(Clearwisdom.net) I have practiced Falun Dafa for nine years, and made it this far in my cultivation because of my firm belief in Teacher and my strong righteous thoughts. I have gradually been able to achieve this step by step. My celestial eye is not open and I cannot see the things occurring in other dimensions. I overcame many tribulations one after another because of my firm belief in Teacher and Dafa. So, I would like to share about how I broke the arrangements of the old forces and was able to walk out of a forced labor camp. I believe that this was a manifestation of the wonders that accompany our belief in Teacher and the Fa alongside our righteous thoughts.
In the spring of 2002, I was sent to a detention center because of a crime that was fabricated to frame me. I was sentenced to one year of forced labor. When I was in the detention center and later the forced labor camp, along with fellow practitioners, I memorized Lunyu, "Hongyin," and many of Teacher's recent articles. We also sent forth righteous thoughts to eliminate the evil forces that were persecuting us.
This year's Chinese traditional Mid-Autumn Festival was on October 1, and right before the holiday, I phoned home. It was very expensive for me to make a phone call because the officials charge two yuan for the first two minutes and three yuan per minute thereafter. My wife is not a practitioner and had much anxiety over this. She said, "If you do not stop practicing Falun Gong, your forced labor camp term will be extended. So when will you be able to come home?" (The forced labor camp extended steadfast practitioners' terms about five to ten days each month.) I told my wife, "Don't be afraid. I will be home before the end of the year. I want to be home to celebrate the Chinese New Year with the family." She was very surprised to see me come home on December 20, because I had managed to walk out of the forced labor camp with righteous thoughts. I stayed at home on New year's Day and on the Chinese New Year.
After the Chinese Communist Party's 16th National Conference, the forced labor camp staff increasingly persecuted more practitioners. They deprived the practitioners' families of their right to visit, they forced practitioners to sit on the floor, they deprived them of sleep, and they forced them to watch video programs that slandered Falun Gong. The collaborators tried hard to fabricate lies that slandered Teacher and the Fa, and many steadfast practitioners suffered from very brutal treatment. They were infested with scabies that covered their bodies, which oozed pus and itched unbearably.
One day, several collaborators tried hard to read to me the fabricated lies that they had cooked up. I continuously sent forth righteous thoughts towards them and felt a powerful energy field that was coming from Teacher. After they finished, I said, "May I make a suggestion?" They said, "Yes." I said, "Can you read something else? Why do you always slander Falun Dafa?" They were silent and did not know what to say. The head of "cell protection" asked me, "What do you want?" I replied, "Nothing, this is only a suggestion. I will not listen to what they say. I would rather smell the stench of a toilet than to listen to them." He called in a the head of the disciplinary guards, who then summoned me to his office. As soon as I entered the office, he punched me in the chest. I looked at him and asked him, "What do you want to do now?" He was at a loss as to what to do when he realized I was not afraid. Right then, the head of the administrative office came in and the guard said, "Now the boss is here and you can talk to him." So when I looked into the eyes of the head of the administrative office and he just turned around and went straight to the door. Seeing that, the head of the disciplinary guards was totally discouraged and said in a soft voice, "This is not my fault--all this was arranged by my superiors." I said that I would not listen to it regardless of who said it. With the help of Teacher, my righteous thoughts completely overwhelmed the evil forces.
In the days that followed, my scabies became very severe but my heart was serene and pure. One night, when I finally managed to fall asleep, I had a dream in which I saw a flooded street. I was backstroking through the water and saw a white column. For some reason, I felt drawn to the white column and wanted to hold on to it. After I woke up, I could not figure out what the dream was about but I didn't feel like it was something negative. However, the following morning, my upper body was swollen and I had difficulty breathing. However, I realized that I am a practitioner so no one can harm me in this way. I thought of Teacher's words in Zhuan Falun,
"If anyone can harm you, he or she would be able to harm me. Put simply, that person would be able to harm this universe."
I realized that I have Teacher with me and I should not be afraid of anything, so I kept calm. About ten days later, I was diagnosed with tubercular meningitis. As a result, the forced labor camp arranged for my release on bail because they thought I needed medical treatment. I returned home five months before I was supposed to be released from my illegal sentence.
During that time, I needed others' support to help me get around and use the toilet. Later, when I left the forced labor camp, I was able to carry my luggage with a bag in each hand and walk downstairs all by myself. Only practitioners could have such a wonderful experience.
If a non-practitioner suffered from tubercular meningitis, they would need one and a half to two years treatment and extensive care before the symptoms would improve. Also, the patient would not be able to do heavy labor if they were sick or being treated. However, one week after I returned home, my health recovered and in two months time, my health returned to normal. At the time, I failed to enlighten to some of my shortcomings but I managed to let go of these later in my cultivation.
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