(Clearwisdom.net) Since I was child, I have been timid and tried to stay away from trouble. This attachment reflects itself in almost every aspect of my cultivation. However, on a few occasions, I was able to meet the requirements of the Fa at different levels during the Fa-rectification period.
On New Year's Day of 2001, my aunt and I went to Beijing to validate Dafa. We were arrested and sent to the Tiananmen police station. Many practitioners were locked in an iron cage. A tall and sturdy policeman kicked my lower body, but I didn't feel any pain. He kicked me again, and I still stood up firmly. The policeman was shocked and could not speak. I was not fearful at all. Instead, I felt relieved, because a moment before, I had broken through my fear and stepped out to validate Dafa in Tiananmen Square.
The policeman then maliciously kicked my chest. I felt like a balloon being trampled on, with an instant pressure and no pain afterwards. The frustrated policeman ordered me to turn around and maliciously beat my buttocks with a quarter inch steel plate. I didn't feel pain either. The other practitioners were all worried about me. Perhaps it happened to get rid of some of their attachments. Master said,
"Disciples' righteous thoughts are strong
Master has the power to turn the tide"
("Master-Disciple Grace" in "Hong Yin Volume II")
It is indeed so.
In June 2001, a practitioner and I walked for over ten days to Beijing to validate Dafa. In the Beijing Branch office of my home town's municipal authorities, I broke through my fear and courageously practiced the meditation exercise. The policeman viciously beat my right leg with a handcuff. I heard "bang bang," exactly the same sound as Master imitated when talking about Hard Qigong in his lectures. I was astonished. However, I felt no pain at all, except intense shaking on my leg. Master had again protected me.
In July 2001, I was taken back to my hometown and persecuted again. Faced with people I knew, my fear emerged. I was cuffed to a window for over twenty days, and was often scolded and beaten by the guards. I suffered from intense pressure and fear day and night. I longed for the night to come, so that I could relax a little bit after the whole day's fear.
However, the more I was attached, the more severe the persecution became. One evening, the secretary of the Political and Judiciary Committee was drunk. He came in and threatened to teach me a lesson in the name of my father. I passively endured the torture. He ruthlessly beat my face with his fists and palms, and my face was bleeding hard. In the end, he even slashed at my face with his leather shoes. I became anxious and suddenly had my righteous thoughts back. I said to him firmly, "I will practice [Falun Gong] even if you beat me to death!" Immediately the situation changed. He responded right away, "Why do I want to beat you to death?" Then he left without any more words.
In "Teaching the Fa at the Western U.S. International Fa Conference," Master said,
"If upon encountering trying circumstances your thinking can be truly righteous, then, when faced with the evil's persecution and when faced with interference, just one sentence of yours fortified with steadfast righteous thoughts can instantly make the evil disintegrate (applause), and it will make those who are being used by the evil turn and flee, it will make the evil's persecution of you dissolve, and it will make the evil's interfering with you disappear without a trace. One thought born of righteous faith is all it takes. And whoever can hold firm that righteous thought and go the distance will become a magnificent god forged by Dafa. (Long applause)"
The instant I had my righteous thoughts, the evil indeed fled. The evil was dissolved instantly by a Dafa practitioner's righteous thoughts. I hope all Dafa practitioners will keep righteous thoughts and righteous actions, and negate the old forces' persecution comprehensively and thoroughly.
September 30, 2008
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