From Interfering with My Practice to Encouraging It

(Minghui.org) I was sent to a detention center after being reported for distributing materials related to Falun Gong. During the times when people would sleep—at lunch break and at night—there were always two detainees assigned to keep watch. I was on duty during the lunch break, so I’d use the time to do the exercises instead.

The prison guards had ordered the inmates to disturb my practice however possible: beating me, scolding me, pulling my legs, or slapping my hands.

I told them, “Falun Gong practitioners are good people. Whoever persecutes Falun Gong will receive karmic retribution.” They didn’t believe it and continued to interfere with my practice. However, some of them indeed suffered retribution.

The Story of a Drunk Driver

A new inmate arrived one afternoon. He had been arrested before, and this time, he came in for drunk driving. A drunk driver is generally detained for seven days before being released on bail. For his seven days, he was assigned to the same shift with me during lunch break.

I continued doing the exercises during the break. Right after I started a few movements, however, he suddenly slapped my hand. I stopped and said to him, “Falun Gong practitioners are innocent and should not be kept here. Anyone who interferes with my practice will be punished.”

The inmate said he was only detained for seven days due to drunk driving. If I did the exercises on the same shift with him, he was afraid that he might get in trouble and not be let out on time.

After lunch break, he began to urinate very frequently, about every 10 minutes or so.

Finding Out the Cause and Effect Relationship

In the next few days, he went on interfering with my practice. And he continued to run to the bathroom every 10 minutes. For a while, he was perhaps afraid and left me alone when I practiced, but the bathroom trips stopped. I noticed it and told him that this was because he let me do the exercises in peace.

At first, he didn’t take it seriously, and he continued interfering, and his irregular bathroom trips resumed. Because I had mentioned this a few times to this inmate, the other inmates also knew about it, and soon the inmate leader also heard about the issue from the inmates. The drunk driver became afraid, so he stopped interfering with my practice. That afternoon, he stopped urinating as frequently. The inmate leader noticed it and called it out. I also said that good deeds would be rewarded and bad ones would be punished. I then asked the drunk driver not to interfere with my practice in the future.

Although the drunk driver didn’t say anything in public, later when we were on duty together, he not only left me alone, but reminded me a few times to start the exercises. He put a piece of paper over his face, went to the farthest corner and said he couldn’t see me.

From then on, when I did the exercises, he did not interfere. He no longer urinated as frequently as before. And after being detained for seven days, he was released. Everyone in the cell saw the story of retribution, and witnessed the power of good and bad deeds.