My Experiences of Overcoming Persecution with Righteous Thoughts

(Minghui.org) I was illegally held in forced labor camps twice before being illegally arrested again in 2004. Because I had many attachments back then and did not know how to oppose the persecution, I was ashamed of myself when I was released from the labor camps.

After studying Master’s Fa, reading articles on Minghui.org, and reflecting on my past experiences, I gradually matured in the Fa. I understood how to work against the persecution. From when I got out of the labor camp in 2003 until now, I have been detained twice more. I would like to share these two experiences in hopes of inspiring and helping fellow practitioners.

When I was arrested in 2004, I refused to answer any questions. Many police officers poured into the room. I shouted, “The Fa rectifies the Cosmos; the Evil is completely eliminated.” (“The Two Hand Positions for Sending Righteous Thoughts,” The Essentials of Diligent Progress II)

All of a sudden, the people in the room seemed as if they’d been deflated. They handcuffed me to a bench and left me alone. Later, they put me in a detention center. I sent forth righteous thoughts, memorized the Fa, did the exercises, and clarified the truth to the people inside.

Ten days later, I had a dream in which another woman and I burned a toad to death with our gong energy. The next day, a couple of plainclothes officers from my hometown came and picked me up. They took me to the hotel room where they were staying. One of them gave me a cup of water and told me that the people at the police station didn’t want to let me go, so he had to wait for them to leave before he could get me out of there. This time the persecution ended in a way that I couldn’t have even imagined.

My approach this time could be summed up as not acknowledging the old forces’ persecution, not answering any questions, and sending righteous thoughts for a long time to eliminate the evil in other dimensions.

Nineteen years later, I was working in a small factory in another city. I was in the workshop when several officers got out of two police cars and seized me. They raided my residence. They tried to videotape me, but I refused to cooperate. I told them that what they were doing was illegal, that there was no law in China that said that Falun Gong was illegal, that Falun Gong was not even on the list of cults identified by the Ministry of Public Security, and that the ban on the publication of Falun Gong books by the State Press and Publication Administration had been lifted long ago. They took me to a police station.

All along, I had been sending righteous thoughts. I was interrogated, but the officer was nice to me, and the evil look on his face disappeared. I was illegally detained for 15 days. I did not sign any documents while I was in the detention center, and I continued to send righteous thoughts for long periods of time. When I was done, I memorized the Fa, did the exercises, and clarified the truth.

Fifteen days later, I was forced to return to my official place of residence. When I got to the police station where my household was registered, the deputy director began to chat with me casually, so I told him about the physical and mental benefits of practicing Falun Dafa. I then realized that he was videotaping me, so I asked if this was an interrogation. He said with a guilty conscience, “No, no, let’s just chat!” Then I felt that they might not let me go. I was afraid that I would face more detention, so I stopped thinking about leaving. When I stopped being fearful, my righteous thoughts arose.

When I was in the detention center before, I was afraid, and I was eager to go home, so my righteous thoughts were insufficient. The consequence was that, before I left the detention center, I signed a document I shouldn’t have. This time, when I talked to the deputy director, I told myself that there was nothing to be afraid of. He told me to read the document he had written and sign them. I said I wouldn’t read them, nor would I sign them—I wouldn’t validate this illegal interrogation. They soon let me go.

When I read on the Minghui website about fellow practitioners who have been severely persecuted, it seems that quite a few of them go on hunger strikes as a common method to resist the persecution. I personally feel that this results from not having a deep understanding of the Fa. When something happens, they immediately think of using ordinary people’s methods to counter the persecution. In fact, the root cause of the persecution is the existence of evil factors in other dimensions. Only when those evil factors in other dimensions are eliminated will changes occur in the human world.

From the perspective of the Fa, we must have a clear understanding and rational approach regarding how to overcome persecution. I suggest fellow practitioners read the teachings more often, such as Teachings Given on Lantern Festival Day, 2003 and “Dafa Disciples’ Righteous Thoughts Are Powerful,” (The Essentials of Diligent Progress II).

I do not oppose protesting with hunger strikes, but there are, in fact, better ways. There are also practitioners who have been subjected to frequent force-feeding for many years. Their steadfast determination to resist the persecution is certainly commendable, but is it normal to remain in such a tribulation for such a long time? Shouldn’t we reflect on whether there are some attachments that have not been let go of? For example, being unable to let go of one’s pride, fearing that giving up the hunger strike would lead to ridicule, or turning the hunger strike into a form of heroism and ending up being constrained by the very act of hunger striking? Of course, I am not saying that fellow practitioners definitely fall into these categories.

But every Dafa practitioner must learn to look inward. Some attachments are deeply hidden and hard to detect. Yet each true cultivator should courageously face the part of their heart they least want to touch, bring it out, analyze it, and expose it, without avoiding it, covering it up, or making excuses for it.

The above are my personal understandings. Please correct me if I’ve said anything not in line with the Fa.