(Clearwisdom.Net) [Editor's Note] The female practitioner in this article is over 50 years old. She went to Beijing to rectify the Fa four times: on December 25, 2000, March 7, July 20, and October 11, 2001. The first time, she was arrested and released; the second time, she was arrested and released after being beaten; the third time, she was detained for more than 40 days; the most recent time, with righteous thoughts, she came back on the same day.

By July 20, 2001, Jiang Zemin had persecuted Falun Dafa for two years. "They are already utterly inhuman and completely without righteous thoughts. Such evil's persecution of the Fa can thus no longer be tolerated" (from "Beyond the Limits of Forbearance"). I wanted to go to Beijing to eliminate evil and made a banner. I came to Tiananmen Square on July 20 and encountered many tourists. I quickly unfurled the banner and called loudly, "Restore the reputation of my Teacher! Restore the reputation of Falun Dafa! Falun Dafa is the righteous Fa!" People at the scene were stunned. The police came to drag me into a police car and took me to the police station and then to the detention center in the District of Xicheng.

There were more than ten people in each cell of the detention center and every cell had Falun Dafa practitioners. The cell where I stayed had four practitioners. Because we practiced the exercises, they took the other female practitioners away and cuffed my hands and feet together so that I could not stand up. I went on a hunger strike to protest. Some inmates helped me to wash and some helped me to go to the toilet. I initially thought that they were bad people, but through contact, I discovered that they were quite decent. I recalled the Teacher's article, "Some people, on the other hand, are not bad to begin with but occasionally commit wrong deeds; these people are not necessarily bad people. Then how should we understand good people and bad people? A person is like a container, and he is whatever he contains." (from "Melt Into the Fa") I started to spread the Fa to them. Later, another female practitioner from Beijing, arrested because of distributing Dafa material, came to my cell. Together we told the inmates what Falun Gong truly was. They knew that the TV was spreading lies to deceive people. We also told them the way our Teacher explained good and bad people. They were moved, "So your Teacher understands people so well! Your Teacher is saving people! Falun Gong is so good that we also want to practice. We will find a book as soon as we get out of here!" Some inmates voiced grievances for us during our early talks, "What is the crime in practicing Falun Gong? Why did you arrest them?" Some inmates started to learn the exercises.

Because we went on a hunger strike, the police had to take the cuffs off of us, so we were able to practice the exercises again. We wrote down Hong Yin and some of the Teacher's articles for the inmates to read. The head of our cell and her assistant, both inmates, read the writings and said those were very good honest words. They not only studied but even memorized the articles. Influenced by them, everyone in our cell started to study the articles. The assistant head told me, "The words were drilling into my mind during my sleep." I told her that that was very good. I also told her, "I had a thought when I was telling you to read the articles. It was that I would break the shell that prevented you from attaining the Fa, pour the bad content out, and fill you with a good thing -- the Fa. You were also willing to learn and to fill your brain with the Fa. Therefore you had this situation which is very good." She was very happy and studied every day. She told me that she could even memorize it. After that, whenever a new person came to our cell, the head would tell her that our cell took "Zhen, Shan, Ren" as our standard and hopefully everyone could do better. We praised the head as she did the right thing. She was glad, "since our cell has the sunshine (Dafa)!"

Another practitioner and I sent forth righteous thoughts several times a day. We did the exercises and spread the Fa all day long and rectified the environment in our cell. The 16 inmates in our cell all changed their thinking about Falun Gong. Once the guard caught us practicing the exercises and tried to stop us. We did not listen. She asked everyone in our cell to stop us, but no one listened. She then threatened the head of the cell with not allowing her to sleep for one night. The head still did not stop us. The guard had no other recourse but to ask everyone to sit on a board till 2:30 a.m. Still no one listened to her. She had to dismiss us. We won. Everyone was very happy.

"Righteous Fa spreading, Ten thousand demons blocking, Saving all sentient beings, Notions changing, The decayed extinguished, The bright light illuminating." (From "New Life" in Hong Yin ) More than ten lives were saved.

The mission of Dafa disciples is to rectify the Fa. This moves my heart every moment. I wanted to go to Beijing again to rectify the Fa with pure righteous thoughts. I felt a strong responsibility. I arrived in Beijing at 2:30 p.m. October 11, 2001. I took a bus and had been sending forth righteous thoughts to eliminate the evil alone the way. I came to Tiananmen Square at 3 p.m. I saw that the police and police cars were everywhere. The patrolling police, two or three in a group, were moving around. When I came to the west Jinshui Bridge (the western gate to Tiananmen), however, the patrolling police had all scattered; some of them had gone into the underground tunnel. I thought it was the power of righteous thoughts that drove them away. I quickly unfurled a banner that read, "Falun Dafa is good!" and felt that the heavens and the earth were mine at that moment. I was standing on the earth and holding up the sky. With a voice that could eliminate all the evil, I shouted, "Falun Dafa is good! Restore my Teacher's reputation! Restore Falun Dafa's reputation!" A policeman ran towards me. I immediately sent the righteous thought that the evil could not take me away. I recited the verses Teacher gave us to eliminate the evil and the policeman stopped chasing me. Just then a bus came, so I got on the bus and arrived at the train station by 3:30 p.m.

There were ID card checkpoints at the train station entrances and exits. But the guard did not ask me for an ID. I felt as if I was looking down from the top of a mountain; the evil is totally insignificant and is really nothing. I returned home safely.