(Clearwisdom.net)
1. My Former Colleagues Understand the Truth
After July 20, 1999, all the Chinese media were saturated with slander against Falun Gong and I endured extreme pressure. One day, on a bus going home, one of my colleagues said to me: "It's not a big deal, my friend's mother also practices Falun Gong. You are all very nice people." I was very grateful for his words. In 2001, not long after the so-called "Tiananmen self-immolation" was broadcast all over the news in a massive propaganda ploy to defame Falun Gong, another colleague told me in the office, "I have told my father, there is a Falun Gong practitioner who works with me and he is a nice person. His behavior isn't anything like what's being said on the TV news at all." I knew his father was working as a government authority. The lies and tyranny of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) couldn't block the free speech of hundreds of millions of people.
2. My Family and Friends
Because of the persecution, I was forced to leave town and remain homeless. I am the youngest son and my father didn't say much to me over the phone. He only told me: "You must be very careful!" The communist regime's constant barrage of slander had caused misunderstandings in the Chinese people's minds, and at that moment my father was also not sure. I quickly and briefly explained the facts to him. How could I know that this would be our last conversation, and I would never get to talk to my father again?
After I was persecuted in the forced labor camp for two years, I was sent to the detention center for further persecution. The police officers there told me that my father had died more than one year before. I held back my tears and said: "I believe good people will be rewarded."
At one point the police officers ordered me to write my understandings of sentimentality for family. I said: "No matter whether I had a regular job or I was homeless, I always sent a part of my income to my parents to fulfill my responsibility to take care of them. It is because I know that time waits for no one. I don't want to have any regret after they pass away. It is this unjust persecution that deprives me of my filial obligation to take care of my parents."
When my mother was told that I had been arrested, she passed out twice. After I was released, she kept telling me: "It's enough you know the practice is good. Just practice it quietly at home, and don't get involved again!" I understood that my mother was worried for her son, but on the other hand, I know that real safety comes from maintaining strong righteous thoughts and firm resistance to evil influences. I should never compromise myself. Only by studying the Fa well and more frequently sending forth righteous thoughts, and letting more people know about the truth of the persecution, can a good environment be created. Later, my mother became sick and I asked her to recite "Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good."
After I was released, all my family members were concerned about me. Once after I rode in a car with them, my eldest sister called my third sister and said: "He will be fine. The communist regime persecuted so many people during the cultural revolution, but they weren't able to change everyone."
The persecution that has lasted for more than ten years has severely traumatized my family members and I. But what makes me feel relieved is that no matter how outrageous and reckless the persecution is, my family still made the right choice between good and evil.
3. People are Awakening
After I was forced to leave town, I began to sell fruit while clarifying the truth about the persecution. Many people expressed their support and concern for my safety. After a little girl learned the truth, I told her that after reciting "Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good" she would be blessed. She said to me, "I'll remember it." And then she waved at me and left very happily.
Not long after that, I found a job at a school. Once the school shuttle bus "lost" one student. After a while, the child arrived back at school. Afterwards, the principal told me, "I wasn't afraid at all because your presence is so righteous on our campus." Later when I was arrested for distributing truth-clarification materials about Dafa, I heard that whenever the principal's mother had a meal, she always cried when she thought of what I was eating in the labor camp. After I was released from the forced labor camp, I got back into contact with them and all soon agreed to quit the CCP and its affiliated organizations.
4. Shooting Stars Flash across the Sky
I was put into solitary confinement in the forced labor camp. One day, a practitioner asked an inmate to recite Master's poem "Don't Be Sad" (Hong Yin Vol II ) to me:
"Imprisoned as you are,
don't be sorrowful or sad
Carry on with righteous thoughts and actions,
and the Fa is with you
Calmly reflect on the attachments you have
Remove your human thoughts
and evil will naturally die out"
After many people in the forced labor camp learned the truth about Falun Gong and the persecution, they volunteered to help us deliver messages or materials. Once a person on guard noticed another person was reading Dafa materials, and he took the materials. Practitioners asked him to give the materials back. Non-practitioner detainees told him to give back the materials, and when he didn't do it, they began yelling at him. Because of the pressure, he had to return all the Dafa materials.
A police officer once asked a drug addicted inmate assigned to monitor me whether I was still practicing Falun Gong. The inmate said: "It doesn't affect anyone if he does the exercises, so why not turn a blind eye to it?" The police officer left without saying anything. Then another inmate told me: "Don't worry, I'll be responsible if anything happens." And while a third inmate was listening to the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party, he said: "I'll definitely listen to this. It's not a big deal if they extend my sentence. I've been imprisoned many times."
In the division that I was detained at, more than half of the people there have listened to Master's lectures, read Dafa books, or the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party. The guards knew that we had an mp3 player but they didn't take it away. They asked a detainee to pretend to borrow our mp3, and after he got it, to send a signal to the guard. But the detainee said there was no way that he should do something that impairs one's morality.
I lent my Dafa books to a guard and he put them into a drawer. After he left, a team leader came in and found the books in the drawer. So he asked him: "Why are you looking at these books?" The officer answered: "I took them from the practitioner, and just wanted to take a look for myself and see what it's all about." The team leader left without saying anything. Later, the officer returned the books to me and said: "The team leader has found out about the books. You should be more careful with them."
One day at 5 a.m., I was meditating when officer Lai came. I nodded my head to him and he nodded back and then left. Before I was released from the forced labor camp, he told me the team leader had talked to him, asking his opinion about Falun Gong and trying to convince him to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. He said: "They are steadfast and determined. Attempting to forcibly change their minds will not have any effect." Because of his words, the team leader gave up his intention to persecute the practitioners.
Before I left the forced labor camp, among the eighty or ninety detainees, only eight or nine hadn't quit the CCP and it's affiliated organizations. My heart is always full of joy when seeing that so many people have made the right choice. They have planted the seeds of goodness and they will harvest happiness in the future.
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