teeth. They immediately surged after me, fighting for the tube. Although I had been on hunger strike for a few days by that time, I still felt that I was strong enough to resist 7 to 8 police fighting for the tube. This was probably due to my righteous thoughts focused only on stopping the persecution of my fellow practitioner. Later, somebody squeezed my nose and I had the thought that with my breath withheld I might die. With such an unrighteous thought, they succeeded in gaining back the tube. Later, I found that my thumb was fractured and my face was bruised all over, but I had not felt any pain during the course of resisting their attack.
As soon as I arrived at the forced labor camp, they beat me with electric batons and tried to force me to write a guarantee statement promising to give up Falun Gong. At that time, several male police struck me all over my body with electric batons. They did this to me quite a few times. I did not feel any pain during the beating, but at the end, for some reason I had the thought that I could not see my parents if I were to die there. As soon as this thought came up, I suddenly felt unbearable pain. It is indeed so, that one thought makes the difference between a human and a god. When I was sent to the forced labor camp for the 2nd time, I subconsciously recited the Fa rectification formulas in my heart, and I found that they could not insert the tube into my mouth for force-feeding. However, one time when they asked me to open my mouth I cooperated with them, and the tube was then inserted successfully.
The reason I share the foregoing remarks is to let my fellow practitioners know that no matter how we assess our cultivation status, we must maintain our righteous thoughts in the face of danger. We should firmly believe that Teacher will guide our cultivation amidst persecution. As long as you hold no fear of the evil, you will be able to stop the evildoers from their evildoing. I particularly hope the fellow practitioners in jail maintain righteous thoughts and take righteous actions in resisting the evildoers. They should avoid, with strong righteous thoughts, being severely beaten or even losing their lives, since suffering like this does not do any good for sentient beings. Rectifying the Fa and coming out of the jail openly and righteously can frighten the evil and serve well in saving sentient beings. In fact, everything in the human world is an illusion, and we should know that the evil is trying to manipulate things from behind the scenes. Teacher said: "What could human beings possibly do to gods?" (in "In Fa-Rectification Your Thoughts Have to be Righteous, Not Human"), "The Fa gained, you now stand divine" (in "Salvation Far and Wide", Hong Yin, Translation Version A). I feel that, under those special circumstances, Teacher has particularly strengthened us, and maximized our supernormal capabilities. Of course, the practitioners who are free should also strive forward diligently, giving the evil no excuse for persecution and minimizing the possible losses.
