(Clearwisdom.net) In July 2003 I was sentenced to imprisonment for practicing Falun Gong and was held in the Daqing City Prison, Heilongjiang Province.
I was in very poor health when I arrived at the prison. I was coughing all the time and could hardly breath. I had acute back and chest pain and I could not straighten up. I lost weight rapidly, from 80 kg to less to 52 kg in just several days. The worst were from my back and waist, as I could not bend, sit, or stand without pain.
I could not stand up without the help of a banister, and it might take me more than ten minutes to sit down with the help of the banister. It was even more painful for me to get out of bed. When I tried to walk, the pain in the sciatic nerve would make me spasm and fall. My legs began to swell. The muscles in my thigh festered, discharging pus from the festered area. As a result my whole body was covered with terrible, red festered areas.
The prison sent me to a hospital. The doctor said, “You have a lung disease, but we cannot treat it. You also have a lumbar disc dislocation, but we cannot treat that either. You are incurable.” Every one of the more than 100 inmates believed that, because I was in such poor health, death was near for me. They commented, “Look at him. He will not survive the new year.” Even with my poor health, the prison showed no intention of releasing me.
In tears, I asked Teacher in my mind, “Teacher, please lend me a hand. I will become useless if I continue to be like this. I must stand up!” At the time an inmate said to me, “It is said that Falun Gong can keep a person healthy and fit. Is that true? Why don't you do the Falun Gong exercises?” His words woke me up right away.
I took pains to stand on my feet and began to do the Falun Gong exercises. After I finished doing the first exercise I felt the pain in my body subside. Many inmates were watching me. When I came to the fourth exercise I could bend over easily. I could sense the Falun rotating and purifying my body. An inmate said, “Look at him, he looks much better! It is a miracle. Falun Gong is miraculous!”
That night I found the intolerable pain that previously made me spasm had significantly lessened to a level that I could tolerate. When I got up early the next morning, I found the swelling had gone down. Many inmates came to see me.
Three days later the swelling was completely gone. Seven days later I had recovered completely, as if I had never been ill.
Inmates who witnessed my recovery were astounded by the power of Falun Gong, saying, “Your Teacher is truly great! Falun Gong is truly miraculous! I never believed this could be true, but now I believe. We admire Falun Gong. Can you tell us more about Falun Gong? ”
Then I began to tell them the details of Falun Gong.
Some of the inmates were moved to tears upon hearing the Falun Gong stories and admired Falun Gong from the bottom of their hearts. Some asked, “The Chinese Communist Party is really bad. When good people like you are held prisoner, there is not hope for China. Can you teach us Falun Gong? We also want to be good persons. Can people like us practice cultivation?” Others said, “You Falun Gong practitioners are truly remarkable. I feel safe and good when I am with you.”
In time, almost every inmate in the prison learned the facts about Falun Gong. All of them admired the practice and said, “Falun Dafa is truly good!”
