(Minghui.org) I’m 86 years old. Years ago I was a soldier. After I was discharged, I worked at a local supply and marketing cooperative. In 1984 I was promoted to a deputy manager of another company and then general manager of a company which was facing bankruptcy. I raised funds for the company in my own name and bought a building for the company. The troubled company paid off all its debts in a few years and gradually had a surplus.
I received dozens of provincial and city awards for my achievements. The top level officials offered me opportunities to publish books and obtain professional titles in order to increase my pay. I thought this would be using power for personal gain as my predecessor did, so I politely declined it.
I finally retired in 1996. Under the top level management’s persistence I worked two years beyond retirement age. I heard about Falun Dafa when I was visiting a colleague’s family on March 4, 1997. I was also fortunate to attend Master Li’s Fa lecture in Jinan. I was very excited. After I began practicing I felt like I had entered a new world, and I became a better person.
I realized that Master is the only person in the world teaching the righteous Fa. Many of my bad habits were eliminated and all my illnesses were resolved, including Meniere’s syndrome, concussion, and an ulcer.
Imprisoned in Forced Labor Camp
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Jiang Zemin’s regime started to brutally persecute Falun Dafa on July 20, 1999. Many practitioners subsequently went to Tiananmen Square to safeguard Dafa and request that Master’s reputation be restored. Local city officials tried to lure me to appear on TV, but I refused. I overcame numerous obstacles and arrived at Tiananmen Square on December 27, 2000.
I was escorted back to my hometown by local police officers and held in the city detention center for three months, along with many fellow practitioners who also went to Beijing to safeguard Dafa. I was given one year of forced labor by the 610 Office and the Domestic Security Division, for going to Beijing to exercise my freedom of belief.
The forced labor camp sent two inmates to monitor each practitioner. The first day that I was incarcerated, the guard tried to force me to recite the camp regulations and sign a statement saying that I would comply. I refused. Later the forced labor camp played the CCP fabricated Tiananmen Square Self-Immolation video to brainwash practitioners. I told the guards, “The person in the video is not a Falun Dafa practitioner. His meditation position is wrong. Falun Dafa practitioners sit with both legs crossed during meditation, but that person is sitting loosely.” When I demonstrated the correct position to the guards they could not argue. However they did not give up and sent two former practitioners who had given up Falun Dafa to persuade me to stop cultivating Falun Dafa. I did not cooperate with them either.
The health of some practitioners deteriorated because they weren’t allowed to study the Fa, practice the exercises, or sleep. The forced labor camp conducted medical experiments and injected poisonous drugs into practitioners claiming they were receiving medical treatments. They also poisoned our food. Some practitioners were tortured to death.
My life was also in great danger three times due to the persecution. Despite this, I still treated the guards and CCP officials with compassion, knowing that they were the real victims because they persecuted practitioners. I used every opportunity to clarify the truth to the camp officials and the inmates who monitored me. They all said practitioners are good people. Some of the inmates read Zhuan Falun and told me they wanted to follow the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance after they finished their detention terms.
Persisting in Distributing Truth-Clarification Materials
After I was released, I studied the Fa and practiced the exercises a lot every day and my body quickly recovered. I also sent forth righteous thoughts and clarified the truth to people.
I realized that I needed more truth clarifying materials than the local materials production site could provide. Soon, compassionate Master guided a fellow practitioner from another place who did not know me, to find me. He provided me with various truth-clarification materials. Master’s compassionate protection and the fellow practitioner’s selfless and fearless help encouraged me to cultivate more diligently. I cooperated with local practitioners to distribute the truth clarifying materials in urban and rural areas, regardless of cold or heat, day or night, or holidays. We rode bicycles in the city and rented motorcycles to travel to the countryside to distribute materials.
During the first three months of 2020 which was at the peak of CCP virus pandemic in China, people were terrified, and cities were placed on lockdown. I posted more than 300 posters reading, “There is a Way to Escape the Pandemic.” I also posted 1000 two-sided copies of “Falun Dafa is Completely Legal in China” and “U.S. Government Implements Sanctions Against Falun Gong Persecutors” at many building entrances.
Over the years, I traveled to most of the local towns and villages and distributed tens of thousands of truth-clarifying materials. I sometimes hang up one to two dozen banners in one night. The information helps eliminate people’s misunderstandings about Falun Dafa. More and more people understood the truth, withdrew from CCP and its affiliated organizations, and chose a great future.
The process of clarifying the truth and saving people is not always smooth. Sometimes when I’m busy with truth-calcification projects I slack off in my Fa-study and cultivation. The old forces have also taken advantage of my omissions and persecuted me with illness karma, mainly in the form of sudden fainting and losing consciousness. They wanted to take my life again and again. Whether I live or die is up to Master, and the old forces have no say.
Practitioners are gods’ messengers and we are people’s only hope for salvation. We carry a heavy responsibility and we have no time to slack off. We must truly follow Master’s teachings, eliminate our attachments, save more people, and live up to Master’s infinite endurance and compassionate protection!
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Category: Clarifying the Truth
