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Name: Fu Yao (付尧)
Gender: Male
Age: Around 49
Occupation: Music teacher
Date of Most Recent Arrest: February 24, 2004
Most Recent Place of Detention: Harbin No. 1 Specialized
Hospital Neurology Department (哈尔滨市第一专科医院)
City: Harbin
Province: Heilongjiang
Persecution Suffered: Brainwashing, illegal sentencing,
beatings, imprisonment, torture, physical restraint, detention,
denial of restroom use, sleep deprivation, forced labor, forced
injections of psychotropic drug(s), detained at a mental hospital,
home ransacked, interrogation, deprived of water and food,
dismissal from job, salary suspended
(Clearwisdom.net) Mr. Fu Yao, a music teacher at Nongfeng Middle School in Shuangcheng City, Heilongjiang Province, was persecuted several times by the communist regime for practicing Falun Gong. The police rounded him up using firearms in 2002. He was arrested again in 2004, taken to a mental hospital, and injected with unknown drugs. Much of his memory was lost for seven years. His wife was sentenced to prison. Pressured by having to make a living for herself, their daughter got married before she was 17 years old.
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After he regained part of his memory Mr. Fu was able to describe his ordeals:
The riot police of Harbin City Police Department arrested me; my wife, Chen Yunxia; and my daughter, Fu Di, and took us to Shuangcheng Xinhe Hotel to be interrogated on April 22, 2002. During the interrogation, they tortured us to try to force us to sign a “confession” that practicing Falun Gong was criminal. They lashed my back and the soles of my feet with a leather belt, broke and pinched my wife's fingers with a bamboo instrument of torture, and insulted her and my minor daughter with vulgar language. The three of us were tortured from noon until 5:00 p.m., when we were taken to Shuangcheng No. 2 Detention Center.
Later, I was taken to Wanjia Forced Labor Camp in Harbin. I was not allowed to go to the restroom or drink water and was not given enough to eat. They put my quilt in the cellar and let me have it back at night. The quilt got so wet that I could squeeze water out of it. It was biting cold; having the quilt was worse than not having the quilt. I couldn't sleep for six days and nights. Meanwhile, I had to do slave labor, which was tired my eyes, and I had to attend the running training. Both my body and heart suffered from the physical and mental torture.
I was transferred to Changlinzi Forced Labor Camp six days later. The guards there used worse forms of torture. They shaved the heads of Falun Gong practitioners and forced nine of us to take off all our clothes and crouch in a row. They then ordered other inmates to pour buckets of cold water over our heads. The strongest person can endure 20 buckets of water. Usually, less than 20 buckets would make people faint from the cold. Those who were weak might never wake up again. This is one of the most malevolent forms of torture invented by Changlinzi Forced Labor Camp. People tortured to death like this won't have any marks on their body.
There are a total of five divisions in this camp. In the No. 1 Division, Li Jinhua is the head; Yang Jintang is the political head; and the guards are Xue Yuan, Qiang Shengguo, etc. The directors of the labor camp are Shi Changjin and Shi Yingbai. The head of the education section is Li Weixing. The head of the No. 4 Division is Hao Wei, and the political head is Wang Yuou. The head of the No. 5 Division is Zhao Shuang. When I arrived there, several practitioners were already locked up in small cells. To my knowledge, practitioners Zhang Tao and Zhang Xiangfu were persecuted to death.
Everyday, the guards forced us to watch videos slandering Falun Gong and to write articles against Falun Gong.
Sixteen months later, I left the labor camp on August 25, 2003. My wife was sentenced to three years of prison and detained in Heilongjiang Women's Prison. My daughter couldn't go to school because she was persecuted there. The school where I had worked stopped my salary. Due to the pressures of life, my daughter got married even before she reached the age of 17. I lived alone at the school. The school didn't allow me to teach. I had to sound the night watches for 200 yuan per month.
When I was having lunch at my father's home on February 24, 2004, Xu Huanwei, the head of Nongfeng Police Station; Fu Xingmin, the headmaster of Nongfeng Middle School; and others came in and arrested me and took me to Harbin No. 1 Specialized Hospital, which is a mental hospital. Four people used force to tie me onto a bed. Long Ying, a female doctor, injected me with an unknown drug. Soon after, I lost consciousness and was not aware of anything.
When I regained consciousness, much of my past memory was lost. I was treated as a psychotic patient and locked in a dark room with an iron gate and a window. Everyday, Doctor Long gave me injections against my will, and the nurse forced me to take drugs. I told the doctor that I was a Falun Gong practitioner and treating me like this was bad for both me and her, and for her to not do this to me. The hospital's telephone is 86-451-82426470.
After over three weeks of torture and detention in Harbin No. 1 Specialized Hospital, the people who arrested me took me home. Even now I haven't recovered all of my memory. I've had loss of memory for seven years due to damage from the drugs.
On the night of April 23, 2011, I recalled that on April 22, 2002, a group of police were chasing me through an overgrown field near Nongfeng Middle School and shouted that they would shoot if I didn't stop. I kept running. Suddenly there was a gunshot. My mind went blank, and the police arrested me. My daughter was also arrested. One of her classmates questioned the police, saying that Fu Di didn't break any law, so why were they arresting her. Instead, that girl got arrested, too, and was taken to Nongfeng Police Station. The police asked me where my cellphone was. I said I had lost it. They ordered several hundred of the faculty and students to search for my cellphone in that overgrown field.
The compassionate care and selfless help from Falun Gong practitioners warms my heart. Gradually I'm recovering my memory. I've personally witnessed the magic of Dafa.
Other Times Mr. Fu Yao Was Persecuted
Mr. Fu Yao started to practice Falun Gong in 1995 and went to Beijing three times to appeal for Falun Gong between 1999 and 2002. He was imprisoned twice and escaped once. The first time was when he was doing the exercises in front of Tiananmen Square; he was arrested and taken to Shuangcheng No. 2 Detention Center and detained for 33 days. The second time was after the 610 Office, Shuangcheng Police Department, and Harbin City Police Department ransacked his home and arrested him on April 22, 2002. He was sentenced to two years of forced labor and taken to Changlinzi Forced Labor Camp. He returned home on August 25, 2003.
(Clearwisdom.net) On May 12, when over ten police officers went to a factory to arrest Falun Gong practitioner Tian Shihong, more than a hundred workers stood up to them, and the police had to leave empty handed.
Around 8:00 a.m. on May 12, 2011, three officers from the national security brigade and more than ten from Huanshanlu Police Station arrived unannounced at the factory where Mr. Tian Shihong works. Wang Yongqiang, head of Huanshanlu Police Station, handcuffed him by force and yelled at his subordinates, “Are you all dead? Why are you just standing there?” Four or five of the officers then started to drag Mr. Tian away. Mr. Tian shouted, “Bad people are arresting good people!” Then he passed out. The police dragged him more than ten meters.
Then, the entire group of more than a hundred workers in the workshop got up and went over to stop the police, saying, “He’s just doing his job here. Why are you arresting him?!” The police could not say anything to justify their actions. Some of the workers demanded, “You’ve put handcuffs on him. Where is your arrest warrant?” They said, “You are just like bandits, doing evil in broad daylight!” They also insisted that the police take off the handcuffs.
Seeing Mr. Tian lying there unconscious, the police were afraid of being held responsible for harming him with so many angry workers as witnesses, so they called an ambulance. Because the regime officials often play tricks, and it was hard to tell if the ambulance staff was genuine, Mr. Tian’s family members would not let him be placed in the ambulance. Rightfully condemned by the workers, the police knew they had no justification for their conduct, so they said, “We are just following orders from above. We don’t want to do this kind of thing (arresting Falun Gong practitioners), either.” In the end, they begged the workers not to look into the incident or circulate it on the Internet. They then left, looking very dejected.
It is really sad to see these young police officer ignorantly following a path with no future, tyrannized by the Chinese Communist regime that forces them to participate in the persecution of Falun Gong. Once again we would like to warn those who cooperate with the authorities in persecuting Dafa practitioners: Learn the truth of Falun Dafa; everyone has the right to a beautiful future for themselves, their family members, their friends, and their descendants; the communist regime has done all sorts of evil things, harming both others and themselves. The Party faces inexorable doom. If you still have not realized the truth right in front of you, it will soon be too late.
Wang Liang, Party secretary of Wendeng City
Zhang Jing (female), mayor of Wendeng City
Wang Yongqiang, head of Huanshanlu Police Station:
86-13806315436
Bi, deputy head of Huanshanlu Police Station: 86-13792743108
Zhang Yi, policeman: 86-13863102300
Li Wenxun, head of the Political and Judiciary Committee: 86-138630020689
Name: Pan Lingyun (潘凌云)
Gender: Female
Age: In her thirties
Address: Zunyi City, Guizhou Province
Date of most recent arrest: November 1, 2010
Most recent place of detention: Zunyi City No. 2 Detention
Center (遵义市第二看守所)
City: Zunyi
Province: Guizhou
Persecution suffered: Forced labor, brainwashing, illegal
sentencing, imprisonment, home ransacked, interrogation
(Clearwisdom.net) Practitioner Ms. Pan Lingyun, in her thirties, from Zunyi City in Guizhou Province, was illegally sentenced to three years in prison on March 18, 2011. CCP personnel have sent her to a labor camp and a brainwashing center.
Domestic Security Team agents from Zunyi City ordered personnel from Zhangzhen Town to arrest Ms. Pan Lingyun on November 1, 2010 on her way home from work. They took her house keys from her bag, barged into her house and confiscated informational materials about Falun Dafa and a computer, and then arrested her. They recorded that she had more than 10,000 Falun Gong related items. They took her mother, Ms. Zhao Zhenshu, into custody at the same time. Both mother and daughter were detained in the “learning class,” where they were made to undergo brainwashing and were further persecuted in Banshanshuiku, Zunyi City.
Ms. Pan went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution. Mother and daughter often shouted, “Falun Dafa is good! Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good!" CCP agents handcuffed and hung the women up in public. Refusing to be “reformed”, they were transferred to the Zunyi City No. 2 Detention Center on November 6, 2010. When they arrived, they were stripped and body searched. They were monitored all the time, even while sleeping.
CCP personnel tried Ms. Pan on March 18, 2011. She defended herself and wrote a letter explaining the facts about Falun Dafa, to be used as a statement in court. Her mother Zhao Zhenshu was transferred a month later to a legal reformatory center in Jinzhu Town, the Xiaohe District, in Guiyang City.
Honghuagang District Police agents had previously arrested Ms. Pan Lingyun on February 21, 2008 on her way home. She was taken back to her house, which was ransacked. She was then incarcerated in Zunyi City No. 2 Detention Center, sentenced to one and a half years of forced labor, and then transferred to the Zhongba Farm in Guiyang City for further persecution.
List of the members of Domestic Security Team from the
Honghuagang District:
Team leaders: Xu Ge, Yang
Other personnel: Ji Xiaomei, Tang Xiaolin
Court personnel: Xu Youqiang (prosecutor), Yang Yudie (jury)
(Clearwisdom.net)
Ms. Yang Guizhi is about 53 years old. She looks younger because she has been practicing Falun Gong. She is very honest and kind. She used to be the principal of a middle school in the Yuanbaoshang District in the City of Chifeng. She was a great teacher and a great role model. She was repeatedly persecuted by the evil Chinese Communist Party (CCP) because she refused to give up her belief in Truth-Compassion-Forbearance.
About six or seven years ago, Ms. Yang was illegally arrested and imprisoned in the detention center in the Yuanbaoshan District. Later she was demoted and transferred to another school. She was a very capable teacher, but the CCP would no longer let her teach. She became a security guard at Nationality Middle School at the Yuanbaoshan District.
Ms. Ren Suying is Ms. Yang's fellow practitioner. Ms. Ren is from Jianchangying Village in the Yuanbaoshan District. Around 2 a.m. on April 18 2011, she was arrested on Wudan Street in Wengniuteqi in Chifeng and imprisoned at the Wudan Detention Center. She started a hunger strike to protest the persecution. She was inhumanely force-fed, and her condition is now critical.
Torture re-enactment: Being force-fed
Even though they faced potential persecution, Ms. Yang Guizhi and her sister, Ms. Yang Xiuhua, along with Mr. Yu Shulin and his wife, made the long trip to the detention center and the National Squad of the Public Security Bureau and other departments in Wengniuteqi to try to secure Ms. Ren Suying's release. They clarified the truth to the officials and explained that good will be rewarded and evil punished. They told them to stop doing such evil things.
Liu Caijun, the head of the National Squad of the Public Security Bureau in Wengniuteqi, has been actively involved in persecuting Falun Gong practitioners over the past several years. After he persecuted Ms. Ren Suying, his previous crimes were quickly exposed to the international community.
Yet with calls for justice, instead of repenting, Liu Caijun tried to retaliate.
On May 12 2011, Ms. Yang Guizhi, Ms. Yang Xiuhua, and Mr. Yu Shulin and his wife talked to Liu, explaining to him the facts about Dafa and pointing out the CCP's crimes. Liu Caijun's response was to arrest the four practitioners. Police then drove from Wengniuteqi to their homes in the Yuanbaoshan District. They illegally searched their homes and confiscated many of their personal belongings. Ms. Yang Guizhi's daughter isn't a Dafa practitioner, but they arrested her as well. They threatened her and interrogated her for several hours before letting her go.
Ms. Yang Guizhi, Ms. Yang Xiuhua, Mr. Yu Shulin and his wife, Ms. Ren Suying, Du Delan, and Yu Meiying are now illegally imprisoned in the Wudan Detention Center in Wengniuteqi.
When this report was about to be submitted, some kind people told us that it had been a month since Ms. Ren Suying started a hunger strike. She was being brutally force-fed in a hospital in Wengniuteqi. Her life is in danger. On May 15, the Wengniuteqi Police Station transferred Ms. Yang Guizhi, Ms. Yang Xiuhua, and Mr. Yu Shulin and his wife to the Yuanbaoshan District Detention Center.
We are calling for support to help stop these crimes!
(Clearwisdom.net) Chinese Communist Party (CCP) agents in the city of Bayan Nur, Inner Mongolia, started another around of mass arrests of Falun Gong practitioners at the end of February 2011. At least three practitioners are still illegally detained: Ms. Zhuang Yanli is serving a two-year forced labor term at Hohhot Women’s Forced Labor Camp; Ms. Geng Ruizhi and Mr. Wang Guoliang are incarcerated at Linhe District Dentention Center.
Led by deputy heads Guo Baoying, He Xiaolin and Zhang, more than a dozen agents from Linhe District Domestic Security Division broke into Ms. Zhuang Yanli’s home around 7:00 p.m. on February 24, 2011. They ransacked her home and arrested her non-practitioner husband, who was forced to reveal her whereabouts. Around 9:00 p.m. that night, the agents went to her mother’s home and forcibly took her into custody.
A group of police took Ms. Geng Ruizhi from her home at around 6:00 p.m. on February 25, 2011. They also confiscated a lot of truth-clarification materials. Her non-practitioner daughter was just returning from work at the time, but was also arrested when she tried to stop the police.
Ms. Wang Xia was arrested on March 15, 2011 for a third time. The police ransacked her home before taking her into custody. Policeman He Cai beat her during the process. While interrogating her at Linhe Police Department, policeman Niu Xinkuan stomped on her face. He beat her again when taking her to Hanggin Rear Banner Detention Center. She was eventually transferred to Linhe District Detention Center.
In 2001, Wang Xia was illegally sentenced to seven years. While detained at Inner Mongolia First Women’s Prison, the guards brutally assaulted her, both physically and sexually. She was also shocked with electric batons, had sharp pins pushed into her nails and her fingers burnt with a lighter. Wang Xia went on a hunger strike to protest and was sent to a mental hospital as punishment. She lost her memory as a result.
During the time Wang Xia was being held at Linhe District Detention Center, she went on a hunger strike for 15 days and lost more than 30 pounds. Her life threatening vital signs eventually prompted the detention center to release her on bail and make her await trial at home.
The main perpetrators of Wang Xia and Zhuang Yanli include: Yu Zhanhai, He Xiaolin, Guo Baoying, Niu Xinkuan, and a man surnamed Chi, all of whom are agents from Linhe District Domestic Security Division.
Ms. Zhuang Yanli and Ms. Geng Ruizhi were subjected to intensive interrogation for six and seven nights respectively, during which their arms and legs were shackled to a specially-made iron chair. As a result, they were not able to sleep normally. Policeman He Cai repeatedly beat Geng Ruizhi, causing severe deformation of her wrists. Wang Guoliang was tortured and interrogated in a similar manner.
Bayan Nur Political and Legal Committee Secretary Wang Yingxi: 86-478-8655818; 86-13904781909
Bayan Nur Political and Legal Committee deputy head Shen Chibin: 86-478-8655812, 86-13304789168
Bayan Nur 610 Office Head Wang Haixiang: 86-478-8655520, 86-13015285699
Linhe District 610 Office Head Quan Xin: 86-13789685299
Linhe District Political and Legal Committee head Ha Deng: 86-13847889879
Bayan Nur Domestic Security Division Captain Hexi Getu: 86-13354788876
Linhe District Domestic Security Division head Yu Zhanhai: 86-13947889512
Linhe District Detention Center head Liu Yongming: 86-478-8205071
Linhe District Detention Center Political Head Deng Xiaohua: 86-478-8205072
(Clearwisdom.net) On May 1, 2011, Ms. Zhang Yuqin and Ms. Yin Xueli, Falun Gong practitioners from Zhaodeying Town, Shenqiu County, Henan Province, were clarifying the facts in nearby Zhouying Town when they were illegally arrested by Lu Feng, the captain of the Domestic Security Division of the Shenqiu Police Department, and officers from the Zhouying Police Station. They are currently being held in the Shenqiu Detention Center.
Ms. Zhang is almost 50 years old. She is from Xiaoliu Village, Zhaodeying Town. She suffered from encephalitis as a child and developed serious complications, resulting in her becoming deaf and extremely thin. In 1998 a practitioner taught her the Falun Gong exercises. She gained over 33 pounds and all of her ailments disappeared within three months. She cultivated over an acre of land by herself after all of her family members went to other cities to work.
Ms. Yin is over 40 years old. She is from Malou Village in Zhaodeying Town. Ms. Yin used to have many illnesses, including vitiligo (loss of pigmentation of the skin). Her illnesses, as well as most of her vitiligo, with the exception of one patch on the small of her back, disappeared after she started practicing Falun Gong. Others were able to witness the incredible health benefits of Falun Dafa from the restoration of her health.
On May 1, 2011, the police went to Ms. Yin's home. She lives alone, as her family members' jobs are located in other areas. No one was there, so they climbed over the fence, entered, searched it, and confiscated property. They took her Falun Dafa books and DVDs that explain the facts about Falun Gong. Two days after the police arrested Ms. Zhang, the local cadre was ordered to find Ms. Zhang's granddaughter to get her key and search Ms. Zhang's home. Her granddaughter, the only one who lives with her, had already sought refuge at a neighbor's home, so the police broke in and took all of Ms. Zhang's Falun Dafa books, DVDs, and truth-clarification materials.
The police announced that a fine of 5,000 yuan would have to be paid for the release of each practitioner. But privately they said that, even if the fine were paid, no one would be released.
Those involved in persecuting Ms. Zhang Yuqin and Ms. Yin Xueli:
Lu Feng, captain of the Domestic Security Division in Shenqiu
County, Henan Province: 86-13592200353 (Cell)
Yang Jianhua, police chief of Zhouying Town Police Station:
86-13838659080 (Cell)
Name: Wang Jiansheng (王建生)
Gender: Male
Age: 58
Occupation: Former Health Clinic Director of Huanggang City Telecommunications Bureau
Date of Most Recent Arrest: around May 3, 2011
Most Recent Place of Detention: Huanggang City Second Detention Center, Brainwashing Center (黄冈市第二看守所的洗脑班)
City: Huanggang
Province: Hubei
Persecution Suffered: Illegally sentenced, imprisonment, home ransacking, torture, brainwashing, fired from workplace
(Cleariwsdom.net) Mr. Wang Jiansheng, former Health Clinic Director of the Huanggang City Telecommunications Bureau, was arrested again around May 3, 2011.
Before this arrest, Mr. Wang had already been incarcerated in a detention center twice and sent to brainwashing centers three times for his practice of Falun Gong. When the local police tried to arrest him in October 2003, he managed to escape and was forced to stay away from home. When he finally returned home to see his newborn grandson in May 2011, he was taken into custody by police who had been monitoring his family members since 2003.
Mr. Wang Jiansheng’s Practice of Falun Gong Elevates his Mind and Improves his Health
Mr. Wang had always been a hard-working employee and became the health clinic director of the Huanggang City Telecommunications Bureau in 1993. Over the years he developed numerous chronic diseases, including a slipped disc, pharyngitis, atrophic gastritis, chronic hepatitis B, and cirrhosis of the liver. Even though he was a physician and spent a lot of money on medicine, he couldn’t find a cure for his own health problems. However, within one month of starting his practice of Falun Gong towards the end of 1995, all his illnesses and bad temper disappeared. His child said with great pride, “My dad is a super good person!”
After becoming a Falun Gong practitioner, Mr. Wang worked in earnest to a greater degree. The Chinese health care system is notorious for its corruption. It is very common for pharmaceutical company salespeople to bribe physicians in order for their drugs to be prescribed. His colleagues at the clinic pharmacy said to those salespeople, “Please do not send in any more gifts. Doctor Wang practices Falun Gong and he never accepts presents.” Moreover, there was never a single charge of medical misconduct since he assumed leadership.
Many people witnessed the positive changes in him and they also started to practice Falun Gong. In Huanggang City, there were at least one thousand active practitioners before the persecution began.
Mr. Wang Jiansheng’s Appeal Results in his Demotion and Frequent Job Transfers
When the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) openly launched its persecution of Falun Gong in July 1999, Mr. Wang went to Beijing to appeal. He was illegally arrested and subsequently taken to the Tiananmen Police Station for practicing Falun Gong exercises in Tiananmen Square.
The police were unable to extort any information from him, so they cuffed his hands behind his back, kicked him and pulled up the handcuffs to make him suffer more. The next day, Xia Xiaorong from the Huanggang City Police Department and Fang Guoyin from the Huanggang City Telecommunications Bureau Security Office took him back to the Huanggang City Second Detention Center for 15 days. Before his release, he was ordered to pay 450 yuan to cover meal expenses. His wife also had 3,000 yuan extorted from her by her workplace.
Mr. Wang was asked to report to work the second day after his release. Without his consent the Telecommunications Bureau decided to remove him from the clinic director position and transfer him to the landscaping division to tend to flower beds. Everybody else had two days off a week, but he had to work six days watering the flowers with a 40 lb watering can. It took him dozens of runs to get all the flowers watered every day.
The Telecommunications Bureau then transferred him to the nursery garden division to sell flowers and plants. As soon as he arrived, his hard-working attitude won praise from his coworkers. During his tenure at the division, the Bureau sent people to secretly monitor him and keep track of who he had contact with.
Not long after, the Bureau moved him to a newly established supermarket where they arranged for a female employee to work in the same office. Mr. Wang took every opportunity to clarify the facts to her and other employees, as well as to customers. Once, a Bureau official came to inspect the supermarket and the female coworker said, “Doctor Wang did change for the better. Since beginning the practice of Falun Gong, he never loses his temper.”
Held in Brainwashing Center
At the end of 1999, Cai Zhijun of the Bureau’s Human Resources Division sent Mr. Wang to a local brainwashing center. He refused to be “transformed” and went on a hunger strike to protest. As punishment, he was transferred to the Huanggang City Second Detention Center for further persecution.
At the end of 2000, Mr. Wang was thinking about going to Beijing again to appeal. When a fellow practitioner called him informing him of the train number to take, his phone was being tapped. The Bureau’s Security Office head arrived at his home one hour later telling him to report to work for a conversation with Bureau Director Tao. As soon as he got to his workplace, the security officers drove him to the brainwashing center. On the final day of the brainwashing session, the guards told him to write a guarantee statement, which he firmly refused to do.
Incarcerated at Detention Center for 16 Months
Huangzhou District Police Office Head Zhou Yuhua led three policemen from the Shenglijie Police Station and Echeng District Police Department in Ezhou City and broke into Wang Jiansheng’s home one summer afternoon in 2001. They ransacked everything and confiscated his motorcycle and his son’s computer. They took him to the Echeng Detention Center. The guards forced him to squat for long periods of time and kept tapping his ankles, causing great pain. To make him suffer even more, they forbid him to have bowel movements. They also tortured him, hoping to extort confessions.
When he refused to sign the arrest warrant, the police forced his wife to sign instead. All the clothes and money his family sent in were taken away by the guards. On the day of his release, the guards forced his wife to pay 4,000 yuan for so-called meal expenses.
During the 16 months of detention, Mr. Wang was devastated both mentally and physically. His hair had turned almost completely gray and his 5’9’’ frame weighed only 110 lbs. He had a relapse of his old illnesses and twice his fever peaked as high as 104 degrees. He suffered excruciating pain in his lungs and pancreas, but the detention center refused to allow for him to have medical care. They had to have guards carry him around when they moved him to a different detention cell.
The Telecommunications Bureau suspended his monthly allowance of 300 yuan during his detention. They also sent representatives to the Echeng Police Department asking why he wasn’t given a prison sentence.
Sent to Brainwashing Center Again in 2002
At the end of 2002, Security Office Head Jiang Zhinong went to the supermarket and told Mr. Wang Jiansheng to go to the brainwashing center. He refused and the standoff lasted for about one hour. Jiang Zhinong then called the Shenglijie Police, and two policemen soon arrived and forcibly took Mr. Wang to the brainwashing center inside Huanggang City Second Detention Center. Also taken into custody around the same time were three other local practitioners. During the 20-day brainwashing session, the guards forced the detainees to watch videos slandering Falun Gong almost every day. Mr. Wang went on a hunger strike for two days and refused to write any guarantee statements. He was eventually sent home by representatives from his workplace.
Starting in October 2003, the Telecommunications Bureau stopped issuing Mr. Wang’s retirement checks. He still has a mother in her 80s to take care of. When the police tried to capture him again around October 1, 2003, he managed to escape, but was forced to leave home to avoid further persecution. When he finally returned home in May 2011 to see his newborn grandson, he was arrested again.
Name: Dong Shulan(董淑兰)
Gender: Female
Age: 62
Address: Jilin City, Jilin Province
Occupation: Unknown
Date of Most Recent Arrest: December 19, 2006
Most Recent Place of Detention: Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp,
Changchun City
City: Changchun
Province: Jilin
Persecution Suffered: Detention, brutal beating, long-term
standing, electric shock, sleep deprivation, forced labor, torture,
hung up, brainwashing, solitary confinement, denied visitation
(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Dong Shulan has practiced Falun Gong for many years. In the past nine years, she has been sent three times to a forced labor camp and imprisoned for over five years in total. Currently, three of her daughters are still imprisoned. On May 7, 2011, her home was broken into, ransacked, and looted by the Changyi District Public Security.
On May 7 Ms. Dong Shulan's home was broken into, ransacked, and looted by officers from the Changyi District and Lianhua Public Security Bureau in Jilin City.
Before cultivating Falun Gong, Ms. Dong suffered from many diseases such as tuberculosis, pleural emphysema, and nephroptosis (a floating kidney), and had had several major surgeries to remove five ribs, gallstones, kidney stones, cervical vertebra, etc. The most serious was a rare condition known as malignant reticulosis, related to deterioration of reticulum cells—it was worse than a malignant tumor or leukemia. There is no known cure, and she lived in agony. She was referred to the Tianjin Blood Research Center by a Jilin Hospital. Many hospitals even used her as a clinical specimen. Due to huge debts incurred from hospital costs, she decided to simply do nothing and wait to die.
In mid-April 1996, Ms. Dong decided to practice Falun Dafa. Through studying the Fa and doing the exercises, her health improved day by day. In less than a month, all the health problems that had plagued her for years were gone. She regained energy and walked like a healthy young woman. Seeing the huge changes in her, all her neighbors were amazed. They exclaimed, "Falun Gong is so miraculous!" Approximately a dozen people began cultivating Dafa as a result. She was filled with gratitude towards Master. It was Falun Dafa that gave her a second life.
On July 20, 1999, the CCP began its brutal persecution of Falun Gong. Ms. Dong was very hurt and began telling others about the goodness of Falun Gong. She told them about her own experience of how she benefited both spiritually and physically. She told them about how Falun Gong is a practice that teaches people to cultivate their hearts and become good, kind people. She used her own, personal experience to validate the beauty and miraculousness of Dafa.
Over the past ten years, she suffered many forms of brutal torture after being arrested. In December 2006, officers from the Second Big Team of the Jilin City police tied her to a tiger bench. Three of them tried to tried to put her fingerprints on a document, but she refused to cooperate. In the end her thumb was severely injured, and an entire fingernail on her left hand fell off. Three or four more officers arrived and dragged her elsewhere. She saw metal pipes on the wall with handcuffs hanging from them. There was also blood on the wall. One policeman said, "Have you ever seen this before? Many people more stubborn than you have bowed under this torture. If you don't cooperate, we'll give you drugs. Then, three or four officers handcuffed Ms. Dong's left hand and hung her up so that her toes barely touched the floor. After a very long time, they returned and fingerprinted her right hand onto a document. They then hung her by her right handcuff and took the fingerprints from her left hand. After taking both sets of fingerprints, she was left to hang for an extended time. When she was taken down, they immediately transferred her onto a tiger bench.
Torture re-enactment: Tiger Bench
The police imprisoned Ms. Dong in Heizuizi Labor Camp for a year. They tortured her to try to make her give up her belief in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. When she refused to write the Three Statements renouncing her belief and regretting her past actions, she was brutally beaten, forced to stand by the wall, not allowed to speak to anyone, not allowed to sleep, shocked with electric batons, and forced to perform 16 or 17 hours of slave labor everyday. She had to work overtime very often and if she did not complete her tasks, they threatened to increase her sentence. They even denied her family visits. She suffered huge blows both physically and mentally. All her family members and friends also suffered varying degrees of persecution.
On October 1, 2000, she traveled to Tiananmen Square in Beijing to clarify the truth about Falun Gong, but the police arrest her and sent to a labor camp for three years. While imprisoned, she was brutally beaten, forced to stand by the wall, shocked with electric batons, not allowed to speak, not allowed to sleep, and forced to perform slave labor for 16 to 17 hours a day.
On April 12, 2005, she went to a good friend's home to visit. She was brutally apprehended by police officers from the Domestic Protection Team from Longtan Division Bureau and the Shanqian Police Station when she got there. She was sent to a labor camp for a year, and they extended her sentenced another 12 days.
She was released in April 2006. In July her daughter, Liu Hongxia, was seized by police officers while she was working at her own office supply store in a shopping mall. Ms. Liu was imprisoned at the Second Big Team of the Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp for several months. She was not allowed to see any visitors.
December 19, 2006, Ms. Dong's family traveled to the labor camp to visit their daughter again. This time, the arrangements went smoothly and the labor camp even allowed them to share a meal. While they were talking to her, Lian Guangri, the Management Section Chief in the labor camp, said he needed to talk with Ms. Dong. Ms. Dong refused to cooperate and the family got up to leave. Ms. Dong realized the danger and wanted to leave immediately. However, when she walked down the stairs to the registration desk, she was quickly seized by Lian and handcuffed. They called the local police station and three policemen arrived. They wanted to interrogate her and took her away. She said she had come to see her daughter and that the authorities had no reason to persecute her. Lian called the local police force asking for reinforcements. At around 1 or 2 p.m., three of four more officers from the local police force arrived. MS. Dong was carried to a police car and taken to the Second Big Team of Jilin City's police force. On the night of December 20, she was taken to a detention center.
On the afternoon of January 25, 2007, the Chuanying Division Bureau sent her to Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp, where she was sentenced to a year. Camp guard Wang Lihui beat Ms. Dong brutally because she refused to give up her beliefs. Ms. Dong's hands were shocked with electric batons, and then they isolated her in a small room. Several collaborators came into the room and monitored her 24/7, not allowing her to come into contact with anyone or go downstairs for food. She was even followed to the washroom, and had no personal freedom. She was only allowed less than 15 minutes to eat and could never finish her meal before she was forced to return. Nearly three weeks later, she was forced to do slave labor. Everyday she was forced to perform extra-strenuous work, often working overtime. If she did not finish any task, they threatened to lengthen her sentence. She was prohibited from meeting any visitors, even when visitors came to the door. They were told that it was the labor camp's decision and they required authorization from their supervisors in order to allow her to see anyone. Because her daughter was imprisoned in another Big Team, they were also afraid that Ms. Dong might see her daughter. They guarded every corridor and every walkway, and monitored her 24/7 to prevent her from seeing her daughter. Even her dining hall seat was switched several times to prevent her from seeing her daughter.
Around April 27, 2011, Ms. Dong's three daughters, her son, and their spouses—seven in all—were all picked up by the Lianhua Public Security Bureau. Ms. Dong was forced to live away from her home. Currently, her daughters Liu Honghui, Liu Hongyan, and Liu Hongxia and her son-in-law Li Guangjun are all imprisoned in the Jilin City Detention Center.
At around 4 p.m. on May 7, 2011, Ms. Dong returned home only to find it looted. All her money had been taken, and the place was turned upside-down. She confirmed that it was police officers from the Changyi District Public Security Bureau and the Lianhua Public Security Bureau who broke into her home while she was not around, stealing her savings and cash totaling over 13,000 yuan, one computer, 3 printers, a hole-punching machine, a laminating machine, a DVD-burner, and many other valuables.
(Clearwisdom.net) Today's news from China includes incidents of persecution that took place in 11 cities or counties in nine provinces. In this report, four practitioners were subjected to mistreatment during their detention, and at least 12 practitioners were illegally arrested.
1. [Leqing, Zhejiang Province] Mr. Huang Qingdeng Arrested
Mr. Huang Qingdeng, in his 70s, was illegally arrested at his home at around 8 a.m. on May 10.
2. [Hefei, Anhui Province] Ms. Peng Yujuan Arrested
Hefei 610 Office arrested Ms. Peng Yujuan, a retired cadre from the University of Science and Technology of China on April 28, 2011. Ms. Peng is held at the Hefei 2nd Detention Center.
3. [Jinhua, Zhejiang Province] Ms. Bao Xiaomei, Ms. Jin Peizhen and Mr. Zhang Wanfei Sentenced
Wucheng District Court of Jinhua City sentenced three practitioners in early April 2011. Ms. Bao Xiaomei was sentenced to a seven-year term, Mr. Zhang Wanfei to four years and Ms. Jin Peizhen to three years.
4. [Huludao, Liaoning Province] Mr. Wen Zhiming Imprisoned
Officers from the Suizhong County Domestic Security Division and the Police Patrol Team ransacked Mr. Wen Zhiming's home on April 27, 2011. They confiscated his computer, printer and truth clarification materials. Mr. Wen was held for eight days at the Suizhong Detention House before being transferred to the Suizhong Detention Center.
Song Shuhai, procurator: 86-429-6123556, 86-429-2153958,
86-137-00192299
Xie Baojin, deputy procurator: 86-429-6123263, 86-429-6131640,
86-139-04292674
Li Huailin, director of the 610 Office: 86-429-6131710,
86-138-42936888
Tian Xin, 610 Office: 86-429-6131710, 86-138-42920889
5. [Chongzhou, Sichuan Province] Police Officers Arrested Mr. Liu Xueming, in his 60s, at his Home Around May 7, 2011
6. [Baoding, Hebei Province] Mr. Ma Dengjiang Transferred to Handan Forced Labor Camp
Mr. Ma Dengjiang from Baishan, Yi County was transferred from the Gaoyang Forced Labor Camp to the 2nd team of the Handan Forced Labor Camp.
7. [Wuhan, Hubei Province] Mr. Li Chihua Held at Militia Base of the Armed Forces
Mr. Li Chihua from Dongxihu National Tax Bureau was arrested on May 9, 2011. He is now held at the Militia Base of the Armed Forces, Zawan No. 41, Xihu 1st team of the Baiquan Farm.
Tax Office of the Wuhan Dongxihu National Tax Bureau:
Li Puan: 86-27-83942569, 86-27-83086795, 86-138-71042456
Li Yuanliang: 86-27-83940069, 86-27-83264367, 86-131-35691313
8. [Guangzhou, Guangdong Province] Ms. Wang Xia Arrested
Three plainclothes officers arrested Ms. Wang Xia on her way home and took her to the Timian Brainwashing Center.
Yang Yuemin, head of the 610 Office: 86-13602736139, 86-20-36830883
9. [Pengzhou, Sichuan Province] 610 Office Arrests Ms. Zhou Yuexin and Ms. Zhang Zhifen
Liu Zhengfeng of the Mengyang Town 610 Office ordered several people to arrest Ms. Zhou Yuexin, in her 60s, at her home. She lives at the Laoer Team, Nanfo Village, Sanyixiang, Mengyang Town. They took her to a brainwashing center. Ms. Zhang Zhifen from Sanyixiang was also arrested and taken to the same brainwashing center.
10. [Linli County, Hunan Province] Ms. Zhu Guiying Held in a Brainwashing Center
The 610 Office arrested Ms. Zhu Guiying from the Water Power Station at Baizhixiang of Linli County at around 10 a.m. on May 10. Ms. Zhu is held at the Changde Brainwashing Center.
Huang Jinbo, CCP secretary of the Politics and Law Committee of
Baizhixiang: 86-135-48853555
Zhang Jianchu, head of Baizhixiang: 86-135-08463303
11. [Qinhuangdao, Hebei Province] Ms. Xu Cuilan Arrested
Officers from the Dawulanxiang Police Station arrested Ms. Zhang Yuqin, Ms. Fan Cuizhi and Ms. Xu Cuilan when they were talking with people about Falun Gong at Hepingzhuang, Dawulanxiang. Ms. Zhang Yuqin was later released. Ms. Fan Cuizhi and Ms. Xu Cuilan are held at the Qinglong Detention Center.
(Clearwisdom.net) A "Solemn Declaration" is a person's public statement 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. These statements have come from Falun Dafa practitioners in China who wish to express regret that, in the face of physical torture and brainwashing, they signed documents renouncing Dafa and guaranteeing not to practice again. Now, they hereby declare their intention to resume practicing Falun Dafa. Here are some examples of the Solemn Declarations: Please click here for more Solemn Declarations.
(Clearwisdom.net) A "Solemn Declaration" is a person's public statement 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. These statements have come from Falun Dafa practitioners in China who wish to express regret that, in the face of physical torture and brainwashing, they signed documents renouncing Dafa and guaranteeing not to practice again. Now, they hereby declare their intention to resume practicing Falun Dafa.
Here are some examples of the Solemn Declarations:
Please click here for more Solemn Declarations.
(Clearwisdom.net) More and more people in China are awakening to the truth and realizing that they were deceived by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) into participating in the persecution of Falun Gong, either directly as government officials, police, labor camp guards, etc., or indirectly as practitioners' family members, who in many cases may have cursed Dafa, burned Dafa books, or interfered in various other ways to prevent practitioners from following their beliefs. As a result of this awakening, the Minghui/ Clearwisdom website is receiving increasing numbers of heartfelt messages from non-practitioners who wish to publicly express remorse for their wrongdoing and announce their intention to rectify their words and deeds in the future. The editors will periodically choose representative messages of this type and publish them as articles entitled, "Solemn Statements from Non-Practitioners."
Here are some examples of the Solemn Declarations:
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(Clearwisdom.net) On May 21, 2011, a festive event was held at the Citizens' Communication Center for Town Construction in Hiroshima. The theme of the event was “Care,” and it was sponsored by the Future Metropolitan Consortium. Falun Gong practitioners participated in the two-day event.
Practitioners teach people to fold paper lotus flowers and explain the facts about Falun Gong.
From the beginning, many visitors came to learn to fold paper lotus flowers and listen to a practitioner’s explanation of the facts of Falun Gong. On the little card attached to the paper lotus was written “Falun Dafa is great” and “The world needs Truth-Compassion-Forbearance.” Some Japanese ladies in kimonos placed the little paper lotus on their chests.
The audience learns Falun Gong.
Visitors learn Falun Gong in front of the booth.
The second afternoon, practitioners demonstrated the exercises on stage. Many audience members had waited at the event to learn them. After the demonstration was over, some of them went to the Falun Gong booth to learn the exercises.
(Clearwisdom.net) Falun Dafa spread in China very rapidly in 1995 and the number of new practitioners increased sharply. Comparatively speaking, in Shijiazhuang as a whole, the practice of Falun Gong was still at a beginning stage. People were still unclear about what Dafa cultivation was and the environment of Fa study and genuine cultivation still had not come into shape. I still remember that Teacher asked a member of the Falun Dafa Research Society to pass on a telephone message (I can not remember the original words.) The general idea as I remember it was, "The Shijiazhuang area is lagging far behind other areas, so you must study the Fa a lot and work hard on genuine cultivation."
The practitioners at the Shijiazhuang Assistant Center were so shocked on hearing Teacher's comments. They were also very worried, so they organized a trip to Changchun City to share with those practitioners by taking advantage of the Chinese New Year holidays and learn from the practitioners who had advanced ahead of us. The Beijing Falun Dafa Research Society agreed with Shijiazhuang's idea and supported our going to Changchun. In this way, a group of 17 people got on the Changchun-bound train.
Our Reception Reflected the Demeanor of Dafa Practitioners
It was the Chinese New Year holiday period when we arrived in Changchun. It was 2 days before Chinese New Year's Day so people were all on vacation time and were busy preparing for the New Year. However, the practitioners in Changchun, holding a welcoming cardboard, were waiting for us at the train station enduring the biting cold wind. At that time all the hotels and restaurants were closed for business. The Changchun Assistant Center had arranged a guest-house for us beforehand. Since all the staff had gone back home for the New Year, four or five of the local practitioners gave up their holidays, the time for them to reunite with their families, to work for us. They brought rice, flour, vegetables, meat and eggs from their homes and meticulously arranged our meals. They tried hard to give us a variety of food at every meal. On New Year's Eve, 17 of us were having dumplings at the home of the deputy-head of the assistant center. The dumplings were made and sent over by the local practitioners. There were two types of filling, preserved vegetable with beef and Chinese cabbage with pork. The deputy-head of the center showed us the couch Teacher sat on when visiting his home.
Practitioners come from different parts of the country, but they look like a family since they study the same Fa and their hearts are close together. It was particularly so after the inhuman persecution started. We were able to come to this point today in Dafa cultivation after experiencing 12 years of difficulties and hardships. We felt it was a precious time in Changchun and it would move us to tears to recall the scenes of those days.
We felt very apologetic to see that the Changchun practitioners were kept busy for us on the Chinese New Year holidays and could not return home to spend time with their families. However, a local female practitioner said, "You have come from so far to Teacher's hometown. You are all Teacher's guests, so it is only natural for us to take care of you. We study the same Fa so we are of one family." From what she said, we practitioners from Shijiazhuang found where we had fallen short. We looked at issues with human thoughts, but the practitioners in Changchun used the perspective of the Fa.
Joining the Group Exercises in Changchun
When it was time for Fa study in Changchun, we found that it was in full swing and the local practitioners were reading and reciting the Fa, and some were even copying out the Fa by hand. Even those practitioners who did not read and write kept copying the Fa stroke by stroke. The more they copied the more beautiful their characters became. Among the exhibits in the painting and calligraphy exhibition run by the practitioners in Changchun, were Dafa books copied by the local practitioners.
Our group went to the practice sites, one in Jilin University and another in Shengli Park. It was winter in Northeast China and the temperature dropped to 20 degrees Celsius below zero. At five o'clock in the early morning we went to Changchun Cultural Square to attend the group exercises. Teacher cleaned the field in person. Every day the number of people that joined the exercises reached about one thousand so the energy field was very strong. We felt the warmth all over our bodies and we did not feel cold at all even though we were not wearing gloves. For the convenience of the practitioners who went to work during the day, there were group exercises in the evening as well.
After the group exercises in the morning, some went to work and others stayed to study the Fa and share or join various kinds of activities to spread the Fa.
The group Fa study in Changchun was very well organized. Most of the venues were provided by the practitioners and some by workplaces. There was group Fa study every evening and all the practitioners would go to various venues to attend. A large Fa study group would have 80 to 100 practitioners and the smaller ones a dozen or so practitioners. The majority of them were young people. Maybe it had something to do with the number of institutions of higher learning in Changchun.
The practitioners took group Fa study seriously. Practitioners who had just finished work would all go straight to group Fa study. They would buy a steamed bread or a sesame seed cake for dinner and only return home after the Fa study. They followed the method approved by Teacher, reciting the Fa one paragraph at a time, each taking turns. When time was up they would appoint someone to continue from where they stopped on the following day.
Cultivation Is Looking Inward
The Changchun Assistant Center arranged for us to study the Fa and share with the assistants of various practice sites. We found the local practitioners measured everything with the Fa and there were a lot of moving stories of genuine cultivation. Some stories may look very ordinary from the current standards now that the practitioners have all matured. However, they were really touching during the early days of cultivation.
One of the assistants told us a story, "A male practitioner who was over 50 years old liked drinking alcohol. After practicing Falun Gong he knew he could not drink any more. However, he could not let go of it. One day he could not hold back any more so he drank some alcohol. Afterward he regretted it very much so he was on his knees in front of Teacher's portrait and expressed his wish to mend it. Teacher gave him the opportunity. However, he drank again after a period of time. Then he found Teacher's expression to be very serious in the portrait and he felt very sick as well. Teacher bore the karma for him the first time and gave him an opportunity. When he drank again all his previous karma returned to him. He passed away not long after. During the funeral there was a portrait of the deceased. People could see clearly two lines of tears under his eyes on his portrait. They knew they were the tears of regret from the deceased man." Cultivation is a very serious matter so we must cultivate ourselves in a down-to-earth manner. Only in this way will we not miss this cultivation opportunity of the ages.
An assistant told us another story. One day when he was delivering copies of Zhuan Falun to a practice site on his bike he felt very happy, thinking how much energy potency he could gain for delivering the books. All of a sudden the books fell from the bike and dropped to the ground. He got off the bike and tied the books to the back before continuing on his way. Not long after, the books dropped to the ground once again. At that moment he realized that he had a problem so he began to look for it. He looked inward and realized that the problem came from his attachments of selfishness, showing off and complacency. He found he did not always think about other people and his mentality in delivering the books was also not right, so he quickly adjusted his thoughts. He tied up the books once again and delivered them to their destination without any further trouble.
During the sharing we did not hear any accusations of other people, but all looked inward to find our own shortcomings.
Sharing on Respecting Teacher and the Fa
Some local practitioners said, at the beginning of the spreading of the Fa, since they did not know how to cultivate, they would go to see Teacher whenever they came across a problem, even a very small one. When some practitioners saw Teacher in the street they would go across the street to see him, shake hands with him and ask him questions. With more profound study of the Fa practitioners gradually began to realize that what they wanted to ask Teacher was all contained in the Fa. When their cultivation levels elevated they all came to understand the real meaning of Teacher and Dafa, and learned that our Teacher is a great Teacher and that Dafa is very profound. As a result they tried not to bother Teacher any more. When they ran into Teacher on the street they would not go forward to talk to him or ask him questions any more, but stood where they were and quietly heshi to Teacher and then left. Some practitioners would only heshi when they passed Teacher's home in the distance but did not bother him any more.
Many practitioners in Changchun had been to Teacher's home. It was very simple, with a double bed, a table and a few stools. Teacher's daughter slept on a couch. When there were not enough stools they would use cardboard boxed to serve as stools. In winter, Teacher's family, like many other ordinary families, reserved a lot of Chinese cabbage as the main non-staple food for the whole winter. There was no heater but a coal stove. The practitioners who had been to Teacher's home still felt very bad whenever they thought of the stove at Teacher's home.
Every time the Dafa books arrived they were in large quantities and on the following day the books would be delivered to all the assistant centers. One practitioner who was in charge of the materials lived on the 7th floor. At the beginning he naturally put all the Dafa books in the basement, for the sheer convenience, since they would be distributed on the following day. Later he enlightened that it was disrespectful to Teacher and the Dafa books so he moved all the books to the 7th floor even if he needed to move them downstairs on the following day. From this we could see the absolute sincerity of the practitioner in respecting Teacher and the Fa.
The valuable experience of the practitioners in Changchun helped to push the practitioners in the Shijiazhuang area forward so that we became more diligent and began to genuinely cultivate ourselves. As a result it became the turning point for the cultivation of our whole area, from healing illnesses and keeping fit to genuine cultivation of looking inward and rapid elevation of our xinxing. The practitioners knew what cultivation was and would measure themselves with the Fa all the time. It also helped to set off a new upsurge in studying the Fa.
What is recorded here is only a fraction in the spreading of Falun Dafa in Northern China before July 20, 1999. At this time, when we are celebrating Teacher's 60th birthday and World Falun Dafa Day (May 13) I use this short article to express my gratitude for Teacher's infinite grace as well as to congratulate the spreading of Dafa around the world.
These remarks serve as an introduction so that other practitioners who were involved may come and add their valuable comments. For anything I did not do well, please feel free to comment and correct.
(Clearwisdom.net) My niece, Jinfeng, 20, was diagnosed with leukemia in the summer 2006. I had a copy of Minghui Weekly at that time, which contained an article entitled, “A Leukemia Patient Obtained a New Life.” When I showed it to my husband, he suggested that Jifeng should come to stay with us for a while so that I could teach her the Falun Dafa exercises. When we called my husband's younger brother, Jinfeng’s father, he told us that she was very ill and couldn't come.
I then decided that I should travel to Heilongjiang Province to see Jinfeng. She had completed her last chemotherapy session. Nearly all of her hair had fallen out and she had to wear a mask to help her breathe. The doctors didn't want her to get tired or cold, so she wore a pair of thick pants and had a blanket wrapped around her. She was also dependent on others to take care of her every need. Her family had already borrowed almost 60,000 yuan to pay for her medical fees and couldn't afford to borrow any more money. The doctors told them that they couldn't guarantee a full recovery even if they spent 600,000 yuan on a bone marrow transplant.
When I showed them the article in Minghui Weekly, my father-in-law told Jinfeng that she should try the exercises. I told her, “Falun Dafa is a cultivation practice of the mind and body. When you cultivate, Master can purify your body for you.” Jinfeng replied, “Auntie, I don’t believe in that. My brother even told me to stay away from people who tried to convince me to believe in divine beings.” I told her, “Only cultivating in Dafa can save you. It is a long train journey to come all the way here, and I have a lot of work to do at home. Do you think I would do this just to deceive you?” She seemed to understand and immediately said, “Auntie, I believe what you say.”
When I started to teach her the exercises, Jinfeng shook with fatigue. I told her that if she got tired, she should ask Master to strengthen her in her heart. We did the exercises together each day.
Within a week of doing the exercises, Jinfeng was able to do some light work in the kitchen, helping her father chop vegetables. She was also able to eat more and gradually her body became stronger. We did the exercises together for about two weeks before I decided to return home, as she said that she would be able to continue doing the exercises by herself. Not long after, she called me and said she had fully recovered from her illness. Many of her family members and friends witnessed the miraculousness of Dafa.
Jinfeng's father was still not convinced that she had fully recovered, and took her to Harbin Hospital for a check-up. The doctors were surprised. One of them said, “You are still alive! The patients who stayed with you in the same hospital room have all passed away.”
Jinfeng now works as a cashier at her father's restaurant. She has put on weight and looks very healthy.
(Clearwisdom.net) Fa-rectification cultivation has come to the final stage, but some practitioners are still having difficulties in overcoming sickness karma, or have even passed away prematurely. This is definitely not what Teacher wants; it is the old forces' interference. Four years ago, I experienced two serious bouts of sickness karma. Under Teacher's compassionate protection and with faith in the Fa, I was able to make it through. I want to share my experiences and understandings, hoping it will help fellow practitioners.
One morning in 2007, when I was walking out the door, I suddenly felt something go from the top of my head down to the right side of my torso. The left side of my body was normal but I lost control of the right side. I felt the bones and muscles on the right side become loose, and then I fell down. I was surprised for a moment. What was going on? Weren't these symptoms of a stroke? I thought it wasn't right! I was a Fa-rectification period Dafa disciple, not an everyday person, and I have shouldered the historic mission of saving sentient beings. How could I be in such a state? During this critical moment of clarifying the truth to save sentient beings, wasn't this the interference of the old forces? I firmly negated the arrangement at once and did not acknowledge it at all! I would never allow any evil to persecute my body under any pretext. At that time, I knew that if I believed I was paralyzed on the ground, I would not be able to get up again. I shouted in my mind quickly, “Teacher, help me! Teacher, save me!” I called my own name, and had the thought that I must get up and stay up. I told myself, “Up! Up! You can do it! You must do it!” I exerted the greatest effort possible to get the right side of my body to stand up and leaned on a door frame so that my body would not slide down.
I sternly admonished the old forces, “Let me tell you that if I were not a cultivator of Falun Dafa, I may be paralyzed in bed today. But I am a Dafa disciple, and I am walking on a divine path. My Teacher has arranged a new life for me. Although there are many attachments I haven't cultivated away, you cannot use them as an excuse to persecute me. I will rectify myself through the Fa. You are the evil old forces, dark minions, and rotten demons—things without a future—how dare you persecute me!” I quickly cleared my human thoughts and sent forth righteous thoughts. While asking Teacher for help, I continued to demand myself to stand up. “When it’s difficult to endure, you can endure it. When it’s impossible to do, you can do it.” (Zhuan Falun) I had to stand up. Then, amazingly, I was able to stand up slowly. But the right side of my body was still limp. I thought that this was not good. How could I do the three things in such a condition? Wouldn't it be a disgrace to Dafa and an obstacle in saving sentient beings? So I started walking slowly to the bed and lay there. I kept sending forth righteous thoughts to disintegrate all the evil and recited “Lunyu,” Hong Yin, and “Expounding on the Fa,” “Position,” “Path,” and “Cautionary Advice” from Essentials for Further Advancement. At the same time, I searched for my shortcomings in cultivation such as the competitive mentality, resentment, jealousy, showing off, laziness, and so on.
I said to Teacher in my heart, “Teacher, I'm sorry. I haven't cultivated well and have worried you. Even though I have omissions, the old forces are not allowed to persecute my body. Teacher, please take charge of me. I will rectify myself through the Fa.” In about an hour, my body became numb. I thought this was a good thing. Wasn’t I alert? It showed that a large number of evil beings in other dimensions had been disintegrated and Teacher was purifying my body. I continued to send forth righteous thoughts and recited Teacher's lectures. In about one hour, the numbness disappeared and the symptoms became less severe. I thought that as a Dafa disciple, I couldn't accept the old forces' persecution and I couldn't lie in bed. “Good or evil comes from a person’s spontaneous thought, and the thought at that moment can bring about different consequences.” (Zhuan Falun) I was then able to get out of bed and walk, although my body was still pretty stiff. I thought that I couldn't let my husband know about what had happened. Even though he knew Dafa was good and supported my practicing, he was still an everyday person. If he knew about it, it might bring him tribulations, or he would not understand. Although my movement was limited, I still continued with my day and put together a simple meal. I decided not let my family know about my condition. The following day my physical condition was normal. About every ten days or so, the condition would reappear but each time the symptoms were less severe. After five or six times, the interference disappeared for good.
Another time when I was sweeping the floor, I felt my spine crack, and then I couldn't stand up straight or bend down. It was so painful that I couldn't think. I couldn't breathe normally. It felt similar to having lumbar disc herniation. I once had this condition prior to Dafa cultivation, so I knew this was the evil persecuting me. I knew that a cultivator did not have illness and this had to be an illusion. Teacher said,
“I do not talk about healing illness here, and neither will we heal illness. As a genuine practitioner, however, you cannot practice cultivation with an ill body. I will purify your body. The body purification will be done only for those who come to truly learn the practice and the Fa.”
“If they are not cleaned out, how can you, with such an impure, dark body and a filthy mind, practice cultivation toward a higher level? “ (Zhuan Falun)
I recited Teacher's lectures repeatedly. I knew that we had practiced cultivation at high levels from the start, and not at the level of healing and fitness of low-level qigong. Where there is qi, there is illness. We already had the divine power of Buddha Fa and were not simply at the level of qi. I completely denied the old forces' evil arrangements. In the meantime, I also found the root of my attachments. Before Dafa cultivation, I was tormented by illness. For two decades, I did not have normal sensation in my body, and I often looked forward to having less pain. After I started practicing, Teacher purified my body many times until I was in a state free of any illness. I was so attached to the feeling that I had the attachment of pursuing leisure and comfort. Also at the time, I went out to clarify the truth every day, and was able to persuade several or dozens of people to withdraw from the Chinese Communist Party, leading to the attachment of zealotry and complacency. Although I knew that “cultivation depends on one’s own efforts while the transformation of gong is done by one’s Master” (Zhuan Falun), I still had the mindset of validating myself. There were other factors such as slacking off in studying the Fa and not putting the Fa into my heart while studying the Fa, and the attachment of focusing only on “doing things”. Even though I had recited the Fa, knew the Fa principles, sent forth righteous thoughts, and looked inward for my attachments, the pain didn't alleviate. For almost four days, I couldn't eat any food and couldn't sleep, and I lost some weight.
One evening, an elderly practitioner came to see me. After asking about my situation, she said firmly, “This is a hurdle you must overcome! When you break through it, it will have really been nothing! There have been situations in which practitioners were lacking righteous thoughts and became hospitalized. You need to enlighten to this yourself!” The practitioner's words put me at ease. I had been looking forward to practitioners helping me send forth righteous thoughts. Now my dependent mind vanished. Looking up at Teacher's picture, I said in my mind, “Teacher, if you are using this practitioner's mouth to remind me, what should I do?” I knew I had to break through it. There is the Fa and Teacher, so what was I afraid of?
The next morning, I sent forth righteous thoughts and sought Teacher's help to have my husband go out. I couldn't let him wait on me as a patient. A while later, my husband said, “I am going to wash the car and get a fill-up. You stay home and rest.” After he left, I bent over, endured the pain, and went out with some truth-clarification materials on a bicycle. I reminded myself that it was only pain and I needed to confront it. I rode the bicycle downhill in front of my home. Then a miracle happened: My back straightened up, the pain disappeared, and my body felt light and buoyant. It was like riding a motorbike. The bicycle went forward without me needing to peddle. I was at a loss. How did this happen? I immediately realized that it was our compassionate Teacher seeing my wish to break through the barrier and thus undertaking everything for me. It was Teacher strengthening me. Once again the evil disintegrated in the face of righteous thoughts. I couldn't express my gratitude toward Teacher and I actually cried out loud in the street. Luckily, there weren’t any pedestrians around. The tears could not stop flowing down my cheek. I later persuaded six people to withdraw from the CCP that day. After learning the truth, they were very grateful. One of them said, “I can see that you are here for us and I can see your kindness. Thank you.” I said, “Just thank our Master. It is our Master who has told us to save you. He wants everyone to have a better future.”
When I returned home, I bowed to Teacher. When I saw the compassion in Teacher's photo, I burst into tears again. I knew that Teacher's compassion and his allowing me to constantly enlighten enabled me to overcome tribulations one after another. Aren’t these miracles a powerful manifestation of the Buddha Fa in the world?
Through my personal experiences, I deeply realized that in the face of tribulations, Dafa's mighty power and Teacher's immeasurable compassion are always guarding us. Therefore, the key is for us to truly believe in the Fa and Teacher. When we use righteous thoughts and righteous actions to negate the old forces' persecution during tribulations, we will be able to pass the tests and enlighten to what Teacher said,
“Disciples’ righteous thoughts are strong
Master has the power to turn the tide”
(“Master-Disciple Grace,” Hong Yin II)
After my sickness karma was eliminated, I tried to write down my experiences to share with fellow practitioners. But I felt that there were already many similar articles published, so I didn't write it. This time with encouragement and Teacher's help, I wrote this article to share with fellow practitioners. Through writing the article, my vanity, selfishness, and tendency toward inaction have been exposed. Time for Fa-rectification cultivation is running out. I hope those practitioners who are still having difficulties in overcoming sickness karma will study the Fa more, lay down all human notions, and cherish the valuable time Teacher has extended for us and return home with Teacher.
(Clearwisdom.net) One day I read an article in Minghui Weekly about a fellow Falun Gong practitioner that has been actively doing the three things, but ended up passing away recently. The practitioner's most visible attachment was that he adamantly refused criticism.
Many Falun Gong practitioners in my area, including myself, have the same attachment. It is very difficult for me to remove the attachment of rejecting criticism. On the other hand, it is critical that we do remove it. I would like to share my personal experience of eliminating this particular attachment.
I started practicing Falun Gong in 2001. My husband also practices. When we first started practicing, we both refused criticism from each other. Neither one of us would give ground. We fought so intensely that we talked about getting a divorce. We both repeatedly made up our minds to eliminate this attachment after we calmed down from having the arguments, but we still ended up getting defensive and upset the next time it happened. Why was it so difficult to accept criticism? Eventually we found the answer to our problem in Teacher’s books and articles. We calmed down and began to study the relevant passages of the Fa.
Teacher said,
“In addition to human beings and animals, plants are also lives. Any matter’s life can manifest in other dimensions.” (Zhuan Falun)
We realized that notions are acquired, not inborn, and that notions are matter and a form of life capable of thinking. Notions exist in human bodies. When someone points out your notions or tells you that your notions are wrong, it is a threat to those lives, so they will manipulate you to defend them with anger or rage as a byproduct.
After I came to understand and accept Teacher’s words, I knew it was not I who gets upset when someone points out my faults. It is my acquired notions who get upset. Now that I know the root cause, it becomes easier to remain calm when my faults are pointed out to me. When people speak ill of me, righteous thoughts will come forward. “I am a Falun Gong practitioner. I rejoice in listening to criticism. I am determined to purge the notions that will manipulate me to get upset.” I had to persevere for a long time before the attachment of rejecting criticism became markedly weaker. These days my husband and I rarely bicker. We both are determined to remove the attachment thoroughly.
It is easier said than done, but it becomes easier when I am determined. I know a lot of fellow practitioners who are not receptive to criticism. Some of them are not even aware of their attachment. It is high time to become aware of the issue. There was one practitioner who smoked. When someone pointed out his attachment, he would insult the person right away. For many years the practitioner did not quit smoking, and he ended up passing away. Teacher has taught us in many different lectures to eliminate the attachment of rejecting criticism. It goes to show the significance of eliminating the attachment.
Teacher said,
"Be sure to pay heed! From this point on, whoever can't take criticism is not being diligent, whoever can't take criticism is not displaying the state of a cultivator, or at least on this issue. (Applause) If someone still can't pass this test, I'll tell you, he is in a very dangerous situation, because for a cultivator this is the most fundamental thing, it's at the top of the list of things to eliminate, and it has to be eliminated. If you don't get rid of it, you won't achieve Consummation." ("Teaching the Fa in the City of Los Angeles")
It has been five years since Teacher gave this lecture. The Fa-rectification has come to the end. Has each and every Falun Gong practitioner eliminated this very attachment yet? We ought to reflect deeply upon ourselves. While we are doing the three things, let’s not forget to cultivate ourselves. My humble insights are limited to my current level of cultivation practice. Please kindly point out anything inappropriate
(Clearwisdom.net) I started practicing Falun Dafa in 1996. I would like to share my cultivation experience.
When I began Dafa practice in 1996, my husband did not. Like other ordinary people, he was strongly opposed to Dafa. He refused several times to let me in after I had done my morning group exercises outside. I had to stay in another practitioner's home until he left for work at 8:00 a.m. I knew that was testing my boundaries. I always looked inward and found problems in my end. I remained calm and treated him nicely, even if he was mean. I acted according to Dafa and treated him with compassion, and things slowly got better.
The persecution that began in 1999 completely destroyed my cultivation environment. My husband started giving me a hard time. He hid my Dafa books every day and did not allow me to practice. He did not do any chores, had a bad temper, and even went on an occasional hunger strike. I remained calm and did things according to Dafa. I consistently made him a hot meal, whether or not he ate it. I would eat the leftovers. It had happened so many times, but I stayed calm and tolerated what he did.
Even though I treated him well, he did not stop hiding my Dafa books, which kept me from studying the Fa. I would have to spend much time each day locating the books. I studied when I found the books and replaced them in a safe place, but he would still find them. When I could not find a Dafa book, I looked everywhere, including the garbage can. It was very difficult to deal with my husband, but I was firm in Dafa cultivation.
I told my husband to stop hiding the books, that it would not do him any good, but he would not listen. He persisted. He refused to talk to me for a long time. Even when I approached him to initiate a conversation he ignored me. He kept ignoring me even when my family ran into great difficulty. I cried so many times and underwent a difficult time. Later on officials seized me twice. He did not show any compassion, became an alcoholic, had a bad temper, and got angry without reason. I could see that all the desks and chairs at home were crying. His face was as ugly as a cloudy day each day.
I could not fall asleep one night because I heard noises. I discovered that my husband was taking down a picture of Master. I asked him why he would do that, but he did not respond and took it down.
I cried loudly, clasped Master’s picture to my chest, and told him that no one could make me give up Dafa practice. He could not, and neither could those 610 Office agents or the guards who had persecuted me at the detention center. That night, I held Master’s picture in my hands to avoid further damage. My husband started tearing the picture after I fell asleep. I woke up again and cried loudly. I took Master’s picture back from him and stayed awake for the rest of the night to protect it.
In 2004 my husband had a serious illness, was sent to hospital for emergency treatment, and was diagnosed with a stroke, which left his left side paralyzed, including his mouth. Staying at his hospital bedside, I explained the goodness of Falun Gong and the evil persecution. My two, eight-year-old grandsons, who both practiced Dafa, visited him in the hospital. They whispered into their grandfather's ear, "Grandpa, you should remember that 'Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.' Your illness will be gone soon.” He was truly touched by his grandkids. There was big smile on his face.
My husband was hospitalized three times between 2004 and 2007. After a detailed medical exam, the doctor suggested open heart surgery. I continued telling my husband the facts, reminded him not to believe the lies, and told him to remember that Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good, to have a wonderful future. I also suggested he practice Falun Gong with me. He agreed by saying “I don't want to have surgery. Let’s go home tomorrow, and I'll give it a try.”
With Dafa's power and truths, my husband finally understood Dafa. His health gets better each day, he helps with household chores and is now a completely new person.
We created a family-based Dafa materials production center with help from other practitioners. Since I was busy with household chores, such as picking up kids from school and taking care of a grandchild less that a year old, my husband did lots of the work for the material center. He helped print and cut materials and make the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party booklets for distribution. He took the initiative when I was not at home. He also fixed the printer and became a great assistant.
My husband also wrote a solemn statement and withdrew from the "Young Pioneers." Last fall he went to a hospital for an exam. The doctor told him that everything was normal. He knew that Dafa had saved him, and he finally became a Dafa practitioner.
Everything happens under Master’s protection. As long as we do well, we will change the environment. I now have an upright, good practice environment. In the future, in this limited and valuable time, I have to vigorously improve my xinxing and do well the three things.
Please correct me if there is anything improper.
(Clearwisdom.net) I am 62 years old now. My wife brought home a copy of Zhuan Falun in the spring of 1997. Immediately I knew that this book was exactly what I had been looking for—it taught people how to be good, how to search inside when problems occur, and how to cultivate our xinxing. Additionally, it can cure illnesses and improve our physical and mental health.
After reading Zhuan Falun, my wife and I went to the local practice site to watch Master’s lectures on DVD, and we joined the local practitioners to study the Fa and practice the exercises. Our physical health and xinxing improved quickly. Before that, I used to smoke two to three packs of cigarettes every day. After studying the Fa, I gave up smoking and drinking. Master also opened my third eye so that I could see scenes in other dimensions. I could feel that everything that Master said in Zhuan Falun was true and miraculous. Because of that, I was determined to cultivate well.
I felt so fortunate to be able to obtain such a good method for cultivation, so I wanted to tell others that Dafa was good. Some people learned Dafa with me; among them, a few are still actively making efforts to validate the Fa.
After the evil old forces began to persecute Dafa in July 1999, many of our practice sites were destroyed. Some former practitioners stopped practicing out of fear. Some government officials also came to my home and ordered me to sign a guarantee statement to stop practicing. I refused to comply and clarified the truth about Dafa to them. I told them that I would not stop cultivating in Dafa and that I was not afraid of anything. After that, my home became a location for fellow practitioners to study the Fa together. We study the Fa in the evenings. Through the Fa-study, our righteous thoughts have been strengthened. We are Dafa disciples walking on the divine path to assist Master to validate the Fa.
I am a vendor, and I sell food products in a market. Master tells us to follow Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, to always be considerate of others, and to cultivate our xinxing. I always think about my customers first, and I have never sold fake products. My products are of high quality and are fairly priced. I do not care how much money I make; I only care about clarifying the truth to save more sentient beings.
I have come across all kinds of people when I clarify the truth. It is important for me not to be affected by their human hearts. I only believe in Master; as a result nobody can touch me. One day after I clarified the truth to a lady, she agreed with me. Afterwards, she brought her husband to listen to me. When I told them to do the three withdrawals (withdrawing from the Chinese Communist Party [CCP] and its two youth organizations) for their personal security, his face turned blue, and he said many bad words to me. He even threatened that he would have me arrested. He asked me if I knew who he was. Smiling, I replied, “I’m doing you a favor; I’m saving you. Why would I be afraid of you?” His face loosened up, and he told me with a smile that he was a Party member and that he was willing to quit the CCP and its affiliated organizations. Thank you, Master, for saving another sentient being.
On another occasion, a young man told me after listening to the truth about Dafa, “I work for the Politics and Law Bureau, which is in charge of persecuting Falun Gong. Do you dare to continue talking to me about Falun Gong?” Without any fear, I continued, because I knew that I should all the more tell him about the truth of Dafa. While sending forth righteous thoughts at the same time, I pleasantly talked to him for a long time. After learning about Dafa, this young man also quit the CCP and its affiliated organizations. He thanked me repeatedly for helping him. He said, “Why aren’t you afraid?” I told him, “We walk on the most righteous path, so why should we be afraid? It is the evil old forces that are scared.”
The Fa rectification is progressing rapidly, and more and more evil factors have been eliminated. Many people have learned the truth about Dafa and have begun to help spread the truth of Dafa to others. One day I went to the countryside on a business trip, and I told the people who had lunch with me about Dafa. After learning the truth, they all supported Dafa, and they made the three withdrawals. They even brought more people to come to listen to me. I told them, “You should be grateful to our Master! It is our Master who tells us to best use the time we have to save more sentient beings.” Master is doing everything for us. Sentient beings are all waiting for us to save them!
After clarifying the truth to the workers at an apparel factory one day, they were very happy. I knew that those who were predestined had come to listen to the truth about Dafa.
During the past decade of persecution, I have clarified the truth to people everywhere I have gone. I tried not to miss anyone, even if they did not believe what I told them. If I missed someone, I felt very regretful afterwards.
At present in China, you can find the truth about Dafa everywhere you go. The fellow practitioners in our local area study the Fa together to eliminate our attachment of fear, and we work together to distribute truth-clarifying materials in the countryside, tell people the truth in person, and help people to do the three withdraws. After repeating “Falun Dafa is good; Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good,” some people's chronic diseases were healed and others were able to avoid tragic accidents. There are numerous examples of how people have benefited from Dafa—some people clarified the truth to their families to help them quit the CCP after they were saved by Dafa. After learning the truth about Dafa, some people shouted, “Falun Dafa is good!” whenever they saw me.
Because we are doing a good job, we have created a positive environment in our area. During the past few years, with the help of some out-of-town fellow practitioners, we called and mailed letters to government officials in the local government agencies that deal with justice, legal investigation, and law, as well as school principals and teachers. After mailing the materials, some of us will go talk to them in person. As a result, some of the government employees have also made the three withdrawals.
This is the first time that I have written down my personal experiences, thanks to the help of fellow practitioners. Please kindly point out anything that is not appropriate.
(Clearwisdom.net) I frequently hear stories from fellow practitioners about the situations they encounter when they go to clarify the truth about Falun Gong. That is, when a few practitioners are clarifying the truth to everyday people face to face and when the person suddenly asks, “Are you all Falun Gong practitioners?” At that time, some practitioners are afraid to answer and avoid the question. Some even appear to be hiding something and just turn and walk away. Only one practitioner had the courage to directly answer the question: “Yes, we are Falun Gong practitioners. We are all good people. You can also see that we are sincerely concerned about your well-being!” After the practitioner said this, the other person's doubts were cleared away.
Think about this, if practitioners dare not admit in an aboveboard manner that they are Falun Gong practitioners and avoid the question when an everyday person asks, this would serve to increase that person’s doubts and suspicion. Then the truth clarification process may unintentionally have a negative effect instead.
This reflects an issue. How should we rectify the relationship between the Fa and ourselves? Fa rectification has reached this final stage and many practitioners are doing the three things required by Master. But do we often calm down and look inwards and examine the attitudes we have towards the three tasks? Do we do the three tasks like completing an assignment, just following others and making up the numbers? Is it a situation where many people increase the courage of the group or do we have this compassionate heart to save sentient beings and be responsible? Why shouldn’t we validate Dafa in an aboveboard manner? Don’t we have happiness, joy, and pride deep in our hearts because we cultivate Dafa? What did Master give us? Dafa practitioners, “It is the foremost title and the most magnificent being in the cosmos.” (“Teaching the Fa at the 2004 International Fa Conference in New York”) Without reservation Master has given us this greatest honor in this cosmos. Among everyday people, if we received any honor, it would be said that we had brought honor to our ancestors and our family. Should we feel this less than others just because the current situation in China has not turned for the better and everyday people still have misunderstandings about Falun Gong? Does this mean that, in the depths of our hearts, there are still deeply hidden attachments to personal gain and fame and attachments of fear? Aren’t we silently acknowledging the arrangements of the old evil forces?
I am writing this not to show off about my cultivation level. Actually, I slowly gained an understanding through failing tests and making mistakes. The three tasks must be done, but we must do them with a pure heart! Of course when we clarify the truth, we must use rationality and wisdom to do it.
I know an elderly practitioner who did well in this area. One time she started a conversation with a stranger who was waiting for the bus to come. She had just said two sentences when the person suddenly became stern and said, “Who are you?” The elderly practitioner honestly told her, “I am a righteous Falun Gong practitioner.” The person’s face immediately relaxed. Just then, the bus came and both of them got on. The person said to the practitioner, “Come, Dafa practitioner, come and sit here!” One more sentient being happily accepted the truth about Falun Gong!
Furthermore, while this practitioner’s relative was in prison as a result of persecution, this practitioner frequently looked for the local police and 610 Office personnel to clarify the truth to them. She did all this in a righteous manner and did it very well.
Master said, “the appearance stems from the mind.” (“Fa Teaching Given at the Epoch Times Meeting”) Many things happen because of our attachments. As long as we rectify our hearts and know clearly that we are doing the three things well, awakening the sentient beings is the most righteous and good thing in the whole cosmos. Once we are righteous, it suppresses all evil. In that case, who would dare to look down on us? They can only admire Dafa practitioners for our selflessness and courageous hearts! There was once an everyday person who understood the truth about Falun Gong and said, “You all are so courageous!”
The above are some situations that I’ve become aware of and wished to share my understandings on with fellow practitioners. If there is anything appropriate, please compassionately point it out. Heshi!
(Clearwisdom.net) I am a young, single, female practitioner. A young, female fellow practitioner recently stagnated in her cultivation. While speaking with her, it was discovered that the source of her problem was the attachment of lust and desire. This seriously impacted her righteous thoughts, and she has been unable to break out of her lustful desires. Very worried about her, we have been sharing with her, based on Fa principles, and helping her send forth righteous thoughts, but with little results. Helplessly, we watched her slide towards being an ordinary person, obsessed with sentimentality and desires, and lost on the way home. Gradually I lost my patience, thinking to myself: “How can someone who has already obtained the Fa not cherish it? There is nothing anyone can do if she does not wish to cultivate herself.” So I stopped paying attention to the state of her cultivation.
A few days later, I had a dream. In the dream, I met my former boyfriend. We started dating each other. It even felt warm and sweet. Upon waking up, I was depressed: Why didn't I remember that I was a Dafa disciple? I hastened to burn incense to Master, saying, “Master, I did not remember in the dream that I am a Dafa disciple. That's why I did not do well in the dream. If I had been awake, I would have surely remembered it and refused the temptation of lust and desire.” So it seemed that I had found an excuse for my not doing well in the dream. Soon after, the phone rang. It was a male practitioner who wanted to meet up to talk about a project. I normally did not interact with this practitioner, but I had a good impressionsof him. I was suddenly very excited. I briefly tidied myself up and put on what I thought were my best clothes. On my way out, I even thought about finding a cozy location, somewhere quiet and elegant, to talk with him. But when we sat down, I felt dizzy and muddleheaded and couldn't speak of anything from the standpoint of the Fa. Upon returning home after meeting with him, I felt that my entire heart was shrouded in a thick, heavy substance. It was so stifling that I did not even have the strength to speak. We actually only had a short conversation, but sentimentality was surfacing uncontrollably. I knew that this was my attachment of lust and desire stirring. The lust demon was trying to destroy me.
At that moment, I truly felt that nothing on the path of cultivation is coincidental. It was not a coincidence that I saw the other female practitioner exhibiting the problem of lust and desire. Not only did I not search inward, but I also blamed her when I wasn't able to help her. I did not pass the test in my dream. Not only that, I found an excuse for myself in front of Master. By now I felt that I was beyond hope. I had been cultivating all this time, yet my attachment of lust and desire was still so strong. Master said in Zhuan Falun, “We begin cultivation practice as everyday people. The first step is this test,...” I thought that I had not even passed the first step. How was I supposed to continue cultivating? Why couldn't I restrain something that I knew was not right? I hated myself for being so disappointing. Sad tears started to stream down my face, as if every cell was submerged in boundless suffering.
I cried and said to Master in my heart: “I want to be your disciple; I will not give up; I shall rectify myself with Dafa, no matter how hard it is.” I sat in the lotus position and started to send forth righteous thoughts to eliminate my attachment of lust and desire and any interfering rotten demons of lust. I also asked Master for strength. About an hour later I was not feeling as much pressure on my heart, but there were still rotten substances in my field, because I still felt stifled. During the following days, I continued to feel lost, oppressed, and cheerless. I could not study the Fa with a calm heart. I kept wondering why I was so severely manipulated by the lust demon. Was it my desire for a worldly good life? I knew that was not the case, because I have been determined to follow Master home since day one of my cultivation, and I desired nothing in this world. So where on earth did the affection come from? What was the root of the problem?
I found that the root did not lie with me, not with my true self. From Master's teachings, our true selves conform to Zhen-Shan-Ren and Dafa. The purpose of cultivation is to return to our true selves, or to our original, true nature. And yet lust and desire is an attachment that comes from sentimentality. It is something dirty and to be relinquished. Many notions have formed since we came to this world, many of which have been embedded into our minds by the old forces. For example, before I started cultivation practice, I longed for a romantic and loving relationship. I also created karma for myself because of a mistake in that area. Now that I am a cultivator, this karma and its associated notions have continued to manifest in my mind. I felt as if I was unable to suppress those wild thoughts. The evil in other dimensions was also using rotten lust demons to magnify my attachments, making me feel gloomy and depressed, even to the point of almost destroying my cultivation.
I suddenly came to understand that there can be no slacking at all in cultivation. We can lose ourselves in the slightest self indulgence. How fortunate we are that we have come across this priceless opportunity to become Dafa disciples. We have gone through the evils' blanketing persecution and incarceration and come out strong, and yet I have wavered in my cultivation confidence due to my attachment of lust and desire. If the old forces find an excuse to destroy our cultivation, how do we face our wait of many thousands of years of incarnations? How do we face the countless sentient beings who entrusted to us their hope of salvation? How do we face our Compassionate Master's enormous sacrifice for us?
Gods and Buddhas do not possess sentimentality. They have compassion instead. To become a great enlightened being established by Dafa, one must step out of selfish sentimentality and put sentient beings in one's heart. In this final moment, let us purify ourselves and save what are ours to save.
