(Minghui.org) On March 5, 2002, the TV signal in Changchun, China was intercepted and eight channels broadcast programs created by Falun Dafa practitioners to explain the truth behind the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) persecution of the spiritual discipline.
The programs were broadcast for 40-50 minutes without interruption. Liu Chengjun, one of the practitioners behind this courageous feat, gave his life for it. On December 26, 2003, while people were enjoying the holidays, Liu Chengjun died after being brutally tortured for 21 months.
Before he and the other practitioners intercepted the TV signals, hundreds of practitioners were persecuted to death by the CCP, so Liu understood the risks but gave his life to tell people the truth.
I’m Liu Chengjun’s sister, and through our story, I hope more people will cherish Falun Dafa and their own lives. Many people may have heard of Liu Chengjun and are moved by his story. But few people heard about the persecution that my family endured over the years.
We Begin Practicing Falun Dafa
Liu Chengjun’s father-in-law told him about Falun Dafa in the autumn of 1995, and our family started to practice. We all experienced Master’s great compassion.
The first day he watched the videos of Master’s lectures, my father’s severe tinnitus and enlarged prostate were gone. Ten days after my mother began reading the Fa (teachings), her high blood pressure and the side effects of her stroke disappeared. My mother was in her 60s and had been menopausal for many years—after she began practicing her period resumed, and the wrinkles on her face disappeared.
The fourth day after I began reading the Fa the swelling in my legs due to a postpartum stroke went down, and my sister’s rheumatism disappeared after she began practicing. My nine-year-old daughter, who had to take medicine, no longer needed it. My sister’s four-year-old son and Liu Chengjun’s three-year-old son also began practicing. All three children’s celestial eyes opened and they saw many extraordinary scenes in other dimensions.
From the elderly to the children, all of us were illness-free and we all saw and felt the Faluns (law wheels). Liu Chengjun had no other special experiences but his complexion became smooth. He was the most diligent practitioner in our family. He endured many hardships and focused on cultivating himself.
Solid Cultivation
Our entire family was bathed in the great compassion of Master Li (Dafa’s founder) and Falun Dafa—our bodies were purified; we strove to be better people and strictly followed the requirements of Dafa. As we continued to read the Fa, our worldview underwent a fundamental change. When everyone got together we talked about our cultivation experiences. We felt the boundless power of the Fa and corrected ourselves. We constantly assimilated to Falun Dafa’s principles: Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance.
My father organized a Fa study group in his home, and many people came to read the teachings every day. He led everyone to study the Fa, practice the exercises, and share their cultivation experiences, and we quickly improved.
My father also went to the countryside with other practitioners to introduce Falun Dafa to remote rural areas. On July 26, 1998, Master returned to Changchun to give a lecture. My father was fortunate to attend and he saw Master and listened to Master’s teachings in person. Years later when he recalled those days my father wept.
My mother had a very bad temper, but after she began practicing, she was a different person. When conflicts happened, she remembered the Fa. She knew it was an opportunity to improve herself and eliminate karma, so she rarely got angry. After my family set up a Fa study group, dozens of people came to our home. By interacting with so many people, my mother was able to look inward, and her xinxing improved.
I also led a Fa study group and taught the exercises with my sister at a practice site in the morning. I studied, memorized, and transcribed the Fa every day, and my body and mind changed dramatically. At work and at home, I tried my best to consider others first, and I gradually assimilated to Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. I worked hard and conscientiously. The leaders and my coworkers praised me, and I was considered a model worker.
At home, my extraordinary changes amazed my family, and my husband’s grandfather and grandmother began practicing. In less than a week, the grandfather who was in his eighties and was recuperating from a stroke, set aside his crutches and walked by himself. His white hair turned black. My husband’s grandmother’s third eye opened.
Inspired by Falun Dafa’s amazing power, my mother-in-law, father-in-law, and husband also read Zhuan Falun. Although my daughter was young, she practiced diligently. At school, when classmates bullied or insulted her, she followed Falun Dafa’s principles and didn’t take it seriously. She said, “They are helping me improve and eliminate my karma.” When she saw money on the ground, she never picked it up.
My sister’s husband objected to her practicing and beat her. My sister was covered in bruises, and she even passed out twice. When she got up in the middle of the night to meditate, her husband slapped her.
My sister wasn’t angry and continued meditating. She said she saw pieces of a white substance “virtue” on the top of her head transform into “gong.” She thanked her husband from the bottom of her heart for helping her. Every time her husband beat her, afterward he was seriously ill. My sister compassionately cared for him. Her good behavior influenced others, and five of her coworkers began practicing.
Liu Chengjun did a good job of improving his xinxing. He was a strong young man, but when his mother-in-law or other people beat or humiliated him, he never fought back. He never forgot that he was a practitioner, and kept in mind Master’s words, “When it’s difficult to endure, you can endure it. When it’s impossible to do, you can do it.” (Lecture Nine, Zhuan Falun)
It was 1996, and Liu Chengjun decided he would seriously study the Fa. He said, “We are cultivating in Dafa (Great Law) of the universe, and Master placed it on our doorstep. If we do not study it well, we aren’t even as good as ordinary people!” His perseverance was amazing. In order to break through the constraints of “sleepiness,” he washed his face and hair with cold water.
After Liu Chengjun read Zhuan Falun several times, he read Master’s other teachings. The brilliance of Dafa illuminated his life. He was always happy, calm, firm, and confident. Dafa gave him everything and helped him forge a new life.
His endurance was also extraordinary. When he meditated even though his clothes were soaked in sweat due to pain in his legs, he persisted and meditated for one hour. When he practiced outside it sometimes rained heavily, but he did not stop until he finished the exercises. The reason why his cultivation was so solid was all due to his reading of the Fa, which laid a good foundation.
This was the happiest and most unforgettable period of cultivation for us.
The Persecution Begins
On July 20, 1999, the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) began to persecute Falun Dafa. Our family was intensively persecuted.
On July 20, our family and many other practitioners were arrested by the police in front of the provincial government and taken to the police academy. The police forced them to listen to the “important news,” but it was all slander against Master and Dafa. My siblings and I decided to go to Beijing to appeal for Dafa.
At that time, the situation was grim, and I didn’t want to bring my daughter. She said, “Mom, I’m also a Dafa disciple. If you adults can do it, I can do it too. Don’t treat me like a child.” I was moved to tears by her purity.
So my siblings, my daughter and I, and another practitioner, five of us went to Beijing overnight to tell the central leadership: “Dafa is righteous, and our Master is innocent.”
We were arrested twice in Beijing. We told the police, “Dafa is good, Master tells us to be good people. Dafa teaches people to be good and cultivates their minds.” The first time we escaped. The second time we were arrested and taken to the Tiananmen Police Station, where a policeman who had a copy of Zhuan Falun secretly let us go.
We endured a lot of hardships along the way. The weather was very hot in Beijing and we were sunburned. We slept on the streets at night, ate dry steamed buns, and drank water from hoses that watered the lawns during the day. My daughter was stung by mosquitoes. She had blood blisters on her feet but didn’t feel any pain. Two weeks later my sister and brother were illegally arrested and detained for 15 days.
In October 1999, my younger brother Liu Chengjun, my sister, and I went to Beijing for the second time. We went to the Appeals Office, but before we could reach the gate, we were arrested. All three of us were sent to a forced labor camp for one year. Liu Chengjun was detained for one year and 10 months in the Changchun Fenjin Forced Labor Camp. His wife divorced him.
Under tremendous pressure, my parents did not dare to practice, and the Fa study group was disbanded. Under the severe persecution, my father and mother’s health deteriorated. They were worried, afraid, sorrowful, and wept every day.
Clarifying the Truth
When my sister and I returned from the labor camp, we opened a dry cleaners, and we clarified the truth to our customers. When my sister went to Beijing for the third time she was sent to a forced labor camp for three years. Her husband could not bear the pressure and divorced her.
My daughter and I were not intimidated. We read the Fa, practiced the exercises, and sent righteous thoughts. The child could see when we sent righteous thoughts and said that in other dimensions there were battles between good and evil, and countless demons, ghosts, and evil beings were destroyed. Practitioners are always protected and blessed by Master. Our faith in Dafa increased, and our righteous thoughts were strengthened.
We went out every night to distribute information about Falun Dafa and hang banners. We always sent righteous thoughts. We cleared away the evil, eliminated distractions, and added compassionate thoughts to every copy of the truth-clarifying materials so that people would be saved. When we didn’t have enough leaflets, we used spray paint or chalk and wrote, “Falun Dafa is good!” and “Falun Dafa is the righteous Fa.”
I also clarified the truth at work. I told myself that I must not miss any opportunities to save people. When someone was very accepting of the truth, I gave them a CD, booklet, etc. At that time, many practitioners did not dare to come out and validate the Fa because they were afraid. The other practitioners and I read Master’s new lecture.
Master said,
“When people damage the Fa… of course, no one can damage the Fa—how could the Fa of the cosmos be damaged by human beings? No one is able to damage it… But when someone comes to persecute the Fa, what should you, a disciple, a particle of Dafa, do? Shouldn’t you let the truth be known and make people aware of the facts? This is looking at it in terms of you. You are a particle of Dafa, so you should play this role.” (“Fa Teaching Given at the Western U.S. Fa Conference,” Guiding the Voyage)
After this lecture was published, the other practitioners improved their understanding, and no longer hid at home and secretly practiced. Many practitioners began stepping forward to fulfill our sacred mission.
In December 2001, my daughter and I went to Beijing again. We stood on Tiananmen Square, unfurled banners, and shouted “Falun Dafa is good!” We shouted three times in a row, without any fear.
When we were sent to a police station in Beijing I refused to tell my name, and address, be photographed, or sign anything. My heart was calm, peaceful, and compassionate. I told them, “I can’t cooperate with you. I am here to save you.” When the police asked why I came to Beijing, I said, “To tell the world that Falun Dafa is good! You can see that my banner says ‘Falun Dafa is good.’ You have to know why it is good, that’s one of the great blessings of your life.”
I told him how Dafa teaches people to cultivate their minds and raise their morality.
I said, “In order for you to understand the truth, practitioners risk their lives to save you...” The policeman’s eyes filled with tears and he said, “I admire you, and what you say is really good. Are you a teacher? You are really good at speaking.” I said, “I’m just an uneducated woman. All I can tell you is about Dafa and my own experiences.”
My daughter was also amazing, and she didn’t tell the police any information. A policeman brought her some delicious food and tempted her, but she didn’t say anything, so the police could not do anything. Later another policeman came. He was fierce, yelled, slapped the table, and glared at her, but my daughter still didn’t say anything. No matter what the policemen did, she did not cooperate.
Under Master’s compassionate protection, the police drove us to the train station and told us to buy tickets to go home. I clarified the truth to people on the train and a few more lives were saved.
(To be continued)
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