(Minghui.org) I have been detained six times since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started persecuting Falun Gong practitioners on July 20, 1999, however I was able to walk out of detention with dignity each time. Today I would like to share some of my experiences.
During the winter, another practitioner and I went to post banners with a truth-clarification message about Falun Gong printed on them. When we were half-way done, I said to the other practitioner, “You can stay here and watch out for cars. I can post them by myself.” When I finished posting on one street and we moved to the next street, there were only five or six banners left. My attachment of zealotry surfaced, and I forgot to send forth righteous thoughts. I wanted to post the banners at the entrance of the village government building and at the police station. Suddenly a big truck and a police car stopped near us. Several people came out and said to us, “Get in the car.” They pushed us into the car and drove to the police station.
One of the police officer asked me, “Do you have materials with you?” I took out two good-fortune charms and several copies of the truth-clarification materials. He took them and said, “Let me take a look.” I said, “Please read them carefully. The more you read, the better.” He returned in a little while, put down the materials on the table and asked me, “Do you know these people?” I said, “They are Jiang Zemin, Luo Gan, Zhou Yongkang, and Liu Jing.” He then asked, “What do they do?” I answered, “They are authorities who persecute Dafa practitioners. Don't you know that?” He stopped questioning us and sent us to a village where we were forced to sit on a long bench.
The other practitioner was trembling with fear. She said, “I don't know when they will release us.” I said, “We are here to validate Dafa. What they say counts for nothing. We have Teacher protecting us. We can leave whenever we want. Let's recite the Fa now.” She said, “I can't remember anything.”
Two lines from the poem “Master-Disciple Grace” in Hong Yin II came to my mind:
“Disciples’ righteous thoughts are strong
Master has the power to turn the tide”
We kept reciting these two lines. I felt very warm and comfortable as we recited. I asked the other practitioner if she still felt cold, and she told me that she no longer did.
At dawn, two police officers entered our room. They felt the cold air, and one of them asked us, “Do you feel cold?” I said, “No. Teacher is watching over us.” He asked, “Why didn't your Teacher release you?” I said, “We are here to validate the Fa. Once you learn the truth about Falun Gong, we can leave.”
Officers from the county Public Security Bureau arrived shortly thereafter. They took me into their car and drove to my home. They then ransacked my home. I was not afraid and kept sending forth righteous thoughts. As a result, they didn't find anything. In fact, Dafa books were lying right in front of them, but they couldn't see them. A policewoman insulted me, “You always make trouble for us. See what a fuss you made.” I said, “I am a poor person who doesn't have money or any power. If Teacher had not saved my life, I would have died already. Now I am healthy and try to be a kind person following the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. However, I am accused of committing a crime because of this. You endlessly tortured me [in detention]. Who is making trouble here?” Afterward, they drove me back to the county Public Security Bureau.
They interrogated the other practitioner in the conference room. I continuously sent forth righteous thought and clarified the truth outside. The police officer I spoke with nodded his head constantly, indicating that he understood. After a while, the practitioner came out of the room and said, “They told us to go home.” I corrected her, “It is not them who told us to go home. It is Teacher who is helping us go home.” We then returned home with dignity.
On another morning, after I had finished breakfast, an officer from the police station came to my home and told me to go to the county brainwashing session. I thought to myself, “I should go there just to clarify the truth and save sentient beings.” I first went to the village office. An officer from the 610 Office was trying to do the Falun Gong exercises there. I said, “Those are not the exercises of Falun Gong. Let me show you the right way.” While I was doing the exercises, a police officer entered and was about to hit me. I said, “This gentleman wanted to see how I do the exercises. I am just doing a demonstration. There is nothing wrong with that.” He then dragged me into a filthy and smelly dark room. I sent forth righteous thoughts there. After a while, I was taken to the county brainwashing center.
There were a total of nine practitioners in the brainwashing center. We were detained there for six days, during which time we held a hunger strike to protest the illegal detention. We were forced to watch a video that slandered Dafa. When we refused, we were hit and insulted. On the forth day, some practitioners' family members came to ask them to write the three statements renouncing their faith in Dafa, and subsequently some practitioners were released. Another practitioner was sent back to her village. Finally, there were only four of us left. We were detained individually in different rooms. I called for help to bring some blankets to the other practitioners. The police officers came in and insulted me loudly. One of them asked me why I had shouted. I said, “The other practitioners don't have blankets. I asked you to bring them the blankets.” He said, “You seem like a kind person.” I responded, “We follow the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. Every practitioner is kind.”
After a while, a policeman asked me to write a guarantee statement promising to stop practicing Falun Gong, and promised to release me if I complied. I said, “ I can't write it because I will continue to practice Falun Gong after I go home. If I say that I will no longer practice it, that would be lying. If I lie, I will let my Teacher down.”
At night, another practitioner and I stayed in one room, while four police officers watched us from an area outside the room. On the sixth night, we discussed among ourselves that we must get out that night. We asked Teacher for help to take with us the banners that practitioners had left behind. At midnight, we called the officer to open the door. He opened the door for us. They would usually wait for us outside the bathroom, and sometimes they would curse if we took too long. However, this time the officer went back to sleep after he opened the door for us. All four of them were sound asleep.
We walked out and hung the banners in the yard of the brainwashing center. Then we looked around and realized that we were surrounded by high walls. It seemed impossible to get out. At that moment, I thought of Teacher's words about every practitioner having supernormal capabilities.
Teacher said in Zhuan Falun,
“There was an elderly woman in the past who had her feet bound to make them smaller, but she could still jump effortlessly over a wall of two or more meters.”
We then jumped over a wall that was over two meters high. We recited Teacher's Fa while we were running and asked Teacher for help. We ran toward a forest in the suburban area. At dawn, we heard sirens everywhere. We later heard that the Public Security Bureau had dispatched all of the police cars to search for us that night.
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