(Minghui.org) I talked with a fellow practitioner on October 7, 2025, who had just come out of prison, about my experiences of not cooperating with the evil and denying the old forces. He encouraged me to write about my experiences, so I have selected a few snippets to share with fellow practitioners.
I was illegally jailed in the Masanjia Labor Camp in Shenyang in 2004. I often clarified the truth to former practitioners who had given up their belief. Many of them listened to my advice and returned to the right path. The guards were very angry when they found out, and said they wanted to lock me in the bathroom. I said, “It doesn’t matter, there are garbage stations everywhere in the world anyway.” At that time, I was unclear about the Fa, and I thought that I was very firm, and not afraid of the evil. I had inadvertently cooperated with the old forces and obeyed their arrangements, and as a result I was locked in the bathroom for more than 40 days.
One day I thought, “Master, it’s so uncomfortable, I don’t want to stay here.” This thought was equivalent to asking Master to help me. As a result, the next day, they placed me in a classroom. I could recite the Fa every day, and no one bothered me. One day, I realized, “The hardships I suffered before were all caused by my thoughts. I should not cooperate with or obey the evil’s arrangements, I should not follow the path arranged by the old forces, I will follow the path arranged by Master and completely deny all the old forces’ arrangements.”
After a period of time, I heard that there were prisoners outside the classroom transforming Dafa disciples. Without hesitating, I rushed out and told them that they were not allowed to force Dafa disciples to give up their belief. A guard later came over and said, “If you don’t enjoy the good treatment, then go back to the bathroom.” They took me to the bathroom. I said, “I won’t go in, the bathroom is not a place for people to stay.” The guards saw that I was insistent, so they reluctantly went to ask the captain and took me to a large classroom with a very good environment. I was able to recite the Fa and do the exercises again.
I was on the Fa this time and had denied the evil’s arrangements without considering my own safety. I had opposed the persecution, which was in line with the characteristics of the new universe. The old forces had no excuse to persecute me, so Master arranged a better environment for me.
I was placed in a special team, which had more than a dozen Dafa practitioners, and only a practitioner from Beijing and I had no physical problems. All the practitioners were required to greet the captain when he came into our room.
The fellow practitioner from Beijing said to me one day, “Let’s take the lead and not greet the captain.” I agreed. After that, the captain came, and we didn’t shout hello to the captain. The captain said, “You are so unreasonable. You don’t have to work, you don’t have to recite the prison rules, you don’t have to wear prison uniforms. Yet you still refuse to greet the captain?!” The captain guessed that the Beijing practitioner and I had come up with the idea, so he asked us to do it, but neither of us did. They found a few male guards, separated us into two rooms, and tortured us. I had sweat all over my body, and my hands were hurt badly. I thought, “Master, please save me. I don’t want this persecution. I am a disciple of Master Li Hongzhi. I don’t want any other arrangements. Whoever persecutes me is committing a sin.”
Ten minutes later, the guard came with a doctor, and the doctor’s hand accidentally touched my fingertips. I shouted out with a “swoosh” in pain. They untied me for a few minutes. The guard said, “If you greet the captain, we will let you go back. But if you don’t, you will continue to suffer.” I didn’t answer him, thinking to myself, “I won’t let you torture me again. I don’t want it.” At this time, the doctor suddenly hugged me and said, “Oh, you are from such and such town, we are fellow villagers.” As he spoke, he pushed me back into my room.
I sat in the room for about ten minutes. The door then opened and the captain came in with the Beijing practitioner, who said to the captain, “Let me tell you, I am not convinced.” After she sat down, she turned back to me with a painful expression and asked if I had compromised with them. I said no. She said, “Oh, Master said in my ear that I would pass the test in five minutes, but I didn’t make it.” I said, “No, that’s not what Master said, that was the devil.” She asked, “How can you say that?!” I told her what Master has taught us:
“Except for newer students, from July 20 of 1999 on, Master hasn’t created any personal cultivation tests for you, and that’s because overall your personal cultivation has changed in every respect so that it’s in the direction of saving sentient beings and validating Dafa.” (Teachings Given on Lantern Festival Day, 2003)”
She then said, “Ah, it turned out to be arranged by the devil.”
I overcame this trial with righteous thoughts. As a result, our team no longer greeted the captain. We dismantled the old forces’ evil arrangements, and the guards compromised.
I was imprisoned in the 12th Ward of Shenyang Dabei Women’s Prison in 2015. That prison area is essentially a concentration camp for high-pressure brainwashing of Falun Gong practitioners. I knew how evil that place was, so I always reminded myself not to cooperate with the evil, and to counter the persecution at all times.
As soon as I entered the cell, an inmate asked me to renounce Falun Gong. I refused, and she slapped me. I said to her seriously, “Who gave you the power to beat me? You are a criminal. I will tell the captain to increase your sentence.” She was stunned for a moment, then left. She never hit me again. She tried various ways to persuade me to renounce Falun Gong, but I didn’t listen. One day, I found that my bedding was gone. I asked her, “Where is my blanket?” She said, “This is the government’s blanket, and you cannot use it if you don’t renounce Falun Gong.” I looked for the blanket everywhere, and eventually found it. When I went to get it, she stopped me. I snatched it back and went straight to my bed. I said to her, “You are not allowed to persecute me. You are sinning.” She said, “I have never seen a Falun Gong practitioner like you, and you dared to grab it.” I said, “Dafa disciples have both compassion and majesty, and my majesty toward you is the greatest compassion for you.” She was stunned. I ignored her and went to bed. She no longer bullied me.
I knew that I had passed this hurdle. Many practitioners had succumbed to sleeping on the board bed without getting their blanket back, and in the end they couldn’t bear it, and had yielded to the guards against their will.
Master said:
“Some people say, “While a Tao is one foot tall, a demon is one yard high.” That is a false saying among everyday people. A demon will never be higher than a Tao.”(Lecture Five, Zhuan Falun)
Besides, we are Dafa practitioners, so the evil is nothing to us.
Over the years, I have realized that no matter where you are, if you are not grounded in the Fa, the more you are afraid and cooperate with the evil, the more suffering you will have and the more severe the persecution will be. Whether I was in a labor camp or a prison, relatively speaking, I did not suffer that much because I understood the Fa on negating the persecution.
I wrote about my experiences with the intention of sharing with fellow practitioners.