(Clearwisdom.net) In June of 1996, I was suffering from breast cancer, serious gastric disease, severe headaches, back pain, and other ailments. I began practicing Falun Dafa. After just three days, my breasts were covered with numerous small red spots with yellow pustules. On the seventh day, a yellow fluid burst out and the red spots vanished. My breast cancer disappeared, along with the other diseases. Teacher's salvation and Dafa's mighty power brought more and more people to my home to learn about Dafa. Naturally, my home became a practice site. Faith in Teacher and Dafa are rooted in my heart.
Because of the persecution of Falun Gong, I was illegally detained near the end of 2002 and sentenced to five years in a women's prison. I refused to cooperate with any demands by the evildoers at the prison. The prison police required me to recite the prison rules and I refused. They arranged for 15 prisoners to force me into reciting the prison rules. They surrounded me, shouting, "If she does not recite today, hold her down, write her Teacher's name on her feet, and make her walk around." I was not afraid. I told them, "If you write on my feet, I'll ask you to carry me, lift me, carry me on your shoulder, I will not take a step." They heard me. They all returned to their own beds.
I got Teacher's new articles from a newly arrested fellow practitioner in early April 2004. The articles were discovered when I went to the toilet. The inmates stole the articles and handed them over to the guard. The guard called me into the office. She threatened, "Do you know why I called you here?" I told her, "Because I practice Falun Dafa and you want to hear the truth of Dafa. I will tell you about it." The guard opened a folder on the desk. She shouted, "What is this?" I told her it was my Teacher's Fa. I continued, telling her that Dafa has spread widely throughout the world and that Dafa materials are good to read. I told her she was welcome to read them. The prison police tried to compel me to tell them the source of the articles. They tried to force me to accept their propaganda and slander. I said, "I won't learn any of your stuff. I am a Dafa practitioner and only study Teacher's Falun Dafa." They began to severely torture me. A group of prisoners came and dragged me into the corridor at around 10:00 p.m.. I continuously shouted, "Falun Dafa is good, Falun Dafa is a righteous law." My voice penetrated the entire fourth floor. Angry prisoners dragged me to the waterhouse. There was water covering my feet and they pushed me into the dirty water. They attempted to fill my mouth with socks and cleaning rags, but did not succeed. They stomped back and forth on my body. I could not breathe. I was kept in the water for the whole night, while prisoners ceaselessly beat and kicked me. The pain was excruciating. I asked Teacher to protect me. The guards started a protracted, intensified round of persecution against me. They forced prisoners to deprive me of sleep and threatened, "I'll see how capable you are. I'll arrange shifts for a whole squad of prisoners." I thought to myself, "Your evil will be finished. A Dafa practitioner's will is solid like diamond."
The prisoner on duty shouted at me one day. She said, "You Falun Gong people all say you 'consider others first.' Yet you cause me to have to watch you every day, and I can't go to sleep. How can this be said to be 'considering others first?' Quickly, tell who gave you the article. Look, other people are sleeping soundly under warm quilts. You are so foolish and you're causing us to suffer with you." I told them, "You are wrong. It is not Dafa practitioners that don't allow you to sleep. I'm asking you to go to sleep now. Why don't you go? Who asked you to come? You should talk to her [the guard]. If you can do it, I'll think that you are great. I am delighted to see my fellow practitioners have a good sleep in warm quilts. As our Teacher says, to practice Falun Dafa is to be unselfish and consider others first. Isn't this consideration for others? The prison police ordered you to do this. Their aim is to create conflicts between us. By tormenting you, they make you hate Falun Dafa practitioners. Thus, you perpetuate the crimes." The prisoners understood and said nothing more. After more than twenty days, they could not bear any more. They went to tell the guards that they could not monitor me, that they could not bear staying up late every night. None of the prisoners wanted to do it.
My body developed many problems from the brutal persecution. My face was sallow and emaciated. I had no strength, my belly was very big and hard, my internal organs were painful and felt as if they were stretched to the breaking point. My feet were dry, swollen, cracked and bled when I walked. My toes dragged on the ground when I would try to lift up my left leg. My urine was bloody red. The pain in my stomach made me vomit everything I ate. I had difficulty breathing for six months. The police forcibly took me to the hospital for a check up. I recalled Teacher's Fa principle that practitioners have no illness. I thought, I am a Dafa practitioner and I have no illness. However, I can't give up after suffering such evil persecution. I must expose the persecution. Wherever I go, I shall expose the persecution. So, when I went to the hospital outside the prison, I asked the doctor, "What would be the consequence of my stomach being stomped on?" The doctor was very surprised. "Your stomach was stomped on by someone?" He asked. The guards were frightened and panic-stricken. The results of the checkup were "tubercular peritonitis." However, I sent forth righteous thoughts to clear away my fear, imagination and guessing, and to eliminate all evil elements that persecute Falun Dafa practitioners and the evil substance causing my breathing difficulty. The police instructed prisoners to force me to take the medicine.
In the beginning, I did not act openly and honorably. Later, I clearly enlightened to the following: I am a Dafa practitioner, I have no illness. Why can't I act openly and honorably according to a practitioners' standards? I am not just saying that I believe in Teacher and Dafa. I must display it in my actions. I behave correctly in a normal environment. Why do I have fear in the face of pressure? Using human notions to imagine and make suppositions based on this superficial situation, am I not acknowledging the old forces' arrangements? I recalled Teacher's article, "The Disciples' Magnificence." I strengthened my righteous thoughts to qualify for the title of "magnificence" bestowed by Teacher on practitioners. I will be worthy of Teacher's merciful salvation. I won't fail under this great tribulation, because history has entrusted me with great responsibility and a mission in Fa-rectification - saving sentient beings. No matter how the guards tried to deceive me, I did not let my heart be moved. At the hospital and the workshop, I exposed the persecution I had suffered, in order to frighten and restrain those who would do evil. Dafa's teachings gave me righteous thoughts and righteous actions. Dafa's mighty power again cleaned up my body. My big belly disappeared, the swelling in my feet disappeared, my urine was no longer bloody and I could eat without discomfort.
I was able to get a hold of Teacher's latest articles in the prison. I gradually matured during the Fa-rectification and completely denied the evil persecution. Near the end of 2005, I refused to wear a prisoner's badge or participate in forced labor at the prison. When the guards asked me why, I answered, "I am a Dafa practitioner, not a prisoner. This work is not for Dafa practitioner to do, because we practitioners are not criminals. We practice the universal great law of 'Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance.' We only do good deeds and commit no crimes. How can we be punished by being forced to do hard labor?" The police feared I would influence many people by not working. They tried to deceive me into getting out of the workshop quietly. Then they carried me to the hospital. They thought they would say I was ill and could not work. I had no illness and I refused any checkup in the hospital. I refused the medicine and resisted the torture of force-feeding. One day a prisoner said, "I won't force-feed you. I'll give you the medicine and you can just take it." I suddenly understood: they were asking me to take the medicine and admit I had an illness. I told her, "I won't take it, as I have no illness. You can throw it away if you like, but it has nothing to do with me." Since then, they no longer tortured me by such evil means.
One day the prison police and several prisoners came to forcibly "transform" me. I said, "I am not here for 'transformation,' but to eliminate evil, validate Dafa and save sentient beings." The police officers had nothing to say. They made me sleep on a brick floor in the cold of winter for 34 days. Although it was the coldest time of year, I only had an army mattress to lie on and nothing to cover my body. Yet, I was hot and sweaty at night. Once, I wanted to go to the toilet, but the prisoners said I couldn't go if I did not agree to be 'transformed.' I refused to cooperate with their unreasonable demand and shouted, "Falun Dafa is good!" They finally asked me to go to the toilet. One day, they brought a sheet of paper with a question that slandered Teacher and Dafa. The prisoners were reading it. When they were just about to read it aloud, I began to repeat, "Falun Dafa is good." They could not read it suddenly. So they began to beat me until I lost consciousness. The prisoners squatted in front of me and read the paper again. I could not allow them to slander Teacher and Dafa. I thought, as a particle of Dafa, it is my responsibility to firmly protect the Fa. Dafa is indestructible. I struggled to sit up and grabbed the paper. The prisoners came over and started to torture me, and again I kept shouting, "Falun Dafa is good." At last the guard said, "Don't try to 'transform' her. She can't be 'transformed.' When she shouts, "Falun Dafa is good," I really can't bear it." I knew then, the evil in other dimensions had been eliminated. I asked them to let me practice the exercises. The prisoners agreed.
I refused to wear prisoners' clothes and badges near the end of 2006. I did not write "prisoner" on my clothes and did not participate in the forced labor. I created a cultivation environment for normal Fa study, practicing the exercises and sending forth righteous thoughts around the clock inside this den of evil. I completely negated the evil use of criminal inmates to persecute Dafa practitioners. I told the facts about Dafa to a prisoner one day. Her mind was very poisoned by the evil party. She said Teacher's name and began to say something slanderous. I immediately stopped her from slandering Teacher. Another prisoner told her not to say bad things about my Teacher because I would say, "Falun Dafa is good" if she did. Then she stopped. Another day, she called Dafa practitioners "prisoners of law." I told her that I could not allow her to call Dafa practitioners "prisoners of law." I said, "Dafa practitioners have committed no crime, are not prisoners and it is not good for you to say that they are." She doesn't talk like that anymore.
I received Teacher's articles, "Thoroughly Dissolve the Evil" and "To the Australia Fa Conference," on December 8, 2006. I quickly memorized them, wrote them down on clean white clothes and passed them to other practitioners. We understand that the forced labor camps and prisons are the dark dens where the old forces concentrated their armies of rotten demons and dark minions. We began to send forth righteous in the midst of these armies. As soon as I straightened up my hand, it felt so hot, as if fire was coming out of it. I knew merciful Teacher was strengthening me. I memorized the Fa, wrote down the Fa and sent forth righteous thoughts the whole day. Suddenly, I felt that evil no longer existed within my field.
I returned home in May 2007, five years - 1,825 days and nights - later. Some practitioners asked me whether I felt it was too long, too difficult in that evil environment. Actually, I did not have that feeling, because Teacher and Dafa are with me every second. Five years was like one moment. I did not regard it as suffering and hardship. I did not think about where I was. Our great mission is to validate Dafa and save sentient beings. It is so wherever we are. I walked out of the gate of the prison openly and honorably. My husband could not believe it, because he saw the condition of my body after persecution. He thought I would have to be carried out or at least supported when I walked. He deeply felt the power of Falun Dafa. After I arrived home, I told my relatives about the torture done to prisoners and the evil party's persecution. They sincerely felt that the Chinese Communist Party is evil and all withdrew from those organizations. My husband and son once practiced Dafa, but during the five years of my persecution by the old forces, my family lost their cultivation environment. My husband and son stopped studying the Fa and practicing the exercises. They gradually became regular everyday people. My son started to smoke, drink and go to Internet bars. After I learned about this, I completely negated the old forces' persecution of my family. I could not let my husband and son lose this once in a lifetime chance to practice this universal law, tens of thousands of years in the making. I told my son how to be a good person according to Teacher's Dafa, told him Teacher saved my life again and again. My son cried, "Mom, I'll change all the bad things." My son stopped smoking, drinking and going to Internet bars. He returned to the path of practicing Dafa. My husband also returned to Dafa practice three months later. My home cultivation environment returned.
Great and merciful Teacher, I can't express with words my gratitude for your salvation. Teacher's protection and Dafa's mighty power makes it possible for your practitioners to pass every test, every ordeal and through the test of life and death. Dafa gives me immeasurable wisdom, enables me to melt into the Fa, validate Dafa and save sentient beings through righteous thoughts and righteous actions. I must walk well the path arranged by Teacher in these coming days and do well the three things required to complete my wish to save sentient beings.
