(Clearwisdom.net) In 2002 I was illegally detained in a detention center in a northern part of China for half a year. The following are my experiences from those days regarding Fa-rectification and truth-clarification.
2002/X/X
Today is my first day of illegal detention. I saw many fellow practitioners firm in their resolve, studying the Fa and practicing the exercises. Many of the criminals detained with the practitioners came to a basic understanding of Falun Dafa. Many of them began the practice for themselves, learning the five sets of exercises and reciting Teacher's articles. This is the result of practitioners' tremendous and continuous efforts for Fa-rectification and truth-clarification over the past two years. I heard that some practitioners were handcuffed and shackled for studying the Fa and practicing the exercises. In protest, some practitioners went on a hunger strike.
2002/X/X
Today my formal arrest was approved. I refused to sign the memo during the interrogation and refused to sign the arrest warrant. I refused all the evils' commands and instructions and thereby foiled their plan. It was the first time that I felt my righteous thoughts were as solid as diamonds and I felt firm as a rock, which terrified the evil.
2002/X/X
Today is the Spring Festival [Chinese New Year]. Two of the six Dafa practitioners in our cell had been arrested from their homes or workplaces with no reason other than that the Spring Festival is a so-called "sensitive day." Even common criminals were indignant when seeing the ways that practitioners were persecuted. The moral standards of the Chinese political group of scoundrels and their leader are so low that they are even worse than criminals. This is a great tragedy for China and Chinese people!
2002/X/X
Today a fellow practitioner was released. She was arrested with her husband twenty days ago while they were cooking at home. Now the so-called "sensitive days" have passed. Over the last few weeks we have undergone many tortures together. If one practitioner practiced the exercises, all others in the same cell were penalized. This method was aimed at invoking hatred toward Dafa and Dafa practitioners, which also reflected the degree of the evil's persecution. We often saw practitioners dragged out for force feeding. To hide this, the guards would close the windows to the other cells before dragging the practitioner out. Some practitioners were tortured to their last breath. Even so, they were still handcuffed and shackled to bedboards. Eating, drinking, and even going to the bathroom had to be done with the help of others. They suffered all kinds of humiliation. The situation in another cell was even scarier. They bound a Dafa practitioner who was on a hunger strike to a bedboard with his four limbs stretched out and tied to the four corners for 24 hours. For the whole time, the cruel authorities did not remove the force feeding tube. One practitioner endured such inhumane torture for more than 100 days, yet he did not yield to the desires of his persecutors.
2002/X/X
For several days there was no rotation of prisoners from cell to cell. The progress of truth-clarification to criminals also slowed down. I was unhappy. We resolved the exercise issue, but still worried about not being able to study the Fa, so we took advantage of the many veteran practitioners in our midst. We started to recite the Fa and Teacher's articles, then wrote them down. As time passed, we had written down the Fa to study. We could study the Fa after dinner and before going to sleep. In this way, other people in the cell could also hear Dafa. This was one form of how we clarified the truth.
2002/X/X
Today a fellow practitioner in our cell brought news: as April 25th is approaching, the evil forces prepared to arrest a massive number of Dafa practitioners. In the meantime, Dafa practitioners from Changchun City used a cable network to clarify the truth to the general public. Teacher had affirmed and considered this as, "saving the sentient beings whose minds have been poisoned by the evil's deceit." ("Look at Things with Righteous Thoughts") From this we deeply felt Teacher's compassion and accelerated the progress of Fa-rectification. Since we were in prison, all we could do was strengthen our sending forth righteous thoughts to quickly eliminate all evil interference, and bring a peaceful, just and equal opportunity of learning Dafa to sentient beings so that all may have a beautiful future.
2002/X/X
April 25th had passed; however, the evil forces were still arresting Dafa practitioners. Now there were 12 Dafa practitioners and only 11 other non-practitioner inmates in our cell. Whenever the authorities felt like it, they would arrest innocent Dafa practitioners from their homes. This cell was designed to accommodate 10 people, but now contained 23. Guards insisted that practitioners must all sleep in a uniform posture, in a uniform direction and that we could only all turn over in unison. Because we lacked water, the build-in restroom stank horribly. Meanwhile, the curses and personal insults from the guards made this the darkest place imaginable. Nevertheless, there were often official visitors who came here to inspect. It is really shameless.
2002/X/X
Today around 4:00 a.m. the hallway was very noisy. Another group of senior Dafa practitioners were being sent to a notorious forced labor camp without valid reason and no stated detention term. Many detained criminals had recognized the true face of the evil and saw these fellow practitioners off in tears. During the past five months I witnessed six groups of practitioners being sent to a labor camp. These practitioners' calm attitude reflected the grandeur of enlightened beings in this mundane world. They were Dafa practitioners without complaints, regrets and fears.
2002/X/X
Today is the happiest day I've had since I was first detained. Among the 14 in my cell, only one other practitioner and I were there. Another two had begun the practice while in detention. One of them had been in for several years because of a property crime. She learned Dafa from practitioners who had been jailed here before me. In the year since, she spread the Fa in her special way by using her own experiences and led many criminals in the cell to obtain Dafa. Another began the practice when she had cancer. She was getting better after she obtained the Fa.
Today, because a criminal had a "dream," the rest of people in our cell were all wishing to study the Fa. Two days ago, a criminal and I studied the third to the fifth lectures of Zhuan Falun together. That night she dreamed the character "Fa" and the three strokes that at one side represent water, and that are three golden, shining strokes. She could not understand this and came to ask me. I said, first, congratulations that you obtained the Fa. Since you only studied part of the Fa, you only obtained part of it. The next day she dreamed her body was suddenly lifted up, up and up. Finally, because of fear, she dropped down. So we used this example to clarify the truth to criminals and spread the Fa. They said almost simultaneously, "Let's study the Fa together in the evening." Looking at this scenario, my tears could not help but burst out. Compassionate and grandiose Master, you don't want to give up a single being, even those who have been misled and committed terrible sins, but use all means to rescue them all. Master gave us a hint in that so many were saved simultaneously. Although we were not physically free, the mission of rescuing sentient beings could not be delayed for a single day.
2002/X/X
Fresh air! Why can't we see even a single guard? Are they going to check the cell today? Everybody was wondering. Suddenly there was news released from cell A: Teacher's new scripture "Tathagata" was published. All people in the cell cheered! Several inmates began to recite sentences from the article in turn. A fellow practitioner from cell C asked us to recite the article to them. This way, the new article was spread to others. After everybody calmed down the guard came. Everybody now understood why the guard came late today.
At last I would like to tell everybody - with the accelerated progress of Master's Fa-rectification, truth clarification and Fa-rectification by Dafa practitioners being done better and better, the detention center which I was in also changed. Many evil guards changed under the influence of Dafa practitioners' righteous thoughts. More humane ones came in as substitutes for the lousy ones. In addition, 95% of the detained criminals obtained the Fa to some extent. Some murderers obtained the Fa the very first day they came to the detention center. So, some miracles happened. A capital sentence was changed to an unlimited term. An unlimited term was changed to a limited term. Long terms changed to short terms, and other changes as well. Besides, whenever Master's new articles were published, those of us in the detention center could always obtain them through various channels. Master didn't forget us! The fellow practitioners outside were all striving to help us. The Fa-rectification course needed us. We had already broken the limitation in our minds and the limitations in or outside the prison. We safeguarded and rectified the Fa at different levels.
January 31, 2003