The Awakened Crowd Helped Us Escape

(Minghui.org) On the 30-year-anniversary of Falun Dafa spreading throughout the world, I decided to write about how Master Li (Falun Dafa’s founder) and a group of bystanders helped me escape persecution.

In March 2007, a fellow practitioner and I went out to tell people the facts about Dafa and the persecution. We talked to an elderly man by the river and gave him some pamphlets. Everything seemed to be going well.

We were happy and continued on our walk. We then met a 12-year-old boy and asked him if he wanted to quit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliates; he agreed. I thought this boy was really good, since he believed everything we said. He even asked us for more brochures so he could give them to Party members in his family. He asked, “Do you still have DVDs?” The other practitioner said yes.

When she took a disk out of her bag and handed it to him, the boy said, “Great! I caught you two promoting Falun Dafa. I’ve got the evidence. Neither of you can escape!” He then grabbed my companion’s wrist. It turned out that the boy believed the CCP’s propaganda against Dafa and wanted to turn us in.

The practitioner said, “Let go of my wrist. We will not run away.” The boy didn’t let go and shouted out, “These two are Falun Dafa practitioners! They are promoting Falun Dafa here! I caught one of them doing it before. Someone with a cell phone, please call the police for me!” I said to him, “Falun Dafa teaches people to be good and follow Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. What you are doing is not good for you.” The boy replied, “I don’t believe it! Our teacher said that Falun Dafa is the worst!”

The fellow practitioner began to send forth righteous thoughts and silently asked Master to reinforce us and disintegrate all the evil factors in other dimensions that manipulated the boy. We should not let this boy do things to persecute Dafa and Dafa disciples!

My thought was: why did this happen? I then asked Master for help to strengthen our righteous thoughts and recited the verses for sending forth righteous thoughts.

It was the time when people were getting off work, and more and more bystanders gathered around. They didn’t know what happened. We told them the facts about Dafa, and that the CCP’s TV and radio stations slandered us.

A woman said to the boy, “Why are you grabbing her? Let her go. You’re still young and do not know things.” The boy replied, “I do know. You are speaking up on their behalf. Are you also a practitioner?” The woman said, “Do you dare to do anything if I am?”

The boy was suppressed by the woman’s righteous thoughts and became quiet. But he still had hold of the practitioner’s hand. The practitioner wanted me to leave first, but I wouldn’t. The boy yelled, “You cannot go. You cannot leave with the evidence.” What he said served as a hint for us. My companion said to me, “Why don’t you go? Take my bag with you.” I agreed and left on my bicycle with the bag.

The boy got anxious and shouted, “Stop her. Don’t let her go. She is leaving with the evidence!” But none of the bystanders listened to him. He wanted to chase after me, but the practitioner blocked him with her bicycle.

The boy yelled at her, “She left. But don’t you want to go.” He grabbed the practitioner’s wrist again. The practitioner said, “I will not try to go. How can I go if you do not know the truth?” The boy kept asking the crowd if someone had a cell phone so he could call the police, but no one offered. The scene is still vivid in my mind today. I felt that Master was watching over us the whole time, and the sentient beings there were awakening.

As I rode my bicycle, I asked Master to protect us. I recited the verses for sending forth righteous thoughts and never looked back. When I reached my neighborhood, I went to another practitioner’s home first. I told him about the situation, and he immediately went there. I stayed at his house and kept sending forth righteous thoughts. The male practitioner came back shortly after and said that he saw the other practitioner leave on her bicycle.

I contacted her when I saw that the lights were on at her home. She came over and told me the crowd grew larger and larger after I left. Another woman stepped up and criticized the boy, “How can you do this to her?! She is older than your mom. Let go of her now.” The boy said, “She is promoting Falun Dafa. Falun Dafa practitioners set themselves on fire.” The practitioner said, “The Tiananmen Square self-immolation incident was staged to frame Dafa. Falun Dafa teaches people to follow Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance and be a good person. It forbids people to kill or commit suicide. The clothes on Wang Jindong’s legs were burnt, but the Sprite bottle of gasoline between his legs was intact. His face was burnt, but his hair was intact. It was all fake.” The boy barked back, “Don’t you say these things to me. I don’t believe it!”

About 100 people had gathered around at that point, and the bicycle lane was blocked. People pushed toward the boy and the practitioner. The practitioner took off her coat, and it dropped into the boy’s hands, causing him to let go of the practitioner’s wrist. The boy shouted, “You cannot escape even if you don’t want your coat.” The practitioner said, “I do want my coat,” and took back the coat and put it on. The boy wanted to grab her wrist again. He then hit her bike with his bicycle and knocked it and the practitioner down.

Many people in the crowd criticized the boy, “You knocked her down. She’s injured. You take her to the hospital!” Someone told the practitioner softly, “Stay down and let him take you to the hospital.” The practitioner laughed, “I’m okay,” and got up.

She then saw the male practitioner who came to look for her. They exchanged smiles, and she felt relieved. She knew that the evil factors in another dimension were defeated. Master had sent the male practitioner to encourage her.

A middle-aged man in a green overcoat came and held onto the boy and gestured for the practitioner to leave. The boy squirmed and yelled, “You cannot let her go,” then he turned around and yelled at the practitioner, “I can catch you even if you run!”

Since the bicycle lane was blocked, the practitioner picked up her bike and pushed it down an embankment and rode along the slope of the riverbed. The uphill slope was over a 100 yards long. The practitioner’s bike normally could not handle such a ride; its chain would fall off. But the practitioner forgot this and kept riding. She easily made it to the top of the hill and arrived home safely.

I was touched upon hearing this. The awakening of those bystanders, as well as Master’s support all worked together and dissolved the persecution.

What was even more astonishing was that the practitioner, upon getting on her bike the next day, noticed that the chain had come off. She could not even push the bike. She knew it was Master who had protected her the whole time.

I had two observations: One is that both the fellow practitioner and I thought to call out to Master when the incident occurred. We’re so grateful for His saving grace. The second is that none of us thought of ourselves at the time. Especially my companion, who wanted me to leave first. She thought that my elderly father needed my care. This exhibited the unselfish realm of a Dafa disciple. I also observed that neither of us had negative thoughts. Cultivation is very serious. One must study the Fa well, look inward at all times, eliminate attachments to doing things, showing off, resentment, fear, and any desire to validate oneself. One must cultivate oneself well and save more people!