(Clearwisdom.net) Master said, "These students really are slowing it down." ("Teaching the Fa in San Francisco, 2005") After studying this Fa, I felt that it was necessary to help the practitioners around me who were not diligent about stepping forward to validate the Fa. So one night I asked a veteran practitioner who had not stepped out to validate the Fa, to clarify the truth, distribute truth-clarifying materials and persuade people to withdraw from the CCP with me. We persuaded a lot of people to withdraw from the CCP, and we had nearly finished distributing all the truth-clarifying materials. However, I was complacent in that I was feeling successful persuading people to withdraw from the CCP. When I was talking to a couple of young people about withdrawing from the CCP (the fellow practitioner stood nearby because of fear), two policemen who stood beside me grabbed my collar from behind. I immediately calmed down and realized that I should face the evil with righteous thoughts.
I ordered, "Put your hands down!" The policeman asked, "What is in this bag?" I said, "This is my bag." The policeman said, "Can I search you?" I said, "Dare you search me?" I powerfully denied him. He did not move. I threw my bag to the fellow practitioner because I understood that she could help me by taking my bag. Unfortunately, the policeman took my bag from her and found two booklets. The policeman asked, "Where did you get these?" I said, "Some other people gave them to me. You'd better have a look, and after reading them you will have good fortune." The policemen remained silent.
I remembered Master's teaching about "do not cooperate with the evil" and then I walked away. A policeman said, "What are you doing?" I said, "Going to the bathroom." The policeman said, "Go to the one at the front of the marketplace." Once I heard "marketplace," I remembered that there was an exit beside the toilet. I said to Master, "Master, I want to escape from the exit of the marketplace." When I was near the marketplace, another two policemen came. "Stay far away!" I ordered them. The policeman ordered his partner, "Keep five meters."
After I came out of the bathroom, I saw two policemen standing at the door of the bathroom and two at the exit of the marketplace. I was taken to the space outside of the gate of the marketplace, and then beside a police car. The fellow practitioner had been forced into the police car. Another four police cars came, and nearly ten policemen enclosed me. A man holding a record book asked me, "What time did you come out tonight?" I said, "I don't know." The man said, "What did you do tonight?" I said, "I have done nothing." He said, "Get in the police car." I said, "I will not get in the police car." He said, "Otherwise, we will go to the public security station of the marketplace to sign, and then we will set you free." I said, "I will not go." I continuously requested Master's help, and silently recited the Fa-rectification phrases.
A policeman took out his ID card and said, "I am from the District Police Department." "Can you talk to me like this?" I kept silent. Another policeman also showed me his ID card. I still kept silent. Master told us that, if we would not like to talk, we can say nothing.
At that time a police patrol car came. A policeman in his forties got out and then said ferociously, "Why didn't you carry her to the car?" I stared in his eyes and said peacefully, "Sir, tonight you are the oldest man among your colleagues, I think you should show people respect. Aren't there old men in your family?" He said nothing, lowered his head, and then got on his car and drove away.
I looked around at the policemen who were enclosing me and said gently, "In order to bring good fortune to your family members, do not touch me." I sat down and sent forth righteous thoughts quietly. I sat in the lotus position and I held my palm erect. I closed my eyes just slightly and eliminated all the evil entities, rotten demons, and the evil communist specter. Everything began to calm down, including the people who went into and out of the marketplace. I opened my eyes and saw that each policeman stood there silently. And then the 610 Office agent asked, "Are you a Dafa disciple? What's your name? When did you begin to practice? Don't you cultivate Zhen-Shan-Ren? Tell the truth." He soliloquized. When he saw that no one replied to him, he squatted in front of me and slandered Master in a low voice.
I suddenly asked, "Did your mother teach you to be abusive when you were young?" I turned my back to him. The personnel of the "610 Office" said, "Does the CCP teach you to be against the CCP?" I remembered the Fa about not giving that saboteur in Hong Kong an audience, and I broke away from the personnel of the "610 Office." I then walked on the steps at the gate of the marketplace. At first I wanted to sit on the steps, but suddenly I found a taxi parked beside the steps with its door left unlocked. I opened the door and got in the taxi. Taxis are usually only parked on the road in front of the marketplace. They are not permitted to park at the gate; so today was unusual.
"Where will you go?" The driver asked me. I replied, "Go to any place we can reach quickly." The taxi made the red-light. The driver asked, "Which direction should we turn?" I said, "Turn the direction we can drive quickly." The left light turned green, so we turned left. The driver said, "Where are you going?" I said, "Go to suburban village. I did not bring any money, and I will go there to borrow money to pay you." Just after I said this word, I saw a police car following us.
I said, "A police car is following us." The driver said, "What's the matter with you?" I said, "Another person gave me two booklets, so they want to arrest me."
The taxi entered a big square. The driver said, "Please get out. I do not want to take you any more. I will not get your money, and I cannot break away from the policemen." After that the driver opened the door. When I got out of the taxi, I did heshi with two hands. I said in my heart,
"I am rooted in the universe. 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." ("Lecture One" in Zhuan Falun, 2000 translation version)
Master also said,
"'I'm Li Hongzhi's disciple, I don't want other arrangements or acknowledge them'--then they won't dare to do that. So it can all be resolved..." ("Explaining the Fa During the 2003 Lantern Festival at the U.S. West Fa Conference")
I said to Master, "Nobody can harm me. Master, I do not want today's evil arrangement." After reciting the three segments of the Fa, I felt as if I was taking a walk in the square. I turned my head and saw that the two policemen had pulled the driver out of the taxi and made a report while asking questions. I, an over sixty-year-old woman, walked in the bright and quiet square. I thought that even a child could catch me; however, I could leave by just walking slowly. I thought that is was only because I recited the Fa that Master had protected me.
When I walked to the other end of the square, a police car was parked there. I had to turn back, and five or six policemen were wandering around the square. I squatted under the shadow of a pine tree and made a phone call to a fellow practitioner. However, I could not make contact with him. I wanted to ask my child to come, but I thought that I should not depend on an ordinary person and should walk my own path. I was in a quandary; so I found a pond not far away. There was no water in the pond. It was full of tall grass. I got into the grass immediately. At that time my husband phoned me and asked, "It is about eleven o'clock, why aren't you back?" I said tenderly, "I have no trouble, I will come back soon. Please go to sleep." (My husband watched TV every night and waited for me to come home to lock the door and then go to sleep.) The grass was so thick that I could not walk. I said to Master, "Master, I do not cultivate well, but I should not be here." I went to the bank of the pond and remembered the Fa "with openness and dignity" and "the Great Way has no form." I took off my coat and went across the square. I thought that now that I was walking with openness and dignity I should not take off my coat. I put it on again and walked proudly. I did not try to find out if there were policemen in the square. I walked the distance of nearly a bus stop in the square. When I walked on the road, a police car followed me. I was so afraid that I felt my heart would burst. This was a new road and no grass and trees existed to help me hide. Fortunately, the police car went on and turned left. I had felt a cold sweat. It was an illusion, but I truly felt it.
It was midnight and there was no light and only a few cars on the suburban road. When two trucks came by, I asked them to stop, but they did not do so. When I wanted to go home, a van came. I went to a fellow practitioner's home and borrowed money to pay the driver. While returning to my home, I found that I did not take my key. I made a phone call to ask my husband to open the door for me. When I was waiting, I found that there was a car not far away, and a man walked toward me. I was afraid and wondered if the man was following me. Then I calmed down and thought nobody would know my address. When the man came close to me, I smiled at him and asked, "Don't you sleep?" He didn't look at me. The test had lasted until I returned home.
The next day was group study day. I went there late. My fellow practitioners said that a practitioner found out that I was arrested by the police and told them to send forth righteous thoughts for me. The practitioner that was with me was kicked twice by the police and then released. Some practitioners cried after hearing our experience. They were touched by Master's benevolent protection, and they highly praised the supernormal and powerful Dafa.
This incident passed very normally, just like doing an exercise. I did not feel any zealotry and show-off mentality. On the contrary, I felt somber and thought deeply: "Why did I meet with this incident? Which attachments of mine did the evil take advantage of?" We all know that a surface factor will cause sickness karma. However, the fundamental reason is the karma. In our history we did bad things and caused the karma. I think that the interference is also caused by karma.
The surface reasons that caused this incident were as follows. First, my state was incorrect. I was complacent because of my success in helping five or six people withdraw from the CCP and distributing truth-clarifying materials. That fellow practitioner felt afraid and stayed far away. Showing off, zealotry, and fear are all incorrect states. Second, I made an overstatement. When my fellow practitioner was afraid and was not willing to go out to clarify the truth, I said, "You do not need to worry about stepping out with me." I should have said that we should not feel fear because Master is protecting us. Third, I should not have pressured the practitioner whose xinxing had not reach the requirement of the Fa, and I should have let her do what she could do. The fundamental reason that caused this incident were the attachments of hubris, fame, showing-off and zealotry. Also, I am too attached to myself.
Master said,
"If you put Dafa in a secondary place and put your supernatural powers in the primary place, or as an enlightened person you believe that what you understand one way or another is correct, or if you even regard yourself as being great and beyond Dafa, I would say that you have already started to stumble. It would be dangerous and you would become ever worse. At that time, you would really be in trouble, and your cultivation would end up in vain. If things are not done right, you will stumble and fail in your cultivation." ("Lecture Six" in Zhuan Falun, 2000 translation version)
I continuously recite the Fa, and I am continuously enlightened by Master. Moreover, I sound the alarm bell for myself, that cultivation is very serious.
February 19, 2007