(Minghui.org) I am grateful to Master for imparting the gift of Falun Dafa, purifying my soul, and allowing me to be reborn.
I lost my father at a young age. After graduating from high school at the age of 18, I had accomplished nothing. I had often fought others at school, insulted teachers, hit teachers, and insulted the principal. I was a well-known bad boy.
After graduating, I fooled around in society, didn’t want to work, wandered around, made many friends, smoked, drank, gambled, and was often involved in gang fighting. My mother was heartbroken because of me. When I was 19, I was jailed in a forced labor camp for three years.
I was put in shackles for death row inmates because I beat people and violated the jail rules. The guards once used nylon ropes to tie my wrists behind my back and hung me from the metal window bars for half an hour. My two thumbs were numb for half a year.
When I first arrived at the labor camp, I was violently beaten by two prison captains wearing boxing gloves. They verbally abused me while beating me and slamming my head against the wall. Because I was not submissive, they beat me for nearly three hours. My face was deformed, and my mouth was full of wounds and blood. They got tired of hitting me and were afraid that they would cause internal injuries and death, so they didn’t dare to let me go to bed immediately in the middle of the night. Instead, they forced me to run two laps in the yard. When my friends came to deliver something to me the next day, they didn’t recognize me.
Once, we went to work to repair a moat, and I had a verbal altercation with another inmate. The guards found out and punished us to stand in water more than a meter deep that was covered with thin ice for more than 20 minutes. I was totally numb after coming out of the icy water.
After returning home, I found a job. After several years of “hard work” (making connections through improper means), I became a manager in an enterprise. My former friends still interacted with me, and I rarely acted according to the law at work. I once quarreled with an official, so I asked my buddies to beat him up, but my two good buddies were paid off by the other party and ignored me. I was resentful and angry. I felt that my buddies’ loyalty was so unreliable. I had an indescribable feeling in my heart.
At that time, my brother, sister-in-law, and my wife all practiced Falun Dafa. After being betrayed by my buddies, I seemed to have suddenly woken up, realizing that it was time for me to start practicing Falun Dafa. In this way, in 1997, at the age of 28, I had the honor of practicing Falun Dafa.
Falun Gong is a high-level spiritual practice that has higher requirements for practitioners. We must be virtuous and do good deeds according to the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance. We do good deeds without expecting anything in return, and are compassionate to all living beings. In a materialistic society, it is really not easy to do this.
From the beginning of my cultivation, I quit all my bad habits in accordance with the requirements of Dafa, sincerely did good, and resolved conflicts and disputes with kindness. When encountering conflicts at work and in the family, I became sincere, kind, and tolerant. I had several diseases when I first started practicing: severe stomach problems (medicine was ineffective), hemorrhoids, blood in my stools, and constipation. Practicing Dafa healed all of them. I could live a full and optimistic life, with a broad mind. My family and friends said that I had become a different person.
My neighbors and my family had held grudges against each other for many years due to some minor things, and would scold each other or not talk to each other when they met. After we all started practicing Dafa, we quickly turned enemies into friends and became fellow practitioners, studying the Fa and practicing together every day. We helped each other and had a great time.
Sometimes when I ran into my former teachers, I took the initiative to greet them warmly, showing them respect from the bottom of my heart, and thanked them for educating me. The teachers were very pleased to see my changes.
At that time, many people were coming and going from karaoke halls, video halls, and game halls near my house. People often urinated and defecated in the middle of the night outside my house, which made my mother very mad. Master taught us to be considerate when conflicts happen, so the first thing I did when I got up every morning was to clean the back yard of the house. The conflict was resolved. Two months later, the booming game hall suddenly moved out, and the video hall also moved away, and no one relieved themselves behind my house again.
My family runs a small shop. Sometimes we found that we had received counterfeit banknotes when we were balancing the cash register at night. We burn any fake money to avoid harming others. I have sometimes unloaded goods for a merchant, and the merchant inadvertently paid for high-end goods by mistake, and a price difference was hundreds of yuan. My wife and I returned the money after we realized it.
On Chinese New Year’s Eve, I bought some snacks and visited my subordinates. They were moved. My sincerity and kindness have touched many people. My relatives, friends, neighbors, and colleagues have said that practicing Falun Gong is the right path, and they were impressed by me.
In July 1999, the Jiang Zemin faction (China’s former president) of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began to frantically persecute Falun Gong, using despicable and shameless means, such as lies to frame Falun Gong to deceive people all over the world. In order to restore the truth, I went to Beijing many times to petition in accordance with the law, and used my personal experiences to explain Falun Gong to the government. I was arrested four times, detained once, and illegally detained in a labor camp for three years.
In 2000, the labor camp began to “transform” Falun Gong practitioners. As long as they gave up their belief in Falun Gong and signed the “three statements”, they would be released in three months or half a year. A prison guard was responsible for “transforming” me. He asked me, “Why don’t you give up your belief in Falun Gong? You lose your job and freedom here; can you end well by going against the government? You seem to be a very smart young man. You should understand the pros and cons of your future. If you say that you will not practice Falun Gong, you will be released sooner. Don’t be stupid!” I first thanked him for his concern for me, and then told him: “It’s not that I don’t know the current state of affairs and ask for hardship. Falun Gong has brought me so many benefits. Do you know what kind of person I was before I practiced Falun Gong?” I then told him about my past experiences. This prison guard was very surprised; his attitude changed completely, and he said to me sincerely, “Practicing Falun Gong is great! You should continue!” He never asked me to give it up again.
Everyone in the labor camp, from the director to the guards, admitted that those who practice Falun Gong are good people, but under the CCP regime’s policy of persecution, the methods of persecution of Falun Gong in the labor camp escalated step by step. A brigade dedicated to persecuting Falun Gong was established. The promotion of guards, bonuses, and their evaluations were all linked to their “conversion rates,” forcing the guards to participate in the persecution of Falun Gong for personal gain. Not many police officers understood the truth or had a conscience or good intentions. Although the guards used all their evil methods to coerce, intimidate, and violently torture me, they could not change my belief in Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance. Once, a soon-to-be-released inmate secretly told me: “They have been asking me to put a lot of poison in the water you drink for a long time, but it’s not me who wants to harm you. They asked me to do it. You have to be careful.” However, under Master’s compassionate protection, I was safe and sound. I knew that they were trying to use poison to destroy my central nervous system and drive me crazy, and then claim that a Falun Gong practitioner went crazy, which is one of the CCP’s tricks for persecuting Falun Gong.
The prison guard squadron head instructed five inmates to beat me. My head was seriously injured, and I was bedridden. An inmate said to me, “These guys are so bad, they gave us an order to beat you. Whoever refused to do so would be punished by the squadron head.” This incident made me see more clearly the brutality of the evil CCP regime, which harms the country and the people, and endangers all living beings. Under Master’s protection, my body quickly returned to normal. Two years later, I walked out of the labor camp in a dignified manner.
The CCP has brutally persecuted Falun Gong for 26 years. Now, Falun Gong has spread to more than 100 countries around the world, benefiting hundreds of millions of people, and 450 million Chinese people have withdrawn from the CCP and its affiliated organizations. I hope that kind people can see through the CCP’s nature, distinguish right from wrong, good and evil, and treat Dafa kindly.
I am forever grateful for Master’s compassionate salvation! Thank you, Master, for your protection! Thank you, Master!