Importance of Cooperating as a Whole

(Minghui.org) I would like to share a story about the importance of cooperating well together as a group. 

In the fall of 2012, local practitioners coordinated with several imprisoned practitioners' family members to help free those in prison. The following is their story: 

Nearly 20 practitioners in our local area were arrested on September 25, 2012. I had a dream afterwards of a wide and long river without any water. 

I remembered Master’s poem after I woke up, 

“Massive, powerful figures,they gathered for the Great Current… ” (“Following Master”, Hong Yin III) 

I understood that maybe Master enlightened us that we hadn’t cooperated as a whole for the Fa-rectification. Many practitioners were arrested and the local practitioners may have had fear and were unwilling to step forward for truth-clarification.

As the Mid-Autumn Festival was approaching, I thought of a young practitioner who had been arrested and imprisoned. He had an elderly mother and two young children to take care of. 

It was also time for the autumn harvest and I felt that his wife might not be able to handle all of the burden. I took a half hour bus ride and visited their home, but only met his mother. 

I tried two more times and eventually met his wife, Ms. Lin, who is also a practitioner. I discussed with her whether we could solicit signatures from the surrounding villagers to prove her husband was a good person and should be released. Ms. Lin was very cooperative. 

We also received help from half a dozen practitioners for the autumn harvest. 

Meanwhile, I visited the mother of another imprisoned practitioner. I persuaded her to collect signatures from villagers to demand the release of her son as well. She was also very cooperative. 

Ms. Lin and the other practitioner’s mother eventually collected many signatures from the villagers. We uploaded the signatures to the Minghui website.

When I learned that no one would go together with Ms. Lin to the city police department to deliver the signatures in person, I voluntarily accompanied her. I also invited the other practitioner’s mother to go with us. 

In the police department, I helped Ms. Lin take care of her children. Ms. Lin and the elderly mother visited the related police officers. 

Ms. Lin immediately recognized a police officer who was involved in arresting her husband. Ms. Lin asked where her husband was held. 

The officer refused to say, and told Ms. Lin he was not in charge. When Ms. Lin pressed the officer for information about the person who was in charge, the officer wrote down that person's phone number nervously. We called the person in charge of the practitioners’ case and he said he was not at the office. 

We found the location of his police station and arrived there that afternoon. The officer on duty called the chief of the police station and he returned half an hour later. 

He started to make false accusations about the detained practitioners and threatened to sentence them. Ms. Lin argued with the chief explaining that her husband was a good person and did nothing wrong. 

I also told the chief, “It’s not easy for her to raise two children by herself. Right now it is time for the autumn harvest, and there is a lot of farm work for her family. Please release her husband.” 

Many practitioners sent forth righteous thoughts that day to help the detained practitioners.

We went to the police station again the next day, together with another two practitioners. But we did not see the chief. 

Ms. Lin waited in front of the police station with her children at 7:00 a.m. on the third day. It was morning rush hour and she started telling the pedestrians how her husband was arrested, and she told them the truth about Falun Gong. 

Many people gathered and listened to her. The chief felt embarrassed and persuaded her to go home.

Her husband was finally released two days later. Eventually, most of the arrested practitioners were released with all the practitioners’ cooperation and efforts.

Unfortunately three arrested practitioners were not released. I was involved in accompanying the family of one of those practitioners to the police station to request releasing him. 

Later the family visited the police station alone twice. The police told the family that the evidence was insufficient and the case was returned. 

The family asked me what to do and I suggested to continue requesting the release of the practitioner as there was insufficient evidence. However the family did not follow through, and eventually the practitioner was illegally sentenced.

Through the experience of rescuing fellow practitioners, I learned the importance of cooperating as a whole.