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A Student from an Elementary School in Mainland China Writes to Friends: "Remembering 'Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance' will bring happiness to you." I read a letter that shocked me and made me sad. You will feel the same after reading it. If one day you, as the kindest person, was said to be a bad person, and everybody is misled by the lies and hates you for no reason as the one who hurts you has the power and authority to stop people from listening to you tell the truth, what would you do? This actually happened to a boy even younger than you and I. How pathetic and irritating this is. I want to tell the story to you and to more people. If you want to help this little friend, please pass this story to friends around you. I am sending you a saying: "Remembering 'Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance' will bring happiness to you."

Practitioners Exchange Insights

In a Few Words: Understanding of "Being Afraid." Being afraid is what people understand as being timid, which is a manifestation of cowardice. To go further, it is a manifestation of selfishness. Human beings, for their own benefit and concern for their own safety, cannot even tell the truth nor stick to what is righteous. In cultivation "being afraid" is a strong attachment that stops you from improving or upgrading. From another perspective, the more you are afraid of the evil the more it controls you. Isn't your attachment of being scared in accordance with the arrangement of the old forces? Being afraid is the attachment of ordinary people. It should be eliminated in cultivation.

Truth and People's Heart

New Falun Gong Practitioners Felt Compassionate Caring from Master

1) A farmer in the countryside always has righteous thoughts about Falun Gong. A Falun Gong practitioner gave him a Falun Gong book. One day he told the practitioner: "One family always bullies me and I always want to teach them a lesson. Last night I wanted to get up at night and light their woodpile on fire for revenge. When I got up I felt pains all over my body. I could not move at all. But when I got up this morning I did not feel any pain. Don't you think it is strange?" The practitioner told him that Master is watching over him, stopped him from doing bad things and making karma. He listened and had tears in his eyes: "No one has cared for me all these years, and now someone cares for me."

2) One family member of a Falun Gong practitioner planned to formally start cultivation. The family had dinner together. All non-practitioners had wine in their cups. As she had not formally started the practice, they poured a cup for her too. When they were just about to drink, her cup fell on the floor and broke. Although her husband is not a practitioner he said at once: "Master does not want you to drink. Do not drink any more."

Facts of the Persecution

Appeal to rescue 34-year old Falun Gong practitioner Li Guanghai of Huludao City, Liaoning Province. In November the Huludao City "610 Office" (an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems) and the Political and Legal Administration Committee illegally sentenced him to 3-years of forced labor education. Li Guanghai was brutally tortured many times by the police in the labor education center. On January 6, 2003, the police forced Li Guanghai, who is firm in his cultivation, to be brainwashed and they tortured him severely. Accordingly when Li Guanghai was sent to the hospital for treatment he was in critical condition. His arm turned black. He could not eat. There were many injuries to his heart. But 10 days later, Li Guanghai was sent to the labor education center again.

News and Activities around the World

A Letter to the Officials of the Chinese Consulate in Los Angeles: This letter is about the materials and VCDs that slander Falun Gong, which are left at the Visa Office of the Chinese Consulate in Los Angeles. To those who understand the truth these VCDs are only damaging the image of China and the Chinese media. To those who do not know the truth it creates hatred and misunderstandings based on lies. Mr. Li Hongzhi said: "a being's choice is up to him"("Teaching the Fa at the 2002 Fa Conference in Philadelphia, U.S.A."). We hope from the bottom of our hearts that you choose honesty and kindness.

News from China

Farmers from Kangping County in the northern part of Liaoning Province are all concerned with the lack of rain and the drought. They could not plant their fields. But the areas around Kangping more or less all have rain. People of the older generation said that the drought in Kangping is because the county leaders broke heavenly principles. The officials in Kangping County illegally carried out a brutal persecution against Falun Gong practitioners. In the past several years hundreds of Falun Gong practitioners in Kangping have been illegally detained and sent for labor education.

Reference Materials

Recently the China Legal Observation, an independent non-government organization composed of a group of legal professionals who are dedicated to promoting the legal administration system of China, wrote to the two congresses (Party's Congress and the People's Congress) appealing to the People's Congress to establish a case for investigating former President Jiang Zemin's illegal actions and abuse of power, and to establish laws specifying the limit of power, procedure of execution of authority, and an organization to monitor the president. This is the second letter of appeal from the China Legal Observation during the two congresses.