(Clearwisdom.net)
I acquired the Fa in May 1996. After I started to practice Falun Gong, I coordinated with fellow practitioners and helped establish practice sites and Fa-study groups in nearby towns. We delivered the Dafa books and articles and taught the exercises without slacking off. Since the CCP started to persecute Falun Gong in 1999, Dafa and Teacher have been slandered and Dafa practitioners have been persecuted. We walked on the path of validating the Fa and safeguarding the Fa.
1. Validating the Fa in the Detention Center
In early October 1999, about twenty practitioners, including myself, were reported to the authorities while we studied the Fa and shared experiences together. Police from the county police department and officials from the county government detained us in the assembly hall of the county police department. In the assembly hall, we practiced the exercises as a group. We were not afraid of the county government officials' threats and bribery. We firmly believed in Teacher and the Fa, and persevered in our cultivation.
During the eleven days of detention, we went on a hunger strike as a group. The director of the detention center saw that although we did not cooperate with any of their rules and regulations, we had strict standards for ourselves and behaved in a dignified and honorable way. Since then, they have not interfered with anyone's cultivation. Instead, they called on the prisoners to learn from us. Moreover, all the police and prison guards thought we should not be arrested.
2. To Beijing to Validate the Fa
After we were released from the detention center, we went to Beijing to hand in our letters to the Appeals Office. After we filled out the forms, we were immediately detained in a hall at the Appeals Office. In the hall, we had our first large-scale experience sharing with practitioners from all over the country. Then we practiced the exercises together. The plainclothes police and officials who were sent to watch us witnessed this, and they gained a whole new positive perspective on Falun Dafa. In our local government's Beijing reception office, our compassion and forbearance touched the officials. They considered us good friends and hoped we would visit them often and tell them more about Falun Dafa. Later, however, the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong escalated. They had to disregard their conscience and persecute practitioners more and more aggressively.
The officials in the Beijing reception office politely sent us on the train, trusting us to go home by ourselves. However, after reaching our destination, we were immediately handcuffed by the local police and taken to the county police department. A few leaders in the police department interrogated me. When they finished reading my appeal letter, they told my husband and the Party Secretary in my home town to take me home. However, the fellow practitioners who had gone to Beijing with me were detained for a few days and fined, since they cooperated with the police due to their attachment of fear.
After I was unconditionally released, I had the attachment of elation, showing off, validating myself, and the complicated attachment of pursuit. I was taken advantage by the evil. One week later, I was deceived by the county government. A government official arrested me and sent me to the county detention center. In the detention center, I also had the attachment of competitiveness and refused to allow my family member's guarantee to bail me out. Finally I walked the path arranged by the old forces and was sentenced to one and a half years of forced labor.
3. Validating the Fa in the Forced Labor Camp
When we first arrived in the forced labor camp, we practitioners followed the principle of the Fa, encouraged each other and cooperated with each other as a whole. We created an environment to study the Fa and practice the exercises. We also clarified the truth to the prison personnel. The guards in our squadron all knew the beauty of the Fa from our words and actions. Every day they called other prisoners to learn from us and use us as the standard. When we practiced the exercises, the guards just walked away or sat in front of the gate to watch out for us. They also asked other prisoners to watch out for us. When they learned that the forced labor camp leaders or the head of the instruction section were coming, they led them elsewhere.
In the beginning, we publicly practiced the exercises every morning on the squadron's grounds and studied the Fa and shared experiences every afternoon. Later, the guards from other squadrons who did not know the truth reported us to the labor camp. The instruction section told the prisoners to watch us. As soon as we started to practice the exercises, the prisoners beat us. Once they kicked me so badly that my kidneys were seriously injured. I had blood in my urine for more than two weeks.
The forced labor camp frequently searched us without notice in order to find any "illegal" items. In other squadrons, the practitioners' Dafa books were often forcefully taken away or damaged, but in our squadron, our Dafa books were never taken away. We stitched handmade bags from clothing and carried our Dafa books inside the bags all the time. We were prepared to protect the Dafa books at all times. Once, a practitioner's handwritten copy of Zhuan Falun was taken away by a prison instructor who did not know the truth, and another practitioner and I went to see the instructor and asked for the book back.
The director of the forced labor camp slandered Teacher and Dafa in a rally with over 2,000 prisoners in attendance. We practitioners stood up and shouted together loudly, "Falun Dafa is good! Falun Dafa is the righteous Fa! Restore Master's reputation!" All the other prisoners were stunned and all the guards were dumbfounded. The director was speechless. The rally could not continue and ended in a hurry.
In June 2000, the forced labor camp transfered us into an enclosed courtyard, where they secretly and more brutally persecuted us. Before we left the squadron, we unfurled a huge banner that said "Falun Dafa," which took a few nights for us to weave with a crochet hook and yarn. Everyone nearby was shocked. All the practitioners present pressed their palms together to heshi respectfully. Several minutes later, a few guards regained their composure and rushed upstairs to grab the banner. When they failed to get it, they tried to use a cigarette lighter to ignite it. The squadron team leader who already knew the truth immediately stopped them. She asked me to fold the banner and give it to her to allow her to keep it for us.
4. Deny the Old Forces' Arrangements
The police bribed the collaborators to specifically look for me to "share their experiences" with me. They came to see me group by group. None of their deceit could shake my firm belief of Dafa. Instead, I completely eliminated and burned the evil books they brought to me and sold to other practitioners.
On the day of the CCP's 17th Congress, I had just brought many new Dafa books in and placed them all on the table without any protection. I was planning to send them to the practitioners who needed the books urgently. All of a sudden, a few CCP officials and police broke into my home. At that moment, I did not have any fear at all. Instead, I only thought of how to protect Teacher's photo and the precious Falun Dafa books. With Teacher's help, the police just acted confused and then left in a hurry.
As early as before the 2008 Chinese New Year, my friends suggested that I leave and hide for a while during the Olympic Games and come home after the event was over. I thanked my friends for their concern, but dismissed their suggestions. We firmly denied the old forces' arrangement. Instead, we clarified the truth to my friends and exposed the evil persecution of Falun Gong. We also helped them to withdraw from the CCP for their own safety.
On July 30, the police started searching for and arresting Falun Gong practitioners county-wide. Over 30 practitioners were arrested. I was worried about the homeless and destitute fellow practitioners and my human notions emerged. The evil took advantage of my human notions, and the police broke into my home. I exposed the persecution of Falun Gong and clarified the truth to the police. Under Teacher's mercy and protection, the police left empty-handed.
These are only my personal understandings. My level is limited, so please kindly point out my shortcomings.
