(Clearwisdom.net) On August 24, 2006 I went to visit my older sister who was dying at the Catholic Tianci Seniors Home. She used to read Falun Dafa books, but she became afraid under the persecution and stopped practicing. I was hoping she would return to Falun Dafa practice. I used an MP3 player to play Master’s lectures for her. Somebody asked me about it, so I told them the benefits of practicing Falun Gong and the persecution situation. Then somebody reported me to the director of the seniors home. The director reported me to the Dadongmen Police Station in Chuanying District, Jilin City. I was arrested and persecuted at the Jilin City Detention Center.
The police asked me questions before they sent me to the detention center. I refused to answer. They attempted to force me to provide my fingerprints. I refused to cooperate, even though two policemen held me and tried to press my fingers onto the paper. Still, they were not successful! I thought, "Whoever touches me, their hands will hurt." They then let go of me.
The guards in the detention center urged the detainees to monitor me and give me orders, but I didn’t listen to them. I refused to put on the prison uniform or recite the prison rules. I didn’t participate in any work (cleaning) they wanted me to do. I didn’t say “present” at night roll call. The inmates followed the prison rules and went to bed at the appointed time, but I slept whenever I wanted. When I was not sleeping I recited the “Fa” and sent forth righteous thoughts sitting up. In order to send forth righteous thoughts and recite the Fa at night, I agreed to be on night shift. Others all stand when on duty, but I sit. The first night I sent forth righteous thoughts and recited the Fa continuously.
Because I didn’t follow the guards’ orders they often beat me and cursed me. When they started I usually thought, “If you beat me, I don’t get hurt, but you will!” Therefore, they gradually stopped beating me. When the inmates started to harass and beat me, I recited the Fa rectification verses in my mind. The inmates would then stop, saying they felt scared. When they wanted to put a prison uniform on me I thought, “Whoever touches me, their hands will hurt!” I also sent forth righteous thoughts toward the most vicious inmate to eliminate the evil factors manipulating her. She eventually stopped harassing me and became very polite to me. Unless the guards forced her, she no longer bothered me. I often recited Master’s poem, “Righteous Thoughts and Righteous Actions:”
“A Great Enlightened One fears no hardship
Having forged an adamantine will
Free of attachment to living or dying
He walks the path of Fa-rectification
confident and poised” (from Hong Yin II, translation version A)
With stronger righteous thoughts, the evil factors behind the inmates disappeared.
Every morning around 8:00 a.m. the guards led the inmates to read the prison rules. I recited the Fa, recited the Fa rectification verses and recited “Falun Dafa is good.” When I first got in the forced labor camp I went on hunger strike to protest the illegal detention and was force-fed. I did not continue with the hunger strike because it did my health no good and didn’t help me stay clear-minded. My memory was gradually diminishing. The effect of sending forth righteous thoughts and reciting the Fa lessened. Eventually, I started drinking some soup or porridge and maintained a semi hunger strike. Sometimes at night, when it was time to report “present,” I initially only said, “Hi, I’m a good person. I’m not a criminal!” I didn’t say “present.” Later I refused to say anything. The guards didn’t force me because when I first arrived I validated Dafa to the guards.
I recited the Fa every day, except during meals, while asleep and other necessary activities. Master said,
“The Fa can break all attachments, the Fa can destroy all evil, the Fa can shatter all lies, and the Fa can strengthen righteous thoughts.” (“Drive Out Interference” in Essentials for Further Advancement II)
I never followed the inmates’ orders. They said, “If you don’t eat, don’t work, don’t wear a prison uniform… don’t listen to us, we will be punished every day. We will have to sit on a bench every day. We will be forbidden to go out. We will not be allowed to play.” Despite their threats, beatings or curses, I still didn’t listen to them and defied them. But, they were still able to go out and play. The lies exposed themselves.
One day an inmate wanted to punish me for not following orders, but she didn’t know what the results would be. She used a poker to tell her fortune, but no matter how she did it, the result was always the same – failure. I laughed within myself and thought of Master's poem:
“Riding a tiger, so hard it is to dismount
Humans are they, trying to challenge gods
Doing all possible of evil beings
They have made a dead end of their lives” (“Entering the Gate of No-life” in Hong Yin II)
Every day I sent forth righteous thoughts to eliminate all evil factors persecuting Dafa practitioners in other dimensions. Sometimes, after I sent forth righteous thoughts, the room would become very quiet. The air even seemed frozen. Even the television’s volume lowered. Everyone was astonished when realizing it. “How come it is so quiet? It has always been noisy.”
Reciting the Fa and sending forth righteous thoughts gradually enabled me to get rid of my attachment to fear, and my righteous thoughts became stronger. When I first arrived at the camp I was quite fearful. I was afraid of personal injury. I was also threatened with, “Beating you to death counts as suicide.”
One day, the camp authorities assigned more than ten Dafa practitioners to do so-called “reporting.” I knew their purpose was to support the persecution arranged by the old forces, so I completely negated it. They asked my name. I didn’t respond and stared at them with righteous thoughts. They asked other questions. I did not respond either. They then decided not to ask me any more and began asking others. I then shouted at them, “I am a good person. I always do good things. I work very hard and diligently. I am detained here illegally. Let me go!” The abusers saw me shouting and told people to take me away.
On September 12, 2006 I was sent to Yinmahe Forced Labor Camp in Jiutan. I recited the Fa rectification verses on the way. When we arrived the guards were told that the camp didn’t accept females. They then tried to send me to the Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp. They refused to accept me there as well due to my unqualified health status. Just like that, with Master’s strengthening and my righteous thoughts I walked out of the demon's den with dignity. On my way to the forced labor camp, I made up my mind that wherever I went I would never cooperate with the evil, and would completely negate the old forces’ arrangements.
The lesson I learned from this persecution is that I had not studied the Fa diligently enough. I had not sent enough righteous thoughts. I had not yet abandoned human emotions. Hence, the evil took advantage of me.
I hope fellow practitioners might learn from my mistakes. Firmly believing in Master and firmly believing in Dafa assures safety.
