April 29, 2003
(Clearwisdom.net)
In October 1998, I was fortunate to receive a copy of Zhuan Falun from a friend. After reading the book, I came to understand the principles of cultivation and how to become a better person. Since then I have committed myself to following the Fa principles taught by our Master and strived to become a truly better person. Within half a year, all my physical problems disappeared. My daughter was not a practitioner, but she truly believed the principles of becoming a better person described by our Master. In the past, she usually needed to visit doctors several times a year to treat her rhinitis. Ever since I started cultivation, she hasn't taken any medicine. My whole family benefits from my cultivation. Where else could we find such a good practice?
After the persecution started, out of my trust in the government, I went to the local government appeals office to help them understand the benefits of cultivation. We only had two requests: We need a peaceful cultivation environment; and we want to see all practitioners who had been detained released. However, both requests fell on deaf ears. Soon after, a local police officer came to me and said, "You'd better cooperate with us." I said, "You only listen to the lies from the high-ranking people, but don't want to listen to the truth. Our Master wants nothing from us, just our desire to be good and kind. It is through pre-destined arrangement that we meet today. You should tell your boss the truth. We are cultivating to be good people. We don't lie. No matter what you want to investigate, we are not afraid. Time will tell everything." He left speechless.
Later, they asked me to come to the police station. I told them, "I can only tell the truth. I can not lie." They asked me to write a "repentance letter,"* I told myself that the only thing I "repent of" is that I did not become a practitioner earlier! All the effects are beneficial to me. I realized that our Master has to overcome so much hardship to save us, "with the master and the Fa here what is there to fear?" (Lecture in Sydney) In the end, I didn't write any repentance letter. They didn't bring it up any more.
In March 2000, a second local police officer came to my home and asked me whether I was still practicing Falun Gong. I said, "I never stopped for a day." He repeated the lies from the TV that slandered our Master. I asked him, "What's so hard about telling lies on TV? Since I started to practice Falun Gong, I haven't taken any medicine. Even my daughter who didn't practice hasn't taken any medicine." He left without a word. Later, he was transferred to a different job.
My company management asked me to apply for a medical insurance card. I told them, "Dafa practitioners will never be sick. Just remember, Falun Dafa is good. Please use the benefits on others. I will use all I have to validate Dafa and to prove that our Master is being slandered. What you see on TV are all lies. The evil group is deceiving the people."
In October 2000, I went to Beijing to appeal for Master and Dafa. After we arrived at Tiananmen Square, a fellow practitioner and I were arrested. I told the police, "We came to Tiananmen Square to clarify the truth to the general public and redress the injustice for Dafa. What you are doing makes you guilty." Later they sent us to the provincial representative office in Beijing. On our way to the office, I clarified the truth to the driver. The driver said, "They are persecuting our people publicly." On October 8, my employer sent a car to Beijing to pick me up. On our way back, my escorts struggled to keep awake. I recited passages of the Fa silently and felt full of energy.
At the police station in my hometown, a head police officer began to interrogate me. At first, he was very nasty and angry. But I paid no attention to him at all. I was memorizing Master's words, "Just by having your heart unaffected you will be able to handle all situations." ("Eliminate your last attachment(s)") After a while, he softened his tone. When he had finished speaking, I said, "Now it is my turn. Why do I practice Falun Gong? Because Falun Gong teaches people to be good. It raises people's moral standard." My words were so truthful that he was speechless and had to leave. Later, a female police officer came to ask me whether I would continue to practice. I said, "Absolutely!" At 2 a.m. they sent me to the detention center. They detained me 15 days and charged 2,000 Yuan.* Then they let me go home.
Back at my work place, the management assigned two people to watch me. I told them about Dafa's benefit of improving people's health and moral standard. I said, "If the evil didn't persecute us, I would not have gone to Beijing to appeal. It is every citizen's basic right to appeal to the government. What's wrong with that?" They kept asking me to write a statement to promise not to appeal in Beijing again. I said, "I can't do this. Dafa practitioners are truthful in words and action. If I wrote it, I would not be a truthful person anymore." Finally, they asked me to choose between my job and Dafa. I said, "I choose Dafa."
My employer suspended my pension check and exerted pressure to my family. My family members could not withstand this and started to oppose my Falun Gong practice, but my heart was very calm and I was not moved. Therefore, I passed this test of my family's objections. My neighbors also knew that I was still practicing Falun Gong since July 20, 1999. Deceived by the rumours, some people did not understand; some made irresponsible and sarcastic comments; some even pointed fingers at me. I was not bothered by these misunderstandings and continued to openly clarify the truth with a smiling face. I told my neighborhood association people, "My Master teaches me Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance, and that I should be a good person. Jiang says that Dafa is evil. Someone tells him to come see me, so I can personally ask him what is righteous!" From then on, the people in the neighborhood association dared not to trouble me anymore.
After I came back from the detention center, I was called into the local police station. a third local police officer tried to force me to give up Falun Gong. I felt a pain in my heart and told her, "Who told you to pressure people to change their faith? If Falun Gong were not good, do I need you to worry about me? I would not have practiced, no matter who asked me. It is no use for you to pressure me. My heart tells me to be a good person. How could you change my heart? " She realized that her effort was in vain and let me go home. Soon after that, she was transferred out.
The fourth local police officer came to force me. I told her, "Your words don't count." She left with little to say.
Before the Chinese New Year of 2001, a police officer called and asked me whether I still practice Falun Gong. I said, "How could I not to do such a good practice?" Shortly after, three plice officers came to my house. I was very calm when I told them, "You should persuade people by logic, not force them by power. I went to Beijing to appeal, but was detained and tortured. Isn't this forcing people? Jiang kept saying that he is doing good deeds for people. You are all educated people. Think about it, what good deeds has Jiang done? Remember, good deeds will get rewarded and bad will meet with retribution. It's up to you now."They became quite pathetic and said, "It's near the Chinese New Year. Does your family need help?" I said, "Let's not talk about the hard time at my house. But you must know that Falun Gong is being persecuted." Before they left, the police said, "It's OK for you to practice at home; don't go out and tell others." I said, "Why not! Practice Falun Gong and become a better person. I will tell everyone I see." They became completely speechless and left, shaking their heads. That was the last time the police visited me.
Master said, "If something is yours, nobody will take it away."("Jealousy" Zhuan Falun the Seventh Talk ). Even after they stopped my pension checks, I have never stopped clarifying the truth to the management and my former collegues. I hoped that everyone would treasure the universal Fa which is given to us only after thousands of generations, and appreciate their own precious lives. Not long after, they resumed compensating me for my pension, along with the unpaid checks. I knew that this was all because of Master's protection. Everyday people cannnot control Dafa practitioners.
Over the past three years I have been clarifying the truth to people because of Dafa's mighty power. Master said in "To All Students at the Nordic Fa Conference": "As long as something is good for Dafa, you should take the initiative to do it, take the initiative to work on it. Every person you come into contact with in society is someone to clarify the truth to, and what's manifest in clarifying the truth is Dafa disciples' mercy and their salvation of the world's people. I hope that every Dafa disciple will fully take the initiative and fully play his role as a Dafa disciple."
Compared to Master's request, what I have done is not enough. Only if I "Lose no time and save them, hurry up and tell them" ("Hurry Up And Tell Them"), then can I not disappoint Master. To conclude, let me share with all practitioners our Master's poem
"A Righteous God"
With righteous thoughts and righteous actions
He is diligent without letting up
Eliminating demons that damage the Fa
He is good to all beings.
* Repentance letter: in which practitioners are forced to admit remorse for practicing Falun Gong, promise to give up Falun Gong, and never again associate with other practitioners or go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong
** Yuan: 500 Yuan is the average monthly income for an urban worker in China
