(Clearwisdom.net) The following story shows the power of practitioners acting as one body, using their righteous thoughts and their righteous actions. They set aside their own personal interests and cooperated with each other to rescue their illegally detained fellow practitioners.
At about 11:00 a.m. on December 30, 2004, after some fellow practitioners and I had just finished studying the Fa, many police officers broke into my home. The head policeman shouted out loudly, "Don't move!" At first I felt nervous because there were many Falun Dafa books in my home. I was not sure what to do. Then I decided to go ahead and protect the books. While I was turning around, I told the other two practitioners to send forth the righteous thoughts to protect the books. I then felt calm.
A policeman asked, "What are you doing? Practicing Falun Gong?" Then he pointed to a person beside him and asked, "Do you know her?" Until then, I had not noticed the person beside him. She used to be a practitioner, and I realized that it was she who led the police to my home.
The director of the Village Security Committee threw a copy of Minghui Weekly (1) on my bed. Suddenly I realized what had happened. It was a copy of Minghui Weekly from October. I lent it to her, but forgot to take it back in time. It was useless to blame myself for my carelessness at that point. I was thinking about how to answer them. The policemen asked whether I had more. I answered calmly, "No." The officers started searching my home.
The other practitioners couldn't keep sitting still any longer, and one of them asked to use the restroom. The policemen, however, would not let anyone leave. The director of the Village Security Committee understood that we should send a message to all the families involved to be prepared. Then he excused himself to use the restroom and left my home. He met the son of one practitioner and passed the message to him.
Under our strong righteous thoughts, the police didn't find anything. Even though they picked up Teacher's new lecture twice, they didn't realize what it was and put it down. All the Dafa books were protected. We witnessed the divine power of righteous thoughts.
After not finding anything, the police were unwilling to give up. They then ordered all of us to get inside the police car, and they searched my home again. This time they found one copy of Minghui Weekly and two copies of other materials. They demanded, "What are these? Where did you get these?" Then they took me and another practitioner to the police station. After I left, they searched my entire home again and even videotaped the entire process.
Just before the police were ready to take all the practitioners away from my home, the secretary of the Communist Party of my village came and argued with them, "You have no right to arrest our people." She was away from home that day and heard about what happened to us after she returned. She had rushed directly to my home. At that time, the policemen started the car and were about to take us away. She stood in front of the car and asked the policemen, "Why do you arrest our people? They are all good citizens and always do their best to help others and support us. I will not allow you to take them away."
At that point, the police officers had no choice, and drove the car to the yard of the village committee. It was about 1:00 p.m., and the policemen hadn't had any food or water for lunch. The secretary of the Communist Party of the village asked somebody to find some water for them, but that person couldn't find any water. Other people said, "We have water, but we will not give it to them. They are trouble makers."
The situation inside the village committee office became very tense. One practitioner worried about the Dafa books hidden at home. The practitioner walked up to the director of the Village Security Committee and whispered to him, "The books." The director said, "My brother knows about that." The practitioner then said, "Washing machine (the books were hidden inside the washing machine)."
The director ran out in a hurry. The policemen yelled out, "You are not allowed to leave." While running, the director answered, "I want to buy you some cigarettes." Then the director ran to the practitioner's home and told the family members to hide the books somewhere else. Just after they hid the books, the police started searching the homes of the practitioners, and they indeed searched the washing machine. So the director of the Village Security Committee sent messages twice for the practitioners under the watchful eyes of the police. The practitioners and their family members were very touched.
To stop the police from arresting us, the secretary of the Communist Party of the village put in a lot of good words for us, but the officers insisted on taking us away. The lead officer said, "If the higher level government finds out we didn't do anything, we will be reprimanded. Let's do this as a mere formality. We will send them back very soon." They, of course, didn't keep their word.
After 8:00 p.m. the policemen failed to find anything at the other practitioners' homes, and all the practitioners were released, except for me. Later they brought me to the car and drove away. Even though I noticed they were not driving in the direction of my home, I didn't feel afraid. I was afraid of nothing as a Falun Dafa practitioner. I never stopped sending forth righteous thought to break though all the arrangements by the old forces.
The car arrived at the police department shortly, but I couldn't stop vomiting after I got out of the car. After a little while, they sent me to check on my health condition. I heard them saying, "Her health condition is probably okay." Surprisingly, my blood pressure was 190 over 170, which was extremely high. The policemen said nothing. They brought me back to the car and started driving again. The road was very dark. Finally they stopped at the local brainwashing center. An older man came out. The policemen told him that I got carsick and they would leave me there to attend brainwashing sessions for a few days. Then they left.
My fellow practitioners found out that I was not back at home, and they were very worried. They planned with my family to rescue me. Some practitioners sent the message to all the practitioners in the surrounding area and asked them to send forth righteous thoughts. Some wrote "Falun Dafa Is Good" on streets, and some passed out flyers to clarify the truth.
Some family members talked to the secretary of the Communist Party of the village and asked her to bring me back. She called the officials one by one. First she called the secretary of the county Political and Judiciary Committee and was told that the order came from the city government, and he couldn't help. Then she called the secretary of the Communist Party of the town government and was told again that this was an order from the city government and he couldn't help either. She was very angry and said firmly, "From now on, you will be in charge of this village, I quit. You love to meddle, don't you?" When the secretary of the Communist Party of the town government heard such a firm response, he started to negotiate, "Is this practitioner a relative of yours? It is okay to release her, but you or your village will not be eligible for any rewards this year." She was not moved by this. She accepted all the conditions and answered, "Fine! I will not ask for anything if you release our resident."
So, under Teacher's protection and with the help of village officials who understood the truth of the persecution, all of the practitioners were released. I walked out of the brainwashing center on the afternoon of January 1, 2005.
When I returned home, the other practitioners were so happy that they had tears in their eyes. Some practitioners reminded me not to form any attachments of being overjoyed, and not to let the old forces take advantage of the situation. What my fellow practitioners said comforted me, and I understood the magnificent power of working together as one body.
Due to limitations of my level of cultivation, what I wrote may not be correct. Please point out anything that is inappropriate. Thank you!
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(1) Minghui Weekly - A weekly online magazine published by Clearwisdom.net (Chinese version).
