(Clearwisdom.net) Due to a predestined relationship, I started to practice Falun Dafa in February 1998. Dafa has given me a second life. I firmly believe in Dafa and Teacher. Since the persecution started on July 20, 1999, I have never hesitated to clarify the facts about the persecution of Falun Gong to people who pressured me to give up Dafa, especially police officers who were directly involved in the persecution.
I had cancer before I started practicing Falun Dafa. After I went through the treatments, I could only take in liquid food. However, a few days after I started practicing Dafa, Teacher purified my body. Suddenly, I could eat normal food again. The black marks on my face disappeared. My two sisters and my seventy-year-old mother saw these changes, and they also started to practice Dafa. I was deeply grateful to Teacher for his compassion. I studied the Fa earnestly and felt that it was my duty to spread the Fa and tell everyone about the beauty of Dafa.
When the persecution started in July 20, 1999, I did not have any fear. No matter when it was or where I was, I acted with righteous thoughts following the Fa and validating the Fa. I remember once in 2000, the police arrested over a dozen practitioners in our area. Agents from the police station called my workplace and asked me to stop by. On my way there, I thought, "I have no fear." Teacher clearly stated:
"If you are a true practitioner, our Falun will safeguard you. I am rooted in the universe. If anyone can harm you, he or she would be able to harm me. Put simply, that person would be able to harm this universe." ("Zhuan Falun", Lecture One, "Characteristics of Falun Dafa," 2000 translation)
When I arrived at the police station, there were five or six police officers waiting for me. One of them asked, "Do you know why we have asked you to come? We have arrested 17 people, you are the 18th. We had planned to arrest you, but your boss said that you are a good person. So we asked you to come and answer some questions. Who have you visited? And who have you had contact with? ..." I calmly replied, "I did not visit anyone's home. Don't I have the right to talk to people when I run into them on the street?" At that time, Teacher's words appeared in my mind,
"The same applies to human beings, who possess Buddha-nature and demon-nature at the same time." (Essentials for Further Advancement, "Buddha-Nature and Demon-Nature")
I wanted to guide them so that their Buddha-nature would win over their demon-nature. I told them about my personal cultivation experience and how I had benefited from Dafa. I wanted them to know about the magnificence of Dafa, and the mercifulness and compassion of Teacher. After a while, they were not as mean as before and they did not get any information from me.
One day in 2004, my supervisor came to me and asked me to sign a guarantee statement that had already been written. I took a look at it and immediately returned it to her. I told her that I would not sign it.
She said, "I knew you would not write it, so I wrote it for you. You just need to sign it so that we can report it as being done." I said, "We practice Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance. I don't lie. Truthfulness means telling the truth, doing things truthfully, becoming a truthful person, and returning to the original, true self, and in the end, becoming a true person through cultivation. If I cannot follow the first word of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, how could I cultivate?" Finally, my supervisor left.
The next day, she asked me to come to her office. Another supervisor who knew me asked, "Did you really not take any medicine the past few years? No shots?" I said, "You can ask the people I work with to see if any one of them saw me take medicine or shots. I am the only one in the entire workshop who has not taken any medicine -- you can check the records."
My supervisor asked me again, "You really won't sign?" I replied, "I am sorry. It is not that I do not respect you. If anyone else would ask me, my answer would still be no." Thus, I passed another test.
After some time, two people from the city police bureau visited my home one day. It just so happened that I wasn't at home. They asked my mother-in-law where I went. That evening when my husband came home and heard that police officers were at our home, he became angry and violent. I realized that it was for me to improve my xinxing and enlightenment quality. I remembered Teacher's Fa,
"Be resolute cultivating Dafa, the mind unstirred
Climbing in levels is what's fundamental
Faced with tests, a person's true character is revealed
May you Consummate -- a Buddha, Dao, or God"(Hong Yin II-A, "True Character is Revealed")
The next morning, I practiced the exercises. My husband was not happy, but my heart was not moved. When I left for work, I said to him, "Do not treat me like this. You need to be clear about what is good and what is evil. I will go to the police bureau this afternoon and tell them not to come here anymore."
After I got off work, I went to the police bureau and found the director of a sub-bureau who had gone to my home. I asked him, "Do your police officers discipline good people or bad people?" He said, "Bad people, of course." I said, "Then why did you come to my home and harass my family and disrupt our peace at home. Our teacher taught us to cultivate Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. Tell me which one is not good. Why drag us into politics? Our Teacher said in his article, 'Other than doing a good job with his work, a cultivator will not be interested in politics or political power of any sort; failing this, he absolutely isn't my disciple.' (Essentials for Further Advancement, "Cultivation Practice is Not Political")"
At this moment, another person in the room said, "Another incorrigible one who refuses to be transformed." I turned around and told him, "What is incorrigible? Think about it, Falun Gong saved so many lives by cultivating Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. If your life was spared because you learned it, would you give it up?"
I told them how my family had benefited from the cultivation practice. I said, "Before I started practicing, I was tormented by cancer. Living was worse than dying. But I recovered after I learned Dafa."
Another person in the room said, "If it is like what you said, why do we need hospitals?" I replied, "Our teacher said in the book,
'As a genuine practitioner, however, you cannot practice cultivation with an ill body. I will purify your body. The body purification will be done only for those who come to truly learn the practice and the Fa.' (Zhuan Falun, 2000 translation, Lecture One, Genuinely Guiding people Toward High Levels)"
He asked again, "your teacher is in America, right?" I said, "Our teacher is not only in America. Falun Gong has spread all over the world. Our Teacher said,
'The nature of the universe--Dafa--is present everywhere and encompasses the entire cosmic body, from the macroscopic level to the microscopic level. The Dafa I teach today is not only taught to Eastern people, but also to Westerners at the same time. Their kind people should also be saved. All nationalities that should enter the next, new historical era will obtain the Fa and improve as a whole. It is not just a matter of one nationality.' (Essentials For Further Advancement, "A Brief Explanation of Shan")
You should all remember that Falun Dafa is good and Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good. You will be blessed."
By then, they all smiled kindly. The director told me, "You can go home now. No one will go to your home again."
Recalling the experience of clarifying the facts to police officers and avoiding being arrested, I felt that fundamentally, I listened to Teacher, studied the Fa well and remembered the Fa. As a result, I knew how to clarify the facts at crucial moments. Teacher told us,
"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." (Essentials for Further Advancement II, "Drive Out Interference")
