My Understandings on Righteous Thoughts and Righteous Actions By a Dafa practitioner in China
January 5, 2003 (Clearwisdom.net) Last Chinese New Years' eve (Feb. 11, 2002), I was arrested
and brought to a detention center. In over half a year's time, I was forced into
detention centers three times and brainwashing centers four times. But no matter
what methods they used, they were never able to coerce me into abandoning my
practice of Dafa, and I managed to leave each time with my righteous belief,
righteous understanding in Dafa, righteous thoughts, and righteous actions.
Recalling my experiences, I would like to share some of my understandings. (1) Totally denying the arrangements made by the old forces and overcoming
the evil In the detention center, the guards had different rules to discipline
criminals. They are much more cruel to Dafa practitioners. Police guards used
the jail rules as a pretext to abuse Dafa practitioners. How could we Dafa
practitioners accept such rules? Every day when we were allowed to go outside
for fresh air, the police would have everyone squat down and answer with their
number when their names were called. I refused to do that and I also did not
join their weekly "training." The police ordered several men to pin me
to the ground. When I tried to stand up, I was badly beaten. One person stood on
my hands with his boots and injured my hands. I warned them solemnly: I am a
Dafa practitioner, you are insulting Dafa and Dafa practitioners. This situation
lasted for about two months. With me taking the lead, fellow practitioners also
refused to cooperate with the guards, so the police failed, and they dared not
use jail rules to abuse Dafa practitioners anymore. (2) "And with no attachment to living or dying He walks his path of Fa-rectification openly and nobly"
("Righteous Thoughts and Righteous Actions") During the period when I was indefinitely detained, I thought of our
Teacher's words, "Why should you, a Dafa disciple, fear the evil ones when
enduring persecution? The crux of the matter is that you have attachments. If
not, do not endure passively, and face the evil people with righteous thoughts
at all times." ("Dafa Disciples' Righteous Thoughts are Powerful"
from Essentials for Further Advancement II) Due to my urgent requests, a dozen people from the "610 office" [an
agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over
each level of administration in the Party and all other political or judicial
systems], public security bureau and the political committee came to the
detention center to talk with me. They surrounded me in three circles, and acted
as if they were going to interrogate me. Looking at those people, my compassion emerged. I started telling them the
facts about Falun Dafa while I kept eliminating the evil elements controlling
them from other dimensions. Their aggression disappeared gradually and left
them, one after another. Failing in using a hard-line approach, they turned to "soft"
tricks. They sent me to a brainwashing center in order to "reform" me
so I would stop practicing Falun Gong, and threatened me saying that I would be
sentenced to jail. The brainwashing center was very close to my home. I like
freedom, but I cannot do anything that will let our Teacher down or deceive
myself. So they said to me angrily: "We should find several people to keep
you awake and not let you sleep at all, and see if you'll still keep on
practicing." I replied: "Well, just let them in, I'll teach them how
to practice Falun Gong." They were scared and did not try to
"reform" me any more. So they sent me back and forth between the detention center and the
brainwashing center five times. No matter if they tried violence or temptation,
my mind was always on Fa-rectification, and even life or death was not a concern
to me. (3) Eliminating the deviated things inside myself, eradicating the evil
outside Fellow practitioners encouraged each other in the jail, and we refused to
write the so-called "three guarantees" [letter of regret, letter of
breaking away from Dafa, and guarantee not to appeal]. We felt that this was
what defined doing things according to the Fa, but sometimes unbearable feelings
may appear. Especially when hearing that something happened to one's loved ones,
it was extremely hard to bear, and wrong ideas appeared in the mind. Our Teacher
has said: "you are great Gods, and Gods at very, very high levels have been
testing you." ("Teaching the Fa at the Western U.S. Fa
Conference" from Guiding the Voyage). We realized that this was a
kind of interference from other dimensions, so we sent forth righteous thoughts
to eliminate it, and that situation disappeared quickly. For a period of time, a feeling of fear appeared, I tried to repel it, but
the effect was not that good. Reciting Hong Yin, when I recited, "A great Arhat in the world,
Spirits and ghosts fear the most" ("Mighty Virtue") I suddenly
realized that it's actually the evil that is afraid, as it knows that its end is
coming. Having understood this point, my fear disappeared instantly and my body
became very light. Teacher said, "Let us talk about the most common
illnesses. Somewhere in the body one may have a tumor, infection, osteophytosis,
etc. It is because in another dimension there lies a being in that place."
(Zhuan Falun). Since then, whenever problems occurred, I would send forth
powerful righteous thoughts to destroy the rotten substances in other
dimensions, and problems would be solved quickly. (4) Understanding Dafa correctly, strengthening righteous thoughts, and
acting accordingly Since I was detained, I always wanted to leave the jail. But I had been
waiting for some outside force to come and help me, and I had been expecting the
day when Dafa rectifies this world to come earlier. That's not a right
understanding of Dafa. When one fellow practitioner thought about making use of
a disease as a pretext to go home, since his righteous thoughts were not strong,
the old forces made use of this loophole to persecute him more harshly and sent
him to a forced labor camp. I realized that if we do not understand Dafa based on Dafa, the evils would
make use of our loopholes. "You are Dafa disciples! Each one of you Dafa
disciples represents a large, gigantic dimension. What does mankind amount to?
It's only that the old forces are using it and have sealed off your greater
abilities." (Touring North America to Teach the Fa). Teacher's words
empowered me. I thought, "I am a Dafa practitioner, I am indestructible and
could rectify everything. How could I allow them to constrain me? There are so
many sentient beings who are waiting for me to save them, and I should fulfill
my duty. Dear Teacher, please help me leave this detention center." So I
sent forth righteous thoughts and refused to eat anything unless they released
me. Under the empowerment of our Teacher, and through protesting with a hunger
strike, I once again overcame the arrangement made by the old forces. I was
released and went back to the current of Fa rectification. Dear fellow Dafa practitioners, as long as we understand Dafa righteously and
act accordingly, we should be able to overcome any difficulty. The above is my personal understanding, please kindly point out any errors.
Dafa should be our teacher and the standard for leading our lives. Posting date: 1/19/2003 |