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Personal Cultivation Stories
1) Walk out of the forced labor camp with righteous thoughts and righteous actions.
On April 18, I was set free unconditionally after being on a hunger strike for 9 days in a detention center. A month later, policemen and some people from my workplace abducted me and sent me to a forced labor camp. When they wanted to do a physical examination, I would not cooperate with them. They tried to lift me up and carry me into the examining room and Teacher's words appeared in my mind, "Since I am rooted in the cosmos, whoever can challenge you can challenge me, and to be frank, can challenge the cosmos." (Zhuan Falun) The six people cried out for help, but were unable to lift me. They said, "Her Teacher really looks after her." After the physical examination, the forced labor camp refused to keep me, so the policemen decided to send me to a brainwashing center. The head of the brainwashing center said, "Here we use all kinds of things including the water dungeon, tiger bench, hot pepper powder, and also magic potions that can make one lose his mind. I did not pay any attention to his threats, but just clarified the truth to him with my kind heart in order to offer salvation to him. The next day, my work place asked my son to pay 5000 Yuan [about 10 months of salary of an average urban worker in China] as a so-called "re-education fee". My son indignantly told them, "You have fined us over 20,000 Yuan. We don't have any money left. I can't buy my Mom's release!" Then he hung up. Shortly after that they notified my son to take me home without any conditions.
2) A female college student's experience of cultivation and validation of Dafa through tribulations
Since I had gone to Beijing several times to appeal for Dafa, my university threatened that they would send me to a forced labor camp to receive "re-education" for 3 years. I thus left my university and started a life of homelessness. I took wherever I happened to be as a home. I began to participate in clarifying the truth about Dafa to people but was eventually unlawfully arrested. When I confronted the evil, I realized that cultivation is not child's play. Because of my human mentalities that I had not given up, I did not completely refuse all of their demands. Later, I was sentenced to 9 years in jail. On the way to the Jinan Prison under escort, the handcuffs that cuffed a fellow practitioner and me together loosened. Just then, the police van stopped and the 3 policemen left for lunch. We opened the window and jumped out of the van and left.
News and Activities around the World
From a Falun Dafa practitioner in China: Radio Free Asia (RFA) has broadcasted objective news reports about Falun Dafa on several occasions. Its Chinese-speaking programs mainly target listeners in China. All of the four hotline programs have received many phone calls from listeners in China. I started to listen to RFA in 2000. I have noticed that more and more practitioners are calling in, and more and more people are showing their sympathy for the persecuted Dafa practitioners in China. Some people speak out for Dafa, some show support for practitioners' truth-clarification activities, and some show respect towards Master Li. There are also some people who are still deceived by the slanderous propaganda and call in to attack Dafa. Therefore, it is very important that we keep clarifying the truth to them.
On September 14, practitioners in Sydney, Australia held a truth clarification event on a street in Chinatown. The dances and singing performances of practitioners along with the photo exhibition and truth-clarification movies attracted many people. An elderly Chinese gentleman who used to be deeply deceived by the false propaganda came to know the truth and said, "It looks like Falun Gong is not like what's said by the Chinese government after all." On the other side of the street, a small TV with speakers broadcast truth-clarification programs. Dafa practitioners also clarified the truth to the many Chinese people who had just arrived in Australia from China.
Practitioners Exchange Insights
Some comments on the attachment to fear: Recently I have noticed that there are some practitioners who still have various attachments of fear when making phone calls to China to clarify the truth. I would like to share with you below how I normally do it for the sake of mutual improvement.
I usually calm down to send forth righteous thoughts before I make any phone calls to China, thinking in my mind that all the evil factors that are controlling people will disintegrate. At the same time, I also send out strong compassion to save others, imagining that others will listen to me attentively. Then I start to make phone calls while listening to Pudu and Jishi in the background (both of them are Dafa music). The outcome is very good.
As practitioners in the Fa-rectification period, our mission is to clarify the truth, expose the evil and save all sentient beings. We can never let our attachment to fear interfere with the overall Fa-rectification process.