(Clearwisdom.net) With his righteous and steadfast belief in Dafa, practitioner Mr. Zhang Quanliang was able to endure lengthy, brutal persecution in the Xishanping Forced Labor Camp with dignity. The police officers in the forced labor camp that still have benevolent hearts admired his righteous energy.
The 7th Brigade of the Xishanping Forced Labor Camp is where the most brutal persecution against Dafa practitioners takes place. The police in the prison, in order to persecute the practitioners, assemble goons from other brigades. The criteria to choose the goons are that they have to love fighting, and they fight hard and have the worst behavior and don't mind to violate regulations. It is best to have those that have been jailed at the labor camp for more than three times. The "educators" in the 7th brigade were made up of two parts: 1. the goons from the "strict management team," who were the most brutal drug addicts from all other brigades; 2. the relatives of the guards and the people who used to work in the government, procuratorate, courts, or judicial institutes who violated the laws and were serving terms in the forced labor camp. These former officials all have some political power and do not hold back when it comes to persecuting practitioners.
Li Qiwei, the captain of a middle team, spoke to the drug-addict prisoners openly in a meeting, "You are the ears and eyes of the staff in the camp and the extension of the staff's hands and legs. You will think of what they think and even what they do not think."
Mr. Zhang Quanliang is a very steadfast practitioner and the guards became more extreme when torturing him. The guards would not give him food or drink, and would only allow him to urinate once a day and to defecate once a week. They would brutally beat him several times a day. All kinds of new tricks to persecute and torture were ordered, encouraged, and enforced by the police.
All people who participated in the persecution will be legally responsible for everything they do. These people include Tu Deyu (the political commissioner of the Forced Labor Bureau), Long Renshun (the associate-director of the forced labor camp), Tian Xin (the director of the education division of the forced labor camp), Xiao Xingming (an "educator" of the 7th brigade), Liu Hua (captain of the middle team), Li Qiwei, Li Zhongquan (a sub-team captain), Wang Jing (a special police), He Weidong (a drug-addict prisoner in the camp), and Xia Xianke.
Mr. Zhang Quanliang went through unimaginable torture for three years in the forced labor camp. That is something the people who have never been to a forced labor camp could never imagine. Zhang Quanliang used his actions to validate the Fa in such a harsh environment. His righteous thoughts and acts were feared by all the evil. I stayed in the same prison cell with Zhang, and I realized my shortcomings compared to him.
The Steadfast Belief in Teacher and Dafa
In this frenzy of persecution, many of us viewed it as the test we had to pass, the tribulation we had to suffer in our individual practice, or simply looked at it as the Chinese Communist Party "torturing people." Some practitioners looked at Teacher as some leader of an ordinary people's organization. After the persecution happened for some time, many practitioners "transformed." They felt disappointed and hence had doubts on Teacher's Fa and were shaken in their belief.
However, Mr. Zhang Quanliang had always been a firm believer in Teacher and Dafa. The goons persecuted Zhang in a very vicious way. They continued beating Zhang's head heavily and caused severe injuries in his brain. Zhang had dizziness, lost his ability to speak and his memory. They tried to beat him thinking that he would become an idiot, retarded or psychotic. They only gave him a piece of bread the size of a thumb for breakfast. For lunch and dinner, Zhang only had a spoonful of rice. They tried to ruin his body. However, Zhang was unshakable. He firmly believed in Dafa and Teacher and got through all the tribulations. After the most severe period of his persecution was over, magical changes occurred in his body: his face became rosy, his skin became white, clear, soft like a baby, and it was even radiating. This was something the forced labor camp did not expect. Zhang even told me, "When they hit me on my head, I forgot a lot of things. But they haven't hit me in the past several days and I started to remember a lot of Teacher's articles. This is the power of Dafa."
Put Down Human Sentiments
The practitioners in the camp were from all social statuses. One of the deceitful means the guards used was to tell highly educated practitioners, "You are educated and have good social status and your own career. How can you be like those illiterate farmers and old people? You see they have all given up Falun Gong. You will have a good chance of having a good career after you are released if you give it up." For less educated practitioners, the guards would say, "Do you think you know what Falun Gong is? You are just following the trend. The college students are the ones who really know what Falun Gong is. You better hurry up and 'transform' so you can go home to take care of the farms or do some business." Sometimes the guards would tell these practitioners, "See, they all 'transformed.' Why don't you catch up with them?" Some people were really deceived and some accepted it knowing those were evil lies due to their attachments.
Mr. Zhang Quanliang used to be a computer engineer in the Academy of Coal Design in Chongqing. He once won third place in the Chongqing City Technology Exhibition and second place in the Sichuan Province Outstanding Software Design Exhibition. He was also a technical English translator at work and a recognized talented person. The guards in the camp also "praised" him as a "talented person" and tried to transform him with lies like "career first." Mr. Zhang was sober and clearly knew that validating the Fa was the most magnificent thing. When the evil deprived his right to work in an attempt to shake his righteous thoughts and to lure him with "good career opportunity," Zhang did not fall for those. Many people "transformed" against their own will actually understood the relation between validating the Fa and the work in the human society. But they were afraid to lose their jobs, having to suffer from it and losing their fame and gain in the human world. Hence they compromised and did what they were asked. Some of them even asked the camp to resume their membership in the CCP and their governmental work in exchange of them transforming. They shamed the title of Dafa practitioners.
Not Attached to Supernormal Abilities
Mr. Zhang Quanliang knew he had some supernormal abilities and can see other dimensions. But he was never attached to those and used them only in clearing the evil.
One time a policeman asked to meet him. A transformed ex-practitioner would not stop persuading him. He just sat there without a word. I saw his forehead was giving out red light. A practitioner told me he was sending righteous thoughts. Shortly, the police called a stop. The transformation test was over.
There was a period of time the guards in the camp would give practitioners a hard time during the weekends and made them write "Thought Reports." Mr. Zhang Quanliang told me, "Every time the weekend comes, there are rotten demons and evil spirits that drop into the camp and that is why it happens. There used to be more. Now they all disappear soon after they fall in here. Everyone should send more righteous thoughts during the weekends and protest to the guards in the camp upfront." Soon the weekend torture stopped completely. The guards wouldn't allow him to talk, so he just quietly sent righteous thoughts all the time.
He had seen the scenes after the Fa-rectification, but he was very clear-minded and never relied on that to be the support of his belief. He did everything based on the Fa.
Not Attached to Time
Around July 2002, before the CCP's 16th Congress, many practitioners who could see other dimensions, including Zhang Quanliang, saw that the CCP would soon stop the persecution and give Falun Dafa its good name back. Some thought it would be in spring, 2003; some thought it would be May or August; some were even counting the exact time it would happen after 42 months. Two practitioners in the camp often asked me when the Fa-rectification of the human world would start. In the brutal persecution, some practitioners were attached to the time served in prison. Some were trying to figure out when it would be over from Teacher's lectures. When the "expected" time for the end of the persecution came and went, some became disappointed, some became negative and stopped protesting the persecution, and some even betrayed their belief. That eventually made the persecution worse. Mr. Zhang was not affected and told us, "That day will come. What we saw might be true but might also just be illusions. Being a Dafa practitioner, the first thing to consider is whether we have met Teacher's and Dafa's request. If you didn't do well and the persecution ends tomorrow, do you deserve it?"
Deny the Old Force's Persecution and Constantly Eliminate the Evil with Righteous Thoughts
In July 2002, there was a practitioner imprisoned for eight and a half months in the Chongqing City Brainwashing Center created by the 610 Office. The 610 Office could not transform him and eventually threatened him, "If you don't transform, we'll send you to the Xishanping Forced Labor Camp." He replied, "Other practitioners had suffered a lot to validate the Fa and I didn't. It seems that I am going to now." The head of the 610 Office was very mad. But because his one thought of acknowledging the old force, the 610 Office really sent him to the Xishanping Forced Labor Camp about 5 months later.
One way the evil used to threaten the practitioners was to abuse the system in the camp. They prolonged the time of the sentence at will and openly said to practitioners, "If you don't transform, your term will be extended. After the extension is over, the sentence will be renewed." Many practitioners' terms were thus illegally extended. Mr. Zhang Quanliang fundamentally denied the persecution. He would clearly express his attitude to the guards, the thugs, or the "educators" who helped with the transform work, "Falun Dafa is the righteous Fa. Nothing is wrong with practicing Truthfulness, Compassion, and Tolerance. The Constitution says the citizens have the rights to freedom of belief and the right to appeal. We did nothing that violated the law and disturbed the peace in the society. This imprisonment is illegal and wrong."
The righteous thoughts of a practitioner subdued all evil and the camp did not prolong his sentence.
A Practitioner Should Be Rational and Clearheaded at all times to Tell the Truth and to Validate the Fa
Under the brutal persecution, after a while, some practitioners used more extreme ways to protest such as jumping off a building and banging themselves against the walls. Mr. Zhang Quanliang was very rational and could validate the Fa rationally at any time under any situation. During the worst time of the persecution, a policeman tried to transform him. At the time Zhang was tortured to the point that he was numb, couldn't move well, and his limbs were shaking, but he still took this chance to express his mind to the policeman, even though he had a hard time doing so. His compassion touched this policeman and his attitude toward all the practitioners improved after that.
A prisoner in the camp had spent more than 10 years transferred between the prison and the camp. The guards thought he had a bad enough record and thus sent him to monitor Mr. Zhang Quanliang. They hoped that he would brutally torture Zhang. The prisoner soon was moved by Zhang's great compassion. He didn't persecute Zhang and was doing his best to protect Zhang. Later, the police transferred that prisoner to another group, where he still continued to help and cared for other practitioners by all means. He said, "All the people I met in my life, only you are the truly good people. If I had practiced Falun Gong, I wouldn't be what I am today. After I get out of here, I will practice Falun Gong."
Great Compassion
In July 2002, the camp allowed Zhang Quanliang's brother to visit him. The camp even allowed Zhang's brother to bring Zhang's son's picture into the prison in order to make him homesick and make the transformation go smoother. Later Zhang told me, "Other practitioners are taking care of my son. My son is also Teacher's student."
One time he told me, "I must persist and will persist. As long as I persist, there will be less pressure put on you." He never thought for himself for a second. He always thought for others and for Dafa. He is truly a magnificent practitioner created by the magnificent Fa.
Zhang Quanliang's righteous thoughts and righteous acts came from his steadfast studying of the Fa and from his truly giving up human sentiments and attachments. When reaching that level of practice, one can walk through that kind of hard and brutal environment in the camp openly and nobly. And that was truly "As you get rid of human mentality, evil naturally disappears." ("Don't Be Sad," Hongyin Two)
