Wang Junyuan gave speeches at the Chinese Consulate and within the Chinese-American community in Chicago, claiming that "Falun Gong damages one's family life." Because I am his wife and have first hand knowledge of what he is referring to, I must point out that his articles and speeches are full of lies. Falun Gong does no damage to one's family life; on the contrary, it is Jiang Zemin and his regime, the Chinese consulate and the government-controlled media that breaks families apart.
Let me tell my story from the beginning:
Wang Junyuan and I had quarreled and fought since we got married. Often, in anger he would threaten to divorce me. Both the police and our neighbors have come over to our home to help us resolve our disputes. There were several times when we were close to ending our marriage. After I started practicing Falun Dafa, I began following the principles of Truth, Compassion, and Forbearance, looking for what was wrong within myself and asking myself how I could improve in a situation where conflict arose. I learned to think about others. For a while, my husband also said I had changed and become a very gentle person.
Indeed, Falun Dafa has changed me from a narrow-minded person to an open-minded and tolerant person. My belief in Falun Dafa does not come only from reading Dafa books; it also comes from my experience of practicing the principles in the books. But my husband does not believe in Dafa. Of course, he was entitled to his own beliefs. I respected his choice and did not require him to join me. Yet, he did not want me to practice even though he saw how I had improved since practicing Falun Gong. I was puzzled: We were living in the U.S. We were both assistant researchers at a college. I was economically independent. Why didn't I then have the slightest freedom?
My home was a small environment into which crackdown on Falun Gong in the bigger environment of China had infiltrated. This is because we were connected with our home country in a delicate way. Since April 25, 1999 when the crackdown of Falun Gong began in China my husband conducted a similar crackdown in our own home in the U.S. He destroyed Falun Gong books and music cassettes. He cursed me; he punished me physically and did not let me sleep. He forced me to read anti-Falun Dafa propaganda and write letters giving up my belief and practice. He forced me to write letters of apology and remorse. (Of course, I was not confused by his irrational demands.) He monitored my calls to relatives in China. He checked my email and controlled my contacts with friends. He even contrived ways to persecute my parents in China and spread lies at their work places. Finally, he colluded with the evil forces in the Chinese Consulate in Chicago and publicly attacked Dafa and me in the People's Daily, a Communist Party newspaper in China.
With encouragement from the Chinese Consulate and under the directions of the Jiang Zemin regime, Wang became crazy and completely inhumane. In order to make me relinquish my belief in Dafa, he forced me to kneel down on the ground. At the time, I was three-months pregnant. He asked me whether I would continue practicing Falun Gong. When I said, "Yes" he raised his hand and slapped me in the face. Whenever I said a "Yes", he would slap me twice. This went on until till a sharp noise developed in my left ear. For a moment I lost my hearing. I felt dizzy and my head felt heavy and then I fell to the ground.
He destroyed all the Dafa books in my home, even the notebooks that I used to copy Dafa. He stomped on and smashed the cassettes of Dafa music. In fits of frenzy he would curse Dafa and Teacher, his eyes would become bloodshot and contort into a triangular shape. His complexion would turn dark red, like the color of pig liver. One day, he downloaded a picture of Teacher from the web and printed it out. He used a black pen to scribble on it and then waved it in front of me, as a challenge. I wanted to leave and ignore him, but it was my Teacher on the picture. So I went over to grab it from his hand. The picture got torn apart. I started to weep. I did not cry merely over the picture. Because I had not studied the Fa well, I felt helpless and passive during the tribulation. I should have stopped him directly and told him it was very wrong for him to abuse Dafa or me and how bad it was for his own life. I should have talked to him from the perspective of Dafa. Instead I used the concept of tolerance as everyday people understand it to face the tribulation, which made things worse. Later when I looked back at the situation from the stand point of Dafa, I found everything to be simple and clear. I realize that a firm belief in Dafa and a righteous mind is crucial. Whenever one thinks with an understanding of Dafa and follows the principles of a practitioner, one can do well during all kinds of tribulations.
Seeing that I would not give up Dafa, his hatred moved towards my parents. He stopped contacting my parents, and did not even speak to them when I gave birth to my baby. When he did talk to my parents over the phone about my practicing Falun Gong, he showed no respect to them and shouted at the peak of his voice. Once he said, "I will throw your parents into jail and buy a gun to shoot you." My father is a professor and was his supervisor when he was in college. My mother is a doctor. Wang secretly wrote letters to the Party Committees at my parents' work places to defame Falun Gong and me. Taking advantage of the persecution of Falun Gong in China, he asked the Party Committee to talk to my parents and put pressure on them. Meanwhile he pretended to be kind and caring toward me, as if the problem could be solved peacefully.
One evening, I took his hand, looked into his eyes and asked sincerely: "If I have done anything wrong to this family or to our marriage, please tell me. I will change. I will try to do better. Why do you have to behave like this?" He stood there speechless. I saw tears in his eyes. After a while, he said, "You are a good person." When I asked him again why he had to behave as he did, he took his hand from me, avoided looking at me and said abruptly, "I will not allow you to practice Falun Gong." He turned ferocious again, curses pouring out of his mouth. He walked back and forth frantically, cursing Dafa.
I had hoped that I might have been able to stay with him longer so that he would have had more opportunities to understand Dafa and become more reasonable towards Falun Gong. Unfortunately, in the end I found that he had already chosen the opposite direction. I was disappointed and depressed. I valued our marriage and I understood that there were karmic debts that I had to pay. However at some point our situation went beyond me paying off my karmic debts since he stood at the opposite side and attacked Dafa.
One day he proudly told me that he had met with the Consul General at the Chinese Consulate in Chicago and that he had issued our divorce. They supported him and gave him suggestions on how to change my belief. Soon after he attended a meeting organized by the Chinese Consulate in Chicago to criticize Falun Gong. He took the opportunity to attack Dafa and me with distorted stories. He then gave a public speech in Chinatown in Chicago to further spread slanderous lies. A local Chinese newspaper generally known as Small People's Daily carried his article. Seeing the damaging effect, he went further and wrote to People's Daily to denounce Dafa.
Every incident revealed to me his nature and my fundamental attachments. I know my attachments were one of the factors that caused his crazy behavior. Every disciple has a duty to guard Dafa. But attachments will deter us from carrying out our duty, thereby making our tribulations more severe and the evil more rampant.
Wang sued me in a court in China. But he wouldn't tell me what he was charging me with. I received the notice from the court, including the letter stating his charge against me. It was ridiculous, full of lies. He sued me for being a devoted Falun Gong follower. He said I damaged our family and that the "education" he gave me was a failure and therefore he was justified in seeking a divorce. But, he never said how he "educated" me. He beat and tortured me while I was pregnant, leaving bruises and swelling on my body and face. At one point he even said, "It doesn't matter as long as I don't beat your belly." He had an affair while I was pregnant and shamelessly told me not to get jealous. He said that men should have several women and that he was going to teach his son that as well. I did not get jealous at all; I was only shocked at his moral and mental depravity.
Soon thereafter the Chinese Consulate in Chicago called me and asked me to speak to them about my divorce. Why? It is shameful for a consulate, the representative of a country, to interfere with the personal matter of a divorce. They intended to make use of the tragedy of our family for political purposes and in so doing really damage the family. The Chinese Consulate deliberately overlooked the fact that Wang Junyuan beat his wife many times and had an affair while she was pregnant. To serve their purpose to destroy Falun Gong they made use of my personal family problem and severely violated my civil rights.
It had become impossible to talk with Wang reasonably and so I could do nothing but get a lawyer in the U.S. for the divorce. Two professors in his department, a colleague in my company, and a friend of mine all gave testimony that he had beaten me. He became frightened so he promised not to take me to court and to give me custody of the baby. Just when my lawyer was preparing to settle out of court, Wang went back to China. He hired two lawyers in China and read his empty charges against me in a Chinese court, "Chen Yinqin is a devoted Falun Gong follower..." Those words revealed his intention. He was trying to take advantage of the current persecution of Falun Gong in China. My lawyer was shocked at his double-dealing when he learned that Wang had sued me again in China instead of giving me the custody of the baby as he had promised. So my lawyers and I decided to take him to court.
During the hearing, he attacked Dafa and Teacher. Seeing his hatred and realizing that people like him would get extinction of body and soul eventually, I knew it was a result of his deeds and his choice.
Justice was served. The court in the U.S. gave the guardianship to me. As to Falun Gong, the court didn't agree with Wang Junyuan's description at all. The court said that his accusations about Falun Gong were groundless and exaggerated. They said that it was precisely because of Falun Gong that our marriage had survived as long as it did. They did not think it would bring any harm to the child if his mother practiced Falun Gong. When I read this, I was really happy for the judge and the court of law in the U.S.
Now everybody can see that what Jiang Zemin, the Chinese Consulate, and the People's Daily value most are men like Wang who swear, physically torture people, beat their wives, deprive pregnant women of sleep, have affairs outside their marriages, and who shout "I am going to throw your parents into jail and buy a gun to shoot you." What they hate most are people who firmly follow Truthfulness, Benevolence, and Forbearance, those who are considerate toward others, and those who have no fear or selfish ideas. I hereby call upon all kind-hearted people to expose the evil deeds of Jiang Zemin and his regime. Stop their violence and restore the reputation of Falun Dafa!
Category: Perspective
