Not in the Least Afraid of "Mountains of Knives and Seas of Fire" - A Loyal Heart Devoted to Fa-Rectification (Part IV)

However, the evil forces did not stop their persecution against me. They hired two people near my home to watch me. When my body was still swollen and before I could walk steadily, 7 or 8 police officers arrived at my home to arrest me again. At that time, I made a wish. I said, "Teacher, please give me a chance and I will certainly be able to get away!" Then I took the opportunity of going to the toilet and I climbed over the wall and escaped into a crop field. While running, I kept sending forth righteous thoughts: "I am an enlightened being and I certainly am able to escape! Teacher, please help me!" I hid myself well. They started to block all the roads and placed a search post after every 100 meters. I thought, "What I am doing now is according to 'just by having your heart unaffected you will be able to handle all situations.'" ( "Eliminate Your Last Attachment(s)") Therefore, I laid down for a while and waited to escape in the evening.

In the evening, I heard the loudspeakers in my village and nearby villages broadcasting the higher authorities' order to arrest me. At that time, I realized that I could only escape by going over the mountains. I then made a heshi gesture [i.e., pressing the hands together in front of the chest] and said to Teacher, "Teacher, I definitely will break through the evil's blockade. I do not accept the arrangement of the old forces in the universe. Teacher, please help me." Then a cloud covered the moon and I took this opportunity and walked toward the mountain.

When I climbed half way up the first mountain, I saw the police riding motorcycles along a small path toward the mountain to intercept me. My legs had not completely recovered, so they were not strong; as a result, I collapsed many times. I even fell from many high places as I walked and climbed over the mountains. Every time I fell down I sent forth righteous thoughts, "I am like a divine being and it does not matter to me!" and indeed, I was all right. Teacher is compassionate. Since I just wore a short-sleeved shirt, my arms and hands were severely scratched and bleeding. By the next morning, I had climbed over another three or four mountains. At noon, I had gradually moved far away from their blockade. By that time, I had climbed over 17 or 18 mountains.

At dusk, I met a kind-hearted person. I then promoted Dafa and clarified the truth to him. He led me to his home and I had a meal there. His wife gave me a coat. He escorted me away for a long distance and gave me 10 Yuan [about US$1.2, one-day income in rural China] when I departed from him.

While I was walking, the patrolling police found me. Again I had to run into a crop field. This time, they mobilized over a hundred people and blocked every road and set up blockades one layer after another.

In order not to let them see me, I walked by bending my body or by creeping with my knees. When I was really tired, I would sleep for a while in the field.

Because I tried my best to avoid them and made detours, it took me a long time. I thought about whether I still had the attachment of fear. I then remembered what Master Li said in Hongyin, [Master Li's collection of poems] "Every test must be passed, every place, everywhere are demons. Hundreds of hardships drop down at once, to see how one survives them. Having endured all worldly suffering, leave the world as a Buddha." I thought, "Now that I do not know where I am, I just look at your vehicle lights to see where you are afraid that I would go and I will go toward that direction. I then took off my shoes and traversed the roads barefoot. After a while, my soles were very painful from the rubbing. The wild grass scratched my insteps and was extremely painful. I thought: "I am a divine being and my feet are made of diamond. How can I be afraid of the scratching and rubbing?" (After I escaped, I checked my feet and saw no thorns. There was only a small blister, which disappeared after just one evening.)

When I reached a three-way intersection, I changed my direction. When it was around 4 a.m., I met a "demon of lust," a man who, seeing I was a woman, tried to drag me off the road and into a ditch. I said sternly, "If you continue doing this, I will scream for help!" After hearing this, he ran away and disappeared.

At dawn, I recognized my location. I put on my shoes and got in a taxi. By then, I had spent three days and nights and had "flown" over the tight encirclement set up by the demons. I again put myself into the current of the Fa-rectification.