(Minghui.org) I’ve been practicing Falun Dafa for over 20 years. I know I will overcome many tribulations and elevate my realm if I have righteous thoughts and behavior while validating the Fa and treat myself as a true cultivator. If I relax and study the Fa but don’t really cultivate myself and let go of my attachments, the old forces will exploit my loopholes and cause irreparable losses.
The police arrested me at my home in August 2023, claiming someone had reported me for distributing Dafa informational materials. They took me to a detention center the following day and detained me for 15 days. Two women from the community office and a police officer came to get me on September 1. When I asked them where they were taking me, they said, “You’ll know when you get there.”
I was squeezed into a police car and saw the windows were covered with newspaper. I asked the two women who sat with me if they knew where we are going. They did not. I said, “You must not believe the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) lies. There is nothing wrong with me learning Falun Dafa. Master Li taught us to follow Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance and be a good person. We only tell people to stay away from disasters, recognize evil, and protect themselves in times of disasters and plagues. Everything we do is to save people.”
One of them replied, “We are also lowly citizens. We can only do what we are told.” It took a long time to reach our destination, which turned out to be a notorious brainwashing center. I was taken to a room where two “companions” were waiting for me.
They took me to a detention center a week later. I sent out powerful righteous thoughts on the way: “Master, please bless me so that their plans will not succeed. The detention center is not where I should be, and what they say does not count.”
The detention center guard looked at my file and said, “She is old and has a spinal fracture. We can’t accept her.” I was taken back to the brainwashing center.
The brainwashing center has no address. It’s a three-story building surrounded by high walls and a large metal door at the entrance. One has to swipe a card to enter a second door. Six guards are on duty every day in the reception room on the first floor. A secretary and two department heads take turns on night duty.
Cameras everywhere monitor Dafa practitioners’ every move. There were two collaborators, a man and a woman. When I first arrived, no one spoke to me, and I had no idea what I would face. Each of us was given a list of requirements. We were not allowed to go out, talk to anyone, communicate with other practitioners, or do the exercises. I felt pained that I couldn’t do the things I should do every day. But when I remembered that I was a Dafa disciple in the Fa-rectification period and Master was by my side, my righteous thoughts arose.
Master said,
“A Dafa disciple should completely negate everything arranged by the evil old forces. Clarify the truth thoroughly, eliminate the evil with righteous thoughts, save all beings, and safeguard the Fa with determination, because you are a part of Dafa, solid and indestructible; rectify all that is not righteous. Those who are “reformed” and those being saved are beings who were deceived by the evil [and not Dafa disciples]; those who are being eliminated are the evil beings and the evil old forces; those who are reaching Consummation through all this are Dafa disciples, and through all of this Dafa’s mighty virtue is established.”(“Dafa Is Indestructible,” The Essentials of Diligent Progress II)
A collaborator came to my room on the sixth day. She introduced herself as a specialist in psychology and said she would be responsible for my “study.” She asked how I was admitted and then said many things slandering Dafa. I sent righteous thoughts to stop her and said, “You learned Dafa, then betrayed it. You don’t deserve to mention Dafa or say Master’s name.” She blushed and left.
The male collaborator’s room was opposite mine. He came to my room in the evening. I sent forth righteous thoughts. Seeing that I did not say anything, he did not know what to do and left.
The third person who came was a so-called “teaching helper”—a good talker. He came to study the Constitution and the Six Notices of the Police Department with me and told me to watch the Tiananmen Square self-immolation. I told him that it was a hoax staged by the CCP. I said, “Wang Jindong’s face and body were literally burned, but he was able to sit there motionless. Do you think that could be true? I know that you are all deceived by the CCP’s lies. Don’t be blinded by them.” He never came to see me again after that.
Staff at the brainwashing center heard lies every day. I think it was fate for me to be there and meet them. I had compassion for them and wanted to tell them the truth. I cared about them and helped them. They began to tell me their personal problems and considered me a close friend.
I told them, “What is good and what is bad is measured by the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. The CCP describes good people as bad and bad people as good. They have persecuted people in every one of its political campaigns. One will be labeled a ‘rightist’ and ‘counterrevolutionary’ if one tells the truth. Now they are persecuting Falun Dafa. Those in power have harmed so many people for their own power.”
One of them responded, “We hope the truth will be revealed to the world one day.”
With Master’s blessing, no one came to bother me for nearly a month. The collaborators never came in when they passed my door. I recited Hong Yin and “On Dafa” and sent righteous thoughts: “I’m a Dafa disciple, and I came to this life to help Master rectify the Fa and save all sentient beings. Although I still have human attachments that I haven’t gotten rid of, I will correct myself. I’m under Master’s control.”
This was not where I should be, and I needed to get out. I sent righteous thoughts every day to eliminate the evil. After I’d been in the brainwashing center for a month, I got up at 4 a.m. every day and did the exercises in the bathroom, since there was a curtain in there and no one could see me. That was how I did three of the exercises. I also put a chair in the bathroom so I could meditate when they weren’t looking.
I would like to thank my fellow practitioners for sending righteous thoughts to support me. I also thank my family. My husband went to the police station many times to seek my release. My 91-year-old mother and my sister and brother-in-law also went to the police department to ask for my release. My daughter, son-in-law, and in-laws also went to the police station and the neighborhood association to demand my release.
On the day I was arrested, the department manager brought me a form and told me to write the three statements stating that I would give up practicing Falun Dafa. I ignored him and thought: “Master has passed down the Great Law of the Universe to me. He has borne the karmic debts I owe from lifetime after lifetime, enlightens me so that I can improve, and protects me. Resolutely following his arrangement is the only way I can repay him. I cannot discredit Dafa!”
I hope those practitioners who are lost can awaken soon. As we stride forward at this last moment of Fa-rectification, we must do well on each step as we validate Dafa.
Please correct me if anything is not in accordance with the Fa.
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