(Minghui.org) Several detained practitioners who had been unlawfully taken to forced labor camps or sentenced to prison recently came back quite suddenly. The practitioners recognized that the situation in Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-troubled China was changing very quickly. The practitioners said that during their detention, the guards and collaborating prisoners were no longer violent towards them. Practitioners felt that the environment was getting better and better and that they could see and feel that Chinese people were changing their attitudes towards Dafa.
Practitioner A said, “In the prison, although two prisoners watched me every day, when I clarified the facts to them, they listened. In the past, they not only refused to listen, they even beat me. The guards no longer cared when practitioners clarified the facts about Falun Gong to the other prisoners. Some said they really admired the practitioners who refused to give up their beliefs in Dafa. The practitioners who gave up their beliefs were looked down on by the police and the prisoners also bullied them.” Some prisoners also shout, “Falun Dafa is good! Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good!” when they see practitioners.
Practitioner B said, “This was the second time that I had been detained. When the police interrogated me this time, I immediately sent forth-righteous thoughts, and they appeared to be depressed. Instead of persecuting me they said, “You can think about it first.” Then they left.
I remember it was very bad when I was put into prison for the first time in 2003. I was tortured, and the prisoners also bullied me. No one at all listened to my truth clarification. At that time I had reached my limit of physical and mental suffering. The prison guards, prisoners, cell head, and director of the prison took turns in transforming me. Now it is different. The prisoners are willing to listen to the truth, especially those prisoners who were assigned to watch me. They came in groups, and after they understood the truth, they left and another group would come. I tried several times to talk to the director of the prison. I wanted to clarify the truth to him. But he dared not see me. Towards the end of my detention, I did not work at all. I just sent forth righteous thoughts and clarified the facts to everyone in the prison every day.”
Practitioner C was taken to forced labor for a second time. She said, “Now it is much better in prison. Very rarely does one hear of torture happening. Life inside the prison has improved a lot. Every week we got an extra cup of milk, which had never happened before. Once a practitioner suddenly fell down because her chest was in pain. All the practitioners went to see her. Even the director of the labor camp also saw her and said, “Maybe your heart is giving up, and you need to do the exercises more?” These words shocked everyone.”
During our sharing, I felt that practitioners were in good mental states, and they had clear understandings of the changes during Fa-rectification. Two practitioners also found that their attachments to sentimentality and desires towards their spouses were the loopholes that persecuted them again. From the changes in the prison and labor camps, we can tell that the evil factors are very weak now and that the Chinese people are beginning to understand that Falun Dafa is good. The Fa-rectification has reached the end. Although persecution still happens in some areas, we see a common factor: The evil specter is weaker and is diminishing at a very fast rate. More and more Chinese people are now awakening. There is rarely anyone objecting to us when we clarify the truth. During the sharing, a practitioner said, “We first need to save more people, and second we need to cultivate ourselves well and indeed reach the requirement of the new cosmos. Don't leave it to the last minute waiting for the changes in the cosmos and the end of Fa rectification.”
Finally, I would like to humbly quote Master's words. Master said,
“You have already passed through the hardest part. What is left won’t be so trying. You just need to do even better with it. The more hopeless things may seem, it’s possible hope will appear right before your eyes. Especially during those times when you are feeling so bored, perhaps you are in fact establishing your mighty virtue.” ("What is a Dafa Disciple")
