Maintaining Righteous Thoughts, Clarifying the Truth, and Counteracting the Persecution

(Minghui.org) I started practicing Falun Dafa in 1996 and am now 76 years old. Throughout my life I struggled with health issues. I suffered from bronchiectasis, headaches, and insomnia, and I was also a carrier of the hepatitis B virus. I sought medical help, but I did not recover. I also tried practicing Tai Chi and other forms of qigong, and I even went to the temple to pray to Buddha, but nothing helped. My life was difficult and tiring. But soon after I started to practice Falun Dafa, all my pain disappeared, and from then on, I no longer needed to take any medicine.

Master Li purified my body and helped me understand the true meaning of life, which is to return to one’s original true home, and I realized that the purpose of my life is to assist Master in Fa-rectification and save sentient beings. To thank Master for his compassion, I wrote this cultivation experience to share with Master and my fellow practitioners.

Letting Go of the Attachment to Self-interest

I followed the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance and no longer fought with people when it came to my personal interests. Shortly after I started practicing Dafa, I lost a new bike, which made commuting inconvenient. A co-worker helped me buy a used bike from the Public Security Bureau. When I got it, I noticed a school parking permit with a name hanging on the back of the bike. I thought the student must have been upset to lose her bike, so I decided to ask a fellow practitioner to return the bike to the student and explain to her that we are Falun Dafa practitioners and our master teaches us to think of others first. The student was touched.

I worked in the school management department and had some power, but I never used it for personal gain. I also asked my husband and daughter not to take anything home if it did not belong to us. There was a student from a low-income family in a rural area, and they often couldn’t send her any money to cover her living expenses. I frequently helped her. I also provided regular financial support to someone with mental health issues in my community.

My school offers housing subsidy benefits, and retirees are also eligible to apply. Many retired employees submitted their applications and received significant amounts of money. I chose not to apply, but the head of the school deposited my share directly into my bank account anyway. I realized it was just as Master said: “If something is yours, you will not lose it.” (Lecture Seven, Zhuan Falun)

Clarifying the Truth in the Detention Center

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) launched the persecution of Falun Dafa in 1999, using its media to discredit both Falun Dafa and its founder and mislead the public into supporting their actions. In response, I began to clarify the truth to my coworkers and the leadership. To reach more people, I bought a VCD burner to create VCDs about Dafa and distributed them myself.

Because I continued to tell people the truth about Dafa, I was given a forced labor camp term of one year in 2005 and a year and a half in 2008. Due to health issues, I was released early both times.

Most people in detention facilities are held there for offenses like gambling, theft, drug use, prostitution, and so on. I was the oldest, and I was held there for the longest time. But I always considered myself to be a Dafa practitioner rather than an ordinary person and behaved accordingly. Because of the moral corruption of society, these people made mistakes. I did not look down on them. Instead, I went out of my way to care for them. Some individuals came in with no money and had no daily necessities. I used my money to buy things and shared them with anyone who needed them.

I clarified the truth about Dafa to everyone in the detention center. I told the inmates the facts about Falun Dafa, the staged self-immolation incident on Tiananmen Square, and the force organ harvesting of Falun Dafa practitioners. I also explained how to be a good person based on Chinese traditional culture, mentioning karmic retribution, the relationship between loss and gain, and more. After they understood the truth, they respected me very much and regretted all the wrong things they had done in the past, saying that they would become a new person when they got released.

There was a Vietnamese drug dealer who was sentenced to death for drug trafficking. Her children were young, and she cried all day long. Others were reluctant to talk to her, but I reached out and cared for her. I told her the truth about Falun Dafa, and suggested that she recite “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good” to help herself. She began to recite the words every day, and gradually, a smile started to appear on her face.

In the detention center, everyone was ordered to write a “confession.” I did not commit any crime, so I used the opportunity to clarify the truth and wrote two pages. After reading my “confession,” a female guard told me that history would eventually confirm everything. She told people that I was a very good person.

I was sentenced to forced labor for a year and a half in 2008, but the labor camp refused to accept me because of my physical condition, so I was held in the city detention center instead. One day, the director asked why I was being held there. I told him it was because I had been distributing Shen Yun DVDs. He was curious about Shen Yun, so I explained that Shen Yun is a cultural performance showcasing 5,000 years of traditional Chinese culture. I told him that it includes classic historical stories, myths and legends, as well as stories of the persecution of Falun Dafa. With its colorful costumes and interactive backdrop, Shen Yun’s performances are loved by audiences around the world. The director asked me to write about the show. Having seen the shows on DVDs many times, I wrote down the lyrics of the songs, the moral lessons in the classical dances, and about the persecution of Falun Dafa. I wrote six pages, then submitted it to the guards and the director. Many people ended up reading my introduction to Shen Yun, and once they learned the truth, they treated me kindly.

I was the oldest inmate in the detention center, but I took the initiative to clean the facility, including the restroom, daily. The female head guard even mentioned me on the local detention center radio broadcast, encouraging everyone to learn from my example. She said to me, “Everyone here, from the director to the guards, thinks you are an excellent person.” I responded that each of us Dafa practitioners strives to be like this, because our master teaches us to be good people and even better people.

While I was detained, I kept reciting the Fa in my heart. I reminded myself that I would never give up Falun Dafa, nor would I sign the guarantee statements or tarnish Dafa. I asked Master to help me to get out of there. Others watched TV, but I never did. I repeated my wish from morning to night.

Each time I was detained, I developed a medical condition, had to be taken to the hospital, and was released before my sentence was up.

The first time the detention center informed me that I could go home, I was surprised that no one tried to “transform” me. I found it hard to believe that it was that simple. With tears in my heart, I said to Master, “I want to go home, but if they make giving up Dafa a condition for my freedom, I won’t go.”

When two agents from the 610 Office came to escort me out, I walked slowly. They complained, saying, “Why are you moving so slowly? Don’t you want to go home? We are letting you go!” Master helped me and solved the tribulation because I firmly believed in Dafa. After returning home, no one came to me to pressure me into giving up Dafa. I was not affected even by the recent so-called “Knocking on Doors” and “Zero Out” campaigns.

Getting Rid of an Evil Display Board and Canceling a Brainwashing Session

In September 2018, I noticed a display board at the corner of my street slandered Falun Dafa. I went to the neighborhood committee and asked, “Are you targeting me? I am the only one who practices Falun Dafa on this street.” The elderly Party secretary of the neighborhood committee was not there. Only two or three young people were present, and one was a newly promoted secretary. I explained to them that the board was spreading false information that was harmful to the community. Then I told them the truth about the April 25 appeal and the Tiananmen self-immolation incident. The new secretary said he did not know Falun Dafa was so good. I provided a link to a website of the announcement issued by the General Administration of Press and Publication on March 1, 2011, that lifted the ban on publishing Falun Dafa books. The next day, the display board was taken down.

Three days later, the elderly neighborhood committee Party secretary and several others came to take me to a brainwashing session. They accused me of promoting Falun Dafa. I refused to go, but two big men carried me down from the third floor. When we got to the “legal administration school,” I asked them to show me the legal basis for my abduction, but they could not provide any. Before they started to try to brainwash me, I declared, “You can’t ‘transform’ me. Do you want to turn a good person into a bad one? It’s absurd. People who have been ‘transformed’ have announced that everything they wrote was invalid a few days later, and they want to practice Dafa again. You can go to Minghui.org and check it out.”

I was the only one in the brainwashing session. I refused to give up Dafa and remained in a standoff with them for some time. The principal later remarked that people couldn’t change their minds after practicing for over 20 years. In the end, the brainwashing session ended. The principal told the neighborhood committee Party secretary and many others: “As for those under your jurisdiction, you should manage the issues yourself. It is not advisable to shift responsibility to others.”

The Party secretary replied, “We had no choice. She always gives us trouble.” This shows that those do the brainwashing are also aware of the truth. They continue to do things just for the sake of money. They also recognize that the CCP lies.

Looking back on my 20 years of cultivation in assisting Master’s Fa-rectification and saving sentient beings, I would not have made it to today without Master’s protection. I have no regrets. I know practitioners are eliminating their own karma while saving others, and Master has borne countless amounts for me, while I have borne very little myself. During this last period of Fa-rectification, I will redouble my efforts to be more diligent, do the three things well, fulfill my prehistoric vows, and go home with Master!