(Clearwisdom.net) Teacher said in Lecture Seven of Zhuan Falun,
"We should not have to stop taking baths because there are insects, and neither should we have to find another place to live because there are mosquitoes. We also should not have to tie up our necks and stop eating or drinking because both grains and vegetables are lives. It should not be this way. We should cope with this relationship properly and practice cultivation in a dignified way. It will be fine as long as we do not harm any life intentionally. Meanwhile, people also must have a human living space and living conditions, and these should also be maintained. Human beings still need to maintain their lives and live normally."
At the beginning of 2005, our local Dafa practitioners functioned as one body and coordinated well to clarify the truth to my work unit leaders. I did not have to leave home to avoid being arrested and returned to work nobly and righteously. Some fellow practitioners worried that I might be persecuted again. I determined to follow what Teacher said, "We should cope with this relationship properly and practice cultivation in a dignified way." (Zhuan Falun)
About two months later, six to seven policemen broke into my home, handcuffed me and ransacked my house. At that time I held no fear, and said to the police in a loud voice, "You use dirty tricks against good people who believe in "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance" instead of protecting people and arresting criminals. It is your responsibility to protect people. You come here to commit crimes. Don't you feel ashamed? Are you qualified to be policemen?" They answered shamelessly "Yes, Yes!" I clarified the truth and shouted, "Falun Dafa is good," while being pushed into a police car and taken to the local police station.
The head of the local police station, the head of the criminal police division and several policemen took turns talking to me. Besides clarifying the truth to them I also sent forth righteous thoughts. Therefore, they failed to achieve their objective. I held compassion in my heart when clarifying the truth to them, exposed their lies, and patiently and kindly advised them. They knew that they were in the wrong, so they all tried to shirk responsibility. Being unable to advance any further arguments, one vicious policeman said, "Higher authorities have said that we need to deal with the contradictions between ourselves and the enemy." I asked him, "Who are we and who is the enemy?" He could not answer. On the third day I was sent to a detention centre.
Teacher said,
"Your body lies in prison - don't be sorrowful, don't be sad
With righteous thoughts and righteous actions, Fa is here
Calmly reflect on how many attachments you have
As you get rid of human mentality, evil naturally disappears"
("Don't Be Sad", Hongyin II) (provisional translation)
I calmed down and looked within. I found that after I returned to work I often had the mentality of fear. In clarifying the truth, I held the attachment to competition and to pursuing fame and gain. My human sentiments were getting stronger. I realized that although I did all the three things Master asked us to do, I had problems cooperating with fellow practitioners, thought more about myself than others and my heart was not anchored in the Fa. In short, I had a fundamental problem with my belief in Teacher and Dafa.
During that time I often had pain in my left knee. At times, the pain was so strong that I had difficulty stretching it straight or sitting cross-legged. I looked inside but failed to find the real cause. Even after Teacher gave me hints three times, I still did not enlighten to it. I knew I should not cast blame or be ashamed. Instead, I should always conduct myself as a practitioner, a Dafa practitioner. Falun Gong practitioners who are detained in prisons must be very clear that, based on the Fa principles, the persecution of Dafa and Dafa disciples is forced upon us by the old forces. It is the persecution of Dafa practitioners by the dark minions, rotten ghosts and the evil specters of the CCP. Teacher does not acknowledge them, nor do practitioners. Instead we must totally negate and completely eliminate them.
When I clarified the truth to the prison guards I told them earnestly, "You are all under the command of the police department. You can't escape your responsibility regarding the unlawful persecution of Falun Gong. You all know that Falun Dafa practitioners are good people. If our lives are in danger you must shoulder the responsibility. I hope you can treat the detained Falun Gong practitioners well. Moreover, I request to be released without any condition." They finally asked me whom I wanted to see next. I replied, "The head of the detention center."
In the cells, whenever I had the opportunity, I clarified the truth to the inmates. I also talked about freedom of belief, the appeals office, the fundamental rights of each citizen and about the persecution of Falun Gong. One inmate on death row said, "Because of freedom of belief, people should be free to practice the exercises. Falun Gong practitioners are good people." On seeing that I was on a hunger strike one criminal asked a few times, "Are you really able to do it?" I told him, "Yes I can, because our Teacher, fellow practitioners worldwide and kind-hearted people all show their concern and support, so I am not alone." I recited Hong Yin to him. He was very happy and said, "Your Teacher is really great. He knows everything." On one occasion when I was doing the exercises a policeman came and asked, "How long do you need to finish the exercises?" I replied, "I still need some time." Not long after, the policeman came back and asked the question again. I said to him that our Teacher told us, "The five sets of exercises will be taught to you all at once." (Zhuan Falun.) After that the policeman no longer came back.
If a practitioner can't take the Fa as Teacher, he will make mistakes whenever his heart is not righteous. On the third day of my first hunger strike (no food and no water), I decided that I no longer would wear the prison uniform. It shocked everyone in the detention center. A cadre who was considered very gentle came and talked to me for an entire morning. I did most of the talking and he spoke very little. I thought I was saving him, therefore I again held the attachments of complacency and showing off. In the afternoon, the most vicious prison guard showed up. Because I knew him, I held some fear in my heart. I felt defeated, so I not only put on the prison uniform, but also had two meals. After I calmed down, I looked within and recited the Fa. I recited the poem "Discarding Attachments" from Hongyin II:
"Although cultivation matters are discussed
Attachments in the heart must be discarded
What is given up is not one's self
Everything is foolishness in the maze" (provisional translation)
After that I went on a hunger strike once again to protest the persecution.
On the third day of the hunger strike, that gentle cadre and a prison hospital doctor tried to persuade me to eat. I clarified the truth and offered a word of kind advice to them. In the afternoon, the prison doctor was flustered and exasperated. He asked me to come to the hallway. As soon as we were outside the door he kicked me. I sent forth righteous thoughts right way. He asked, "Why didn't you eat?" I replied, "I should not be kept here since I did not violate any law and did not commit any crimes. He asked the criminals to pour a pot of milk made from milk powder and advised me to drink it. I did not cooperate. He acted out his character and tried to put a nasal tube through my nose to my stomach. Several criminals, as ordered by the prison doctor, helped in the force-feeding. Some held my head down and others held my cheeks firmly so I couldn't move. He pushed the tube down very swiftly and very forcefully. The tube went into my mouth twice. I bit the tube, pulled it out and broke it into three pieces. The prison doctor acted like a madman. He used a spoon and syringe to force-feed me, but without success. Finally he gave up and stopped trying to forced-feed me.
On the fifth day of my hunger strike, the detention center called in my friends and they tried to persuade me to eat and drink. I saw the intention of the old forces and remained unmoved by any human sentiments. In the face of this difficulty, I thought of Teacher and the Fa,
"If the will is not firm
Barriers are like mountains.
How to transcend the mortal world"
(Severing, Hongyin II) (provisional translation);
"When you are overcoming a real hardship or tribulation, you try it. When it is difficult to endure, try to endure it. When it looks impossible and is said to be impossible, give it a try and see if it is possible. If you can actually do it, you will indeed find: 'After passing the shady willow trees, there will be bright flowers and another village ahead!'" (Zhuan Falun)
On the sixth day the prison guards took me to a hospital by car. When meeting doctors, nurses and patients I told them, "I practice Falun Gong and try to be a good person. I live by the principles of 'Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance,' but I was persecuted. You must not help in the persecution. You will be held responsible if anything happens to me during the force-feeding. All the nurses left." A doctor told the prison guards, "The newspapers will report anything they are ordered to. The situation is very complicated. We cannot act recklessly towards our patients who are sent here for treatment." The prison guards did not say anything but took me back to the detention center. Because the detention center was unwilling to take responsibility, it urged the local police department to take immediate action. That evening, they sent me back home.
I was held at the detention center for 13 days. To rescue me, local practitioners sent forth very powerful righteous thoughts as one body. Because of Teacher's compassionate care and the harmonizing of Dafa practitioners, I was released and returned to be one with this body of Falun Dafa practitioners and do the three things Teacher asked of us.
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