(Clearwisdom.net) Since the day I obtained the Fa, I knew I had finally found the right path. I was determined to follow Master all the way back home.
When I was young, I often got sick and usually medicines or injections didn't work on me. I came to Beijing after I married. Once, I had a dream where I saw there was a big river in front of the building I lived in. When I looked up, I saw there were many small holes in the sky like a heavenly book. I went up to heaven and saw that everything was dazzling and beautiful. One could have whatever one wanted. Someone told me, "You have to go back to earth. There are many things waiting for you." I didn't want to go back but I unwillingly returned.
There was a TV tower behind the building where my apartment was, and there was a magpie nest on it. Whenever the magpies sang in the morning, I would think, "Magpies, can you help me to find my master?" My mind was not completely sealed therefore somehow I knew I had a master. When I read Zhuan Falun, everything in my life suddenly made sense and I thought, "This is the heavenly book that I have been looking for life after life." I knew I had found the treasured book from heaven. I had a goal for the rest of my life.
I spent three days reading Zhuan Falun, Zhuan Falun II and Explaining the Content of Falun Dafa. On the fourth day, I went to a park to learn the exercises. I felt warm and some movement in my lower stomach. I knew I had a Falun.
At that time, there was no exercise site near where I lived, and most people there didn't know what Falun Gong was. I invited fellow practitioners to help me set up an exercise site. The site grew very fast because many people benefited from the practice.
Validating Dafa in Beijing
On July 20, 1999 many practitioners in charge of Falun Gong assistant sites were arrested. The evil Chinese Communist Party (CCP) announced that Falun Gong was prohibited. Many fellow practitioners started to go to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong. They were arrested and suffered brutal persecution.
I went to Beijing in December 1999. At that time, I put down all kind of concerns for fame, self interest and sentimentality and decided to validate Dafa in Beijing. I wrote a letter to my husband, "Such a good practice encounters such an unfair treatment. As a practitioner, I have the right and responsibility to speak out for justice Please understand me and support me." The next day I left alone for Beijing with an appeal letter with me. On the bus to Beijing, people on the bus were sleeping and outside there were just the quiet farm fields. However, I heard the beatings of gong and drums for celebration. I realized it was to welcome me and from other dimensions.
I arrived at Tiananmen Square in the morning. When I asked a person, who turned out to be a plain-clothes policeman, where the appeals office was, he said, "Get on the bus." More than 30 of us were taken to Qianmen Police Station. We got off the bus and went inside the building. When we passed through a long hallway, there were many plain-clothes policemen standing on both sides. They were from different provinces and cities of the country. While we walked through, they kept asking where we came from and tried to pull us out to avoid registration procedure. If there were a practitioner from the place they were from, the local police department would be criticized and punished. We walked with our head up and chest forward and ignored them. I came to Beijng for justice. I would show my identification, and give my address with dignity. I wanted them to know how many practitioners had come to Beijing to appeal for Dafa every day.
In a small room, we were asked to show our identification. I was the first one to take out my ID and register myself. Later I was taken to a metal cage in another room. There were already some practitioners there. We were from different places of the country. We greeted and talked to each other. Soon, a policeman from my hometown came to pick me up. I was taken to a car where there were already several plain-clothes officers inside. When they questioned me, I showed them my appeal letter and told them why I came to Beijing. Some scolded me, but some asked me about Falun Gong. I told them how Falun Gong teaches people to be good and helps people to improve health. They asked, "Is it as good as what you said?" I told them what I said was true and they should read the book for themselves if they didn't believe me.
At around 5 p.m. the local police station from my hometown came to pick me up. However they seemed lost, made three big circles, and went back to the same place where they started. I realized it was the gods protecting me. It was against the principle of "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance" to arrest our righteous practitioners. Finally the car left. At the local police station, I stated the reason why I went to Beijing and showed them my appeal letter. At 9 p.m. that night I was taken to the detention center.
Leaving the Detention Center with Righteous Thoughts
In the detention center, they kept badgering me and asked me to write a guarantee statement. They called the heads of my work unit and my family members to persuade me. My son, daughter-in-law, my daughter, son-in-law, and granddaughters all came. The big group of them all knelt down and my daughter even had bumps on her head from repeatedly kowtowing. My five-year-old granddaughter cried while clutching onto me tightly, "Grandma, let's go home. I miss you so much." I couldn't help but cry. But then my other granddaughter approached me and whispered into my ear, "Grandma, do what you want to do in your mind!"
I immediately knew it was Master who gave me a hint through the child's mouth, which made me more steadfast in believing the truth. They wanted to break my will through human sentimentality. My family members came five times in one month to try to persuade me but they were unable to do so. I was told that all I needed to do was to sign my name and give a fingerprint on a paper that stated my giving up the practice and promise not going to Beijing, and then I would be released. I told them, "You want me to give up the principle of 'Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance', but I cannot do so." They didn't know how to deal with me anymore. One month later, I was released without writing any words. At that time, I had very strong righteous thoughts. I would rather give up my life to persist in the truth. My life was given by Dafa.
In the detention center, we practitioners told the prisoners that Falun Dafa is good and Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good. We embodied the principle in our daily life and always tried to do the most difficult work. They told us that we were the best people in the world. They expressed they would learn Falun Gong and live according to the principle after they were released.
One night, I woke up from a dream. In the dream I called out loudly that I came from a higher level and I wanted to go home. I cried and then woke up from the dream. It was my genuine thought coming out.
After I came back home, I actively involved myself in clarifying the truth, exposing the evil and saving sentient beings, such as distributing truth-clarifying materials and posting up materials.
In 2001, the work unit was ordered to send practitioners to brainwashing classes. My work unit informed me that they were sending me to a class the next day. I decided to deny any old force's arrangements and not attend the brainwashing class. I left home and headed for my hometown. The next day two police cars stopped at my apartment. When they found I had gone, they were very angry and threatened to freeze my salary, which caused my husband to have a heart attack and he was sent to the hospital. After my work unit learned that I was at my hometown, they were relieved. They were really afraid that I had gone to Beijing. There was a secret order from higher authorities that no practitioners were allowed to go to Beijing. They were preparing the staging of the Tiananmen self-immolation.
Detained in the Forced Labor Camp
In the spring of 2001, a secret order came from Jiang, sentencing those who persisted in Falun Gong to forced labor camps. In March, I went to my hometown to see my mother who was over 90 years old. I was followed when I was at the train station. The railway police asked me whether I practiced Falun Gong and I said yes. They took me to a room in the train station and searched my purse. The local police station where I lived was informed and I was taken back. They interrogated me and I was sent to a detention center. Later I was sentenced to two years of forced labor and one month later I was sent to a forced labor camp. When they asked me to sign on the document for my sentence, I refused. I didn't commit any crime and they didn't have any right to sentence me. They said that they would still do it even without my signature.
In the labor camp, the collaborators tried to brainwash me. I told them the Fa-rectification situation and how Master told us to send forth righteous thoughts to eliminate evil in other dimensions, to clarify the truth and to expose the evil. Some of them started to have a clear mind. Later we got Master's articles and started to recite them. When I was doing labor work in the camp, I recited Master's articles quietly in my mind. We were often required to write articles to criticize Falun Gong. Instead, I would write the truth with righteous thoughts. Although these writings were just handed over to the head of the division, I felt that every article was a test to see whether I was firm in Dafa and whether I had a righteous understanding in the Fa. In my mind, I was writing for Master.
The division required us to write an article to slander Dafa. I did not acknowledge the old force's arrangement and didn't follow the five subjects they assigned. I handed the article to the team head in charge. She was only 21 years old but was very vicious to practitioners. I thought, "No matter how evil you are, I'm not afraid of you."
However, the next day I was transferred to another team. The team head was relatively good. She saw what I wrote and called me to her office. When she asked me why I didn't write according to the requirements, I took the chance to clarify the truth to her. I said every word Master said was the Fa. We were not deceived and we willingly learn and practice Falun Gong. She recorded what I said and let me go.
The next day five articles from the team where I was were selected to be read publicly. My article was one of them. Later someone said to me, "You didn't write according to the requirements, but you still passed!" I said I didn't agree with what they said about Falun Gong, and so I didn't write in the way they asked.
Improving Ourselves
At the end of 2001, before releasing a group of detainees, the labor camp had a survey and all the questions were related to Falun Gong. I decided to answer the questions with righteous thoughts even if it would affect the time of my release. I did the survey and said that what Master said was all true.
I have gone through the evil and cruel tests one by one in the past five years. Of course, some I passed well and some not so well. I realize that through the tests I have encountered, as long as I have strong righteous thoughts, I will be able to pass them. Just like Master said, "'After passing the shady willow trees, there will be bright flowers and another village ahead!'" (Zhuan Falun). However, if human thoughts occur, it will be difficult to pass. As long as we stay steadfast in the Fa and give up human attachments, we are able to pass all tests and tribulations. This is what I have experienced and realized in the past five years of the Fa-rectification. I will double my efforts in areas where I didn't do well, and strive forward courageously and diligently on the path of the Fa-rectification cultivation.
Now, there are still many sentient beings in the maze that need us to patiently and meticulously clarify the truth and expose the evil in order to save more sentient beings. This is also a process for us to improve ourselves and do well the three things on our cultivation path. I must do my best on the path of Fa-rectification and do it well. I will be faithful to Master and Dafa, thoroughly deny any arrangements by the old forces, and welcome the moment when the Fa-rectification enters the human world.
May 13, 2006
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