(Minghui.org) The article “Negate the Chinese Communist Party’s Legal Persecution, Dafa is the Basic, Lawsuit Is Only a Supplement” published on the Chinese Minghui website resonated with me. I felt sad when I saw some practitioners were illegally arrested, sentenced to prison, or their homes were ransacked. I hope their cultivation and understanding of the Fa (teachings) improve and they quickly overcome their hardships.
I feel they were persecuted because the old forces took advantage of the loopholes in their understanding of the Fa. They believed that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) had evidence. The police may have found some pamphlets when they body searched them, or perhaps they confiscated printers, computers or other equipment from the practitioners’ homes. Perhaps the practitioners thought that they had omissions in their cultivation and the police had some evidence and a reason to persecute them. I feel this was the practitioners’ limited understanding of the Fa. Master is looking after us practitioners. If we have omissions in our understanding or we haven’t cultivated well, Master will point it out.
I feel these practitioners forgot this and complied with the persecutors’ demands.
Our human eyes only see that we are faced with the police and legal procedures. What we can’t see in other dimensions is that this is a battle between good and evil. Some practitioners have difficulty understanding the situation from the perspective of the Fa when they are persecuted. They regard it as a persecution by the police. The CCP never follows the law while handling Falun Gong cases. The old forces try to trick and confuse practitioners and mislead them into thinking from the perspective of CCP’s policies and laws—so we sometimes forget that we should understand the persecution from the perspective of the Fa.
Master said,
“If a person is completely in the Fa no one can touch him. Isn’t that having the ability to protect yourself? As a matter of fact, with regard to the veteran students [that started] prior to the persecution, I raised all of you to your positions. As long as you can go about things with righteous thoughts and righteous actions you can protect yourselves perfectly well, and that applies as well for new students that joined later.” (Teachings at the 2005 Conference in San Francisco)
If our understanding and way of thinking was based on the Fa, evil would be dismantled instantly. The real “facts and evidence” are not in this human world but are something that humans can’t reach or control. When our printers, computers and pamphlets are labeled “evidence,” they are rarely returned to us. If we can remember that they are our Fa tools, the situation may change. They do not belong to the persecutors and they will be returned to us.
I went to Beijing to appeal for justice of Falun Dafa several times in 2001. I was arrested and taken to a brainwashing center. More than 10 practitioners were already there. I told them, “I will stay here until all of you are released.” I believed I could handle the situation myself and that I would be a comfort, help and encouragement to them if I stayed there. All the other practitioners went home, but I was still detained.
I thought they would let me go home after The CCP’s “Two Sessions” ended. But no. I believed that they would release me when the spring farming time came. No, they didn’t. I felt something was wrong. I calmed down and looked within. I realized that I had the pursuit of going home and I was afraid I’d be sent to the forced labor camp where I might fail cultivation tests or I couldn’t bear the hardship. I played word games in the hope of being released.
I came across an idiom in a book which meant “You should know when to stop.” I felt this was a hint from Master, and I should change my mindset. I realized the prison authorities wanted to transform me so they could use me as their “education example” so they refused to release me.
When my family tried to rescue me, one of my friends wrote a guarantee statement on my behalf and told the police that I wrote it. I knew my previous thoughts and what my friend did were not correct. After Master gave me a hint, I understood what was happening. I needed to let go of my attachment to being released, and to whether I lived or died.
When I went on a hunger strike the police who ran the brainwashing center asked me what I wanted. I said, “I want to see your leader.” They were afraid and asked the director of the 610 Office to come. I told him, “I now declare any statements that my family or friends wrote for me null and void.” He was furious. But I felt relieved and didn’t care what he did to me.
It was after 11 a.m. when I finished talking with the 610 Office director. After lunch, my wife came to take me home. I thought she was joking and didn’t think it was real. I realized that Master helped me after I let go of my attachments including the attachment of life and death and my thinking was in line with the Fa. Master had the final say.
My father suffered many hardships and humiliations during the process of rescuing me. They refused to release me even though he said the stress might kill him.
When we take the human path, the evil remains evil. When we take the divine path, the evil evaporates instantly. This happened more than 20 years ago, and I haven’t been persecuted since then. My father and my wife started to practice Falun Dafa.
I moved my shop in 2019. My wife said, “It wasn’t easy for us to change our location. Please don’t tell the political instructor from the local police station where we are. You’d better arrange another place to meet him.” He came and asked for my new phone number and rang me. I said, “I welcome you to my new shop.”
I understood my wife’s concern but I decided not to do what she said. Was I worried? Did I forget he was someone to be saved and I still treated him as a police officer? A persecutor? I decided to treat him as an old friend.
Master said,
“...all human beings have come here for the Fa,...” (“Fa Teaching Given at the 2004 Western U.S. Fa Conference,” Collected Teachings Given Around the World Volume V)
I knew he came to see me because it was his job. We’d met before, and I didn’t hide anything from him when we talked. We chatted happily. I told him about my cultivation experiences, my happiness after I began practicing Falun Dafa, and how I became open minded and less selfish.
Finally, he asked me to take a photo with him. I understood what he meant. I believed he knew the truth about the persecution and would tell others. After we took a photo together, he said, “You are tall and strong.” Actually, I am only 5 feet 7 while he is 5 feet 10. He must have sensed how tall and strong I was on the side that I had been cultivated.
Some practitioners think that if we let the police officers take photos of us, we are cooperating with the persecution. I don’t agree. It is not important what their intention is. What’s important is our intention and mindset. I don’t think from the perspective of I’m being persecuted. I only think about helping Master save people.
As practitioners, we must see beyond the surface. We don’t acknowledge the old forces or persecution. We must break through human notions, understand the Fa from the Fa and improve ourselves solidly in the Fa. This is what Master asks us to do.
Category: Cultivation Insights
