(Clearwisdon.net) From an everyday person like I was, who only helped with a little bit of Dafa work, I have now become a Falun Dafa practitioner. I would like to tell the story of my path toward sacred cultivation to all my fellow practitioners. At the same time, I also hope to awaken the people in the world through my personal experience, to clearly expose the intention of Jiang's regime to damage the world.
During the night of the Chinese New Year holiday of 2002, we were intoxicated, in the spirit of the festival, when suddenly, after heavy knocking on the door, a group of policemen and 610 Office officials broke in, searched the whole house, confiscated money and belongings, and arrested my wife. Because I did not cooperate with them, they arrested me too, leaving my eight-year-old child and seventy-some-years-old mother to rely upon each other to live.
My wife and I were sent to the local police detention center. Since I refused to cooperate with them in their persecution of those kind practitioners, and did not agree with their distorted principles and lies, they concluded that I was incorrigible. My wife and I both were therefore sent to the Gaoyang Labor Camp in Baoding City, Hebei Province. In this labor camp I experienced personally and saw with my own eyes the inhumane treatment, which the officials nevertheless labeled with such wonderful words as "educate," "reform," and "saving." The facts about good and bad that I witnessed in front of me every day made me understand the true meaning of Master's boundless compassion and the higher realm of salvation for all sentient beings. I am also glad for myself and feel lucky to be able to stay with practitioners who are steadfast in cultivating Dafa. I will always have righteous thoughts and perform righteous actions to validate Dafa and work hard to get rid of my attachments. It was through this experience that I obtained the Fa. I started cultivating and have finally become a Dafa practitioner myself from being a non-practicing spouse of a practitioner.
Dafa practitioners' words and behavior have formed a strong field to restrain the evil. Dafa cultivators use their peaceful hearts to deal with the officials who perpetrate violence upon them, because those officials cannot see the whole truth of things. Practitioners clarify the facts to them about how Dafa had benefited them, and they all talk about the same facts--Falun Dafa is great. How nice a group they are! Falun Dafa is really a pure land. Falun Dafa purifies people's bodies and souls. It also purifies people's behavior. I took every chance to ask whoever had memorized Zhuan Falun to recite it to me. Although the environment was still very awful, when I heard the principles of the Fa, they really resonated with me. By understanding the Fa principles, I realized more that practitioners' selfless conduct is their expression after studying the Fa. Although the environment is still tough, as long as practitioners' hearts are filled with the Fa, we have Master with us and we feel joy in our hearts. These things enable me to see further and clearer that Jiang's regime is trying to persecute the world by trying to deny them Dafa.
In the labor camp, the police tried to use me to do the work they were supposed to do. They talked to me, ordered me to curse Dafa, curse Master and tried to make me hate my wife. They said, "Look, this is all because of Falun Gong. Your Master has damaged you." I asked them who put me in the labor camp, who ransacked my house and now who treats me like this? Which law have I violated? Whom do you think I should curse? However, since I was young, my parents taught me never to curse anyone. In school, the textbooks also did not teach us to curse anyone. In contrast, at forty-some-years-old in a labor camp, I have been ordered to curse someone and this is a new thing to me.
Since their plan did not work, the policemen said nothing, but tried another trap. They found some "transformed" people to talk to me. When I thought of Master's Fa, suddenly I understood that this was the old forces looking for my loopholes. They said, "How about we have a talk?" I said to them, "You all have been transformed, and you are not Dafa practitioners anymore. Master's Fa is for practitioners, not for everyday people. Everyday people are not qualified to talk about it, so we have nothing to talk about." At that moment I really did not like hearing what they said because it showed disrespect for Master and the Fa. They said, "Then, let us talk about everyday people's things." I knew, eventually, they wanted me to express my attitude toward Dafa. I said I really would like to chat with somebody. I told them, however, "What a pity that in this place I have no any interest in chatting at all. This is just not the right place to talk. If you really want to chat, when I am free from here, I invite you to come to my house to talk. I really do not want to get in more trouble by chatting in here." Thus, I completely rejected the old forces' arrangement.
The old forces would not let go and continued trying to find and exploit my attachments. One day the police called me in for an interrogation, and asked, "Say, isn't Falun Gong some kind of organization?" My clear heart determined that this must be the old forces again. I had to negate it. I told them that Falun Gong does not have the form of an organization. He asked, "Then what exactly is it?" I answered, "They are a kind group with strong self-control." Just like this, I wisely answered the question and completely broke through the old forces' arrangement. In this unusual situation, some policemen introduced me to other policemen. Therefore, I started to tell the facts about Falun Dafa in this most evil place. Also, at the location of doing the labor, I was able to contact outside Dafa practitioners and had the chance to watch Master's latest lecture. Going through so much hardship has made me mature a lot.
A year later, I was sent back there again. A policeman came to talk to me. He said, "I really cannot imagine they could not change you at all in an entire year." I said, "Yes, I changed; only I changed for the better."
In the past two years in the labor camp, I practiced with my fellow practitioners and we recited Dafa and Master's new articles. We made use of all kinds of conditions to shock the evil, and sent righteous thoughts to eradicate the evil spirits and rotten ghosts. In the labor camp we clarified the truth to the assistants and to the police who still have a conscience. In Master's boundless compassion, practitioners take the Fa as teacher and pass through all kinds of tribulations one after another. We suffered from the persecution repeatedly and once again validated Master's great compassion, the unbreakable Dafa and the perfect harmony.
When we came back home from the labor camp, the house had been ransacked. Everything was gone. A leaking pipe caused the house to be flooded. The confiscation by the police frightened my child and even now our hearts are still fluttering with fear. Whenever someone knocks loudly on the door, it makes us nervous. After I went back to work, they paid me only enough for very basic living expenses. Even facing all this, nothing can change my righteous thoughts of steadfastly practicing Dafa. Let us do well the three things that Fa rectification Dafa disciples should do, follow Master closely during the Fa rectification period, walk righteously toward our way home and live up to Master's expectations.
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