(Clearwisdom.net) In May 2001, I posted a sign saying "Falun Dafa is good" on a wall to tell people the truth about Dafa. I was arrested and sent to the Qingdao Detention Center. I went on a hunger strike to protest the arrest and was released after twenty days. In June, I was sentenced to two years of forced labor and sent to the Pingdu Forced Labor Camp. Due to the length of the persecution, isolated brainwashing, and no chance to read Teacher's new lectures, many practitioners were not clear on the Fa and lacked righteous thoughts. I felt I should share with them Teacher's new articles and help them re-establish their righteous thoughts. Since personnel working at the camp didn't know the truth, I should clarify the truth to them as well. After I had made up my mind, I proceeded with what I needed to do.
Teacher taught us that we each create our own environment; I'd do just that. First of all, I would need to get rid of my fear. After torturing me in different ways and trying false kindness, police shouted at me, "We are going to reform you whether you want it or not. Next step we will use force to reform you. We already have electric batons, handcuffs, and shackles ready." I knew what they said wasn't just to frighten me. It was real. I had seen practitioners in handcuffs and foot shackles being made to stand in half crouching positions in the "severely guarded room." I didn't know how long I would be able to sustain these tortures. I suddenly realized that Dafa practitioners have unlimited endurance.
When I first arrived at the evil den, police gave me a shot that made me feel uneasy and painful. The thought of being "reformed" (brainwashed) kept rolling into my mind, "Go ahead and be reformed and you don't have to suffer any longer." Then another thought came to me--you have waited thousands of years for the Fa, you can't walk on the wrong path just because you fear suffering. I kept saying to Teacher, "Teacher, please give me the strength. I want to be a Dafa disciple. I must be a Dafa disciple." I repeated these words thousands of times. After two to three hours, I suddenly felt relaxed and the tears flowed from my eyes. The thought of being brainwashed disappeared. I knew Teacher was saving me. Nothing could stop me from being a Dafa practitioner now. I told police, "I do not worry about life or death anymore. My mind is firm and I believe in our Teacher. I will never give up Dafa cultivation." Once I had made up mind, police then told me hypocritically, "We were just trying to scare you. We are running a civilized institute here. We would not treat you like that."
Once, police told me that if I were not "reformed" I would be sentenced to prison. Serving a prison term is not as comfortable as staying here. The persecution will be more severe. Sooner or later you will be reformed. In your situation, you are most likely to be sentenced to a four to five year prison term. Frightened, I thought to myself, "It is vicious enough here. If I were to be sentenced to a four or five year prison term, it would mean more hardship, more viciousness and there is no other way but to be reformed. But when righteous thoughts prevailed, I realized right away, "I am a Dafa cultivator and as long as I don't have these attachments, does it matter where I go; evil dares not touch me. I can do what a Dafa practitioner should do. I then said to police, "I never thought your office was cleaner than the restroom. Where I go will make no difference to me." Police then lied to me, "There won't be any sentencing. It's all for your own good. When you are reformed, you can go home and live your life your own way."
From these two incidents, I realized that once you give up the attachments (mainly fear) and lay down the attachment of life and death, evil can't do anything to you. Thus I had given up my fear and followed Teacher's teaching during the persecution, "Don't follow evils' requests and orders.
I remembered Teacher had said, "Evil fears exposure, not Dafa practitioners." Thus, I wrote down the persecution we all endured and exposed it without leaving anything out. I published article after article exposing the evils' deeds and validating the Fa. The evil was shocked. The whole forced labor camp was shocked. The camp chief and his captains all came to talk to me and hoped that I understood their situations. During a general meeting, police chief, Shi Cuihua, announced that from now on, no one would be allowed to beat me; otherwise, they would be punished by a prolonged prison term. I said, "What you did is against the law. You are the people who are to carry out the law and you should know that violating the law will be punished. You remember during the Culture Revolution, Chairman Liu Shaoqi was under attack as a capitalist overnight; his attackers claimed that evidence against him was as high as a mountain. But after a time, those who persecuted him were shot in secrecy. Don't think that you are only following orders from your superiors and that you can do anything as you wish. Doing good deeds will be rewarded and doing evil will be punished. Our Teacher taught us that if you do wrong things you will pay for it later. Shi Cuihua said, "From now on, we will not use force. We will only talk to you to reform you." Thus, in the following three to four months, they didn't use cruel torture on practitioners. They knew that without the use of cruel torture they wouldn't be able to brainwash practitioners, so they tortured practitioners secretly. I realized they were evil and couldn't be trusted. Besides writing articles to validate the Fa, I started to help practitioners establish their righteous thoughts, reciting for them Teacher's new articles. Shi Cuihua said to me, " I know that I can't reform you. Don't make any trouble for us and influence other practitioners. Let us treat each other like friends." This policewoman was very vicious and often used cruel methods to torture practitioners. As I exposed her evil deeds, her arrogance and prestige were greatly reduced. Once, the camp chief scolded her in front of practitioners. Not long after that she retired. Later, they transferred me to another brigade, and I realized that there must have something for me to do there.
Two people in charge of watching me were brainwashed practitioners. I began to write articles about the Fa-rectification, my own understanding of Dafa, to encourage practitioners to establish righteous thoughts, and to do what Dafa practitioners should do. I let the two brainwashed practitioners pass the articles to other practitioners. Other practitioners also wrote about their understandings and we shared our experiences. Since they had forgotten Teacher's lectures, I wrote down for them Hong Yin and other articles that I remembered. Practitioners began to return to Dafa cultivation and wrote their solemn declarations. Later, police noticed what had happened and sent me to a brainwashing class. They claimed the class was most effective and would reform me. After I entered the class, I used compassion and kindness to deal with everyone, including those who had been brainwashed. I didn't care how they had treated me, I had always let them have the best food and I'd do everything possible. I had established the image of a Dafa practitioner. From the captains to practitioners including the brainwashed practitioners, they all praised my behavior. I recited Teacher's new lectures for them and talked about Fa-rectification in saving sentient beings. Under my influence, three brainwashed practitioners wrote their solemn declarations and return to Dafa cultivation. Other than two or three most stubborn brainwashed practitioners who didn't dare write solemn declarations, all understood now. Police thus disbanded the so-called most effective brainwashing class to prevent more practitioners from making declarations. Police didn't dare let me make contact with others and thus sent me to the library to isolate me. They told me, " This is the best housing in the brigade. You know that we can't reform you, so you do what ever you want as long as you don't make trouble for us."
The thought of longing for an easy and comfortable life popped up then. Since my term would be finished soon, I kind of felt sorry for them. Then, I realized that this line of thinking was not righteous. The life Teacher had extended for us is not to be used passively and leisurely. When was evil merciful to us? They dared not persecute me only because I let go of my attachment of life and death, but there are so many Dafa practitioners still being persecuted. When I heard Dafa practitioners' painful moaning in the middle of the night, I could not stand it any longer. I walked into the corridor and shouted loudly, "Persecuting Dafa practitioners will bring awful retribution. Besides your faking kindness and vicious persecution, is this all you can do? Terrible retribution is waiting for you when you persecute Dafa practitioners!" My shouting was being felt like the shaking of heaven and earth that night. Police yelled with fear, "Hurry up and close the windows. Don't let others hear the shouting."
Next day, many practitioners said to me. "Good going!" Police told me, "You are not being reasonable. You bring chaos to this place. There are laws here; we are going to handcuff you." I answered, "When have you been reasonable or done things lawfully? You have deprived people of sleep for days or even months. Do you ever hear any law allowing this kind of persecution any place or even in history? Police replied, "It's none of your business! You are not the one suffering from sleep deprivation." I said, " Persecuting any Dafa practitioners is like persecuting me, as long as I am alive, I will let the whole world know that Jiang's is a gangster regime; although they are in power now, they will receive their due retribution soon!" Because I exposed their evil deeds, they were all afraid of me. When police saw me coming down the corridor, they usually turned back to the room and waited until I passed before they came out again. Wherever I went, no one dared to slander Dafa anymore. One policeman said to me in a rough manner, "Go away. We have seen enough of you. We treated you like our ancestors. Because of your occupying the library, we didn't even do our regular sanitary check there." I realized what Teacher had said in the lecture that evil wouldn't dare persecute Dafa practitioners with righteous thought and righteous deeds.
As my prison term was ending, I knew that there would be one less person to expose the evil when I left this place. So I told police, "Even after I leave, your evil deeds will still be written down, all practitioners, including the brainwashed ones, are all witnessing your evil deeds.
When my term was due, the local "610 Office" sent me home courteously. I felt deeply that all the righteous thoughts and deeds are all coming from the Fa. During my days in the labor camp, I did my best to memorize HongYin and Teacher's other lectures. The more I recited HongYin, the more I remembered. Every night I wrote down all Teacher's articles and HongYin I could memorize.
This is my experience in the labor camp. I wrote it down to share with you in order to raise our level as a whole.
