September 2000

A Practitioner in Jail

Whenever I heard the melody "Returning Home" played on a saxophone, it would bring up many memories.

Thinking of home always reminded me of my childhood when I nestled against my mother. Thinking of home, I would always quicken my pace in the cold winter, and I would not feel desolate in the rustling autumn wind. I would also not be aware of the muddy road in the drizzling summer ......

However, with the passage of time, illnesses crept up on me. A chronic discomfort in my spleen, stomach and liver troubled me so much that I lost my appetite and I had no strength left. I had to drop out of college due to cysts on my uterus. I can still remember the sympathetic look of my teachers and classmates that day. From then on, the concept of home became a blur. No matter how cozy a home was it would no longer be able to warm my ice-cold heart, disillusioned from painful suffering caused by my illnesses. In 1997, I was about to undergo an operation to remove my pancreas and kidney cysts, diagnosed by the Beijing Tumor Hospital. It was at that time that I attained Falun Dafa. Holding Zhuan Falun, this valuable book, I read it thirstily. Every word and every sentence in the book cleaned up my body and mind, and purified my soul. I understood the real essence and value of life, and knew how to become a good person.

In the course of my cultivation practice of Falun Dafa, I diligently studied and understood the Fa (the law and principles). I conduct myself according to the requirement of Dafa (the Great Law). My view of the world has been changing in a positive way and I have learned to conduct myself properly. I am gradually becoming a genuine disciple of Teacher Li. I have experienced a great change in my physical body. My former diseases vanished without leaving a trace, and my life was renewed. My physical body has returned to a healthy state as pure as that of a baby. Smiles that had long been forgotten have come back to my face. I have reappeared with vigor and vitality in my workplace, in my leisure time, and in my everyday life. I have returned home again, and it is in Dafa that I have been reborn. Therefore, If someone makes me part with Dafa, isn't it similar to inciting me to pick up a knife to kill the person who saved my life? I cannot do it. I call upon people from the bottom of my heart, " Conscience, please wake up!"

Everyone, why don't you find some time to pick up Zhuan Falun, and have a look at this great universal law which is the essence of the universe. "Zhen-Shan-Ren" (Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance) is the highest manifestation of the Buddha Fa, and it is the sole criterion to discern good people and bad people.

With the dissemination of Falun Dafa in the human world, so many people have been saved from their critical illnesses, so many families have been reunited while on the verge of being broken, and so many people have become better people. A young man, who was widely reported in the newspaper because of his good deed of donating 180 thousand Yuan (about $21,500) anonymously, to help the Northwestern region of China, is also a Dafa practitioner. The mighty power of Falun Dafa has attracted tens of millions of people to practice cultivation. People yearn for the stability of society, a good code of conduct and a life of peace and happiness. Falun Dafa can create all of this. However, a very small number of government leaders are not only unwilling to face and understand Falun Dafa, but have forcibly banned it. Isn't this society frightening?

Shouldn't people really think over what they are doing? We (Falun Dafa practitioners) step forward to defend our beliefs and safeguard the truth, disregarding any pressure and at the same time we want to give people an opportunity to distinguish clearly what is righteous and what is evil! We want to ask the government, why such a good practice was banned. Is there any uprightness in the human world? Although we have now been put in prison, the iron gate of the prison cannot lock up our hearts for cultivation practice. I remember being asked by police officers; "Don't you fear doing so?" I answered them calmly, "I have already put aside my own safety." They all shook their heads, feeling that this was inconceivable. I am not a party member, nor a member of the youth organization, and I am not a hero either. I am only an ordinary citizen. Why do I have such determination and courage that is incomprehensible to ordinary people? It is because of the manifestation of the strength of Falun Dafa in me.

Over the past several months, Falun Dafa in China has endured various hardships and tribulations. It is also during such a severe test that Falun Dafa has established its mighty virtue. Falun Dafa will bring us home. It is the wisest choice of every life to return to the pure land and return to one's original, true self.

This so-called "repentance, pledge, and understanding" may not satisfy you. I may be sentenced to jail, or sent to a forced labor camp, but I feel no regret.

This is my confession, the melody of my heart ----- "Returning Home"!

A practitioner from Mainland China