(Clearwisdom.net) When I was incarcerated in a Chinese Communist Party prison I was forced to do manual labor. At that time, I thought I was experiencing persecution of a Dafa practitioner, and I refused to do it. I did not do anything wrong by clarifying the truth. I knew it was wrong for me to be detained.
Then, while on a hunger strike to protest my imprisonment I wrote: "Guarding Dafa with my life. Falun Dafa is a righteous Fa."
The prison inmates were ordered to persecute me, and sometimes were even compensated for doing so. One time, some of the inmates tied my hands behind my back, and pierced each of my fingers with steel needles. At first, they stabbed one finger at a time. When I did not cry out in pain, they inserted two needles in each finger and left the needles there. However, I did not feel any pain so I still did not react to the torture.
The inmates became angry and thought of other ways to persecute me. They used an electric baton to shock my ears, which caused them to bleed. However, no matter what means they used to torture me, I did not feel any pain. I knew that Master had endured all the pain for me.
Just like Master said in "Teaching the Fa in San Francisco, 2005" when he answered a practitioner's question:
"Master can take on the suffering for you, and I can even bear the pain in your place, but can you position your mind in a righteous way when under such cruel and harsh pressure? Are you treating yourself as a god or as a human being? Do you have ample righteous thoughts? All of these things depend on you, on you yourselves."
Original article date: 6/9/2009Fa
