(Minghui.org) I often heard that the Chinese Communist Party sends agents to foreign countries to keep practitioners from saving sentient beings and clarifying the truth about Falun Dafa. Several years ago, something similar happened where I lived in China.
Police arrested me in 2002, and I was sentenced to 12 years in prison. To protest, I went on a hunger strike. I was almost tortured to death and was sent back home a year later to regain my health.
The local government authorities often came to my home to see how I was. They intended to send me back to prison when I recovered. They would sometimes send agents to see me.
The normal agents were easy to identify. They were eager to find out other practitioners' names, about material centers, and information about different events. Those agents who were once practitioners were the most dangerous. I encountered one such agent.
In 2005 Tim (alias) was released from a forced labor camp. When he came home he heard that John (alias), who he was very familiar with, was also released. He also heard that John had been transformed, that he not only gave up practicing Falun Gong, but also helped the government to persecute other practitioners.
Tim decided to see John. Tim told John that he couldn't understand how John could betray Dafa and other practitioners. He blamed John and said that he was a disgrace to all practitioners.
John argued with him. “You were never in my situation. You were not tortured while in detention. You would think differently if you experienced what I did.”
“I won't go back to any forced labor camp,” Tim said. “That is not a place for me.”
John was dissatisfied and unhappy with this. Before Tim left, John asked Tim to leave him his cell phone number. Normally Tim wouldn't give out his number for security reasons, but he gave his number to John. Perhaps Tim thought John would never hurt him. They decided to meet again two days later.
As soon as Tim left, John called the leader of the city's National Security Team and gave him Tim’s information. The local police had been searching for Tim for years. They were very excited and immediately plotted with John on how to arrest Tim. They told John to invite Tim to his home for dinner. Soon Tim was arrested.
Tim's wife Amy (alias), also a Falun Dafa practitioner, waited for her husband until nightfall, and then went to find him. She knew that Tim had gone to John 's home. Outside of John 's home, Amy saw Tim's bicycle. Amy asked John where Tim had gone, and John told her straightaway that Tim was arrested because of him.
Amy returned home and immediately sent an email to alert local practitioners that John had become a government agent, and he had helped policemen arrest Tim. He visited many practitioners and reported each practitioner's situation to local police. Amy urged all practitioners to pay extra attention to safety, especially those who spoke to John.
I was shocked when I read Amy 's email. John had come to my house. I was scared and worried. I blamed the one who brought John to my house. I had been bailed out for medical treatment and had now fully recovered. If John reported me to the evil, wouldn't I be sent back to prison immediately? My home was also a material production center and many practitioners came to my home. Wouldn't they all be in danger?
John had come to my home twice. He came with another practitioner who wanted me to help John. According to the practitioner, John had been a very good practitioner before his detention in the labor camp, but he had been brainwashed and turned to the other side. Many practitioners tried to share their experience with John, but he just wouldn’t listen.
To avoid being sent back to prison, I would lie in bed when I talked with any practitioner who had enlightened on an evil path. When John arrived, I didn't have enough time to get back in bed.
I panicked a little at first, but soon calmed down. John had seen that I had recovered, and I just had to face it. I talked to John for a long time and answered all his questions. As he left, John said to me, “Thanks for the sharing. I understand many things now and will come back again.”
John did come back. That time he saw several practitioners who were learning how to repair a printer.
When I thought about my conversations with John, I considered what I should do next. Luckily, I studied the Fa well those days. I remembered what Master said about government agents:
“You can't say that it's because we have special agents there causing interference or blame it on this or on that. Actually, I talked about this long ago: When your minds are very righteous, a special agent wouldn't dare to stay where you are. He only has two options. One is to be assimilated by the righteous field, since the pure and righteous field that Dafa disciples give off purges everything that's bad in a person's mind. The pure, righteous field would disintegrate it, disintegrate everything that's unrighteous in the person's consciousness, and that's another manifestation of salvation and a reflection of compassion. When everything bad in a person's consciousness has been disintegrated and he's only left with a simple, pure mind, then that person will recognize and appreciate what's upright and good. So hasn't he been assimilated? Then the other option is to run away as quickly as he can, because the bad person's thought karma and bad concepts are afraid of being disintegrated.” (Teaching the Fa at the 2003 Midwest-U.S. Fa Conference)
“So why is it that some people are able to pry their way into where we are? Of course, there really aren't many of them. And why is it that during those times some people still provide the evil with information? It's because our field isn't pure and righteous in those places, and it's not able to have the effect of saving sentient beings and rescuing lives. It can't shock the evil. Isn't that our own problem?! Still, though, some people go on and on about it, talking about which ones are special agents and about this person or that person. But isn't it a problem on our part? It is. So from now on you should do better in studying the Fa, and that way your righteous thoughts will be stronger and you'll have a greater ability for saving sentient beings.”(Teaching the Fa at the 2003 Midwest-U.S. Fa Conference)
My righteous thoughts became stronger. I replied to Amy’s email and suggested that practitioners not panic. John visited me twice and already knew a lot.
I shared with practitioners that we should not be shaken by what John did, otherwise we might follow the path arranged by the old forces and not Master’s. We did need to look inside. Master told us that if we were righteous enough, agents wouldn't be able to interfere with us.
I felt unburdened when I sent the email. I felt the factors that had made me frightened had dissipated.
In the following days four more practitioners were arrested because of John, but I was fine. The local police didn't even come to my home as often as before.
Two months later, someone knocked on my door. It was John. I had many conflicting thoughts. I knew he was an evil's helper now, but if I didn't take this chance to save him, he might be lost forever.
I let him in. He limped in and I asked him what happened. He said this was retribution for what he had done.
“What did you do wrong?” I asked.
“I betrayed Tim,” he said. “Tim was tortured badly in the labor camp.” He blamed the leader of the national security team who had promised John that he would not torture Tim.
“How did you betray Tim?” I asked him.
“Tim said he would never be detained again. That was a big attachment. I wanted to help him to get rid of it.”
“Did you report Tim only?”
“No, I reported many practitioners.”
“Why?”
“The police department promised me 3000 yuan a month,” John said. “I had just been released from the labor camp. I had no money and so I agreed to spy for them. They instructed me to go to practitioners' homes every day and report back at 5pm. Sometimes I reported over the phone, other times face to face.”
“You came to my home twice. Did you also report me?” I asked.
“Yes, I did,” he said reluctantly.
“Why do you come today? Will you report me again?”
“How can I? I already know what I did was wrong. I feel great regret.” He felt very sorry for Tim after he heard that Tim was severely tortured after his arrest.
John told me about a dream that he had the night before. “I call it a dream but it was so real and everything was so clear. I saw Master sitting on a lotus flower that floated through my window. He touched my head very gently and kindly.
“Suddenly I realized what I did was wrong. It was wrong to betray my fellow practitioners. How could I fix it? Master instructed me to find a practitioner with the same family name as yours. I hesitated before coming here because I was not sure if you would see me. After all, everyone knows about what I had done, but I had no choice. Thank you for letting me in.”
Since then he comes to my home often to read Minghui Weekly and other materials.
I shared this with other practitioners. I told them the story, how it happened, and what I thought. One practitioner didn't agree with me. “If I were you, I would not talk with him. What you did was very irrational.”
We did a lot of sharing on this. Most practitioners agreed that Master doesn’t want to leave any practitioner behind, and we should offer John a chance to study the Fa more.
Because of John, Tim went to trial. During the hearing, John insisted that he testify on Tim's behalf to expose how the local national security team had entrapped Tim. Considering John's safety, we persuaded him to record a video, which was played in court by Tim’s attorney.
To help John regularly browse the Minghui website, a practitioner gave him a used computer. We shared experiences with him from time to time.
Most practitioners in my area agree that we should treat government agents with strong righteous thoughts. Even though it happened ten years ago, the experience helped me to enlighten, and overcome many ordeals with very strong righteous thoughts.
I also realized that we shouldn't push away practitioners who enlighten to an evil path. We should treat them with mercy. We must also keep a clear mind to prevent those practitioners from participating in certain projects or events. When we improve as a whole, such interference won't have room to survive.
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