(Clearwisdom.net) I am a retired Communist Party official. I started practicing Falun Dafa in 1997. After practicing, all sorts of unshakable diseases that had been torturing me for decades were cured. The diseases included heart disease, rheumatoid arthritis, herniated lumbar discs and other problems. My health, my family life and my work all changed for the better. Since July 20, 1999, when the persecution of Falun Dafa began, the old forces have targeted me as one of the key people to persecute. My family environment became difficult. Because of my omissions in cultivation, I experienced tribulations from my family and society, and the old forces have tested me many times. However, due to my firm belief in Teacher and Dafa, I strengthened my righteous thoughts and received Teacher's compassionate protection. Since then, I have been walking steadily on the path of Fa-rectification in an open and noble manner.
Changing my family environment with righteous thoughts
My relationship with my husband mirrors my cultivation state. Since day one of my cultivation, whenever I had an attachment to cultivate away, it manifested as him causing interference or a tribulation for me. Whenever I lack a heart of great forbearance, become upset, feel perturbed or treated unfairly, or want to have the final say in our family, he will want to show that he is the man of the family and must dominate. When I fear losing face, he will stare at me nastily or even shout at me at the top of his lungs in front of others. When I have the attachments of zealotry and showing off, he will criticize me harshly for being too careless, too self-complacent, zealous or vain. When I have the attachment of doing things and don't pay enough attention to my family, he will unreservedly say that I am selfish and unkind. If I don't change my notions, he repeatedly causes trouble. However, when I maintain my xinxing, he stays very calm. As I eliminate my notions, raise my xinxing and clarify the truth to my family better, he does better as well.
Teacher said in the article "Clearheadness:"
"I often say that if all a person wants is the well-being of others and if this is without the slightest personal motivation or personal understanding, what he says will move the listener to tears."
I realized that my family members were not practitioners. Poisoned by this vicious persecution and polluted by the CCP's culture, they were victims. Before July 20, 1999, my husband and children all supported my cultivation. After the persecution started, because of the CCP's instigation and lies and the repeated harassment by the 610 Office, my family environment became intense and difficult. My family did not allow me to go out to distribute flyers, put up truth clarification posters or visit other people to tell them the facts. They were afraid that I would be reported and arrested, and that they would be entangled, as well. My husband had previously joined the communist party and the army, and was an administrator in the Party. Because of persecution I had suffered for a few years and the pressure he received, he promised officials from the 610 Office and the CCP that he would keep me under control. Sometimes when he felt that he could not do so by himself, he had our son and daughter monitor me as well. This was really hard on me.
However, I overcame all these obstacles in an open and noble manner with my firm determination to cultivate. After I eliminated my notions, I no longer complained about my family and treated them with compassion. With Teacher's help, my family kept improving. After Dafa practitioners started to thoroughly and comprehensively clarify the truth, I made my husband my main subject of truth clarification. Through clarifying the truth to him, I learned lessons and gained wisdom. After he learned the truth little by little, his righteous thoughts emerged. He read Dafa books and learned the exercises. He also quit the Communist Party. Now, he helps me to look after Dafa practitioners and to pass on Dafa materials and information among practitioners.
Escaping from danger with righteous thoughts
During the past six years, the local 610 Office has spent a lot of energy persecuting me. They came to my home and investigated me many times. I was reported to them three times. My house was raided twice. Facing severe persecution, I completely negated the old forces' arrangement and eliminated them. My path of cultivation is arranged by Teacher. Only Teacher can decide my path, and only I can decide to walk along it. No one else can control me. I always try to remember Teacher's words,
"Just by having your heart unaffected you will be able to handle all situations."("Eliminate Your Last Attachment(s)" from Essentials for Further Advancement II)
Therefore, I maintain righteous thoughts and am always faithful to Teacher and Dafa. I took the Fa as the Teacher and have never wavered. I have never cooperated with the evil under any circumstances. I uphold the universal principles, "Truth, Compassion, Forbearance" with absolute courage and clarify the truth of Falun Gong to the poisoned sentient beings. Under Teacher's protection and care, I have overcome one difficulty after another, and I have steadily walked my path.
In 1999, when the persecution started, the Director of the Organization Department of the Party Committee in the city asked me to have a talk with him. During the conversation, I only spoke about my cultivation and refused to say anything that would damage Dafa. When they organized a public meeting to slander Dafa, the Organization Department asked me to give a speech to criticize Falun Gong. I refused to attend the meeting and asked for a leave of absence. The director tried to force me to attend and pressured the leaders of my work unit. I just refused the request.
In 2000, the secretary of the Political and Judiciary Committee asked me to attend a so-called "disengagement meeting." I made a half-day leave request, for both work and the meeting held in the city. When they realized that I would not attend, they sent people to my home to take me there. I still refused to go, and I stayed home for half a day reading the Fa and went back to work the next day.
In the spring of 2001, I went out to distribute truth-clarifying materials and stopped by a mountain to pick some herbs. Someone reported me. The person said that I was organizing a meeting on the mountain and that we were preparing to go to Beijing.
On the same night, four staff members of the local 610 Office raided my house, searching for reasons to arrest me. However, they failed to find any such "evidence".
They then devised another tactic. They tried to trick me into going to a brainwashing center, saying, "If you don't want to be a student, you can be a teacher." With the courage and wisdom endowed to me by Dafa, I was very clear-headed and was not deceived. I clarified the truth to them with wisdom for three hours. I told them how I had been a good person in my family, in my work unit and in society. I have always been trying to better myself; so there was no need for me to go to the so-called "transformation school." After four hours of confrontation, they left dejectedly.
However, they still kept harassing my family with endless phone calls, asking my family member to perform tasks to help them. Therefore, I clarified the truth to my husband, exposed the plots by the 610 Office and won his understanding and support. After that, I wrote letters to the 610 Office and the secretary of the Political and Judiciary Committee. I exposed the persecution I had suffered and the harassment against my family. I told them the facts about Falun Gong. My husband delivered my letters to them in person. They carefully read the letters and said that they had not asked me to write such letters. After that, they just dropped the affair.
All these facts helped me to deeply realize: All dangers can be reduced to nothing if we firmly believe in Teacher and Dafa. All these facts are testimonies of "When disciples have sufficient righteous thoughts, Master has the almighty power to turn the cosmos around." (Hong Yin II)
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