(Clearwisdom.net) The deputy chairman of the regional 610 Office and the head of the 610 Office at the state level once barged into my office when I was alone and requested that we "talk." I saw this as a great opportunity to clarify the truth to the 610 Office staff. While I was getting tea, I sent forth righteous thoughts to eliminate the evil elements behind them. They tried to persuade me that Falun Gong is a political movement and told me that, as a government employee, I must not practice Falun Gong. "The Chinese Constitution accords each Chinese citizen freedom of belief," I replied. "Besides, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) controls all resources and is all powerful in China. Why does the CCP need to fear a frail woman because she practices Falun Gong? Why does the CCP have to treat me as an enemy of the state because I practice Falun Gong? Besides, as a cultivator, I consider politics to be extremely filthy."

Perhaps it was because she had never heard anyone calling politics filthy, the deputy chairman's eyes widened in shock. I added, "There is something you might not be aware of. We are no longer living in ancient times. Falun Gong is not the White Lotus (a Buddhist secret society in the late Yuan Dynasty) that Zhu Hongwu joined before he became a rebel leader and founded the Ming Dynasty. Falun Gong is not the Fists of Righteous Harmony (a revolutionary society in the late Qing Dynasty) that launched the Boxer Rebellion either. Both of them were rebels with political motives. Falun Gong is completely different. Falun Gong is a true cultivation practice. It requires its practitioners to return to their true selves, their true kind natures. Falun Gong practitioners do not seek worldly fame or material wealth. In fact, they are not attached to these things at all. Politics are of no interest to Falun Gong practitioners!"

In response, the deputy chairman of the 610 Office produced a "legal" document detailing a regulation. This regulation directs that all Chinese government employees who practice Falun Gong must be fired. (This is one of the many "regulations" that the CCP passed after Jiang Zemin ordered the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners on July 20, 1999. Practitioners under said regulations were deprived of their freedom of belief in Falun Gong. These regulations were to legitimize the persecution and were an unlawful attempt to bypass the Chinese Constitution.) I looked into her eyes and asked her, "Do you have to follow all orders from the CCP? If the CCP had ordered you to cut Ms. Zhang Zhixin's throat during the Great Cultural Revolution, would you have followed that order too? (Please read the Epoch Times' Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party to learn the history of the CCP's persecution against Ms. Zhang Zhixin during the Great Cultural Revolution.) You know very well that the self-immolation incident at Tiananmen Square was staged by the CCP to slander Falun Gong and to justify its persecution against Falun Gong. Why do you help the CCP with its wrongdoing? You may not know Falun Gong practitioners in other areas, but you know me well enough and you know many Falun Gong practitioners in this area well enough to know that we have but one goal - to keep upgrading our morality. We have no other goal than to live by Falun Gong's cultivation principles of "Truth, Compassion and Forbearance." It is your responsibility to report the truth as you know it to your superiors."

The deputy chairman was speechless for a minute. Then she said, "I had to suffer much to land this job. I came from a very remote and small county." I told her, "It was not a coincidence that God arranged you to get this job. God wants to test your conscience! Kindness will ultimately be rewarded and wickedness will ultimately be punished. God is watching you! Let me tell you about the famous Chinese drama about the unfaithful husband Chen Shimei of Qin Xianglian. After Chen Shimei passed the imperial examination and was promised one of the Emperor's princesses in marriage, he decided that his wife had become a burden. He ordered his servant Han Qi to go to his hometown and murder his wife. Qin Xianglian had gone hungry and performed hard labor for many years, so her husband could concentrate on studying for the imperial examination and be able to travel to the imperial city for the exam. Han Qi knew that murder was a terrible crime, not to mention murdering a virtuous wife who had helped her unfaithful husband to attain fame and wealth. Therefore, he ended up killing himself. I do not ask you to risk your life for Falun Gong, but you shouldn't help Jiang Zemin and the CCP persecute Falun Gong practitioners either. Falun Gong practitioners are truly kindhearted people. You have two daughters. You don't want people looking down at them because of you. You don't want people scorning them saying, 'Their mother persecutes Falun Gong practitioners for a living.'"

My speech must have influenced the deputy chairman deeply. While drinking the tea, she absent-mindedly put a tealeaf into her mouth. It took her a while to realize what she had done before she took the tealeaf out of her mouth and threw it into a trashcan.

I could see that she had not completely lost her kind nature, except it had been buried. I felt very sorry for her and could not help telling her, "I truly have your best interest at heart!" When they walked out of my office, she lowered her head in shame and avoided eye contact. I said it to her again. "I truly have your best interest at heart."

This experience also affected me greatly. The power of our righteous thoughts is enormous!

Teacher said,

The world's people are truly in dire need to know the truth about Falun Gong!

Fellow practitioners who heard the story were highly encouraged. Many became more confident in clarifying the truth about Falun Gong. My work environment also improved. My colleagues said to me afterwards, "The leaders from the 610 Office came to talk to you. What was the result of this conversation?" I told them, "Actually, I think I was very helpful to them. I helped them understand Falun Gong better." They were amazed by my response. Furthermore, they were very moved after I repeated what I had said to the two women from the 610 Office. One of my colleagues even told me that he was forced to join the CCP against his will. As if he was worried that I wouldn't believe his words, he eagerly tried to convince me he was truly forced to join the CCP. He kept saying, "It is true. It is true."

Since then, the 610 Office never comes to harass me.

I decided that no one has the right to persecute me because no one has the right to hamper me from doing the three things that Teacher requires of me. Jiang Zemin's henchmen will come to me for one reason and one reason only: They need to learn the truth about Falun Gong and they come to me because they have a predestined relationship with me.

One day in November 2004, the head of the bureau where I work (the name of the bureau is undisclosed to protect the writer) asked me out of the blue to meet with him. During the meeting, he asked me, "What type of spiritual belief do you practice? I can't let you believe in it! You are not going to believe in what the CCP forbids you to believe in! Don't even think about it!" I said, "The Chinese Constitution grants all Chinese citizens the freedom of spiritual belief. The Ministry of Civil Administration does not have the legislative authority to issue a new regulation that overrides the Chinese Constitution. It does not have authority to prevent government employees from believing in Falun Gong. The People's Congress has the legislative power, and the People's Congress passed its so-called "anti-cult law" after the CCP unlawfully arrested many Falun Gong practitioners. This was done to justify the CCP's unlawful actions. Besides, the anti-cult law does not mention Falun Gong at all." He could only say, "No matter what, you will not do what the CCP forbids." On my way home, I mulled this over in my head, "He is the head of the bureau and is used to intimidating his subordinates. I should try a more forceful and aggressive approach with him. Being meek like a lamb is the wrong approach with him. After all, I have done nothing wrong, so I should speak up more."

The next month, the head of the bureau asked two division leaders, the head of the Discipline Group and me to meet in the conference room. He produced a piece of paper and read the questions on the paper, "First, what is your opinion of Falun Gong? Second, is Falun Gong involved in politics? Third, what are the merits and flaws of Falun Gong?"

I answered him, "Falun Gong teaches its practitioners to become better people and keep upgrading their morality by following the principles of Truth, Compassion and Forbearance. Therefore, Falun Gong is very good for its practitioners and for the country. Falun Gong is a cultivation practice that enables its practitioners to return to their true selves. It requires its practitioners of removing their attachments to worldly fame, wealth and sentimentality. How can that possibly make Falun Gong political?"

My heart was racing at first, but then I became very calm. The head of the bureau drew a circle on the desk with his index finger and said, "If you do not respect the authority or the rules, I'm asking for your resignation." I pointed a finger at the head of the bureau while stating with a solemn look, "I will not resign without any valid reason. It is your prerogative to do whatever you like, but you have no power over my destiny. You will ultimately face the consequences of your actions. Falun Gong is a cultivation practice and it is the most important thing in my life."

The conference room became dead silent. No one supported him. Next he produced a legal document and started reading it. I interrupted him, "I do not remember to have ever seen such a long document. I need a copy of that document." "No!" he exclaimed. "This is top secret!" I said out loud, "Why do you try to hide your action if you have the audacity to persecute Falun Gong practitioners? Give me a copy." "You can't have it," he said. The rest of the people in the conference could barely contain themselves from bursting into laughter.

Finally he said, "I'm sending you home for the rest of the afternoon. I want you to write a statement renouncing Falun Gong." I declared, "I will not write such a statement. You may ask me for a summary of my work, but you cannot tell me how to think or what to think."

On my way out of the conference room, I truly felt the realm described in one of Teacher's poems:

The minute I entered my office, a colleague told me, "Don't write the statement. You made the correct decision." Everyone had heard about the conversation I had with the head of the bureau already. Many openly commented, "Falun Gong practitioners are truly admirable. They have the courage to speak the truth and to persevere in their belief." Some of them were very concerned and asked me to be more cautious. Some offered to loan me money if I should face any financial difficulty.

I took a taxi home. During the ride, I took the opportunity to tell the taxi driver many important facts about Falun Gong. My husband told me that my boss had called and asked him to have me write the "statement" before returning to work on Monday. I felt truly sorry for the head of the bureau. He felt that his career might be in jeopardy if he couldn't make me renounce Falun Gong. But I know the true reason he had come to me: he is predestined to know the truth about Falun Gong from me.

The head of the Human Resources Department asked me to renounce Falun Gong in writing. She said that since I already had renounced Falun Gong before, I surely could do so again. I told her, "It only shows how cruel you are. The police handcuffed me and locked me up in the detention center. They exploited my fear and sentiments in an attempt to have me to renounce Falun Gong against my will. Did you know that I wanted to die after I had given in to their terror tactics and wrote that statement? Did you realize what a cruel thing they had done? Falun Gong is truly good in every way. When the Public Security Bureau 'interrogated' me through torture and violence, did you know what they asked me? 'How much did you contribute to Falun Gong's truth-clarification materials?' They didn't ask me, 'How much money did you gain from Falun Gong?' Do you know why? It is because they know perfectly well that Falun Gong practitioners have high morals. They know that we all share the expenses of producing truth clarification materials about Falun Gong. You must not try to force me to renounce Falun Gong anymore. You know perfectly well that the CCP has a history of inciting people into fighting each other. Every one of its political movements showed this clearly. Each time a political movement was over, those people who abandoned their conscience and committed crimes eventually paid the price." After that conversation, she refused her boss's order to pressure me into renouncing Falun Gong in writing.

The head of the Discipline Group and the deputy head of the bureau also came to talk to me at different times. They also told me that the police had been monitoring all of my telephone calls. They said, "It would be decades before the CCP reverses the ban on Falun Gong and restores Falun Gong's good name. You would be miserable for decades before the day came. I can promise your safety as long as you renounce Falun Gong in writing, no matter how short the note."

How foolish these people are! They cannot win the popularity contest by reasoning a wrong course! Therefore, they make people succumb to their violence!

In the end of 2004, the bureau began its employees' end-of-year review. One day, the head of the bureau asked many department leaders at the bureau and me to meet him in the conference room at 8:00 p.m. This time he did not order me to renounce Falun Gong in writing or ask me if I was still practicing Falun Gong. "I am giving you a final ultimatum," he said. "I will evaluate your work performance based on your attitude towards Falun Gong." (An employee will be fired if he gets a bad end-of-year review for two consecutive years.) I smiled at him and said, "Thank you for your warning. You cannot possibly make me renounce Falun Gong and transform me into a different person. I have been trying to become a person with high morals and adhere to Falun Gong's principles of Truth, Compassion and Forbearance in all I do. Which direction do you expect me to transform into? The opposite direction of being moral?" He was speechless He simply looked at me with an astonished look on his face.

I continued to smile at him while telling him, "You may write my review any way you like. But if you write that I failed to do my job because I tried to be a better person by following Falun Gong's principles of Truth, Compassion and Forbearance, you will be brought to justice one day, and you will have to face the consequences for persecuting Falun Gong practitioners." When they realized that nothing they said or did would change my mind, the head of the bureau said, "We don't have any personal vendetta against you. It is because we have received an order and we must follow the regulation. As the General Secretary of the CCP at the Bureau, I cannot give you a good end-of-year review, otherwise, I will have problems with my boss." Then the deputy head tried to support him by saying, "Even the Permanent Committee of the People's Congress has already ruled Falun Gong as a [slanderous word omitted]." I stopped her and told her gravely not to tell lies. "The People's Congress did not even mention Falun Gong," I told her.

I did not raise my voice, but she did not say anything else. The room became still. Even the head of the bureau did not try to back her up. I told them, "Everything you do to me today will come back and haunt you some day. I believe that everyone who lives by the principles of Truth, Compassion and Forbearance will have a beautiful future. The reason why we are sitting here in the same room today is because we are predestined to know each other. I would feel deeply saddened if I didn't tell you the truth about Falun Gong. Falun Gong teaches its practitioners to live by the principles of Truth, Compassion and Forbearance. It truly has the power to help people return to their true, kind nature. It is truly a wonderful cultivation practice. Don't you want to return to your true, kind selves?" The head of the bureau could do nothing else than to be very polite to me. He asked if he could get a taxi to take me home. I politely declined his offer. "I am not afraid of walking in the dark. Thank you."

The aforementioned are brief summaries of my three meetings with the head of the bureau and the improvement of his attitude towards me as a Falun Gong practitioner. I know in my heart that he no longer will be rude to Falun Gong practitioners or simple-mindedly believe the CCP's propaganda vilifying Falun Gong.

My work unit supervisor gave me the employee evaluation and asked me to complete the section, "Agreement with the work unit's opinion." They had written the following: "In the Year 2004 evaluation period, based on her summary and comments by others, the bureau party group requested her to clarify her attitude towards Falun Gong. The comrade's statement was: 'I have persisted in my belief in the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance, which is the goal of my life. No one possibly can make me renounce Falun Gong and transform me into a different person.' Based on her attitude toward Falun Gong and the policies of the state party commission and "610 Office", the bureau party group made the determination that the comrade's performance was unsatisfactory." This persecutory effort clearly shows its unlawfulness and folly: the evaluation of "unsatisfactory" was merely because I try to be a person with high morals, following the principles of "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance."

In the column of "Opinion of the Employee under Review," I wrote, "I do not agree with the evaluation. I have attempted to increase my morals continuously and live by Falun Gong's principles of Truth, Compassion and Forbearance. I have been respectful to my colleagues, my organization and the country. Which direction do you expect me to transform into? Should I move towards the opposite direction of having high morals? Besides, I have done a remarkable job in building the region's winter and spring farming irrigation systems. I have even won recognition at the provincial level. But now you said I have failed in my job this year because I have been trying to become an even better person and keep upgrading my morality by following Falun Gong's cultivation principles. Do you have any conscience left in you? Please do not use the lame excuse, 'I must follow orders,' to abandon your true nature. You are pushing yourself into hell. It is a heavenly law that good deeds will ultimately be rewarded and bad deeds will ultimately be punished. Everyone will face the consequences of his or her actions. Stop persecuting Falun Gong cultivators! Please do not neglect your conscience any longer!"

Before I turned in the review, I made a lot of photocopies and distributed them among my colleagues and friends so that they will know the CCP is not persecuting Falun Gong because it is a [slanderous word omitted], but because it teaches people to become better and to live by the principles Truth, Compassion and Forbearance.