(Minghui.org) I was fortunate to step into Dafa cultivation in August 2008. I had missed two opportunities 10 years ago. In 2008, I really cherished the precious opportunity, I kept Master’s teachings in mind and paid great attention to studying the Fa. In order to break through sleepiness and thought karma, I began to memorize Zhuan Falun and other lectures in March 2016. So far, I have gone through memorizing Falun more than 20 times. I also began to systematically study all of Master’s teachings.
Studying the Fa a lot, and especially memorizing the Fa, allowed me to achieve strong righteous thoughts. During my 15 years of cultivation, I experienced many hardships, but, given Master’s protection, and the help of other practitioners, I have come to where I am today. I would like to share my experience of resisting the persecution with righteous thoughts after I was arrested in July 2022.
I went to deliver the truth materials to a practitioner’s home one day in July 2022. As soon as I arrived, a dozen officers from the local police station and the people from the town’s Comprehensive Management Office arrived. Fear had been one of my shortcomings, and I was only able to slowly reduce it. Whenever I went out to distribute the truth-clarification materials, I would be afraid and feel pressure. This was the first time I encountered such a situation, and I began to panic. However, I knew that I hadn’t broken any law, and I stayed calm on the surface.
I was worried that the materials I brought would implicate the other practitioner. At the same time I recalled that Master asked us not to cooperate with demands from the evil. I said to the police director, “What are you doing? You scared me.” He and another person immediately twisted my arm behind my back and pulled me towards the police car. He wanted to put handcuffs on me. I said sternly, “Let go of my arms!” The other practitioner stepped in and told him to let go of me. He didn’t insist on handcuffing me.
I was taken to the police station. Standing in the hallway, I told everyone there that Falun Gong is a righteous practice. The officers listened quietly, and no one interrupted me. I went on to talk about the staged Tiananmen Square Self-Immolation incident, and I told them about the Dafa principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance we practitioners abide by.
I was taken into a room, and two officers watched the door. I sat in a chair and sent righteous thoughts. I thought using the hand gestures might be more effective. At first I put my palm upright, but my right arm was hurt by having been twisted by the police, and it was shaking a lot. I switched to the lotus flower palm.
At first I was worried that the police wouldn’t let me send righteous thoughts, but no one interfered. I sat in the full lotus position and sent righteous thoughts for more than an hour. Because it was during the pandemic, the police later took me for a nucleic acid test. I said to the two medical staff, “I was detained for practicing Falun Gong. Please remember, Falun Dafa is good.” They were a bit stunned.
At around 3 p.m., I was taken to the county police department. On the way, I talked to police director Ding. I felt that as officers, they were forced to participate in the persecution and were harming themselves without realizing it.
When I entered the county police department, a female officer from the domestic security team received me. She slandered Dafa, and I immediately corrected her, “Falun Dafa is a great practice. It has spread in more than 100 countries in the world. It is practiced publicly in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.” Unexpectedly, she said to another officer, “That’s true. The other year I went to Hong Kong and saw people there practicing it publicly.”
Domestic security team head Li went to ransack my home. At first he wanted me to take them there and I refused, but I was not able to stop him from going.
Ding and the female officer interrogated me and made written records. Ding was very fierce at first. He said I was eating the food supplied by the CCP, but going against the CCP. I said, “I eat my own food from the income I earned from work.”
I clarified the truth to them, telling them that the Tiananmen Square Self-Immolation Incident was staged. I brought up the various lies that the CCP made. All were the reason for slandering and framing Falun Dafa. I asked them, “You are police. Why don’t you investigate those big lies that deceive people?” The female officer was mad, “Are we interrogating you, or are you interrogating us?” I felt that my competitive mentality arise, so I did not say anything more. During subsequent questioning, both were no longer fierce when talking to me, and I stopped answering any of their questions.
Towards the end, Ding left and went home. He was replaced by domestic security team head Li. While going through the written record, Li asked me, “Was this said by you?” I said no, and he deleted it. I also requested that another part of the record that Ding made up be deleted. At the end, they asked me to sign the record, and I refused.
My family picked me up at around 9 p.m., and I was asked to come again the next day. Since my family did not support my practicing Dafa, I figured that they must be frightened and resentful. This was the first time they experienced something like that. I thought to myself that no matter what they say today, I would not argue with them. It turned out that no one said anything.
After returning home, I immediately sent righteous thoughts to disintegrate all the evil beings in other dimensions that manipulated the police to participate in the persecution. I had a firm thought: I would never compromise with the evil factors under any circumstance, even if I were to be sentenced. I was determined to only listen to what Master says, firmly believe in Dafa and Master.
After sending righteous thoughts, I was tired – it had been a long day. I decided I must rest well and be ready to continue dismantling the evil factors the next day. I didn’t have any distracting thoughts and fell asleep soon after lying down.
The next morning, I first notified other practitioners to send righteous thoughts for me. On my way to the police station, I sent righteous thoughts and recited the Fa, and I asked Master to help me strengthen my righteous thoughts. I said, “Master, please help me completely eliminate the evil persecution and show the mighty virtue of Dafa to people. If I have made mistakes, I will correct them. But, I cannot let the evil factors create obstacles for saving sentient beings because of my shortcomings.”
I didn’t plan to go back to the police department at the time they requested because I wanted to use more time to have other practitioners help with sending righteous thoughts. What was unexpected was that I went to the detention center instead of the county police department. Because I got car sick the day before, I was not clearly aware that I was being interrogated at the county police department, and I thought I was at the detention center. So I went to the detention center instead. As a result, I ended up taking an extra hour to get there, and I spent all this time reciting the Fa.
When I walked into the state security team office of the county police department when I finally got there, the police department head, domestic security team head Li, and five or six other officers were waiting impatiently. They were afraid that I wouldn’t show up. Li said, “You didn’t tell us much yesterday. What do you plan to tell us today? You had a whole night yesterday to think about it.” I said, “I have nothing to think about. I didn’t do anything wrong.”
The police department head asked officer Lang to take notes. Only then did I recognize that Lang was my former colleague in the school. Lang still showed respect for me, he called me teacher and poured a cup of water for me. On our way to the interrogation room, when no else was present, Lang told me that he didn’t want to get involved in this matter, but his boss asked him to do it.
When he formally started to take notes, Lang first asked, “Does anyone else in your family practice Falun Gong?” I was afraid that they would implicate other practitioners, so I said sternly, “Don’t try to involve my family! Don’t stretch your hands too long!” At that time, my state of mind was not peaceful or kind. Lang was shocked, he responded with concern, “If they were to fire you, you wouldn’t even get a pension. How will you make a living?” My heart didn’t move.
I overheard them saying that they took more than 60 Dafa books from my home, as well as three USB flash drives and two laptops, which all had digital Dafa materials stored on them, but I didn’t have any distracting thoughts. After a moment of pause, Lang said, “Well, I will record whatever you say.” The female officer was dissatisfied and complained that Lang was helping me. Lang waved his hand and said to her, “Don’t worry about this. Let me handle it.” The tense atmosphere in the interrogation room softened.
I said, “First, there was no legal basis for Jiang’s group launching the persecution in 1999. Second, on March 1, 2012, the Director of the General Administration of Publishing of China signed ‘Order No. 50’ abolishing the 1999 ban on the publication of Falun Gong books. That means it is legal to possess Falun Gong books and materials in China. Third, before practicing Falun Gong, I suffered from more than 10 illnesses, including lumbar spondylosis, cervical spondylosis, rheumatism, stomach disease, and heart disease. After practicing Falun Dafa for two months, I recovered from all these illnesses. Falun Dafa is a true science and a higher level science.”
Lang recorded everything I said and discussed with me what I didn’t need to say. I asked Lang, “If you recover from illnesses by practicing Falun Gong, will you believe in it?” He answered very seriously, “If I recover from practicing Falun Gong, I will believe in it. Moreover, I’ll let more people know about it.” I was touched by his answers., and I was surprised that he had such a strong sense of justice and dared to say these things in front of the female officer.
I went on to say, “During this pandemic, please remember, ‘Falun Dafa is good and Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.’” He said he knew. I also asked the female officer to remember it, especially if something bad happens. She looked a little embarrassed and said, “Don’t curse me.” I said, “I don’t mean that. Who can guarantee that he or she won’t have any difficulties in life?” She smiled. The interrogation ended like this, and I still refused to sign anything.
Just then, I heard police head Ding from the local police station outside the room asking in a surprised tone, “The interrogation has already ended?” He seemed to have just arrived. My guess is that the county police department didn’t intend for him to get involved.
Then, at the domestic security team office, team head Li told me, “You can go home.” The officers present told me what buttons I needed to press when exiting, and I sincerely thanked them. With Master’s ingenious arrangements, I went home in an upright manner.
After leaving the county police department, I hurried to practitioner Zheng’s home and wanted to tell her about the situation, but she wasn’t home. On my way back, to my surprise, I ran into her at a three-way intersection. She was still going around and notifying other practitioners to send righteous thoughts for me. I cried. I told her what happened, and that my shortcomings had been exploited by the evil factors and all my Dafa books taken away. She also had tears in her eyes, she encouraged me and said that several practitioners were sending righteous thoughts for me. I felt the power of the one-body that day, as I did not feel that I was alone at all.
I received a penalty letter from the police station 10 days later, requiring me to be placed in administrative detention for five days. I went to see domestic security team head Li and said, “All the Falun Gong cases are unjust, false, and wrongly convicted.” He suddenly raised his voice and said, “You can request an administrative review, and you can also submit a lawsuit.” I said I would request an administrative review.
After returning home, I turned on the computers that the police station returned to me, and found that the software to circumvent the firewall was still there. I was very happy and put my hands together to thank Master. I quickly opened the Minghui website and burst into tears when I saw Master’s photo. I did not know what kind of suffering Master endured for me in exchange for my safety.
As suggested by other practitioners, I reviewed a large number of relevant legal documents on the Justice Forum, and read many articles about the practitioners using the law to fight the persecution. Practitioners’ selfless, pure, and noble state of mind really touched me, I saw the gap between myself and those diligent practitioners. I wrote an administrative review letter and sent it to the forum, and some practitioners on the forum quickly helped me revise it.
Over the next two months, I was constantly harassed by personnel from the school, the Education Bureau, and the town’s Comprehensive Management Office. They tried to force me a dozen times to give up my belief in Dafa, and they also withheld my salary.
I kept Master’s teachings in mind. Apart from eating, doing housework, and going to work every day, I would spend the rest of my time studying and memorizing the Fa, looking inside, and peeling away my human attachments layer by layer, especially the fear mentality. I often thought about the practitioners who were tortured in prisons and brainwashing classes. They did not compromise with the evil despite such brutal persecution, what did I have to fear?
I was afraid that I would offend the police by conducting an administrative review, or that they would intensify the persecution of me. This was a mentality of selfishly protecting oneself, fearing one’s own losses, and acknowledging the persecution. This must be eliminated. I experienced six or seven times of battling in my mind between submitting the review or giving up. On the deadline date to request an administrative review, in the last battle between good and evil, I finally decided to take the path arranged by Master and went to the Justice Bureau and submitted an administrative review letter. Walking out the door of the Justice Bureau, I felt more relaxed and calm than ever before. Master had taken away a lot of my fear.
During this whole process, I resisted the persecution with the determination of letting go of life and death. Although I had wrongly acknowledged the persecution initially, my unshakable belief and righteous thoughts towards Dafa were strengthened by Master, and the persecution was eliminated in the end.
Although the Justice Bureau never gave me a clear written response, three months later, the Human Resources and Social Security Bureau restored my salary and benefits, and the five-day administrative detention decision made by the police station became just a piece of paper. I was not detained for a single day.