(Minghui.org) It has been more than two years since the death of my relative Jun, a fellow practitioner. I have been wanting to write about him as a reminder for us as practitioners to cherish our human bodies and the opportunity to cultivate.
Jun began to practice Falun Dafa in January 1995. He quickly learned the five exercises and was diligent about doing them every day. At that time, I was at home recuperating from an illness, and I watched him practice every day.
I liked to read the book Falun Gong when I had nothing else to do. Master Li (the founder of Falun Dafa) opened my celestial eye. I saw a golden flower blooming instantly, like a special effect in a film, and was able to see things in other dimensions, such as Faluns, various colors of light, gong pillars above practitioners’ heads, and so on.
As I watched Jun practice every day, I saw the colors of the light on his body change every two or three days: red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and purple.
In January 1996, the core text of Falun Dafa, Zhuan Falun, went on sale in our area. Jun quickly purchased a copy. Soon, he found out that there were people practicing Falun Dafa in the park downtown, so he joined them. He actively participated in activities promoting Dafa.
In early 1999, Jun married again and started a family. His wife was very supportive of Dafa. Although she didn’t practice it herself, she also benefited from Falun Dafa and her hepatitis B disappeared. Their child was born that same year.
In July 1999, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) launched the persecution of Falun Dafa. Jun was put on the blacklist due to his involvement in activities to promote Dafa. He was sent to a notorious drug rehabilitation center for forced re-education through labor.
He said that the person who interrogated him was a police officer from the State Security Bureau, someone he had taught the Falun Dafa exercises to. He realized that the police had passed themselves off as practitioners to collect information about them long before the persecution started.
In a short few years, Jun was locked up in all of the detention centers and prisons in our city, but his faith in Master and Dafa was never shaken.
Many practitioners in my city were arrested after other practitioners were forced to turn in their names to the police.
After a coordinator was arrested, he could not keep his thoughts righteous after he was tortured and he gave the police information about many practitioners and truth-clarification materials production sites in the city. He even told them how many copies of Minghui Weekly and truth-clarification materials each site took weekly and how much it cost the practitioners to make them.
Suddenly, it seemed as if a dark cloud covered the whole sky, and five or six practitioners were arrested, including Jun. Those who escaped were forced to move frequently to hide from the police.
They interrogated Jun and demanded to know where the 30,000 to 40,000 yuan came from, as someone had already said that the funds had passed through his hands. In fact, this money came from individual fellow practitioners who’d saved from their daily expenses. Jun was dismayed that the police had so much information and made a firm decision to stop naming other practitioners and to bear everything himself.
He told the authorities that the money came from him alone. Since he was doing business and had a decent income, the police believed him and did not investigate further. From this point on, practitioners in our area stopped reporting on each other.
Jun was later sentenced to three years, while two other practitioners each got seven years. When I visited Jun, he told me that when they appeared in court, the other two practitioners tried to shift the blame to each other, which made the judge look down on them and give them longer terms.
Four months before his term was up, Jun was released. He left with a list of inmates who had agreed to quit the CCP and its affiliated organizations. He also told me about some things that went on among fellow practitioners while he was in prison.
When he was first admitted to the prison, relationships among fellow practitioners were not good. They fought with, ganged up on, and disagreed with one another. He then recited Master’s words to the practitioners in his cell:
“Dafa disciples, you must bear in mind that in the future any behavior such as dividing Dafa into branches, schools, sects, or denominations, by anyone, at any time, in any place, and with any excuse, is undermining the Fa.” (“Definitive Conclusion,” Essentials for Further Advancement)
These practitioners had been the mainstays in their local areas and had some technical abilities, but they were looking down on each other. Jun said openly and honestly that each one of them who had ended up in prison must have had problems, omissions, and attachments in their own cultivation that were seized upon by the old forces. He advised everyone to look inward instead of outward at others. Jun started by analyzing what he himself had done wrong, and the rest of them began to look inward for their own problems. The tensions among practitioners later disappeared.
He also told me about an elderly practitioner who had taught people in all areas how to install satellite dishes, and he had good computer skills. Once when he was arrested, the encryption system on his laptop prevented the police from getting any of his information.
I was deeply impressed. I realized that, while security measures are necessary, what really keeps us safe is Dafa. A person who meets a Dafa disciple’s requirements will be the safest. When we have no attachments or omissions, the evil will not dare to touch us.
Jun restarted his own business after he was released from prison. He worked for nine years before he eventually passed away in his early 50s. During those years, he didn’t do much of the three things that Dafa disciples are supposed to do. He would work from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. daily and sometimes had to visit customers’ homes at night. I suggested to him that he quit by 5:30 p.m. so he wouldn’t miss sending righteous thoughts at 6:00 p.m. He didn’t take my suggestion, and the quality of his righteous thoughts at midnight was not good either.
Jun had a pleasant face and was very friendly, so his customers trusted him. I suggested that he clarify the facts about Dafa to his customers and encourage them to quit the CCP. I thought it would be a good opportunity for him to save sentient beings while earning a living. Perhaps due to the fear of being persecuted again, Jun did not do it systemically and only talked to a few individuals.
I also emphasized the importance of Fa study and told him not to spend all his time earning a living. But at that time he insisted on earning as much as he could so that he could buy a house for his child. Because of the long hours he worked, he hardly found any time to read Dafa books.
Later, when he could go online, he spent more time reading news on Dynaweb than reading practitioners’ articles on Minghui. For a while he became addicted to watching a commentary program on NTDTV. I reminded him that the programs on NTDTV are meant for non-practitioners and that Dafa disciples should spend their time studying the Fa. Just as fellow practitioners shared in their articles on Minghui, no matter how busy they are every day, they must make sure to finish studying one lecture before they do anything else.
Regrettably, Jun and I lived far apart, so we could only exchange a few words now and then.
Six months before Jun passed away, one of his relatives had a dream in which he heard a male voice saying loudly, “Jun, you don’t have much time left. Go clarify the facts and quickly save people!” The relative immediately told Jun about the dream. From then on, he began to clarify the facts to everyone he met and advised them to quit the CCP.
One day, Jun suddenly fell into a coma at around 9:30 a.m. due to a brain stem hemorrhage. Because of COVID, the ambulance was late in coming, and it was after 4:30 p.m. before Jun got to the hospital. Doctors were going to operate on him, but he had another massive brain hemorrhage and passed away at 10:45 p.m.
It’s been two years since this happened, and I’ve been wanting to write about it ever since. From my point of view, Jun could have played a big role in saving sentient beings in this critical period of Fa-rectification. Unfortunately, due to the attachments of sentimentality, he was busy earning money. He didn’t cherish the time for cultivation nor have a sense of urgency and did not do the three things well. Consequently, the old forces got the upper hand.
I wrote this article in the hopes that it will shed some light for fellow practitioners. This is only my limited understanding. Please kindly point out anything that is not on the Fa.
Editor’s note: This article only represents the author’s understanding in their current cultivation state meant for sharing among practitioners so that we can “Compare in studying, compare in cultivating.” (“Solid Cultivation,” Hong Yin)