(Clearwisdom.net) I was illegally detained in mid-September 2005. At that time I felt that I must face reality, be more clear-minded and sensible, get rid of all human attachments, including fear, and clarify the truth to guards and other detainees to expose the evil.
The first person I ran into was a guard asking me to register the number of the cell that I was in. He asked for my name and why I was there. I told him that I was a Falun Dafa practitioner and that I believe in being a good person by following Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. I said that I was forcibly arrested and pushed into a car, that they were fabricating information to persecute Dafa practitioners, and that I was innocent. He replied that it was very easy nowadays for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to give you a hard time by sending you to prison through making up false evidence. My first impression of this officer indicated that there were some reasonable people among the guards.
After I was put in a cell a detainee asked me, "We heard before we came here that Falun Gong practitioners clarify the truth every day to rescue people. Can people like us who have made mistakes or committed crimes be saved? " I recited from memory Master's scripture to him,
"Fa-rectification is to save all beings that can be saved." ("Teaching the Fa at 2005 Canada Fa Conference")
I also said, "No matter how big the mistakes were and how many sins one committed in his life, Falun Dafa does not care about past mistakes. As long as one does not oppose Falun Dafa, he can be saved. If one truly believes in it and says a few times a day 'Falun Dafa is good! Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good!' he will be protected by this Fa. If you truly practice Falun Dafa, Master will save you and help you to reach Consummation."
On hearing this, the detainees understood many things. Quite a few of them called out, "Falun Dafa is good! Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good!" Some told me that it felt really good listening to me talk about these things, and that their deep questions were answered. A criminal who had stolen 200,000 yuan through burglaries said, "I want to practice Falun Gong, to follow the good and to correct the bad deeds, and to become a new person." He asked me what Falun Dafa was, and how he could learn it.
A police guard even said in front of all the detainees, "I know Falun Gong is good. You can get healthier by practicing it."
Of course, there were still a few who were deceived by the CCP and poisoned by the Communist Party's culture, saying vicious and filthy things. I told them in a dignified, open and above-board way, "Falun Dafa that we practice is a righteous Fa. It's OK if you don't believe or practice it. But if you viciously attack our Master, Dafa, and Dafa disciples, you are committing an immense sin. It is heaven's law that good will rewarded and bad will be punished. The heavens will not forgive you if you don't correct this mistake."
With my serious warning the vicious inmates were no longer aggressive, and those deceived by the CCP's lies were profoundly disturbed.
Apart from clarifying the truth in prison I looked inward and found attachments. The manifestations of my attachments were that although I told the truth to guards and detainees, I couldn't meditate when they were around. Why? Through studying the Fa I found to my surprise that I had fear.
The detention center forbids practicing Falun Gong exercises and would punish those who do by putting them in a confinement cell in shackles and handcuffs. I was fearful about possible consequences of publicly practicing the exercises, which was obviously a human mentality and a fundamental attachment. Dafa soon cleansed me of these selfish thoughts. The next morning I practiced publicly in the cell. Although the cell had monitoring devices, and had 16 or 17 detainees, no one brought up the issue of not allowing me to practice. It was not until then that I realized that the attachment of fear was self-induced, and that it was caused by lack of confidence in Master and in Dafa. Through practice it was proven that if you can truly let go of the attachments in times of catastrophes and tribulations, that indeed,
"After passing the shady willow trees, there will be bright flowers and another village ahead!" (Zhuan Falun, 2000 translation version)
During the course of truth-clarification, exposing the evil, validating the Fa and rescuing beings I had a feeling that the stronger my belief in Dafa was, the less possibility for the evil to persecute me, and the safer I was. The stronger my belief was, the more smoothly I could validate Dafa and rescue people, and the sooner I passed tribulations.
They illegally detained me this time in an attempt to sentence me, an over 70-year-old practitioner, to life imprisonment. They publicly announced, "(We) will let you die in prison. We'll see how you would clarify the truth everywhere like before." I replied, "What you said will not happen. Only my Master and Dafa can determine my future." The guard said, "How could you still say this here?" I said, "There are only Dafa and Master and nothing else in my mind. Dafa is my life. Without Dafa there is no life for me." I further clarified to them the truth of Dafa. With the mighty power of Dafa, their plans failed and I left jail within two weeks. As Master said,
"If you're truly able to let go of the thought of death, and have no attachments at all, would the question of falling short still exist? Would the question of reforming you still exist? And would the question of having you do such and such still exist?" ("Teaching and Explaining the Fa at the Metropolitan New York Fa Conference")
And this has been my experience.
Due to my limited level and cultivation quality, please correct me with compassion if there is anything inappropriate in this article.
