Solemn Declaration

Solemn Declaration

I was arrested while distributing Falun Dafa materials and sentenced to a two-year term in a labor camp. When I was sent to the labor camp, I had already been on a hunger strike for six days. The police tortured me by forcing me to stand in a very painful posture with my back against the wall, my head dropped forward, and with both hands pulled up behind. I was denied sleep during the night. On the next day, I saw practitioners who refused to denounce their belief in Falun Dafa being badly beaten. Their faces were distorted and they were unable to open their eyes as a result of the torture. They needed help from others to go to the restroom. As a result of hearing the screams of pain, and witnessing the unbearable, cruel scenes, I felt as if I were in hell.

I was afraid. I hesitated under the threat of death, and under heavy pressure of threat and torture, I was forced to sign a "statement of repentance" (to give up my belief).

When I returned home, I was in deep pain because I knew I had done something that a practitioner should never do. With fellow practitioners' help, I read Teacher's article, "Coercion Cannot Change People's Hearts":

"[The bad people] produce fake scriptures, disallow students to sleep, fabricate charges, frame students, spread lies, and so forth. Being threatened severely, deceived, and pressured greatly by all those indecent means, some students have written things like the so-called 'guarantees to stop practicing' or 'statements of repentance' when they were not in their right minds and forced. None of those were genuine expressions from the students' hearts--they were done against their will. Although they had attachments, were momentarily taken advantage of by the evil, and did what a cultivator should not, a cultivator ought to be looked at in his entirety."

From the bottom of my heart, once again I deeply felt the great mercy of our Teacher.

I solemnly declare, the "guarantees" to the evil people and all the things against Dafa that I was forced to write under pressure are invalid. I am back to the great task of rectifying the Fa. I will validate the Fa with my life to make up the damage I have caused toward Dafa, and will be a genuine particle of Dafa.

Practitioner: Zhao Yingchun

October 27, 2001

Solemn Declaration

I obtained Falun Dafa in 1996. Before, I did not work very hard at studying the Fa. I was always under the influence of my everyday person's way of thinking. Although my righteous belief in Dafa is fairly strong and I always follow Teacher's Fa-rectification steps, whenever I met with tribulation, I could not understand the Fa according to the Fa, but covered up my attachment and fear with the deviated human thoughts and acquired notions.

In April of 2001, somebody called me to go to the police station. I had no fear at that time. I told the truth and promoted the Fa to them. I told them that practicing Falun Gong could heal illnesses and keep one fit. How could I not study or practice such a good method? Then the people from the police station persuaded me to write a hypocritical "promise to stop practicing cultivation." Teacher said: "Whenever a tribulation comes, you do not see it with the side of your original nature but view it completely from your human side," ("Expounding on the Fa"). At that time, I did not consider it according to the Fa. All my everyday person's heart of fear, sentimentality, and deviated notions appeared. Once my human heart came forth, I forgot the Fa and wrote the "promise," signed with a pseudonym. Teacher said: "If these acquired notions become very strong, they will reverse their role and dictate one's real thinking and behavior. At this point, a person may still think that they are his own ideas. This is the case for almost all contemporary people." ("For Whom Do You Exist?")

Later I thought it was not right to do this. Although I did not use my real name, I wrote the promise myself. I am cultivating toward becoming a Buddha, Tao, or God. How could I make any promise to the evil? Why didn't I restrain my human side with the side that has been successfully cultivated? When I came back home, I felt very depressed. I did not have any appetite for food and I always had interference when I studied the Fa. Always, some demon was saying: "Don't study the Fa. You are no good anymore. Teacher is no longer taking care of you and you are dropping." During that few days, I became aged and weakened. I could not summon my energy. Teacher said: "Whenever I see you suffer hardships, Master feels even more upset than you; whenever you do not take a step well, it really pains my heart. Everything that the evil has done has actually targeted the attachments and fears that you have not let go of. You are future enlightened beings who are becoming Buddhas, Daos, and Gods, and you are not concerned with the losses and gains of this world. So you should be able to let go of everything." ("Eliminate your Last Attachments"). Later, seeing me this way when they visited me, fellow practitioners said, "The demons are happy if you don't study the Fa and practice cultivation, but Teacher will not be happy. You should pull yourself together. Teacher is compassionate and he won't abandon any disciple." Teacher said: "In dealing with relevant, important issues, if a life can really, without any preconceptions, assess issues, then this person is truly able to take charge of himself. Such soberness is wisdom, and it is different from average people's so-called 'intelligence.'" ("For Whom do You Exist?"). By studying the Fa, I found out my shortcomings, my attachments, fears, and deviated thoughts. Thus I work even harder to study the Fa again and again. I won't let the demon, the old force, exploit my loopholes. I am standing up and joining the procession of Hong Fa to doubly redeem the losses that I brought to Dafa and to rinse my stain. Here I solemnly declare that the "promise" I wrote at the police station, as well as the fingerprint I pressed are to be totally disregarded. When we become clear-minded, we will all come back to Dafa. While Fa-rectification has not finished yet, it is still continuing. Teacher is waiting for us to step out of our human nature, to join the onrush of the Fa-rectification. I will work hard to make up for the losses that I brought to Dafa and the damage that I brought to Teacher to become a truly eligible Dafa disciple. Clarifying the truth, exposing the evil, saving the sentient beings, I'll take every step well on the road toward consummation of cultivation.

October 30, 2001

Miao Shuqing

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Solemn Declaration

I was illegally arrested at a railway station on my way to appeal for Falun Dafa in December, 2000. I was taken to the Zhangqian Police Station where I was put in a room of less than five square meters with sixteen fellow Falun Dafa practitioners. The police asked for our addresses. None of us cooperated. We just kept reciting Hong Yin. After being locked up for twenty-four hours there, we were sent to the municipal detention center. That night, the policemen deliberately opened the windows so the cold wind could come in. The following day, two male and two female provincial police came, along with a few others recruited from other jurisdictions to deal with Falun Dafa practitioners in this city. Around 7 o'clock, the interrogation started. Three fellow practitioners were called out and loud swearing was heard soon afterwards. A little while later, they called me out. I saw two practitioners hung with their feet about a foot above the floor. The policemen asked where I lived and what my name was. I didn't tell them. Then they bound me and hung me up, too. I couldn't feel my arms. I felt my blood gushing up my head and before I knew it, I fainted. When I woke up, they kicked my knees while continuing to swear at me. When I couldn't take it any longer, I told them my address. As a result of the torture, I couldn't move my hands at all: the nerves were severely damaged. I couldn't look after myself. I needed help from fellow practitioners with food as well as going to the bathroom. When I was sent back to the local police station, I was kicked, slapped in the face, shackled with ankle chains, and not allowed to go to the bathroom. Having gone through all that, I was still sent to a detention center, where we were forced to write a statement to renounce and defame Falun Dafa. Due to my attachments, I signed the statement against my own conscience.

I now solemnly declare invalid everything I have signed against Falun Dafa. I will double my efforts to make up for the damage done to Falun Dafa and erase the blemish on my cultivation history. I will fully participate in the Fa-rectification process, clarify the truth and offer salvation to people

Falun Dafa Practitioner: Mu Xiujuan

October 1, 2001

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