(Minghui.org) I started practicing Falun Dafa in the spring of 1997, and many of my illnesses disappeared soon after. I felt light and benefited tremendously, both mentally and physically, from practicing Falun Dafa. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started persecuting Falun Dafa practitioners in July 1999. I remained very firm in my belief in Falun Dafa and went to Beijing to validate the Fa and was persecuted many times, but I never gave up.
I believed in Master and the Fa despite the tribulations. I let go of my attachments and did things in accordance with the Fa. I let go of my worries and concerns, and denied the persecution many times. Thank you, Master, for your compassionate protection!
I became the target of the persecution in my company because I refused to say anything against Falun Dafa. I was threatened and interrogated. My line manager threatened me on July 20, 2000, and said, “If you give up Falun Dafa, we will increase your salary by one level. If you continue practicing, we will reduce your salary by one level.” I replied, “Everyone has their own life goals.”
More than a dozen members of the “610 Office” in my company held a meeting with me and tried to get the result they wanted from me. The director of the Party office in my company said, “There are two possibilities if you still want to practice Falun Dafa. One is that you will be sent to a detention center. The other is that you will be sent to a brainwashing center.” I didn’t say anything, but had the firm determination in my heart that I would not betray Master and that I would let go of all attachments.
They threatened my husband by saying that I would be fired. He believed them. He threatened me that he would divorce me, though he had previously been very supportive. I was facing pressure from my company and my family.
I was asked to express my stance to my line manager again that afternoon. They said that the leaders in the municipal office had asked for a result. My husband was already in the office when I entered the room. They put pressure on me. My husband said, “You see, your line manager is busy. Please just say what you will do.” Seeing that I could no longer stay silent, I said, “I will cultivate until completion.” My husband rushed out of the room as soon as he heard it. My line manager took out his cell phone with a trembling hand and called the municipal leader.
I didn’t know how to negate the persecution at that time. I thought that I would be arrested, but contrary to my expectations, nothing happened. The two possibilities that they had mentioned didn’t occur. Only my husband didn’t come home all night. He sat on his chair in his office all night. I felt sad when I saw his pale, worried face. He cared a lot about our family. His capabilities were admired by his managers. The CCP persecuted him hard this time.
I explained to him why I had acted like that. He understood me and supported me even more. He now counters the persecution with me. Luckily, he obtained the Fa later.
I went to Tiananmen Square in Beijing and unfolded a banner with the words “Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance” with other practitioners on October 1, 2000. We were arrested and eventually sent to the police station near the west Beijing train station. Many Falun Dafa practitioners were on Tiananmen Square at that time.
Four policemen attacked me to force me to say my name and address. One policeman slapped me hard on both sides of my face four or five times, and then threw a fierce punch at the area below my right cheekbone. My face instantly became swollen. I lost my hearing each time he slapped me, but I didn’t feel any pain. Our compassionate Master must have borne it for me.
I went to Tiananmen Square to unfold a banner again in December 2000 and was arrested. I was detained in the basement of the Qianmen police station. Many practitioners were detained there. Most of them were transported away in the late afternoon. Only 20 practitioners were left and were detained in iron cages.
The police officers interrogated each of us in the evening. Practitioners who said their names and addresses were taken away by officers from their respective provincial offices in Beijing. Those who didn’t say anything went back into the cages again. I didn’t say my name or address, no matter how they coerced me. After I was put into the cage again, a thought flashed through my mind, “The evil is a paper tiger.” The police officer who had interrogated me came to the cage a short time later and said, “You can go now.” I didn’t expect this result.
I was in my office in early July 2002 when an officer from the 610 Office broke in with two plainclothes policemen. They ordered me to leave with them. I told them I would not go with them. They handcuffed my arms behind my back forcibly and dragged me into the corridor. They then dragged me head down, feet up all the way from the 5th floor to the 1st floor. I shouted “Falun Dafa is good” all the way.
Many colleagues heard me shout and came down to the gate of the building. I said to them loudly, “Colleagues, please remember ‘Falun Dafa is good.’” The plainclothes police pushed me into a van and drove me to a brainwashing center. Besides the two plainclothes policemen and the driver, two officers from the 610 Office from my company and a woman who was going to monitor me 24 hours a day (I learned this later) were in the van. I clarified the truth to them all on the way.
They dragged me down from the van forcibly when we arrived at the brainwashing center. Four young men from the brainwashing center carried me to a room on the second floor. The room had two single beds. One was for the woman who would monitor me. Two of the heads of the brainwashing center sat down on the bed and talked to me and tried to transform me. I clarified the truth to them and told them that they would receive retribution if they persecuted Falun Dafa practitioners. They didn’t believe it. They stood up and left. They never came back.
After I had settled down, the woman went out of the room. I paced back and forth, and said to Master in mind, “Master, this is not the place that I should stay. I must get out to validate the Fa, clarify the truth, and save sentient beings.”
I sent forth righteous thoughts to dissolve the evil behind the doctors and the medical instruments when they were doing a physical examination on me the next morning. I clarified the truth to the instruments. The doctor didn’t tell me what the examination results were.
The Party secretary, my line manager, the head of the 610 Office, and some clerks from my company came to see me in the morning of the third day. The brainwashing center doctor came in soon after they had all sat down. The doctor said loudly, “You have a heart problem and need to go to the Police Hospital for treatment.” I said, “I don’t want to go anywhere.” I pointed at the Party secretary and said, “If anything happens to me, you must take responsibility.”
Though the leaders in my company had faced pressure from the municipal government, they had made the decision to send me to the brainwashing center after many meetings and discussions. I went to the home of the head of the 610 Office in my company and clarified the truth to him and told him that he would not fare well if he made such a decision. I later learned that one of the main reasons that they came to see me at the brainwashing center was that my husband had approached them with a strong attitude seeking my immediate release.
In the morning of the fourth day at the brainwashing center, the woman who monitored me said, “You can go home today. I had a dream and was told that you could go home. My dreams are normally accurate.” I dismissed her and didn’t take it to heart. I clarified the truth to her and cleared up her misunderstandings about Falun Dafa. We became friends. Thanks to Master’s strengthening, I was released on the fourth day.
I went to work the next day. A male colleague saluted me when he saw me. Another male colleague said that when he saw me being dragged and stuffed into the van, he thought of running to rescue me. Their actions proved that the CCP’s persecution was unpopular. These colleagues admired Falun Dafa practitioners for being determined in their belief.
Some practitioners and I went out to put up truth-clarification posters and hang banners one evening in July 2004. Plainclothes police arrested us and sent us to the Domestic Security Division. I was chained to a chair for one day and one night. I was not given any food or water, but I didn’t feel hungry or thirsty. They asked for my name and wanted to take a photo of me. I didn’t cooperate with them.
An officer from the city 610 Office came and recognized me. They searched my home illegally. I was sent to the detention center that night. When I was having a physical examination, I sent forth righteous thoughts to the doctor and the instrument, and told the instrument to make my heart beat irregular. The result was that I was diagnosed with a heart problem. The detention center refused to accept me. I was released and went home.
Two police officers from the Domestic Security Division came to my company two weeks later and tried to drag me off to do a physical examination. Before their arrival in my office, I had a nosebleed. When they reached the security office, the director contacted my husband to tell him to go to my office to accompany me for a physical examination.
My husband arrived at my office before the two police officers. When the two police officers saw my nose bleeding, they thought that my husband had hit me. They knew that I would not cooperate. They dragged me by my arms. I shouted at them, “Don’t touch me!” They released their grip on me and said that I should go to the police department myself. They left. Master helped dissolve the tribulation for me.
One year later, my company notified me to complete some procedure for the end of my “bail pending trial” period. I didn’t acknowledge such a process. A police officer called my husband, but my husband wouldn’t listen to him. The issue was over.
Falun Dafa practitioners have become more mature in cultivation. As they continue distributing materials and clarifying the truth to people, more and more people and police officers have come to know the truth. The director of the 610 Office in my company and his family members have withdrawn from the CCP and its affiliated organizations. He protects Falun Dafa practitioners. Some police officers just do the bare minimum when following persecution directives.
I distributed truth-clarification materials in a residential area in November last year. I visited a practitioner who lived in that area the next day. She said that a police officer had knocked at her door, but she didn’t open the door. I said, “The pamphlets are still on some of the door handles.” The practitioners said, “The police officers are not concerned about the materials.” Obviously the police nowadays turn a blind eye to our materials.
Looking back over the past 20-plus years, Falun Dafa practitioners have been severely persecuted. Thanks to Master’s compassionate protection, I have only borne a bare minimum. I haven’t lost anything. The persecutors threatened me and my husband, saying that I would lose my job and my husband would stay at home monitoring me, and that my child wouldn’t be allowed to take the college entrance exams, but they failed. On the contrary, we have good jobs and a good life. My child has a good job. Our colleagues admire us and our child very much.
More remarkably, our whole family cultivates Falun Dafa with determination. As long as we comply with the Fa, no one can touch us. The more we comply with the Fa, the less tribulation we will have and the more blessed we will be.