Section 7
With the publishing of Teacher's new articles and the change in the cosmic climate, I started to do some truth-clarifying work with other practitioners. We passed out Dafa materials and spoke the truth to our relatives, friends and colleagues.
At the end of November 2000, my wife, two other practitioners and I went to Tiananmen Square. We unfolded a banner and were quickly arrested. The plainclothes police officer twisted my arms and waved his fists in my face. I said to the audience surrounding me, "What is wrong with practicing Falun Gong?"
Afterwards, we were sent to the Tiananmen police station. In several rooms were detained Falun Gong practitioners. They asked our names and no one told them. We recited Mater's articles and Hongyin together. When we heard the beating sound coming from another room, we shouted together "Don't beat!"
Around three o'clock, we were sent to the Haidian Detention Center by bus. A policeman asked our names but we didn't tell him. He said he would ask prisoners detained there to torture us. At night, the prisoners striped off my clothes and poured cold water over me. They also kicked my ribs, toes and used toothbrushes to pry my fingers. My righteous mind was not strong enough so I told my name. After a 12-day detention, I was escorted back to the local police station.
I was first detained in a reception office, where I saw three female practitioners who were holding a hunger strike. They were all from northeast China. The police officers wanted to search their bags, which had Dafa books. They protected the bags and the police eventually gave up. I was greatly encouraged by their experience sharing, especially by their performance, and decided I must pass the next test well.
At night, I was left alone in the office. I felt an intangible pressure upon me. I became restless. I knew something was coming out and tried my best to resist it. I recited the Fa without stopping, and after a while I felt light and I knew that I put that thing down. The thought occurred to me that I could be released very soon.
When I was transferred to a cell, I clarified the truth to the prisoners and it was effective. When they knew that this was my second time being detained, they thought I would be sentenced to a labor camp unless I wrote a statement guaranteeing not to practice Falun Gong any more. The third day, a disabled practitioner was sent in. They asked his name but he refused to tell them. The head of the cell then started to torture him. I tried to persuade him not to do so. The head said "The supervisor will give me a hard time if I don't do it." They also wouldn't allow him to get any sleep and I tried to stop them again. They said, "All right, then you are not allowed to sleep, either." I thought about the disabled practitioner's suffering and difficulty, so I took care of him and stayed with him through the whole night. Several prisoners became sympathetic. One of them didn't sleep either. He passed us clothes secretly.
The second day, they tortured the practitioner again and forced him to tell his name. I was beaten, too. At night, the police asked for my home phone number and said, "You will leave today or tomorrow." The prisoners said they must send me to a labor camp. I didn't know where I was going to go, either. But I was very calm, for I was determined in Master and Dafa. The second night, I was released. They let me go without going through any procedures and asked me to write something down on a piece of paper.
Section 8
Two days later, which is December 30, 2000, the neighborhood police knocked on my door. My wife asked from inside, "What are you coming for?" The police said, "We are looking for your husband." She said, "He just returned yesterday. What do you want to do?" "We need to take him away." "For what reason?" "We have no idea. We are just following the orders of our supervisors." My wife said, "No way! He didn't do anything wrong." The police poured out a stream of verbal abuse, aired their grievances and then left. I took that opportunity to leave home. I stayed in a relative's home for a couple of days. After the New Year of 2001, I went to work as usual but my entire bonus was withheld.
The 2001 Spring Festival was coming. On the morning of January 23rd, my workplace forced me to go to the police station. After a few days, the vice director of the district talked with me, asking me to state that I would give up practicing Falun Gong. It is absolutely impossible. Outside the window of the prison were the constant sounds of fireworks, but I was not moved and continued to clarify the truth.
Section 9
After the spring festival, the unlawful officials held brainwashing sessions, where practitioners lived well and ate well. All the expenses were paid by their workplaces. That indeed deluded some people. Some practitioners asked my opinion about the brainwashing classes. I pointed out that the nature of them was to persecute Dafa and Dafa disciples. More and more practitioners realized this and began to resist being brainwashed. Some who were detained were not only determined but helped those who held unclear understandings to realize the nature of the sessions. Some successfully got out of the classes; some never gave in even having gone through several sessions of brainwashing. Some were sent to labor camps. There were also dozens of practitioners who were forced to leave home.
Right after the winter break, my wife got a notice that informed her to register in the principal's office and receive so-called "education". They stopped her from teaching and forced her to write the so-called "understanding" of Falun Gong. The lawless people kept threatening that if she resisted she would be sent to a brainwashing class. One night, the officials and police of the neighborhood community came to my home and wanted to brainwash us. We then clarified the truth to them. They mainly listened to us and had nothing to say. During that time, my wife experienced great pressure: her workplace only gave her a base salary and she had to write down her understanding every day. She continued to clarify the truth under that condition. One time, a call from a higher official level came and asked about her situation. It happened that the principal was not present, so she talked to that person and persuaded him not to persecute Dafa. The man listened to her for about half an hour. Whenever she met her students, she told them the goodness of Falun Gong and asked them not to believe the lies on the China Central TV Station. Many students understood what happened. We also encouraged each other after we returned home.
Because of my performance in the workplace and influence in the district, the "610 office" dared not persecute me at will. They also had conflicts in their cooperation. As a matter of fact, except for a few people who devoted themselves to this persecution, most people just went through the motions The wisdom obtained from Dafa made me able to use their weak side, keep up my work and take every opportunity to clarify the truth. Once, I wrote a letter to the director and the party secretary of the district protesting the persecution of me as well as indicating that Falun Gong is good. The leaders of my workplace were worried and afraid. They asked me to resign, but I refused firmly. I was the best employee in the workplace, why should I resign? They never mentioned it again.
My good work performance greatly helped me to clarify the truth. Once, a colleague said to me, "No one says any bad words about you in our bureau." Another time, a leader said to me, "We respect you." Many people in my workplace know the persecution is unjustified. Even when the evil was most rampant, many people still held their good hearts out to Dafa and me. Since the so-called "Tiananmen Self-immolation Incident" happened, the evil forces speeded up their slandering and persecution of Dafa and people of the world. Even ordinary people suffered from the evil's constant lies. Once, a leader told me after attending a meeting sponsored by the "610 office", "This is endless; I am really tired." After a while, he said to himself, "Even though they ask me to hate Falun Gong, I can't." I knew those words were from his heart. Later on, the government held a signature campaign against Falun Gong. I told him not to sign. He said, "I won't sign. If they ask me to sign, I will find an opportunity to slip away." I also told him not to let his family sign and he agreed. I was sincere when I said that to him. He was moved. Many people in my workplace offered me lots of help. On the surface they just helped me, but they were actually positioning themselves. I was happy for them. Once, I traveled with the tour group organized by my workplace. I clarified the truth to the tour guide and the tour lady. They all understood the truth. One day, when we entered a restaurant, a program slandering Dafa was played on TV; after a short while, the channel was changed. Later on, a person asked me, "Do you know why the TV channel changed the other day? It was me who asked them to change it."
Teacher says, "Your current performance as Dafa disciples is magnificent. All of this is your goodness (shan) made manifest, and it is what the evil fears the most, as those who attack goodness are bound to be evil. The actions they are now adopting in the persecution of Dafa and its students are extremely evil and shameful, and they fear these will be exposed." (Essentials for Further Advancement II. "Rationality")
The evil actually could not do anything about me. They could not deceive my colleagues because my colleagues knew my work performance. They knew I would not give up. Every time they attempted to do something to me, it was my opportunity to clarify the truth to them. I had the initiative. If they didn't look for me, I would find an opportunity to talk to them. But they knew I had influence over other practitioners, so they said they would try all means to make me give up my belief.
On July 2001, the "610 office" kidnapped me from my workplace and detained me in a brainwashing class. But in less than half an hour, I got out of the class with a righteous mind. My wife and I merged into the current of Fa-rectification again. We clarified the truth with other practitioners. I also made a stern statement on Clearwisdom.net that all I said or wrote before which was inconsistent with Dafa were invalid. I wrote articles to expose the persecution by the "610 office." They were hateful and afraid. They used many means to arrest me but failed. Then they harassed my relatives. My relatives didn't cooperate with the evil and condemned them. They then harassed my parents who lived far away in a countryside area. One of my relatives chastised them, "Those old people have heart problems. If something happens to them because of you, I won't let you go." My other relatives also didn't cooperate with them.
We practitioners follow Master's guidance to "Clarify the truth thoroughly, eliminate the evil with righteous thoughts, save all beings, and safeguard the Fa with determination..." ("Dafa is Indestructible") I know my shortcomings in meeting the requirements of the Fa-rectification. I will be more rational and clearheaded. I will walk towards maturity during the course of completely eliminating the evil.