(Minghui.org) Greetings to compassionate and great Master! Greetings to every practitioner!
One day in April 1997, my husband’s brother and sister asked me, “Why don’t you practice Falun Dafa!” At that time, to get rid of my illnesses, I was practicing a spirit possession qigong that was harming many people in the nation. My husband’s sister told me that Falun Dafa is the righteous Fa. She gave me the book Zhuan Falun.
1. Obtaining the Fa and a Pure Heart
When I first opened the book, I felt difficulty breathing. But there was a powerful force that supported me as I read on. I compelled myself to continue reading. The more I read, the more breathless I felt. But I continued reading. It was almost daybreak, and I was reading the paragraph, “The Placement of the Mysterious Pass” in “Lecture Four.” I suddenly felt much better. I had never felt so comfortable. Later, through further Fa study, I realized that it was the evil things that were interfering with my Fa study because I had invited them by practicing the spirit possession qigong. When I was reading the book, Master removed them.
Great Master had saved me! Although I was not clear about the Fa, I had strong faith. Not only did I believe, even my brother, husband, elder sister, parents-in-law, and my husband’s sister all started Falun Dafa cultivation practice.
Whenever I had time, I read the Dafa books. One day I was reading the essay “A Heavy Blow” in the book Essentials for Further Advancement and read this,
“My disciples, you shouldn’t always be unaware of these things until I point them out. In fact, everything is included in the Fa. Why not read the books more? I suggest that everyone set his mind to reading ten times the book I wrote, Essentials for Further Advancement, which you call scripture. When your mind isn’t at peace, studying the Fa is not effective. You should study it with a peaceful mind.”
I thought, since Master said to read the book ten times, I would read it ten times.
The third time I was reading the book, the words started to turn pink. The fourth time, the words became green. On the fifth time, the words became blue. When I read it the sixth time, the book started to emit golden light. On the seventh time, there were many colored lights and colors emitting from the book. The tenth time, the book was extremely beautiful because all the different lights and colors were mixed together. Furthermore, the various lights were cleansing my body like brushes and I felt extremely comfortable.
2. Respect Master and Protect the Fa
On July 20, 1999, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started persecuting Falun Dafa and its practitioners. My work unit belonged to the corporate section, and it was under direct supervision of the evil head, Zhou Yongkang. Every day the work unit was filled with fear. Each department had to do reports. I was the office manager and was in charge of getting documents signed. When I read the contents which defamed Dafa, I felt extremely uncomfortable. I felt that such a good practice was given injustice and such a righteous Master was being defamed. Thus I confiscated all the documents. Later the company held a meeting to specifically discuss the situation of the persecution of Falun Dafa. They asked me for the documents. I said, “I have never seen them.” At that time I begged Master for protection, so that they would not pursue investigating where the documents had gone. Later there was really no further news. Before this, because none of them had seen the documents, our department had never held any meeting regarding the persecution of Falun Dafa.
After the “Tiananmen self-immolation” incident was staged by the CCP and broadcast, my colleagues all gathered around the security office to watch the television. Thus I told them about the suspicious points in the “self-immolation” incident.
In August 2005, a colleague's child was admitted into a good school. I went to attend the celebration in a restaurant. It was arranged for me to sit with the eleven managers of our work unit. These people were all members of the CCP. I wanted to make good use of this opportunity that Master gave me to save sentient beings. I told them about renouncing their CCP membership. None of them interrupted me, and they all listened very carefully. Later when they came out from the restaurant, a deputy manager chased after me and said, “Help me to renounce my CCP membership. In the future when there is any tribulation, you will protect me.” I said, “It is not I who will protect you. It is your belief in Dafa which enables the Dafa Master to protect you.”
3. Witnessing the Miracles of Dafa
A. A Second Chance
After leaving my work unit, I went to the market to sell bread for a period of time. There was once a tractor carrying a dozen people from another area that came to my stall to buy bread. They said that they came from another county, which was dozens of miles from here. They said that however delicious my bread was, they would not be able to come back. I did not clarify the truth to them. After the tractor left, I was so regretful! I told Master, “I was wrong; if there is ever such a chance again, I will not miss it.”
On the second day, a pottery shop assistant told me they wanted to buy bread from me. But they would only be able to pick up the bread when they got off work at 5:00 p.m. They wanted me to instead deliver the bread to their shop. Usually, I would go home before noon so that I could prepare truth clarifying materials in the afternoon. I thought to myself that it was Master arranging an opportunity for me to clarify the truth. Thus I agreed. At 5:00 p.m. they were still having a meeting. The shop assistant asked me to wait for a while. I agreed. At this time, someone shouted, “Hey, there is a car over there looking for bread to buy!” I took a look and saw that it was the tractor I saw the day before, and it was still carrying so many people! I knew I must not miss this chance. As I was selling bread to them, I told them the truth about Falun Dafa. As they had tasted the bread I sold them the day before, they wanted to buy more. I was concentrating so much on clarifying the truth, that I forgot to collect the money for the bread. At this time an elderly lady came and stood beside me, and she shouted, “This one has not paid, and that one has not paid,” I did not know this lady, and the customers all thought that she was my relative, and they all rushed to pay me. When the tractor driver was about to leave, I asked him, “Didn’t you all say that you came from a long distance and would not be coming back?” They replied, “The seeds we bought were not enough! So we came back for more!” I was turning back to thank the lady who helped me, but the old lady was nowhere to be found. At that time, my tears dropped. This wasn’t me saving people, isn’t this clearly done by Master!
B. The Edges of Paper that I Cut Too Short Miraculously Grow Longer
After Hong Yin Vol. II was published, I was responsible for collating the pages of the printed book. At that time, I did not have a big paper cutter; so the pages did not have even edges. I felt very sad. I told Master, “This disciple was too much in a rush. I wanted to quickly finish the books so that fellow practitioners could read them. Tomorrow I will definitely make the edges straight.” At night, there was group practice, and when I was doing the second set of exercises and holding the Law Wheel above the head, I saw that my right arm, from the wrist down, grew longer. Both fellow practitioners and myself did not know what that meant. The next day, when I came upon the books, I saw that the edges of the books were straight. I asked my husband when he straightened the edges. He said he didn’t do it. I said, “Then it must be Master who helped to make the edges straight.” I was so touched and shouted, “It was Master who straightened the edges!”
One day in 2007, I once again thought of how my arm grew longer, and I finally understood that it was not that Master had cut the edges straight, but that Master had lengthened the edges that had been cut short.
4. Enlightening Through Tribulations
A. Demonic Interference Due to My Attachment of Showing off
In October 2005, the police ransacked my house. After I was illegally detained, I was sentenced to seven years of imprisonment. With Master’s protection, I went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution. The prison refused to admit me. Four months later I returned home. The next day, to avoid being persecuted again, I left home and started to wander around. In September 2007, when I was away from home, the police once again arrested me and took me to the detention center. I begged Master for protection. I again went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution. I enlightened to the idea that there is water and food in the Fa. Thus I thought I would not be hungry or thirsty while I was on the hunger strike, and I would not have any reaction when the force-feeding tube was inserted into my stomach. The evil could not do anything to me. After “the Party's 17 th Conference,” the regime agents were prepared to release me. I had this thought, “These two detention centers cannot do anything to me. If I am sent to labor camp, I would also create havoc there!” This strong attachment to validating myself allowed the evil to take advantage of my loopholes. After the “Party's Conference,” I really was sent to this labor camp.
B. Bringing Back Practitioners Who Had Gone Astray
This labor camp is the most evil place in the whole country for “transforming” practitioners. They made use of the collaborators to transform practitioners. These collaborators tried to sway me with their wrong reasoning and tried to “transform” me.
Looking at these two collaborators and remembering how difficult it is for compassionate Master to save us, I asked them when they first started to practice Falun Dafa. One of them started in 1996 and the other in 1994. I said, “Wouldn’t you have let Master down? If you wrote a guarantee statement to renounce your practice of Falun Dafa, wouldn’t you have betrayed Master? In cultivation of the past, the Master would have gotten rid of you. But our Master is compassionate and knew that you wrote those betrayal letters under pressure of the evil party and that these letters were not from your heart. As long as you acknowledge your mistake and write a solemn declaration to renounce the guarantee statement, Master would still want you as a disciple.” I recited the Fa that I had memorized. After two days of exchanging experiences, one of them cried and said, “You have rectified me, thank you!” I said, “It was not me who rectified you, it was our compassionate Master who did not want to let go of any single disciple.” Although the other one did not awaken, when we parted, she told me that I have to be careful because the guards are callous. Later when someone came to “transform” me, I changed them instead.
After being detained and tortured for two days and one night, one practitioner could not withstand it and was “transformed” against her own will. The evil wanted me to compromise and let this “transformed” practitioner verbally abuse Master in front of me. I looked at her and said, “This is not your own will. Master will forgive you.” After she heard my words, she cried and left. After that, she wrote a solemn declaration and negated all her behavior which betrayed Dafa and expressed that she would be steadfast in her cultivation of Dafa.
C. Defying Evil Words
The guards let an ex-practitioner, who had gone astray, brainwash the practitioners. She made markings in the book. She also omitted words and added her own words to the lectures. I thus stopped her from reading. She said, “Then you read.” I took the book from her and saw that it was Master’s lectures. She intentionally extracted sections that she had marked to read and used this method to defame Dafa. I took the book from her and read word by word without missing a single word. After reading a few paragraphs, I handed the book to another practitioner to read. In this way, we studied the Fa together for half-a-day.
One day she extracted some of Master’s Fa and copied it on the blackboard. She tried to explain the Fa to us, and some practitioners who did not have a clear understanding of the Fa were led astray by her. I said, “You have gone too far. How dare you change the Fa!” I told the practitioners not to listen to her evil words because she had completely betrayed Dafa. In this way, two other practitioners and I made a mess of her class. From then on, they did not dare to let me sit in her class.
D. Dissolving the So-called “Studying” at the Labor Camp
The few days before the 2008 Olympics, there was a new round of brainwashing. Everyone in each cell was being forced to “study” the articles that defamed Dafa throughout the night. I thought that I must not let the evil defame Dafa so brazenly. Thus when practitioners were shouting, “Falun Dafa is good” in other cells, I recited the poem “Good and Evil Are Already Clear” in Hong Yin : “Living beings have turned demonic—endless calamities, Dafa rescues and saves in a chaotic world; Not distinguishing between righteous and evil, slandering heaven’s Fa, People of Ten Evils wait for the autumn wind.”
At this time the head of the labor camp brought in someone for a review. After he heard the poem, he quickly told his subordinates, “Stop studying.” From then on, the so-called “studying” sessions stopped.
E. Stopping the Torture
In October 2008, other practitioners and I wanted to rescue practitioners who refused to sign the “labor evaluation form” and were thus subjected to the “stretching” torture. The evildoers thought that I was the one who took the lead for the rescue effort. Thus I was summoned to the office where seven to eight evildoers used electric batons to shock me at the same time. Due to protection from Master, they could not do anything to me. They said that my body does not “conduct electricity.” They pressed me onto the floor, took off my shoes, and poured water on my feet. Then they continued to shock me, but I still did not have any reaction. Thus they decided to use the “stretching” torture on me.
This torture made use of a bed with an upper and lower bunk. They put my upper body onto the lower bed from the head of the bed. They tied my legs to the metal legs of the lower bed, then handcuffed my arms to the rungs of the upper bed. My back could not straighten yet my legs could not bend. The weight of my whole body was on my arms. Within a few minutes, I was covered in sweat and lost consciousness.
Under this torture, I was not afraid. I calmed down and looked within. What attachment did I have that the evil was taking advantage of? I found a lot of attachments. Attachments to showing off, being happy about achieving something, competitiveness, validating oneself, sexual desires, and especially the attachment to showing-off kept on expanding. For example, before the 2008 Olympics games, there were two practitioners who were in prison with me. They could not withstand being shocked by the electric baton and signed the “guarantee statement.” At that time I was thinking, “What is the electric baton to me?!” It was this strong attachment to showing off that brought today’s electric baton to me. At the same time, I had an attachment to competitiveness with fellow practitioners. Master said, “The desire to show off plus the attachment of zealotry are most easily exploited by the demonic part of your mind.” (“Definitive Conclusion” in Essentials for Further Advancement)
I now understood that it was shameful to be persecuted and that I had brought trouble for Master. I told Master, “Master, I am wrong. Because I have not done well, these evildoers had the chance to commit wrong doing, this is really causing damage to sentient beings. From now on, I must do well and not allow any arrangements of the evil. I beg Master to strengthen me.” At this time, the words “break through tribulation” flashed across my head. I was steadfast in my belief in Master and believed that I would be able to survive this tribulation. Regardless how much pain my body was experiencing, I must stop the torture. In the future, no practitioner should be made to undergo this torture ever again. I thought, “Since you stretch me, I stretch you.” I shouted loudly, “Maitreya Buddha stretch!...let loose….” At that time although my mouth was taped, I could still shout out. When I shouted, “Let loose”, the handcuff that was fixed on the rung in front of me moved. At this time an officer came and asked who handcuffed me so tightly. He said he would loosen it for me. I knew that Master had withstood hardship for me in other dimensions again. For the next two days and a night, a practitioner supported my right arm. I slept with my head resting on my right arm. When I was thirsty, another practitioner gave me something to drink. When I was hungry, I was given milk. Other practitioners who knew about my tribulation sent righteous thoughts for me. Thus, in this way I was able to break through this torture.
After I was taken down, I could not feel the right side of my body. The officers sent me to the center's hospital. The doctor said, “If she does not do physical therapy, she will never recover within eight to ten years.” But after I was released from the labor camp, my body was as good as ever. This is a miracle due to a life returning to Dafa.
5. Manifesting the Dignity of Dafa Practitioners
I always reminded myself that I am a Dafa practitioner, and I must not let Master down. When I was incarcerated in No. 1 Division, the head asked me to sign the “evaluation form.” I refused, and she asked me why. I said, “A cultivator will stick to only one cultivation way. The exam form is signed for the CCP, and the CCP is a cult; if I sign for it, then I could not complete my cultivation.” She said, “I will sign on your behalf.” I said, “If you sign it, this also would not be beneficial for you.” She said, “I give up on you.” From then on, no one asked me to sign that form.
One day, a team leader said, “All the team leaders said that you look down on us, and you never greet us.” I replied, “You all supervise prisoners. If I greet you, you will think that I am also a prisoner. For your own good, I cannot greet you. If we were outside, we may become good friends.”
In the New Year of 2009, all the prisoners gave the guards New Year's greetings during breakfast. I was the last one to enter the hall and heard the team leader shouting New Year's greeting to me. All the people in the hall looked at me. Some practitioners were comforted, and some guards were shocked. Many prisoners were filled with respect for Dafa practitioners!
6. Master Helped Me Get Out of the Labor Camp
Three days before I was released from the labor camp, I had a dream. I dreamed that the evil was showing a movie. I refused to watch it and ran out of the theater. A gang of police officers ran after me with guns. I shouted, “Master please save me!” Then I dreamed that I was on a push cart. There was someone pushing me along. Through telepathy, I was told that this is the way home. I looked back and saw that the person pushing me was actually Master. After I woke up, I was filled with tears. In my mind, this scene appeared: In 2005, the police grabbed me and I shouted, “Master please save me!” At that time, Master’s Fashen came below me and lifted me up. I seemed to have entered the clouds and felt extremely comfortable. The police dragged me from the third floor to the first floor, but I was not hurt at all. Three days later, I walked out of the labor camp in a dignified manner.
When I recall my cultivation process over the past more than ten years, Master helped to cleanse me when I was filled with karma. But the evil took advantage of my loopholes because I had attachments. I was detained. My attachments swelled, and I almost died a few times on the torture devices. Master helped me return from the brink of death. I am unable to know how much hardship Master withstood for me. No words can express the gratitude I have towards Master. I can only cultivate myself well and be diligent in my cultivation in the future. I will save more sentient beings and fulfill my pre-historic vows, and follow Master home.
I kneel and bow to our compassionate and great Master!
Thank you fellow practitioners! If there is anything appropriate, please point it out.
