(Clearwisdom.net) One day this past summer, someone reported a fellow practitioner to the police. He was arrested, detained in the police station, and was going to be sent to a labor camp. I notified some practitioners to send forth righteous thoughts together, and decided to rescue him from the police station. However, upon arriving there, I did not find a good opportunity, plus my human notions also arose. As a result, I was illegally arrested and detained.
I kept sending forth righteous thoughts in the police station, and refused to answer when they asked my name and workplace. Finally, the director said to me, "I respect your courage. It does not matter if you tell us your name. Think carefully, because I will not be so nice to you after 8 o'clock." At that time, I heard two arrest orders had been issued. Since they had just received criminal arrest quotas, they were planning to count another practitioner and myself in. I kept sending forth righteous thoughts, and did not see the director and other people coming again to interrogate me.
Later I left the police station, but I could only run as far as 200 meters. There were only stores on both sides of the streets, no exit for me to make a turn. Plus, I only ran and forgot to send forth righteous thoughts. When they grabbed me, I finally called out the words that have been kept in my heart for a long time: "Falun Dafa is good." There were also people around who were watching, so my actions seemed to make the police angry. One person beat me on the head, but I did not feel any pain. Upon returning to the police station, they handcuffed me and hung me up onto the window. They were furious and wanted to beat me. I immediately sent forth righteous thoughts. A person then stopped them. I was then released from the window, and my handcuffs were loosened. This made me firmly believe that our righteous thoughts are indeed very powerful.
That evening, I was handcuffed to a couch. The key to the handcuff was on an end table nearby. With both of my hands cuffed, I tried to reach the end table with my foot. The end table was very heavy, and I was sending forth righteous thoughts as I was reaching for it with my foot. But I could clearly feel my righteous thoughts were not strong enough. The guard was lying on the bed, and sometimes turned from one side to the other. I became nervous. It went on like this for a very long time. When I had almost reached the key, however, the guard woke up, put the key in his pocket and went out.
On the second day, they asked me to sign on the arrest certificate and I refused. So they filled in "no name" and sent me to a detention center. I was seated between two guards in the car, with another guard and a driver in the front. As I could not find any opportunities to escape, I started to send forth righteous thoughts to eliminate all evil in the detention center.
As I entered the detention center, I kept sending forth righteous thoughts, and was thinking how to deal with this. A guard told me to work with inmates, and did not allow us to talk with each other. If the work assignments could not be finished during the daytime, we were forced to finish them at night, and were even beaten. Every evening we also took turns to be on three-hour shifts, until 6:00 a.m. the next morning. A person on duty is not allowed to take a nap; otherwise, he or she will be beaten.
In the evening, I first sent forth righteous thoughts, and then started to do the exercises. An inmate reported it to the cell head, and said the guard would punish me if I were seen practicing. I said we could wait until the guard came. The cell head also agreed with me. However, no guard came, so I quietly finished doing the five sets of exercises. On the second day, they came up to me to listen to the truth about Dafa.
Not long after that, police interrogated me but I still did not report my name. They threatened me, "If you do not tell your name, you will be detained here forever. And this period of time will not be counted, even if you report the name later."
I was transferred to another cell, where I was not allowed to do the exercises--the inmates restrained my hands to stop me. I could do nothing but go on a hunger strike. The guard later agreed to let me do the exercises, as long as I would stop the hunger strike. At that time, I had been detained for about 20 days. I kept on reciting Lunyu, some articles in Zhuan Falun, Hong Yin, and some other of Teacher's articles that I remembered. I paid attention to sending forth righteous thoughts all the time. One day, at about 3:00 p.m., I forgot to send forth righteous thoughts, but felt the existence of a strong energy field. I knew fellow practitioners were sending forth righteous together for me. So I immediately sent forth righteous thoughts together with fellow practitioners to eliminate the evil.
When the police interrogated me for the first time, they attempted to have a written record. Of course I did not yield to them. Upon returning to the cell, I recalled the righteous thoughts and righteous actions of the practitioner who wrote the article "The Dignity of Dafa and Master's Comments: On 'The Dignity of Dafa'"
http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2001/7/25/12527.html), and I was in tears.
When the police interrogated me for the second time, they asked where I lived. I told them that I lived at a relative's place. They then asked me where the apartment I rented was, and I refused to answer. They were unable to make a written record. Every day I intensified sending forth righteous thoughts, and kept on reciting the Fa as well doing the exercises. During the detention, I did not forget our mission of saving sentient beings. In addition to clarifying the truth, I also asked people to quit the Chinese Communist Party and its subsidiary organizations. In one cell, because the time was short and I did not do well enough, only one person quit. In another cell where I stayed longer, about half gave up their membership. Some people were isolated from me, and I planned to continually and gradually talk to them more about this. There were also two persons saying they needed some time to think about it. At that moment, I immediately sent forth righteous thoughts to them, and planned to ask them again before my going out so that they could have another chance.
Once morning, the guard called me outside. I thought it would be another interrogation. It turned I was being released to go home. I immediately went back to ask if those two inmates would quit the Party. They nodded in agreement. Meanwhile, I also regretted that I did not ask those inmates that I missed.
When I went out of the gate, a policeman asked me to sign a printed form to finish the paperwork. I signed without reading the content, and even pressed my fingerprint. I felt guilty over this for a very long time!
Upon returning, I went back to my workplace to apologize to my supervisor since I did not ask him for a "leave." He asked me to come back to work, which surprised me since I had never clarified the truth to him and he learned I am a practitioner. Of course, this is also related to the impression I made on him. Meanwhile, I believe that it is primarily Teacher who compassionately resolved this.
In order to rescue another practitioner in my area and me, some fellow practitioners wrote to government agencies and the Procurator's offices. Some practitioners posted the flyers directly in the police station and residential areas. More practitioners sent forth righteous thoughts together for us. Gradually we were becoming one body to completely oppose the old forces' persecution.
In "Teaching the Fa at the Western U.S. International Fa Conference," Teacher said,
"If upon encountering trying circumstances your thinking can be truly righteous, then, when faced with the evil's persecution and when faced with interference, just one sentence of yours fortified with steadfast righteous thoughts can instantly make the evil disintegrate (applause), and it will make those who are being used by the evil turn and flee, it will make the evil's persecution of you dissolve, and it will make the evil's interfering with you disappear without a trace. One thought born of righteous faith is all it takes. And whoever can hold firm that righteous thought and go the distance will become a magnificent god forged by Dafa. (Long applause)" (quote verified)
In the past I went to an extreme when understanding these words, thinking that as long as one has determined righteous thoughts, one can break through any evil interference, ignoring one's own basic safety. Therefore, I easily became impetuous when doing things. My current understanding is that, only when our Xinxing meets the requirement can we have those powerful thoughts. It is not just a matter of saying righteous words with our mouths.
November 03, 2005
