(Clearwisdom.net) At the end of every year, the police usually launch a "Crack Down Hard" campaign on Falun Gong practitioners. People caught with "hard evidence" during this time are very likely to receive three to four years of forced labor or prison sentences. I was arrested and sent to a forced labor camp during this sensitive period. However, I am not an ordinary person. I am a Falun Dafa practitioner. What I do is the most righteous thing. Under Teacher's careful protection, I went on a hunger strike that lasted seven days and I was released unconditionally in the end. On that morning, when a camp official came with a paper showing "not guilty, unconditional release," all my cellmates were stunned. They could not believe what they saw. When my family members heard the news, they were all excited and cheerful. Dafa's mighty power was once again manifested in the human world.
Arrested While Clarifying the Truth
After reading Master's recent articles, I became clearer about practitioners' responsibilities. I knew I must waste no time and increase my effort in truth clarification. I decided to post some truth clarifying statements at public places.
During the day, I selected several sites. In the evening, I began to send forth righteous thoughts and asked Teacher for his protection. Then, I began to post the notices as planned in the different places. I finished it all after 11 p.m.
Right before I was about to return home, someone reported me to the police and I was arrested. I told myself repeatedly to keep the strongest righteous thoughts. I was reciting Teacher's words in "Teaching and Explaining the Fa at the Metropolitan New York Fa Conference:"
"'Now that you've arrested me, I haven't thought at all about going back. Now that I've come here, I've come to validate the Fa.' So the evil was scared."
On my way to the police station, I kept clarifying the truth to the police in the police car. I told them why I practiced Falun Gong, and why I wrote the truth clarifying statements. I also told them of the hoax of the Tiananmen Self-Immolation incident. I asked them to know that Falun Dafa is great. One policeman said, "Please stop talking, otherwise I will become a Falun Gong practitioner."
In the Police Station
Inside the interrogation room, the police started questioning me that same night. They tried to get my address, name and profession. They tried to trick me: "Tell us your name and address so that your family can take you back home." I said, "It doesn't matter whether I go home or not. My biggest wish is to let you know that Falun Dafa is good. You should realize the lies on TV and should not do anything to harm Falun Gong. You should not become Jiang Zemin's scapegoat. This way you can have a bright future. That is my biggest wish." I kept clarifying the truth to the police. After many tries, the police still couldn't succeed in getting my personal information. Frustrated, a policeman slapped my face and punched and kicked me. I knew the policeman was influenced by the dark minions and rotten demons in other dimensions. I would use righteous thoughts to burn the minions and demons into ash. I yelled out, "Falun Dafa is great!" "Falun Dafa is righteous!" "Stop persecuting Falun Gong!" "The world needs Truth, Compassion and Forbearance!" The more violent the policeman was, the louder my voice became. The policeman stared at me viciously. I raised my head to look straight into his eyes and sent forth strong righteous thoughts: Dissolve all the dark minions and rotten demons that are controlling him, encompassing everything and leaving out nothing in all dimensions.
Facing the savage dark minions and rotten demons, I recalled Teacher's words, "Dafa Disciples' Righteous Thoughts are Powerful." Soon, the dark minions and rotten demons were dissolved. The policeman stopped beating me. I felt really sorry for the policeman who beat me. He is also a human being who came for the Fa. His original home in the universe has countless beings. His crimes against Dafa would destroy his home universe; countless beings are facing elimination. With tears running down my face, I kept telling him the truth of Dafa. To save him, I have to let him suffer some pain so that he can appreciate the principle of "goodness will be rewarded; evil will be punished." I sent out a thought, "Let the hand that beat me have pain." After that, he put that hand in his pocket and never took it out again. He told his fellow police officers, "She can emit her gong!"
Now people were telling each other that they had just arrested someone who does not fear death. Many people came to see what kind of person I was. I recited Teacher's words in "Touring North America to Teach the Fa:" "You have come with the mission and responsibility of saving sentient beings." So I would not let slide a single chance for clarifying the truth and saving people.
The interrogation room became my place to clarify the truth. One policeman said, "You should practice at home and don't make trouble in public places." I said calmly, "The kindness of giving one drop of water should be rewarded with a full spring of water. Falun Gong is such a wonderful practice that gives me perfect health. My Teacher asks us to follow 'Truth, Compassion and Forbearance' and to become the best people possible. Now my Teacher has been slandered. Being a disciple, how can I pretend that nothing happened? Could that be something a good person should do? To safeguard Dafa, to defend my Teacher, I am willing to give up everything I have." A police officer asked, "Then why did your Teacher go to America?" I replied, "In 1997, our Teacher was approved by the government to travel abroad to teach Falun Gong. He had a Certificate of Qigong Master issued by the government. In 1999 when the government started persecuting Falun Gong, they claimed that our Teacher escaped. That is a lie to slander our Teacher. Falun Gong was not owned by China; Falun Gong belongs to the universe. Our Teacher's mission is to teach Falun Gong to the world and to give all human beings good health and outstanding moral quality. The government claimed that our Teacher rallied anti-China forces in the U.S. That is a big lie to frame our Teacher." With a calm and righteous mind, I answered all their questions.
A couple of policemen came in to beat me without any words. I refused to accept it passively. Instead, I sent forth righteous thoughts: Destroy the dark minions and rotten demons that control them. I also yelled out, "Falun Dafa is great!" "Falun Dafa is righteous!" "Restore honor to Falun Dafa and our Teacher!" The evil forces were frightened, and many of them were eliminated.
During the two-night and one-day interrogation, I refused to tell them my name and address. The third day, the police took me to several police branches and neighborhoods to see if someone might recognize me. Wherever I arrived, I would raise up my shackled hands and shout, "Fellow citizens, after I practiced Falun Gong, all my diseases disappeared. I no longer spend money on medicine. For that, they arrested me. Over 100,000 Falun Gong practitioners have been illegally detained in China. The 'Tiananmen Self-immolation' was a hoax to frame Falun Gong; I saw the video: Liu Chunling was murdered by the police, not burned to death." I also kept yelling out "Falun Dafa is good!" "Stop persecuting Falun Gong!" and "The world needs Truth, Compassion and Forbearance!"
On one occasion, the police tried to stop me and forced me to stand and face the wall. I refused, and continued to clarify the truth. Whenever we went to a police station or a neighborhood, I would clarify the truth to the police and the staff. After more than half a day, nobody recognized me. I was sent back to the police station. That afternoon, my family found me at the police station. The police learned about my status and sent me to a local labor camp.
In the Labor Camp
By repeatedly reminding myself, I let my righteous thoughts grow stronger and stronger. I kept telling myself:
" 'Now that you've arrested me, I haven't thought at all about going back. Now that I've come here, I've come to validate the Fa.'" ("Teaching and Explaining the Fa at the Metropolitan New York Fa Conference")
After I arrived at the labor camp, as a herald, I passed each cell, shouting "Falun Dafa is good!" "Falun Dafa is righteous!" "Restore honor to Dafa and our Teacher!" A policeman came to confront me, "Do you plan to shout again?" I calmly replied, "Yes!" He slapped me on the face twice. I shouted much louder.
Through Teacher's books and lectures, I learned that all the arrests and detentions are arranged by the old forces. Teacher did not agree to it. Dafa practitioners should deny the whole arrangement. Therefore, I didn't cooperate with the evil's demands. If I cooperated with the evil even a little bit, it would be an acknowledgement of the old forces' arrangement. The evil dark minions and rotten demons would intensify their persecution of Dafa and practitioners, causing permanent damage to the overall effort of saving sentient beings.
On the second day after I arrived in the labor camp, a labor camp staff person asked me to have my photo taken. I took the opportunity to clarify the truth to the photographer. I told him I didn't want my photo taken. He said, "I understand your point. History will be the judge, but I have to take your photo." Several policemen pushed me toward the camera. I refused to raise my head and kept my eyes closed. They took my photo with no cooperation from me.
The policeman in charge of prison uniforms asked me, "Why do you refuse to wear a uniform?" I clarified the truth to him, "I am innocent. I cannot agree to any arrangement here. I deny all the illegal treatment." He refused to listen to the truth and threatened, "I have never met anyone like you. Watch how I punish you." He called four male criminal inmates and said to me, "I will give you one more chance to wear the uniform: Yes or No?" "No!" I calmly replied. The police officer was furious, "Put the big chains on her." I gathered all my strength to struggle. They pinned me to the floor and beat me with punches and kicks. The policeman slapped my face very hard. I kept shouting, "Stop persecuting Falun Gong!" "Falun Dafa is great!" "Falun Dafa is righteous!" The police tried to stop me. He ordered other criminals to cover my mouth and nose with clothes. My mouth was muffled and I almost suffocated. The heavy chains locked my wrists and ankles (this is a torture device that combines handcuffs and feet shackles; it chains the hands and feet closely together, less than 20 inches apart). After putting the big chains on me, the criminal inmates pulled me up. I asked them, "Don't you have parents, brothers and sisters? If they got well after practicing Falun Gong, would you treat them like this?" I clarified the truth to them. A young man whispered to me, "Aunt, please bend down, otherwise the chain will hurt your wrist." I felt a sense of relief, because his conscience was awakening.
A staff member of the labor camp asked me to have a blood test. I clarified the truth to the doctor and refused to have the test. Several criminal inmates grabbed my arm and forcefully took my blood sample.
Every day, the camp police gave assignments to the camp inmates. I told myself that I would not do this "slave labor" job. Doing the job is an acknowledgement of the old force's arrangement. The criminals didn't appreciate my position at all, "Don't you always think of others? If you do more work and let us take a break, what's wrong with that?" I said, "You don't understand me now, but you will one day." The inmates gave me a hard time. I insisted on my principles and denied the old forces' arrangement. After that, when the cell leader reported the labor head count, my name was skipped.
Every day, I recited the Fa, practiced the exercises, clarified the truth and sent forth righteous thoughts, following Teacher's requirement for all disciples to do the three things. I took every opportunity to clarify the truth, and exposed the lies on TV to the fellow inmates. Most of them believed me.
Four days into my hunger strike, the labor camp officials tried to forcefully insert a tube into my esophagus through my nostrils for force-feeding. I did not cooperate. A doctor ordered some inmates to tie me up. Unable to move, I sent forth righteous thoughts to eliminate the dark minions and rotten demons that controlled those people. I begged Teacher to give me energy. Despite the great pain I was suffering, I kept clarifying the truth to these perpetrators.
During the hunger strike, I suffered from extreme thirst and hunger. But I kept on reciting Teacher's lectures. Sometimes, the pain was too hard for me to recite long scriptures. I would then repeat short sentences such as "Falun Dafa is Good," "Truth, Compassion and Forbearance," "One Righteous Mind Can Subdue One Hundred Evils," "In Fa-Rectification Your Thoughts Have to be Righteous, Not Human," "Let Go of Human Attachments and Save the World's People," etc.
Teacher's words made it very clear:
"The Fa can break all attachments, the Fa can destroy all evil, the Fa can shatter all lies, and the Fa can strengthen righteous thoughts."("Drive Out Interference," from Essentials for Further Advancement II)
One day, after they force-fed me, I rested on the board, feeling weak. Just as I fell half asleep, a bottle of water appeared in my vision. I woke up and felt alarmed. This could not have been Teacher's message. Rather, it was the dark minions and rotten demons trying to destroy my spirit. One night, I had a dream in which I was eating a steamed bun while walking. This was also the work of the evil old forces. The dark minions and rotten demons were very scared of my hunger strike with no water, as that was a complete rejection of them. The hunger strike invalidated any excuse to damage Dafa and to persecute practitioners. On the sixth day, I began to feel extremely thirsty. My body and mind felt terrible. I was reaching my own limitation of endurance. I said to Teacher with tears, "Teacher, your disciple is so thirsty, she can hardly hold on." Shortly after, I felt warm all over my body and extremely comfortable; fresh and cold saliva was gently secreted and moistened my heart; the thirst was gone. I knew that it was Teacher who shouldered the burden for me. I could not survive this tribulation without Teacher's protection. I can never return Teacher's kindness for what he has done for me. As I write this sentence, my eyes are filled with tears.
On the second day after I was arrested, fellow practitioners heard the news. Some of them sent forth righteous thoughts for me. Some collected the phone numbers of the police station and organized information about the persecution against me. Some collected related departments' and personnel's phone numbers and sent them to Clearwisdom.net. Overseas practitioners called in one after another to demand my immediate release. Dafa practitioners formed a righteous field as one body. My relatives were busy working to rescue me every day. They went to the police department, the labor camp and key officials, asking them to release me. My husband was so exhausted that he vomited blood. My sister even passed out from exhaustion. My family and relatives spent those seven days and nights with worry and tears.
Finally, I was free. Teacher and Dafa have given me everything I have. In the future, I will follow Teacher's request to do the three things well: study the Fa, send forth righteous thoughts and clarify the truth. Teacher wrote,
"Righteous thought, righteous action
Strive upward wholeheartedly, do not stop
Purge the ghosts that disrupt Fa
Treat all beings with kindness"
("Righteous God," from Hong Yin II, unofficial translation)
I will travel on the remaining Fa-rectification path. I hereby express my deepest gratitude to fellow practitioners in China and abroad who helped me to walk out of the labor camp.
