Inmates Change after Learning the Poems in Hong Yin

(Minghui.org) The spiritual practice Falun Dafa has been persecuted in China since 1999. The police arrest adherents who are subsequently tried and then sent to brainwashing sessions and prisons to try to get them to recant their faith. As a Falun Dafa practitioner, I was taken to a detention center in 2001 and locked up in a cell with two other cultivators and six inmates. One Falun Dafa follower said to me, “Don’t be afraid. They are not too strict here. We can recite the Fa and Hong Yin.”

The Fa refers to the universal laws and teachings we incorporate into our daily lives. Hong Yin is a book of poetry by Li Hongzhi, founder and teacher of Falun Dafa. Many of us have memorized these teachings and can thus recite them when we are incarcerated as we like to study the Fa every day.

Liu Wei, one of the criminal inmates, was delirious when she first arrived. She was handcuffed and shackled because she didn’t listen to the guards’ orders. A practitioner taught her some poems from Hong Yin. Liu started reciting the poems she had learned. A few days later, she quieted down and stopped talking nonsense.

The head inmates told one of the guards that Liu was no longer causing trouble. The guard asked how that happened, and the inmate replied, “A Falun Gong practitioner taught her to memorize Hong Yin every day. She eventually calmed down and stopped making noise. Go ask her if you don’t believe me and have her recite some poems.”

The guard said, “That’s great. As long as she stays quiet, let her continue to learn.”

Other inmates stopped causing disturbances after seeing what happened to Liu Wei. One by one, the practitioner taught them to recite poems from Hong Yin.

That practitioner was released four days later, so I continued to teach the inmates after our mealtime. The inmates were serious about learning and repeated each line after me. The more they learned, the better their tempers became.

One of the inmates who had murdered someone was always in a bad mood. I suggested to her, “Why don’t you memorize and recite some poems, too? It will lift your spirits and make you feel better. Just look at how Liu Wei improved. Falun Dafa’s mighty power benefits everyone.” She joined the group the next day to memorize some poems from Hong Yin, and her mood improved after just a few days.

Inmate Xiaofang was also incarcerated for murder. I offered to teach her some of the poems, but she said she couldn’t learn because she was illiterate. I thought perhaps she would change her mind one day.

Sure enough, she later asked me to teach her some poems. I taught her “Nonexistence.” It took her all morning to memorize two lines, but she was very sincere and kept repeating them. She learned two more lines in the afternoon. I taught her “Mighty Virtue” the next day. She was happy that she’d learned two poems in two days.

Xiaofang was called to attend an arraignment, and when she returned, another inmate asked her, “Were you afraid and shaking again?” Xiaofang said she wasn’t afraid at all, and the inmate said, “That’s impossible. You were always scared to death every time you had an arraignment. Why not today?”

Xiaofang replied, “I was reciting the poems “Non-existence” and “Mighty Virtue” in my head the entire time, even in the courtroom. That’s why I wasn’t scared or shaking. I actually felt calm.” The other inmates heard what she said and worked hard at memorizing the poems in Hong Yin.

I was illegally detained for more than 20 days, and during that time I taught the inmates in my cell all 72 poems in Hong Yin. Someone found some sheets of paper and wrote all of them down.

By learning the poems, everyone was immersed in the mighty grace of Falun Dafa.