(Minghui.org) I am writing to share my experiences of clarifying the truth to save sentient beings while being detained for 38 days.
Telling people the facts about Falun Dafa and the persecution
One day, the police took me to the county detention center. After I was thrown into a prison cell, a prisoner threw me a prison uniform. I said: “I am a Dafa practitioner; I am not a prisoner. I won’t wear this.”
In the morning after we got up, the prisoner again ordered me to put on the uniform. I refused. Then the guard called me over. I took the initiative and asked him: “Could you spare 15 minutes to hear me speak? I promise it won’t harm you at all, and you will then be able to understand how miraculous Falun Dafa is.” He looked nervous, so he said nicely to me, “Because you are here, you have to listen to me.” He seemed like he already understood the facts about the persecution. I said, “First, I am going to practice the exercises every day. Second, I won’t join the forced labor.” He said, “I will try my best to give you the green light.”
With Master's merciful care, I explained the facts about Falun Dafa to 12 prisoners in the cell. Everyone listened very attentively. After I finished speaking, except for a death-row inmate, everyone wanted to resign from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated organizations and remember, “Falun Dafa is good; Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.” The prisoner who was designated as the cell head made a rule that each new prisoner assigned to his cell in the future would need to recite, “Falun Dafa is good; Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.”
Because these people understood the truth, miracles were bestowed on my prison cell. One mechanic was detained for taking advantage of people financially. He was supposed to be sentenced to pay tens of thousands of yuan in compensation. After he understood the truth and kept reciting, “Falun Dafa is good; Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good,” he was released in one week. Several days later, another two prisoners were also released. Everyone was aware that no one had been released in the previous two months, but now in just ten days three prisoners were released. Those prisoners shared the unbelievable power of remembering that Dafa is good.
A recidivist thought he would be sentenced to at least 15 years in prison. At the court hearing, the judge sentenced him to 13 years, but the prosecutor protested. After the recidivist came back to the cell, he worried that the re-trial verdict would be heavier than 13 years. I comforted him, “Once you promise that you won’t do illegal things anymore and remember those words I told you, you won’t be sentenced to more years.” The next day, the prosecutor initiated the appeal. I told the inmate, “If you firmly believe in Dafa, the trial's outcome won’t change [for the worse].” On the fourth day, the 13-year sentence was upheld. He came to tell me: “Falun Gong can really save people. The day after you told me the facts, the seed that Falun Dafa is good has been planted in my heart. Every morning after I wake up, I would always recite this in my heart many times.” In the end he told me that if he had met me earlier, he wouldn’t have committed the crimes.
As good things continued to happen, people started asking me for written materials. Two juveniles learned from me how to send forth righteous thoughts. The cell head asked me to post the copy of Master’s poems “An Upright Person” (Hong Yin) and “Don’t Be Sad” (Hong Yin II) on the wall for the other prisoners. Since then, when new prisoners arrived, they were required to read these two poems. Even when policemen came, they also read the poems when they saw them. Because there was not enough paper to copy all of the truth-clarifying materials, two prisoners provided me with their notebooks. I compensated them with food worth 5 yuan.
Steadfastly doing the three things while in detention
From the day I was thrown into the detention center, I kept doing the three things. I studied the Fa and sent forth righteous thoughts in the morning. I wrote truth-clarifying materials in the afternoon and did the five sets of exercises in the morning and evening. I also disseminated copies of the truth-clarifying information through the cell head to other cells. When there were evil factors, I would keep sending forth righteous thoughts. Because of this, the environment inside and outside the cell was fairly righteous. Sometimes, when prisoners in my cell were assigned a heavier workload, I wanted to help them do some work. However, the prisoners asked me not to do it; they asked me to send forth righteous thoughts to get rid of the evil.
Domestic Security Division officers interrogated me many times. I treated this as a good opportunity to explain the facts to them and would not miss these chances. Miracles happened on these occasions as well. One time I said, “Being nice to Falun Gong is the same as being nice to yourself.” Nine days later, when the deputy division head interrogated me again, he was much milder toward me. I kept sending forth righteous thoughts toward this group of officers and very soon they left.
Offering salvation to the guards was also vital. Whoever was on duty, I always volunteered to report the situation in our cell to them. Most of the guards heard the truth while they were patrolling the cells. One day when I was practicing the second exercise, the person on patrol asked me quietly, “Can you stop doing the exercises for a little while?” I asked him why. He said, “The prison leaders are looking at you through the monitoring device. How about stopping for a moment and finishing the exercises later?” Actually, all leaders had been aware of the truth already.
In the cell next to mine was a prisoner on death row. On the day of execution, when he was about to get into the car to the appointed destination, the notice came canceling the execution. It was said that such a thing had never happened in the past. After this prisoner came back, he was assigned to stay in my cell. Though we didn’t know each other, he told me as soon as he saw me, “One day Falun Gong will be redressed.” I thanked him. He told me that his two aunts practiced Falun Gong; however, he hadn't believed what they said before. Only when he subsequently met another practitioner did he start to understand the truth. When prisoners in the cell gave that practitioner a hard time, he protected him until the practitioner was transferred to a different location. This prisoner had found out about the truth-clarifying information that I had written and requested to be transferred to my cell. From then on, he slept beside me and asked me to tell him the facts about Dafa every day. After fully understanding the truth, he burst into tears. Upon my release, I left a new coat and two handwritten copies of Hong Yin for him.
Released with dignity
I was fortunate to obtain the Fa in 1998. When I finished Lecture One of Zhuan Falun, I suddenly saw characters “Falun Buddha Fa” sparkling under Master’s photo. This strengthened my determination to follow Master and Dafa. In June 2000, I was detained for three months. I was also illegally tried in the provincial High Court. In 2004, I left home for almost two years to avoid further persecution.
This time, several days before I came out of the detention, I heard a very clear voice when I woke up, “You will get out on the second day of the Chinese New Year.” After breakfast, I asked the guard what date it was. There were still another four days to wait. Because I didn’t correct myself to some extent, I was unable to get out of the detention center on that day. But I trusted Master deeply. Since he gave me a hint that I should get out, I thought that I must be able to get out. Several days later, I finally walked out of the detention center. All of the cell mates cheered for me. They were amazed by the miracles that had transpired. I said to them: “Thank you for understanding the truth. Just remember, 'Falun Dafa is good! Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good!'”
