(Clearwisdom.net) Here I have written down my experiences while I was illegally detained. I enlightened that if Dafa practitioners maintain their righteous thoughts and actions in all circumstances, the persecution will definitely be stopped.
Late one night several years ago, I was identified because under coercion, an arrested fellow practitioner talked about me. The evil police searched my home and took me to a detention center. Over twenty people were detained in a very small cell, no more than ten-meters square. They spent their entire day crowded into this tiny space, eating, drinking, and doing forced labor in the same small cell. It smelled horribly. It was a very hot summer, and every day the temperature was over 100 0F. Two 200 watt light bulbs were on all the time. A woman who was hung up screamed continuously. It was horrible. However, I remembered Master's Fa:
"In life, nothing sought,
In death, regretting naught;
Washing away all wrong thought,
Buddhahood, with less
adversity, is wrought." (“Nothing Kept” from Hong Yin)
I am Master's disciple during Fa rectification. No matter where I am and under all circumstances, I must be calm and act in a dignified manner. No matter where I am, there are always people I should save. I started to recite the Fa, to send forth righteous thoughts, to clarify the truth and to practice the exercises.
Reciting the Fa, maintaining righteous thoughts and righteous actions
I made use of every chance to recite the Fa, recite Lunyu, and to recite Hong Yin, reciting them dozens times every day. I also sent forth righteous thoughts at every available opportunity.
One day a guard saw that I was meditating and she scolded me loudly, ”Didn't you see me coming?” At that time, Master's Fa appeared in my mind: “just by having your heart unaffected you will be able to handle all situations.” (“Removing the Last Attachment”, Essentials for Further Advancement II) I just kept my legs crossed and didn't move a bit. I kept on sending forth righteous thoughts towards her. She became frightened and hurried away.
During the days when I was detained, I was interrogated eight times, but I didn't cooperate at all. Each time it went on for several hours, sometimes into the middle of the night, sometimes by two persons and sometimes over ten people ganged up on me. They alternated their approach, sometimes treating me kindly and sometimes roughly. But, however they acted they did did not scare me because my heart was full of Fa. During the interrogation, when the guards would listen, I would tell them calmly that when I started to practice Falun Gong I was not healthy, but after practicing all my illnesses soon disappeared. I asked them to think about it, is it wrong to believe in Falun Gong when it saved my life? They asked who I introduced Falun Gong to and I told them all the practitioners in our residential area were introduced to Dafa by me. Master's mercy had saved my life and I wished to share this wonderful practice with others. I taught them out of kindness, I taught them free of charge, was that wrong? I told them how kind and great our Master is and I also told them to be respectful of Master's images and not damage them when they were confiscated from practitioners' homes.
There was a guard who had a bad attitude; he disrespected the Fa and slandered Master. I told him firmly that he would receive retribution. Then I started to send forth righteous thoughts towards him. He looked very uncomfortable and quickly left.
I told the policemen, please read Zhuan Falun before talking to me again, and they did. They were very curious about Falun Dafa and the next “interrogation” was all about Zhuan Falun. They benefited a lot. In the beginning they treated me very badly, but in the end they helped me to get out of the detention center. After I walked out of the detention center, some of them became my friends and quit the Communist Party and its associated organizations.
During the last “interrogation” before recording, they reminded me and I told them that my many illnesses were gone after practicing Falun Gong. I also told them it was wrong to persecute Falun Gong. They wrote down everything I said.
The next morning after the “interrogation” when I opened my eyes, through my third eye, I saw five big red flowers on the door. Then a square table appeared. On the table, there was a yellow book with three Chinese characters on the cover: “Graduation Certificate”! I burst into tears. There were no words to express my appreciation to Master. I clearly knew that Master determines everything. That same day, I walked out of the detention center in a dignified manner.
Because of Master's help, I maintained my righteous thoughts. The evil could not come close to me. During my entire detention, no one forced me to write three statements. Before I was released, they secretly asked me to keep practicing at home. No evil ever touched me.
Clarifying the truth to prisoners and teaching them the exercises
The second morning I was in the detention center, during breakfast, I loudly told over twenty prisoners that the Tiananmen Self-immolation was staged by the regime. Falun Gong is good, and Falun Gong is being persecuted. All my illnesses disappeared after practicing Falun Gong. All these prisoners had been forced to watch the slanderous video. One of the prisoners who had been detained for several years told me secretly that, based on past experience the police would talk to each one and ask if anyone talked about Falun Gong, and they warned me to be careful. Actually these people have not been completely poisoned, because after so many days there, no one reported me.
I taught these prisoners to recite Hong Yin. Some of them wrote poems from Hong Yin on the wall so that all of them could recite them. I encouraged them to discipline themselves according to Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance, and not do bad things. One of them told me, “I have been detained here for several years, but only after you came have I felt an atmosphere of morality and righteousness.”
I chose three time slots to practice the exercises: I practiced the fifth exercise after breakfast and the noon nap, and I practiced the rest after brushing my teeth in the morning because at that time all the guards went to rest in a room that had an air conditioner. I not only practiced the exercises myself, but I also taught the criminal prisoners. We arranged several persons to keep watch at the doors and windows. If anyone saw a guard coming, they would knock on the floor three times, and we would stop practicing. I remembered once when several prisoners and I were practicing the third set, a chief policewoman saw us from far away and shouted "Are you doing gymnastics?" But actually she knew that we were practicing the exercises. In the following days, she learned about Falun Dafa and understood more and more truth. At one point she said loudly to the interrogators, "You should release her (she meant me). You arrest such a kind person! For what?"
There were 13 people in my cell, and finally all of them could do the double leg crossing in the fifth exercise. One said it was incredible because she had never done double leg crossing before. I told them to cherish this precious predestined opportunity, and continue to practice Falun Gong after they were released.
What a huge change in these prisoners! At the beginning, they were scared to even listen to the truth, but later they followed me to do exercises and recite Hong Yin. I knew it was all due to Master's compassionate arrangement: these beings were predestined to be saved and practice Dafa. Practitioners' righteous thoughts cleansed the evil environment.
One prisoner told me that I helped raise them up, and she saw Master and many fellow practitioners were welcoming them. I said it was arranged that we meet here, hurry up and learn Falun Gong. She learned the five sets of exercises at the detention center. Right after she was released, I sent her Zhuan Falun and the music tape of the exercises. Another prisoner said, as soon as she closed her eyes at night, she saw me floating on the ceiling. She also learned the five sets of exercises and practiced seriously every day. There was another prisoner who was the bully of the cell. As I kept clarifying the truth to her and talking about Dafa, she changed a lot. One day she secretly told me that she dreamed she saw me change into a butterfly and fly away through the window. A few days later, I walked out of the detention center.
One day after I walked out of the detention center, I saw dots on a white towel while I was meditating. I thought back over everything that happened while I was in the detention center, and I suddenly realized that I had signed something. Because I was not allowed to bring my glasses to the the detention center, I couldn't read a sentence on the paper I signed. So I quickly pulled out the paper and put on my glasses. There was one sentence in a very small font: "punishment for disturbing social security." I enlightened immediately that the evil had exploited my gaps.