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Remaining Steadfast in All Circumstances

Jan. 25, 2009 |   By a Falun Dafa practitioner in Heilongjiang Province

(Clearwisdom.net) A few years ago, an important Dafa truth-clarification materials production site in my area was undermined and I was arrested, too. In order to get credits and rewards, the police tried to extract information from me. They tied me to a tiger bench and a gang of them tried very hard to extort a confession from me. Some of them pretended to be kind to me, some of them claimed they would beat me, and some of them threatened that I would be sentenced to several years. They said all kinds of things.

No matter what they said, I had only a single thought in my mind: I was Master Li Hongzhi's disciple and no evil is entitled to touch me. I then joyfully "clarified the truth" to everyone, talking about the beauty of Dafa and how I changed after practicing in Dafa. I was held for two days and one night and that was the only thing I talked about. I did not cooperate with them on anything else and I did not give them any of the information they were seeking, so they locked me up in a detention center.

In the detention center, the guards listed me as a "key" person and did not allow my family to visit me for several months. They locked me up for four to five months and switched me around between four or five cells. No matter which cell I was in, I always talked about the beauty of Dafa and helped all lives understand the truth and be saved. In the end, 95 percent of people understood the truth and praised Master and Dafa. Many of them started to study Dafa and practice the exercises.

Seeing that they did not achieve the goal they desired, the guards brought me to trial many times and pressured me. I did not cooperate with them. With no success, they tried a new way. They brought me to trial out of town and increased the persecution against me. I was pretty afraid when I was pulled into a car. I did not know where they were going to take me and what tricks they were going to use. I began to feel uncertain then. At that moment, a voice appeared in my mind: "Aren't you a Dafa disciple? Don't you have Master who takes care of you?" I immediately woke up and understood: "Yes, I'm cultivator and I have Master who takes care of me. What is there to fear? It is not me who fears!"

When my righteous thoughts emerged, everything changed. When we reached the destination, a tall, large, and ferocious man walked towards me. He looked at my handcuffs and asked, "What's your last name? What's your first name?" I looked at him without saying anything. He said again, "Who do you think you are that nobody dares to touch you in your area. With a single pinch, I'll fracture your wrists." I laughed then and said, "I practice Falun Gong to be a good person. I did not violate the law and I'm not a criminal. I think we have no feud between us." Having heard what I said, he turned around and left. That was the last that I saw of him

The next day, six or seven male police officers came again. Among them were two young people. They often use young people especially for the purpose of beating. I was thinking, "All that come here are running dogs. I'm a cultivator. Nobody is entitled to touch me. I have Master who takes care of me." At that moment, I saw six or seven big brown dogs lying about three meters away without looking at me. I almost cried--I knew it was Master who was showing this to me, encouraging me and telling me not to fear. Right away, my righteous thoughts increased multiple times, and I did not cooperate with them for anything. In the end, the police did not get anything after working on me for a whole day. Being desperate and low-spirited, they dragged me by my hair and violently slammed my head against a wall a couple of times, kicked me a few times, and locked me in confinement again. Later they brought me back to where I came from and unlawfully threw me into a forced labor camp for a term of two years. I thought that a term of two years was merely a superficial form; I was a Dafa disciple and my Master has the final say. In the forced labor camp, I still clarified the truth to whomever I met in order to help save people and told them that Falun Gong was wronged. After two months, I escaped.

During that period of clarifying the truth and breaking through the test, I also constantly looked inside. I found that I had not studied the Fa enough while doing a lot of things for Dafa. Having done many things, I developed the attachment of doing things and the attachment of showing off. In fact, I felt that nobody was as good as I was. I developed the attachment of personal fame and gain as well. I felt that whatever I did was right and nobody did things as correctly as I did them. In truth, however, I did not do things in line with master's requirements and the evil took advantage of my loophole. From now on, I will surely study the Fa a lot, correct myself based on the Fa, look inside more, and do the three things better, enabling numerous sentient beings to be saved.

January 17, 2009