Liang Yening, Hebei Province

October 1999

My name is Liang Yening, female. I am 30 years old. I am a Falun Dafa practitioner from Shijiazhuang City, Hebei province. I was a former employee in the finance section of a company. I started to practice Falun Dafa in June 1994. Up to now, I have practiced cultivation for about 5 years. Seven of my family members are practicing Falun Dafa. I have a 2-year-old son. I have been a contact person of Falun Dafa since I started my cultivation practice. On April 25th of 1999, I went to Beijing to appeal. I went to Beijing to appeal again after many contact people of Falun Dafa were arrested on July 20th of 1999. Since then, I have not gone home yet.

I learned that almost all the Falun Dafa practitioners are being forced by the local public security departments or their working places to write a statement of repentance or a pledge to give up Falun Dafa. They are also forced to hand over the books of Falun Dafa. I have always believed that Falun Dafa is a righteous cultivation way that teaches people to be good. It is absolutely not an "illegal organization" or an "evil religion". Thus I will never go home to write the so-called statement of repentance. It is not wrong to practice Falun Dafa, nor do I have any repentance. Why should I? I also know that Zhuan Falun (the main text of Falun Dafa) is a precious book, more than ten thousand times precious than my own life. How can I hand it over? Therefore, I will not go home. Because I have never gone home, and also because I was a contact person of Falun Dafa, I am wanted by the Hebei public security department. They have sent out policemen many times to Beijing in order to arrest me and another contact person. They have also put my family under surveillance and have gone to all my relatives' homes to search for my whereabouts. The phone in my home is being monitored. My sister is also being monitored by her workplace and she has to report to the security section of her workplace whenever she goes out. Since then, I have not gone home for two months. The preceding information was given to me by my sister when she got a chance to sneak away to meet me.

Because I do not have an identification card, I cannot stay at hotels and I have to sleep outdoors. I once stayed on a mountain. When it was raining, I stayed under the tree. I also stayed at a park once. One day at a park I was robbed by a bad person and forced to sit at a place close to water for a night. Although I know that my 2-year-old son needs his mother's love and care, my aged parents are missing their own daughter, my husband is longing for his beloved wife, and I myself am suffering both physically and mentally, I cannot go home. The Chinese communist regime cannot tolerate the existence of Falun Dafa. But without it, how can I have a healthy body and a pure heart? Falun Dafa has given me so much. How can I remain indifferent when it is being defamed and wronged? In order to let more people know that Falun Dafa is the righteous way, and in order to let more practitioners become determined about their beliefs, I have been spreading Falun Dafa in many places around the country and communicating with other practitioners, hoping that all practitioners will become determined about their beliefs. I went back to my hometown twice and exchanged encouragement with fellow practitioners. Although my home is so close, I did not step in. Without Falun Dafa, everything of mine will not exist. I will never go home before the problem is solved.

In the beginning, I had hatred towards those who slandered my teacher, Mr. Li Hongzhi, those who persecuted our fellow practitioners, and those policemen who tried all means to arrest us. After two months of constantly studying Falun Dafa, I gradually eliminated my hatred. Instead, I began to develop compassion for them. These pitiful people cannot see the light of truth, nor do they know what they are doing. If I ever have a chance to meet them, I will kindly and seriously persuade them to stop doing evil, and ask them to read Zhuan Falun, and suggest they open their eyes to take a look at the magnificent Buddha law!

Falun Dafa to me is like water to fish. How can fish live without water? I believe that the dark clouds will not shade the sun forever. The gold will always shine. Someday all shameful stuff will become exposed to the light. I believe the light of truth will remove all the evil and illuminate the whole universe.