A fellow practitioner told us about something he experienced along with many other practitioners from all over the country who went to Beijing to appeal. They were arrested and brutally beaten by police in the Tiananmen Police Station.

One practitioner was being beaten the most severely. While a policeman was beating him, other policemen were asking him, "Do you feel pain?" The practitioner replied, with his whole face contorted in agony, "Pain, pain." The policeman beat the practitioner even more fiercely and asked, "Do you still feel pain?" The practitioner didn't awaken and still shouted, "Pain." The policeman then started kicking and punching the practitioner more insanely and continuously said to him, "Go ahead, say 'pain', say 'pain'."

That fellow practitioner apparently started to understand - the more he said it hurt, the more the policeman would beat him. Then, he said hesitantly, "It doesn't hurt." The policeman yelled to him "Say it again?" as though he did not hear him. It was as if his courage was aroused by the beating. He replied loudly, "It doesn't hurt." But his words and deeds were not in sync. His facial expression was still anguished. The policeman continued to beat him unceasingly. Eventually, this practitioner came to a realization. With a firm, stern countenance, he said, "It doesn't hurt!"

The policeman stopped and said, "That is more like it. You are a Dafa practitioner, aren't you? What pain do Dafa practitioners feel?"

I won't thank this thug who beats people, but neither will I hate him, because he is being used. The old forces are using these wicked people to test Dafa practitioners through these tribulations.

I want to thank Teacher though, because from the Fa that I understand, our Teacher is using the old forces to temper Fa-rectification Dafa disciples.

The practitioner narrating this story then understood the Fa principle. He thereafter demonstrated extreme bravery, so later the wicked people did not touch him even once.

As Teacher said in Dafa Disciples' Righteous Thoughts Are Powerful: "The most severely persecuted ones are precisely those students who harbor attachments. The more fearful they are inside, the more the evil will specifically go after the students. And the overall situation that has appeared, in which Dafa is persecuted in the human world, is caused by the large-scale, severe occurrence of these students being persecuted because they have attachments..."

If we have sufficiently pure righteous thoughts, then isn't it impossible for the evil people to have any value? If we don't let evil have an excuse for persecuting us as individuals, then Dafa as a whole would not be viewed by the world as being in a situation of severe persecution. If those people still dare to do evil things, they are choosing the road to their doom. Neither people nor Gods will allow it!

Teacher explicitly said in the 2001 Canada Fa Conference: "When something should really be eliminated, it just has to be eliminated. It's not only you who does the eliminating; if a cultivator can't eliminate it, Gods - including higher gods -- also need to take part in eliminating it."

Once, because I persisted in reciting Teacher's articles, prison guards instigated a prisoner to beat me for hours. I thought to myself, "I am a God; I am a Dafa practitioner." Truly, I didn't have the sensation of pain. I do not know if I had broken through the restrictions of the God who controls "pain" in the Three Realms or if Teacher had given me the will to block it out, or if Teacher bore the pain on my behalf. Perhaps all these things are true. I was beaten until the prisoners were being served their meals, and the beating still did not stop. Although I held firmly to my righteous thoughts, it was of no help. I had to consider, where on earth is my omission? Where on earth do I need to improve?

I never accepted the evil forces' persecution, and following Teacher's words, did not cooperate with evil's commands, instigations, or requests. I did not say my number when they called roll; I did not work for them; I did not recite the prison rules; instead, I loudly recited Teacher's articles (in order to share them with my fellow practitioners who have been locked up for an extended period of time, and to let the criminals hear it); I did not greet prison officers, but on the contrary, I stated loudly, "Falun Dafa is good" each time. I did not eat or drink, nor did I reveal my name. I did not go anywhere when they ordered me to, forcing them to carry me everywhere.

When I faced interrogation, I firmly refused to sit on their stone stool. I am not a criminal, I have not committed a crime, and I wouldn't accept their interrogation. They chatted with me, instead. They let me sit in a chair that was the same as the ones they were sitting in. I talked freely to those who were able to listen to the truth I told. To those who did not want to listen and only sought a way to persecute me, I crossed my legs and did the meditation. They used tens of kilograms of heavy shackles to lock my legs to a pole next to the bathroom. If I wanted to move or stand up, I couldn't do it and certainly could not possibly do the meditation. When I was forcibly held down, I just had a rest. Once the guards got tired of watching me, I again crossed my legs and did the meditation. After I repeated this course of action many times, they got tired, felt it was pointless, or did not feel like interrogating me any more. They unanimously felt that it was a fruitless effort no matter what they did to me.

But once, the guards instigated prisoners to beat me for a long time. I realized that the reason was not only because I recited Teacher's articles. I thought, "I am a Dafa disciple who has dignity. I definitely cannot accept the evil's persecution." However, I thought that though I did not accept it, they still did not stop doing their evil. Then, I suddenly realized Teacher's direction: Suffocate the evil, don't allow evil to persecute Dafa. At that time, I didn't have such clear ideas on how to eradicate evil and send forth righteous thoughts.

Then, they apparently got tired of beating me and left to have a meal.

In the afternoon, the prison officer came in and said, "In the future, do not beat her anymore, she already does not know what fear is."

Sure enough, after that, the prisoners did not strive for the guards' favor to beat me as before. They started to help me secretly, instead. They found opportunities to chat with me. In a later stage, when I was in a sustained state of semi-consciousness, they would secretly come and give me water, rub me down with a moist towel, or sit by my side.

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Do not be afraid to admit that you are a Fa-rectification Dafa disciple. Do not be afraid that you are not qualified. It does not matter if you are cultivating well or not, as long as today you persist in practicing Falun Dafa, doing everything in your power to save people of the world and safeguard the Fa, consciously safeguard the Fa, and keep your heart on the Fa.

I have left behind stains in cultivation and faced the biggest tribulations as a result. However, today I will do well from the beginning. I am still Teacher's disciple! As long as I have a thread of righteous thoughts, I still have a chance. I want to practice cultivation! I want to assist Teacher in the human world! Teacher's mercy will not overlook a true disciple.

Teacher tells us to "Get rid of any attachment you might have, and don't think about [such] things. Just do everything a Dafa disciple should do, and everything will be covered." (Teaching the Fa at the Washington, D.C. International Fa Conference, Guiding the Voyage) We are Teacher's disciples. While Teacher is in the midst of Fa-rectification, we are particles of the Fa.

With regard to who we are and what kind of beings we will turn into, Teacher has told us many times in the Fa that what is important is whether we can remember and whether we are determined out of firm belief at the critical time.

Because of my understanding in this limited level, if there are any shortcomings, please point them out.