[Celebrating World Falun Dafa Day] Master Lifted Me from the Abyss

(Minghui.org) I was sentenced to 10 years in the provincial women’s prison in 1998 for accidentally injuring someone. I was 30 years old at the time, and my son was 6 years old.

My Dreams

I had two dreams while I waited in the detention center for my sentencing. In the first dream, I climbed over two fences while holding a book. In the second dream I saw a big round disc in the air. I wanted to climb on it, but a voice said, “You must wait until Heaven’s door opens.”

Falun Dafa practitioners were illegally detained and sent to the provincial women’s prison in 2003. Because they were kind and righteous, they were welcomed by the inmates who called them “treasures.” One day, the guard on duty told me, “You don’t have a ‘treasure’ in your team. If another practitioner is sent here I’ll put her in your team.” Several days later, a young practitioner named Ping (alias) arrived. The four of us inmates monitored her in turns.

The Dafa practitioners came from different walks of life. Some were professors, teachers, or office workers. I didn’t understand why they were so determined in their belief. I asked Ping, “You people have high education and social status. Why are you willing to bear such hardship?” Ping clarified the truth to me and said that Falun Dafa is righteous and practitioners follow the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. I told her I wanted to read Master’s articles. Ping taught me to memorize poems from Hong Yin. When I memorized them, I felt my heart open up, like windows opening, one by one. My heart felt open and light.

Becoming a Falun Dafa Practitioner

By July 2003 I memorized Hong Yin and Essentials for Further Advancement, and I began practicing Falun Dafa. I underwent a fundamental change and was reborn.

Falun Dafa practitioners were severely persecuted in prison, and some had their wrists handcuffed behind their backs for months. The head of the guards said, “Don’t be kind to the Falun Dafa practitioners. As long as they are alive, that’s good enough.” Before I started practicing Falun Dafa, I monitored them but I was good to them. I protected them when they talked to each other about their cultivation experiences. Sometimes I passed on Master’s articles for them. When other inmates bullied Ping, I protected her. Ping said, “You are not monitoring me. Instead you are protecting me!”

The guards held a meeting with the inmates and ordered everyone to write a guarantee statement to make sure they didn’t sympathize with Falun Dafa practitioners and didn’t give them paper or pens. I wrote a generalized statement. The guard said it wasn’t good enough and told me to write another one. I told her I couldn’t. A young inmate wrote it for me and the guard was satisfied.

I felt ashamed because the way I handled the situation wasn’t in line with the Fa, so I decided to write another statement. I wrote, “Falun Dafa teaches people to be good and not do anything bad. Falun Dafa practitioners are respected. Falun Dafa is not a cult.” On the way to the guard office, I thought I should tell them that Falun Dafa is good and I wanted to practice Falun Dafa, and that I must continue practicing Falun Dafa even though my life would be at risk.

Both of the head guards were in the office and they asked why I wanted to see them. I said, “The previous statement was not my real intention. I wrote this statement from my heart.” One of them read it and asked, “Do you want to practice Falun Dafa?” I said yes. She said, “Why don’t you practice Buddhism?” I said, “I want to practice Falun Dafa. Falun Dafa is good.” The other leader said, “I wanted to reduce your sentence, but I won’t if you practice Falun Dafa. You’d better think of your son. Don’t you feel sorry for him?” I said, “No.” They told me to go back to my cell.

After a while the guard who was in charge of re-education came to see me. She didn’t want me to practice Falun Dafa and said, “You’d better wait until your sentence is reduced. Then you can go home and practice.” I said, “The principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance are not wrong. Falun Dafa elevates people’s morality. Many people will practice it in the future.” She saw that I was very determined and said, “I came to re-educate you. Instead, you’ve re-educated me. Okay, if you want to practice, then practice it.”

In China’s prisons, the inmates do forced labor. They have to work long hours and then extra hours on top of that. If they don’t finish their work, they are punished by being shocked with electric batons. One day, the guard leader found fault with me and told a young guard to shock me with an electric baton. After a while, the young guard said, “It might have an effect on her if she takes off her cotton pants.” I realized that she’d already shocked me but I didn’t feel it. When she was about to shock me again, I thought, “She is not allowed to do this. She must stop.” She stopped. I didn’t realize then that Master bore the suffering for me and protected me.

I passed a sickness test in the autumn of 2004. My back and legs hurt. My knees were swollen and hurt, and my feet were so swollen they were deformed. The guard put rheumatic patches on my knees. I took them off. My condition worsened. The inmates said I needed IV drips. I told the head guard, “I won’t take medicine or IV drips. I’ll just practice Falun Dafa and conduct myself according to Dafa’s principles, and I’ll recover.” The leader said I wanted to die. I said, “I don’t want to die. But I don’t want to take any medicine.” I said it twice. Because I couldn’t work, I stayed in the cell and read Master’s articles where there were no cameras.

The prison director called my parents, my brother and my son. She told them that my hemoglobin was dangerously low and I was in serious condition. She urged them to persuade me to give up Falun Dafa. I told them that Falun Dafa is wonderful and I asked them not to worry about me and that I would recover.

One day, I realized that I hadn’t withdrawn from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated organizations. I knew I needed to quit. I asked an inmate who was about to be released to find a Falun Dafa practitioner to help me quit the CCP. After I withdrew, I recovered quickly and I could walk again. When an inmate asked me how I recovered so quickly, I told her it was because I quit the CCP. She was amazed.

After 2 months and 7 days, I went back to the workshop to work. The guard leader was surprised when she saw me. She shouted, “Is it her? She recovered?!” They all thought that I would die.

Master eliminated my karma and bore it for me. He gave me a second life.

The Girl Suffering from Epilepsy Recovered

Inmate Xiao Xue was in her twenties. Her whole body was covered with small red rashes, and the other inmates didn’t want to be near her. I helped prepare bath water for her and helped her with her bath. She also suffered from epilepsy. During a seizure, she had convulsions, gritted her teeth, and bit down so hard that her mouth bled. She screamed horrifically in the evening and could be heard from the 1^st floor to the 6^th floor.

I told her that if she wanted to learn Falun Dafa, nobody had the right to interfere with her. One day she said she was about to have a seizure. I recited “On Dafa” (Lunyu) to her nine times. She listened quietly and didn’t have convulsions. I recited “On Dafa” whenever she felt sick.

One day, Xiao Xue got angry with someone and her neck bulged. I wrote down Master’s article “Realms” from Essentials for Further Advancement on a piece of paper.

“A wicked person is born of jealousy.Out of selfishness and anger he complains about unfairness towards himself.A benevolent person always has a heart of compassion.With no discontentment or hatred, he takes hardship as joy.An enlightened person has no attachments at all.He quietly observes the people of the world deluded by illusions.”

She read it, and afterward said she felt the channels in her body open.

One day, the head guard saw Xiao Xue sitting beside me and kicked her. An inmate told the leader, “Please let Xiao Xue sit beside her. Xiao Xue doesn’t have seizure when she sits beside her. She’s terrible when she has a seizure.”

Xiao Xue bought a roasted chicken for me whenever she went shopping in the prison commissary. I asked her to eat it. Her health kept improving and she no longer had seizures. Her rash disappeared and she looked much better. She was a changed person and her father was very happy when he saw her.

When Xiao Xue was about to be released from prison, she bought a can of peaches and a box of rock sugar and gave them to me. This time I accepted her gift. She was very happy. I told her to study the Fa and do the exercises every day, be a good person and behave according to Dafa’s principles. She said she would.

I witnessed practitioners’ heroic deeds in not bowing to the persecution in prison. I’m deeply moved when I recall everything I witnessed and experienced. Practitioners created an environment where they didn’t need to work and could stay in their cells and read the Fa. But they realized that they should save the inmates and the guards. They talked to the prison leader and asked to work in the workshop. This way, they could clarify the truth and persuade the inmates to withdraw from the CCP and its affiliated organizations.

One morning, the head guard and other guards led the Dafa practitioners to the workshop in a line. When the inmates saw the practitioners, they all applauded. Some smiled and some were moved to tears. Their knowing sides must have known that practitioners were going to save them. The practitioners clarified the truth to the inmates while they worked. At 12 p.m., when practitioners sent righteous thoughts, the workshop became quiet except for the rumble of the machines. It was sacred and overwhelming. That moment is forever etched in my memory.

Before I was released, 95% of the inmates had quit the CCP. Most of the guards also withdrew from the CCP and its affiliated organizations.

My Son

When my son installed an air conditioner in 2013, the welding gun he was using exploded. The doctor said he had third-degree burns on his hands and face. The lawyer said the employer should pay 180,000 yuan in compensation. The employer owed him 2 months wages and used it to pay his hospital fee. The employer only paid for his medical expenses. My son was very angry and wanted to file a lawsuit against him. I persuaded him not to sue his boss because it was not an easy situation for his boss. My son agreed. He rested for a while and then went back to work.

He recited “Falun Dafa is good and Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good” constantly and recovered from his injury quickly. He said, “Mom, you practice Falun Dafa. I have benefited from it as well. My hand has recovered.”

I look after an elderly lady. She would repeat, “Falun Dafa is good. Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.” I also read Zhuan Falun with her.

I am very thankful to Master. He snatched me from the abyss of hell, eliminated my karma and elevated my realm. Master led me out of confusion and into brightness. Thank you, Master! Falun Dafa will forever shine in my world.

(Selected submission in celebration of 2025 World Falun Dafa Day on Minghui.org)