(Clearwisdom.net) In 2011, I spent the majority of my time and effort with a group of practitioners trying to get local practitioners released from illegal detention. Practitioners in this team have to validate the Fa and do the three things Master asks us to do. To me, this is a solid cultivation process.

One practitioner we were trying to rescue was Ms. Lin Lan, who is in her forties. She was arrested during the time of the Beijing Olympics in 2008. While she was detained, she was secretly put on trial three times, but the trial kept being postponed due to a lack of evidence. The rescue team was established in November 2010, as practitioners started a series of activities to rescue practitioners.

Cooperating unconditionally

Practitioners in the rescue team once told me, in November 2010, that two practitioners went to the courthouse with Ms. Lin's family members demanding her release. The judge, with the last name of Zhao, was very rude to them and threatened to call the police. The practitioners did not know how to respond at the time. When I heard this, I said that they could have answered, “You have detained Ms. Lin for over two years. We are not shouting at you nor are we beating you. Why would you want to call the police?'” When the practitioners heard my suggested response, they immediately said that I should join in the rescue efforts. Since then, I have become a member of the team, and feel that as long as Dafa needs me, I will cooperate unconditionally!

Dafa provides guidance for our rescue efforts

There are nine practitioners in the rescue team, and we study the Fa together in the home of the practitioner who lives closest to the court.

Master said:

“...when it comes to a lot of the specific things you come across, you need to carefully think them over for yourself, and it's up to you yourself to come up with a way to resolve them. Wherever there's a problem, that is where you need to clarify the truth and save people. Don't take a detour when you run into difficulties.” (“Teaching the Fa at the Washington, D.C. Fa Conference”)

I believe that what Master said applied specifically to our team. As long as we understand clearly what we need to do and clarify the facts about Dafa and the persecution to the relevant people, we will achieve the best results and help them understand the facts. When I shared my thoughts with the practitioners the next morning, we quickly came to an agreement that we should focus our efforts on talking to the staff at the court.

Practitioners need to look inward

It was my responsibility to accompany Ms. Lin's family members to the court twice a week, demanding her release and clarifying the facts to the staff working at the court. We spoke to Judge Zhao, the head of the criminal division and the deputy head of the court about releasing Ms. Lin and told them not to persecute practitioners. Although we did not say much, every time we went there, I could feel that their attitude was changing.

When we clarified the facts to them face to face, other members of the rescue team helped send forth righteous thoughts as a group, and more practitioners sent forth righteous thoughts in the neighboring streets. Some even did it right in front of the court.

I often went to the city's intermediate court to clarify the facts to the staff there, as well. Every time I went out, I always took extra truth clarification materials with me so that I could distribute them on my way there. I clarified the facts to the staff at the city's intermediate court over and over again, and eventually even the staff on the reception quit the Chinese Communist Party.

We tried our best to look inward at all times, so that we could ensure everything went smoothly. For example, when we hired a lawyer, the practitioner responsible for meeting the lawyer at the bus station left them waiting at the bus station, which caused a negative impact on the case. The issue alarmed everybody in the team. So we studied Master's lecture “Be More Diligent” together and realized that nothing is coincidental. As long we all calmed down and looked inward, we would be able to rectify our mistakes and do better in our rescue efforts. We have to take our cultivation very seriously in order to have a firm footing and accomplish everything successfully.

Manifesting Dafa's power

Some of the staff from the court leaked information to us regarding the release of Ms. Lin in April 2011. We did not drop our guard for a second and continued with our rescue efforts.

During the trial on February 25, 2011, I thought that I must go and send forth righteous thoughts in close proximity to the courtroom in order to effectively disintegrate the old forces. However, the security was very tight, and the guards were checking everyone’s identification. I immediately asked for Master's help in my heart, “Please do not let them stop me.” As I walked in, it seemed that the guards did not see me at all.

I later went to the intermediate court on my own and asked to meet with the head of the court to discuss their detaining a practitioner for over two years. At that time, it was required that visitors use an identification card to register before going in. I asked for Master's help again. I told the guard, “I have come a long way and I have to meet with the head of the court to resolve some important issues.” He was very polite to me and told me that I could go in. I then met with the head of the court and told him about Ms. Lin's situation. I explained that she was arrested during the time of the Olympics, and that she had been detained at the first detention center in the city for over two years, which went way beyond the legal time limit, and that the case was tried in secret, without notifying her family members. The head of the court then promised to contact the district court to have them check up on the case immediately. A month later, the case started to turn in a positive direction and Ms. Lin was able to return home in early July of 2011.

During the process of rescuing Ms. Lin, I was able to realize that when I first started to do this work I had strong human notions and an attachment of fear. I gradually improved my xinxing and was able to eliminate this attachment through maintaining strong righteous thoughts.