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Clarify the Truth; Lessen the Pressure on Falun Gong Practitioners in Mainland China

Tennessee governments at each level proclaimed Falun Gong in succession. The local media reported this actively.

Governor Don Sundquist of Tennessee wrote a support letter to welcome the "SOS! Global Rescue Walk" team on October 8. He said practitioners' efforts would help earn more support and understanding from American people.

Mayor Bennie Scott, Lexington, Tennessee proclaimed October 29, 2001, as "Falun Dafa Day" in Lexington.

Mayor Webb Banks, Brownville, Tennessee, proclaimed October 31, 2001, as "Falun Dafa Day" in Brownville. He also urged his residents to join the human rights organizations calling for the end of the persecution in China.

Mayor Don Weiss, Dickson, Tennessee, proclaimed October 2, 2001, as "Falun Dafa Day" in Dickson.

Mayor George Killebrew, Milan, Tennessee, proclaimed October 2, 2001, as "Falun Dafa Day" in Milan, Tennesee.

Mayor Bill Rivin, Disco, Tennessee, issued a proclamation to the members of "SOS! Global RescueWalk" team on October 25.

Mayor Don Fox, Lebanon, Tennessee wrote a support letter to the "SOS! Global Rescue Walk" team saying he opposed any violence and persecution from evil forces.

Mayor Bill Purcell, Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee issued a proclamation praising the "SOS! Global RescueWalk" team on October 25.

Mayor Charles Farmer, Jackson, Tennessee, wrote a letter to Falun Gong practitioners on November 2 and wished them well.

When the "SOS Global RescueWalk" team crossed the Tennessee state line, dozens of media interviewed them. Fox channel 13 reported the global walk activity and introduced the "Truth, Compassion, and Forbearance" principle of Falun Gong in its news program. The Sun newspaper, carried an articleentitled "Journey of Belief and Hope," that positively reported the "SOS! Global RescueWalk."

The "SOS! Global RescueWalk" team trekked hundreds miles. They brought the truth and principles of Dafa everywhere they went and raised the conscience and kindness of people throughout the world.

On November 1, the Boston practitioners who participated in the SOS walk across Massachusetts and the SOS walk across Europe, respectively, returned triumphantly. They shared their experience and understanding of their walks.

• The American practitioner who participated in the walk across Europe said, "The president of Poland listened to me attentively; he said he would give us as much support as he could and would urge China to stop the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners.
• Three national TV stations in France interviewed the members of the European walk. All stations objectively reported the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners by Jiang Zemin's regime. Reporters also interviewed the members of a French anti-cult organization. The organization verified that the Chinese government imposed the XX Party's persecution of Falun Gong to try to eliminate it.
• The Mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts, proclaimed October 21 to 27 as "Falun Dafa Week" to show the local government's support of Falun Gong at the ceremony welcoming the "SOS walk" team.
• There are now twenty-five cities or townships in Massachusetts that have proclaimed a "Falun Dafa Day" or a "Falun Dafa Week."

The Global RescueWalk by Falun Gong practitioners is continuing. For people who want to find out more about this activity, please visit: www.sos-earthwalk.net.

Falun Gong practitioner Zhang Cuiying, an Australian artist, held an exhibit of her paintings in Hamburg, Germany. Reporters went to interview her even though it rained that day. The audience said, "Beautiful paintings, kind practitioners and terrifying persecutors."

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In the recent two years, about 3,000 people have obtained the Fa in an area of China, and the supply of the book Zhuan Falun can't catch up with the demand. Dafa is still spreading out. More and more predestined people are still waiting to obtain the Fa.

On October 27, two Dafa practitioners from an unknown place went to Tiananmen Square carrying high a banner reading, "Falun Dafa is Great." They solemnly announced, "Falun Dafa is great, Falun Dafa is the righteous Fa, Restore the reputation of Dafa, Restore the reputation of Teacher." They were arrested afterward, but returned back to the powerful current of Fa-rectification by using their righteous thoughts.

Beijing Huairou County Detention Center illegally detains and tortures many practitioners. The vicious policemen instigate prisoners to beat practitioners to the point of death. Right now, some practitioners are on a hunger strike to protest the torture; their situation is very dangerous. People around the world are being asked to pay attention to what is happening.

On October 30, an elderly practitioner, who hardly travels far away from home, called a taxi to go to Tiananmen Square and unfurled a banner that read, "Falun Dafa is Great." He then shouted out loud, "Falun Dafa is great, Restore the reputation of Dafa, Restore the reputation of Teacher!" His deed strongly shocked the evil. After this, he noticed nobody came to catch him. He asked for directions, walked away, and safely arrived home on the same day.

In October, ten practitioners went to Beijing to rectify the Fa one after another, and all came back safely. Their deeds strongly shocked the evil. They all experienced that stepping out of oneself is a completely different state from not stepping out. The enlightenment they obtained after the critical test will forever remain a heavenly secret to those who have not stepped out.

In September, during the time of the China Business Expo in Nanjing City of Jiangsu Province, vicious policemen from the Qixia District Yanzijin police department, started another round of persecution again local practitioners. Practitioners Zhou Liqin, Yan Gujun, Shi Jiaojie, Zhang Lingxia were arrested and they are still now being detained. The phone number to Yanzijin police department is 86-25-531-3468.

A woman caught an elderly practitioner while they were distributing truth-clarifying flyers in a farmer's market. The woman urged other people to call the police. No one paid attention to her and she had to release the practitioner. There are more and more people who know the truth now.

Ruffian Tang Jianqiang from Shigang District Police Department, Xinjian County, Jiangxi Province, arrested practitioners, Luo Yunnan and Ge Jinlian, and sent them to the labor camp for the forced brainwashing.

At noon of November 2, a Dafa material site was destroyed in Chengde City of Hebei Province. Dozens of policemen surrounded the site and arrested the practitioners. Practitioners who are using the Internet are reminded to be careful. We are asking practitioners to send forth righteous thoughts together to eliminate the evil.

Sichuan Province Chengdu City police claimed they are going to use practitioners who have denounced their practice to aid them in destroying the source of Dafa truth literature.

On the night of October 30, Heilongjiang Province practitioners, Li Shengguang, Cai Qingzhen, Sun Tinghai were illegally arrested by the police when they were clarifying the truth and distributing truth materials in the Junde area. They are now detained at Hegang City No. 2 Detention Center. Recently, many practitioners have been arrested in the Junde area. We remind practitioners who have not been arrested to be careful.

Vicious policeman Zhao Gang from Hegang City Dalu police station, Heilongjiang Province, often beats and curses practitioners. During the Spring Festival in 2001, he madly arrested and detained local practitioners illegally for over a month.

Practitioner Chen Xiu was once illegally arrested and put in the Zhangshi Labor Camp. She enlightened along an evil path after experiencing inhuman brainwashing and sleep deprivation for 18 days. Later on, Chen Xiu awakened and came back to the Fa-rectification process. She was arrested again in August by the Shenyang City evil force. Her whereabouts is unknown.

Today, 87 people made solemn announcements declaring all the statements that they wrote or spoke against Teacher and the Fa while under forced brainwashing to be void. They declared that they will completely oppose all arrangements set by the old evil forces, take advantage of the precious remaining opportunity for cultivation, catch up with the Fa-rectification process, make up for the loss caused to Dafa, and never fail to live up to the expectations of Teacher's benevolent salvation.

Falun Gong practitioners at the Beijing Fangshan Detention Center are on a hunger strike to protest. Their lives are in danger. The vicious policemen said the practitioners will not be released unless they are dead. A practitioner, with a last name of Yang, was force-fed. The tube was inserted into his trachea, suffocating him. His condition is uncertain now.

The vicious policemen at Jinshantun District Police Department of Yichun City, Heilongjiang Province, keep persecuting practitioners. Forty practitioners were illegally sent to the forced labor education, about 100 practitioners were illegally detained and tortured, and one practitioner was sent to a mental hospital. Lu Chenglin was tortured to death at Yichun Labor Camp.

A citizen talked about what he saw and heard at the No. 1 Detention Center of Echeng City (Hubei Province): Falun Gong practitioners believe in the principle "Truthfulness, Benevolence, Forbearance", yet the officials send them to detention centers and brutally torture them. The head of the detention center, Wang Shengli and a wicked police guard named Huang Mingzhu beat the practitioners like crazy. The citizen who witnessed all of the above was an inmate at the detention center. After he came out, he started to behave according to "Truthfulness, Benevolence, Forbearance". He also commented with emotion that Falun Gong saved him (From committing further crimes and becoming a worse person).

Wicked people in Tangshan City Labor Camp (Hebei Province) fiercely torture Falun Gong practitioners. They equip themselves with a special kind of high-voltage electric baton: the voltage can go up to 300,000 volts! The perpetrators also force practitioners to sit on a special kind of bench from morning till night everyday: the benches are only 2 inches wide and 10 inches long. After one month of this torture, the practitioners' buttocks became severely festered, and bleeding from the sores. When the practitioners stood up, the bench stuck to the practitioners' buttocks because the pus and blood from their sores became so sticky (that the weight of the bench was not enough to separate the bench from the practitioners' wounds).

In the brainwashing class held in Maojian District (Shiyan City, Hubei Province), the major people responsible, Mei Fang, policemen Liao Dafu and Cai Xiaojun and some other wicked policemen beat practitioners at will. They gagged practitioners' mouths, hit their faces, pulled their hair, and handcuffed their hands behind their backs. Some practitioners were tortured so severely that they became unconscious. The perpetrators also said, "If we beat you to death, then the government will testify that you committed suicide."

In mid-January, the head of Kaiping Labor Camp (in Tangshan City, Hebei Province), Xu Deshan, had all the guards in the labor camp hang more than 100 practitioners up in the trees. The perpetrators beat and shocked the practitioners with electric batons while the practitioners were hanging up in the air. Some practitioners were left hanging for the whole night in the freezing cold. We warn the wicked police in the Kaiping Labor Camp: if you continue to do evil deeds like this, you will suffer retribution.

A victim wrote a letter to the Wujiabaozi Labor Camp in Fushun City and disclosed the facts of brutal persecution inside the labor camp. The victim said in the letter that the head of the labor camp Huang refused to admit the brutal deeds in the labor camp, yet Huang actually saw and allowed the atrocities to happen.

Policeman Zhang Zhengzhen in the No. 1 Division of the Changchun Police Department tortured practitioners viciously. He was almost fired for taking bribes and corruption. He spent a lot of money (to bribe officials) and avoided punishment. This time he could not escape from the punishment any more: he will be dismissed from the police department.

Cultivation Stories

Two Stories of Fa-rectification

On Oct 30, wicked people started to show a drama and an art exhibition that slander Dafa and deceive people in a theater in Northeast China. Practitioners in the city sent forth righteous thoughts and eliminated the evil in other dimensions. As a result, some soot covered the downtown area of the city. On Oct 31, before the show and exhibition started, the voice that clarifies the truth of Dafa announced suddenly, terrifying the evil.

Some Dafa practitioners utilized the 7-day vacation period during the Mid-Autumn Festival and went to their hometown to play the videotapes that clarify the truth about the self-immolation incident in Tiananmen Square. The audience varied from 6 people to 20 people every time they played the tape. In the audience, there were county government officials as well as common citizens. The practitioners were treated with hospitality wherever they went.

Stories of Clarifying the Truth

1. At the market, practitioner Xu heard over 10 people saying, "Falun Gong is truly great! All kinds of persecution failed before the practitioners. Now there are Falun Gong postings everywhere." Xu approached them and said, "I am a Falun Gong practitioner myself." He also told the people his experience of how cultivating Falun Gong completely changed his life. The people around applauded at his talk.
2. In a politics class, the teacher lied to students about Falun Gong, yet the students were reading and passing the truth-clarifying materials around.
3. A practitioner found one of his colleagues and was about to clarify the truth of Falun Gong to him. The colleague was too impatient to wait: he took out a truth-telling newspaper he received at his doorstep and told the practitioner, " See how good a job they have done in making this newspaper: from the content to the style, it is even better than the newspaper that people buy. There are really many capable people among Falun Gong practitioners."

A practitioner from Taiwan cried while talking about his experience of obtaining Dafa: in April 1998, in the middle of deep confusion, this practitioner had a chance to read "Zhuan Falun". The feeling was like a patient meeting a doctor, or a person on the verge of drowning being saved., or a thirsty person receiving water... The feeling is beyond words.

The experience of an 80-year-old man: before he cultivated Dafa, he suffered from many diseases, his face was gray, and his hair was all white. After he started to cultivate, all the diseases were gone; half of his hair turned black, and the color of his face became rosy. However, the unlawful people forced the old man to give up his cultivation. As a result, the old man's health condition returned to the same state as before his cultivation. The unlawful people who persecuted him before now avoid him.

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While working at a restaurant, a practitioner changed the environment around her through her righteous deeds and righteous thoughts. The boss of the restaurant said that is was the practitioner who brought them good luck. Even the Chef, a man of few words, said "I have been working here for over 10 years and I have never met a person as good as you."

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Going to Beijing to rectify Fa with the purest heart, completely oppose everything arranged by the evil old forces. If I always think about "being persecuted", then I am pursuing it. We are doing the solemnest and the greatest things in the cosmos, so we should not be persecuted. Many practitioners went to Tiananmen Square to clarify the truth bearing righteous thoughts, and they returned safely.

Hints I got in prison: When I was about to be sent to the detention center, Teacher showed me some transformed scenes using my own body. My personal understandings of those scenes are: As Dafa practitioners, if we can not maintain righteous minds and fail to pass the tribulations and tests in Fa rectification, then all of our supernormal capabilities will leave us, and we will be eternally doomed and endlessly repay for all kinds of karma.

The practitioners in England expressed their wishes to the visiting Chinese Leader Hu Jintao: "We are pleading with the Central Leaders to ask them to help Falun Gong and directly take charge of Falun Gong matters." Practitioners also introduced Falun Gong to the British news media and the public, and revealed the true nature of Jiang Zemin's persecution of Falun Gong.

Practitioners in Australia clarified the truth to the newly arrived Chinese Ambassador to Australia and his company on November 2, with " Falun Dafa is good!," " China stop persecuting Falun Gong!" and " Truthfulness-Benevolence-Forbearance!" The righteous voices overwhelmed a score of Chinese diplomats and their bodyguards.

A female Chinese student in England sat alone in front of the Chinese Consulate for one hundred days to petition for the practitioners who were being persecuted in China, and to clarify the truth to the world. A scholar of religious studies told her: " Miss, I see from your example that Falun Gong practitioners are the only true saints in the world today."

Practitioners clarified the truth to several principals of overseas Chinese schools. One of principals became so interested that he then asked for a copy of Zhuan Falun for his own study.

Liberty Asia Radio Station on November 2 interviewed practitioners in New York. Adam, who was raised in a Christian family, said that Falun Gong has been greatly helpful to his physical and spiritual health. Falun Gong practitioners always do things from their free will and enthusiasm, and are never forced to do anything.

The power of Dafa helped a 62-year old acupuncturist to walk 500 miles from Los Angeles to San Francisco, traversing over thirty cities in between. He urged the international community to pay attention to the plight of Falun Gong practitioners in China, and to help more people in the world to see the truth.

"Belief" encompasses one's cultivation process from beginning to end. Only with a strong belief can one be free of confusion, not go astray and send forth powerful, righteous thoughts. Only with a strong belief can one move forward steadfastly, follow Master closely and achieve consummation. "Half believing" will cause one to lose the precious opportunity and end up "not believing." With "belief," practitioners can overcome layers of obstacles set up by the old forces and thus establish their great power and virtue.

If one's mind does not have a clear understanding of what is good and what is evil, one cannot send forth powerful righteous thoughts, and thus can not suffocate the evil. No matter in what form, interfering with Fa-rectification or rejecting the Fa is evil. Only after being assimilated into the Fa, can one send forth righteous thoughts when confronted with evil actions, whether they are disguised or blatant.

For those practitioners who cannot step forward or those who let themselves go for whatever reason, other practitioners should give them a hand and wake them up. Only those who can follow closely Master's progress in Fa-rectification are safe.

History tells us that people as a whole must act and will act when the Cosmic Climate changes. The whole universe is renewing itself in the Fa-rectification period. Who is not a part of it? Who dares not be a part of it? It is against heaven if you need to act but do not, or act contrary to what is required. It is a Cosmic Climate necessity for the Fa to rectify the world.

A practitioner's experience when faxing to rectify the truth: Do not let human beings' thinking dictate what you do. A life without attachments is free and is capable of doing anything [righteous]. A practitioner will become naturally more and more wise and "capable" after giving up all the attachments of ordinary people.