(Minghui.org) I gave four young men some CDs containing software to circumvent China’s Internet blockade in the late afternoon of June 22, 2015. It happened that they were plainclothes officers, and I was taken to the police station.
Some Domestic Security Division officers (who had met me before) interrogated me in the evening. They tried to put me on an iron chair torture device, and I said it was not for me and refused to comply. They said, “Then you will have to stand.” I did not answer any of their questions, and kept telling them how I benefited from practicing Dafa cultivation. After a while, the team lead asked one officer to give his chair to me, so I sat down. When they asked me to sign the interrogation report, I said to them, “If I sign, it means I acknowledge your persecution of me, and you will have to pay for it in the future.” They did not insist.
They tried to take my fingerprints the next day, and I said no. Two officers held up my arms and tried to forcibly take my fingerprints. I said with a loud voice, “My Master has said:
“If anyone could harm you, he or she would be able to harm me. Put simply, that person would be able to harm this universe.”” (Lecture One, Zhuan Falun)
They took me to the door of the office where the fingerprinting was done and quickly left. There was a group of officers inside the room and I started to tell them about Falun Dafa, and that only by quitting the CCP can one ensure their safety. Two officers agreed to quit the CCP.
The officer in charge of taking my fingerprints tried to take them, but I resisted. “Take her fingerprints!” Another officer shouted, “You think it’s easy?” The one in charge answered back. In the end, they had to give up.
Just before noon, some officers took me for a physical examination. I had a chance to clarify the truth to the doctor who examined me. I was taken to a detention center in the afternoon. As soon as I saw the officer in charge of the cell, I told her, “Be kind to Dafa practitioners and you will be rewarded.” She said, “I am always kind.” She later called out the cell head who told me after she returned, “You don’t have to work. Take your time to memorize the prison rules.” Perhaps some practitioners had already clarified the truth to the officer before.
I didn’t do slave labor nor memorize the prison rules. Instead, I sat there, reciting the recently published “Lun Yu,” which I hadn’t fully memorized.
I also looked inward, and found many of my attachments. The night before I was arrested, I came home very late after helping a practitioner process a lawsuit against the former CCP leader Jiang Zemin. My husband was worried about me, and was angry with me when I got home. I tried to keep myself calm, but he got more angry. In the end I lost my temper and yelled at him. At that time I still had a bad temper, I didn’t know how to truly cultivate, and I took the anger as being part of myself.
I said to Master, “Master, I was wrong. I will follow the Fa and cultivate compassion. The detention center is not a place for me to stay. I need to go home and do my tasks.” Whenever I had opportunities, I went to clarify the truth to the prisoners, and advise them to withdraw from the CCP.
The practitioners in my family hired a lawyer who was not afraid to speak up, and local practitioners helped to send righteous thoughts. My husband accompanied the lawyer to the Domestic Security office, and all of my family members went there, demanding my release. Three days later, the officers interrogated me again. I continued to clarify the truth to them, and I recited a poem from Hong Yin III to them, and they actually wrote down the poem. Finally, they handed me a piece of paper and asked me to sign. On the paper my release date was written: June 30th. I told them again that if I signed, they would bear the consequences. They did not insist on me signing.
At that time, I had already gone on a hunger strike to protest the persecution. When the prison officers found out, they said that they had a complete set of equipment for force-feeding. I thought about the whole process, including the purpose of my hunger strike was to validate Dafa, that I wanted to walk out of the detention center in an upright manner after validating Dafa, and that there would be no point in being force-fed. Besides, I was scheduled to be released soon (this reflected my cultivation state at the time). Upon thinking about force-feeding my body felt the pain, so I stopped the hunger strike.
During the detention, I followed Dafa’s principle to be a good person wherever I was. I sometimes took the initiative to help the inmates with their work, as they had daily quotas. The cell head was nice to me, and she didn’t object to my clarifying the truth to people. She sometimes would even share her good food with me. I helped her quit the CCP.
During those eight days before the June 30th, I looked inward, memorized the Fa, sent righteous thoughts, and clarified the truth to people. I had no negative thoughts, and when the officers threatened me, I said in my heart, “My Master will have the final say.”
The day of June 30th came. The morning passed and it was past three in the afternoon, I still had not been released. I let go of my thought of being released, and started to send righteous thoughts. I no longer thought of being released or not, and meanwhile my righteous thoughts became stronger. My body no longer had an uncomfortable reaction when I thought about being force-fed. After my heart became firm, everything changed, and it was amazing. Just then I heard the officer call my name: “Pack your things and go home.” Tears covered my face, I was so grateful to Master!
Two months after I returned home, I was asked to report to the police station. I went there and continued clarifying the truth to them. This time they did not ask me to sign anything, and they said to themselves, “It is for our good if you don’t sign.” After the New Year, they asked me to go to the police station again, and this time they canceled the state of my “being released on bail pending trial,” and I was free.
I Found My Root Attachment
I have been arrested four times when clarifying the truth and distributing the truth materials. Why did I get arrested while saving people? Every time it happened, I found some attachments, and I tried to eliminate them.
When I once mentioned to a practitioner that I had been arrested four times for clarifying the truth. She asked me, “Why do you clarify the truth?” I said that is what a Dafa practitioner should do. After returning home, I kept looking for my attachments related to why I clarify the truth, and I found that I sometimes felt uneasy if I did not clarify the truth. If I did, I would feel that I had done well that day. This feeling of “uneasy” and “done well” were human attachments. I was afraid of not being able to achieve consummation if I did not do well. These attachments were sometimes on the surface and sometimes deeply hidden. The attachment to self-interest was my fundamental attachment. After I found the attachment, I no longer indulged it, and I felt that my space was clearer, and it became easier for me to go out to clarify the truth.
Clarifying the truth and saving people are Dafa practitioners’ duties during the Fa-rectification, and are our vows before coming down to the human world. Every time I went out to clarify the truth, it was not too little if I helped only one person to quit the CCP, and if I helped many people, I would not feel pride, because it is Master who saves people. We only move legs and mouths under the blessing and protection of Master.
I am so grateful for Master’s compassion! I thank everyone who provided opportunities for me to improve my xinxing!
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