(Clearwisdom.net) Before I began to write this, there was a lot of interference. I didn't think I had anything great to share or worth talking about. Later I realized it was the old forces trying to stop me from exposing them. Like a practitioner said, "Write it down to expose the evil persecution before sentient beings; show them that Teacher has suffered greatly to save us and has done everything to protect us; let the sentient beings share with us the immense Buddha's grace." I am therefore sharing with Teacher and my fellow practitioners a few stories from my own cultivation.
Returning to the practice
I learned Falun Dafa in January 1999. After July 20, 1999, when the persecution started, I wrote a "Guarantee Statement" for my work place. I did what they asked because I had not studied the Fa enough. I stopped practicing after I lost my job in November. In July 2001, with help from other practitioners, I came back to the practice. I was very ill at that time. I had gynecopathy, an inflammation in my stomach, gallbladder and shoulder problems, plus I had an abnormal bone growth in my neck, rheumatism on the right side of my body, partially obstructed circulation, high blood pressure, hardening of the arteries, a heart condition, brain damage, and a nerve disorder. Suffering all these diseases caused me to lose the will to live. Every year my medical bills cost thousands of "yuan" and put my family in a financial crisis. As I was thinking about ending my life, I came back to Dafa. Teacher saved my family and me and gave me a new life. I regret the two years of my life that I wasted.
After I came back to the Fa, I did "The Three Things" Teacher asked us to do. I used my own experiences and told people about how Dafa teaches people to do good things and how it made me healthy. I explained to people that the "Tiananmen self-immolation incident" on TV was a lie and was staged to frame Falun Gong. On the path of validating the Fa, I went though various hardships under Teacher's protection and they made me more mature.
Clarifying the truth and walking out of the prison
Around 7:30 p.m. on December 18, 2001, the Director and the Assistant Director of the police station, Cai Guangxiang and Wang Yulin, led more than 10 people from the police station, the security division and the TV station to break into a practitioner's home. We were doing the exercises there at that time and hadn't locked the door. They immediately ransacked the house, videotaped us, and took away a few Dafa books, tape recorders, exercise videos, and glue. Then they took us to the police station for "disrupting public safety." We asked them, "How can we disrupt public safety by sitting at home meditating?" We clarified the truth and told them that they would suffer karmic retribution because of their evil acts; they had nothing to say to that.
The next day they illegally sent me and another practitioner to a prison. We clarified the truth to all the prisoners we came across. One day a prisoner was being sent to the south, and I told her the facts about Falun Gong and the principles of being a good person. She replied, "Sister, if I had known you, I wouldn't have made that mistake (she was imprisoned for robbery)."
I said, "Please remember Falun Dafa is good."
The next morning, before she left, she gave me her gold earrings and a watch and asked me to give them to her family after I left the prison. I said, "No. You've had a friend here for more than 10 years, you should give the valuables to her. We've only know each other for a few days."
She said, "I trust no one but you." I had to do what she asked because I knew she believed that Dafa practitioners were good people.
The second day I was in prison, I clarified the truth to the director and told him the prison should not hold good people. After I was imprisoned for 10 days, the director contacted the police station to take me home. I immediately went to the home of the prisoner who gave me the jewelry. Her sister was so moved that she cried and told me, "You are really a good person." I told her that I practice Falun Gong and that Teacher has taught us to be the best people. I continued to clarify the truth after I was released.
On a hunger strike, leaving the forced labor camp
I was doing the exercises at 5:30 in the morning on April 9, 2002. A police officer knocked on my door and asked me go to the police station. I refused. The officer brought in the Assistant Director, Wang Yulin, and he dragged me into a car. At 7:30 a.m. that day, they took me to the prison for the second time. We learned that they were sending us to a forced labor camp but we were not given a reason. We ended up staying in the prison temporarily because they ran out of cars. I knew that Teacher was protecting us. We went on a hunger strike to protest the illegal arrest and for this we were brutally tortured. The prison doctor had 7 or 8 prisoners force-feed us with a liquid that was full of salt. The doctor said wickedly, "Let's see if they will talk. Make them drink!" Each time they fed us they would use approximately 2 pounds of liquid. Afterwards I felt as though my stomach might explode at any time, and I could hardly breathe. There were 10 practitioners being force-fed. Some practitioners would vomit it out, and the doctor directed the prisoners to catch the vomit with a pan meant for washing feet and feed it to the next practitioner.
I started bleeding, had heart trouble and vomited blood many times the day after I went on the hunger strike. A prisoner reported my condition to the doctor, and the doctor asked who had seen it. The prisoner said, "Why don't you take a look yourself?" The doctor turned around and left right away.
Zhu Yaru, the prison policeman, said, "Just take out whoever is dead."
They sent me to the Jiamusi Forced Labor Camp on April 24. I couldn't walk at that time so the prisoners carried me to the car. We sent forth righteous thoughts and asked Teacher to help us so we wouldn't have to go. Teacher protected me and the authorities at the forced labor camp refused to admit me. I was sent back to the prison and they kept me there for 52 days. I was bleeding for 45 days and vomiting blood for 15 days. In the end, officials at the prison extorted 1,000 yuan from my family and let them carry me out.
I was released again because of Teacher's protection
On July 15, 2002, at 12:30 in the afternoon, all the police left the station in police cars. More than 10 people came to my home. They searched the house and confiscated two Dafa books. My family argued with them, so they handcuffed my sister, who was visiting at the time, took her to the police station and beat her and kicked her. They also took me to the police station. I refused to get out of the car. Three people tried to drag me out but couldn't move me. I was asking Teacher to help me stay out of the police station. After a while, my righteous thoughts were not strong enough, so they got me inside the station. The police tried to cuff me but couldn't because I was thinking to not let it happen. The Director, Cai Guangxiang, was very angry and yelled at them to switch to smaller handcuffs. Three of them had to hold my arm before they could cuff me. The police attempted to send me back to the prison. I thought I was not going anywhere but home. I immediately had a heart condition. They were afraid that I would die and quickly took me to the hospital. The doctor diagnosed me as having high blood pressure and coronary heart disease. The police again extorted 2,500 yuan from my family before they released me.
Validating the Fa with righteous thoughts and actions
In the fall of 2002, I went to my relative's home in a village to help with the harvest. My relative's mother-in-law had also come to help. That night she moved her luggage to another room. I knew she had learned that I practiced Falun Gong and was deeply poisoned by the lies. I smiled at her and thought to myself that I would prove to her that Dafa was good. Every moment I asked myself to act like a practitioner. Two days later, she moved her luggage back. I joked, "You are back."
She was embarrassed, she said, "I think you are different than what was on TV." I told her the self-immolation in Tiananmen was staged to frame Falun Gong, and then I told her the facts about Falun Gong. She said, "So this is what really happened? I would believe the self-immolation was true if you hadn't told me otherwise. How could they lie to people on TV?"
I told her to go back and tell all her friends and relatives the truth and to remember, "Falun Dafa is good."
I worked in the hospital before I retired and had contact with some patients. Once I asked a patient if there were any practitioners from where she lived. She said there were but that she had never contacted them. I told her that I practiced Falun Gong. She said I didn't act like other people. I told her the facts about the self-immolation incident and she accepted it wholeheartedly. She lived with her son near my home, so I gave her a CD and told her to let her son and daughter-in-law watch it. She told me I was very kind. I said to her, "It is because Falun Dafa is good. I carry good things with me so you feel good too." Two days later she told me her son and daughter-in-law had watched the CD.
Once I went out to clarify the truth in a far away place with another practitioner. We had the flyers, CDs, and posters and we were memorizing Hong Yin II. With Teacher's protection, we successfully finished what we had set out to do. It was 11 o'clock at night when we finished putting up the last poster and we were heading back. Soon a small car came up to us from behind. The person stopped in front of us and asked, "Are you going home? Get in the car." We knew clearly that Teacher had arranged it. We got home before midnight.
Another time, before we left to clarify the truth, I was cut by a sharp piece of metal on the practitioner's door and there was a lot of blood. I was thinking, "Who is trying to stop me? I am going to save sentient beings. Whoever wants to stop me must be the old forces' black minions and rotten demons. I will send righteous thoughts to eliminate them and walk the path that Teacher has arranged for me. It's my responsibility to clarify the truth and save sentient beings." We left as we'd planned and arrived at our destination. Shortly, clouds covered the sky and a strong wind blew, it seemed as though it might rain at any moment. We realized that this was more interference and we sent forth righteous thoughts, asking Teacher to eliminate the black minions and rotten demons who were trying to stop us from validating the Fa and saving sentient beings. Soon the weather calmed down and the sky was full of stars.
On July 19, the practitioner and I had decided to negate the so-called "July 20 sensitive day" and planned to go out to clarify the truth. It was a bit rainy that day. I didn't see the practitioner when I got to the appointed place. I couldn't decide whether to keep going or to go back. If I kept on going, I would have to walk a few miles in the dark, but then I decided that saving sentient beings could not be interrupted. My life is for the Fa. With righteous thoughts, I recited, "Dafa never leaves the body, Heart contains Zhen-Shan-Ren; A great Arhat in the world, Spirits and ghosts fear the most," as I went on my way and finished what I was supposed to do. ("Mighty Virtue" from Hong Yin, Provisional Translation)
On the path of validating the Fa, everything we do to validate the Fa is done under the protection of our great and compassionate Teacher. I am sincerely thankful for Teacher's compassionate salvation and ask Teacher not to worry. In this last moment of validating the Fa, we will let go of our human notions to save sentient beings. We need righteous thoughts, not human notions, during Fa-rectification. We will progress diligently and do well the three things Teacher asked us to do.
