(Clearwisdom.net) I started practicing Falun Dafa in October 1998. On the Eve of the 2007 Chinese New Year, local police officers arrested me because I was talking publicly to people about Falun Gong and the persecution. I was sentenced to two years of forced labor and taken to the Shandong Province No. 2 Men's Forced Labor Camp, also called Zhangqiu Forced Labor Camp.
I refused to be "transformed" and write the three statements, so the guards brutally tortured me. The guards, detainees who monitored me and collaborators used all possible means to torture me. They handcuffed and kicked me. I suffered sleep deprivation, and was forced to sit on a narrow, hard bench. They used all kinds of torture methods. I remained firm in my conviction to practice Falun Dafa, even at critical moments. I thought of myself as a Falun Dafa disciple and was certain that Teacher was always beside me, protecting me at all times. This experience helped me understand more and more of Teacher's Fa,
"when a person's True Thoughts come forth they are very powerful." ("Dafa Disciples' Righteous Thoughts are Powerful" from Essentials for Further Advancement II)
Whenever the guard handcuffed me, I told the handcuffs with my mind, "Handcuffs, don't be fooled by the evil forces and become a tool to persecute Dafa practitioners." Then they opened without further ado. One time, a guard handcuffed one of my hands to the heating pipe in the restroom. I had one thought, "I want to practice." Immediately I started practicing the first exercise ("Mile Shenyao" or, "Buddha Maitreya Stretching His Back" from The Great Consummation Way of Falun Dafa). As my hands stretched upward, the handcuffs linked to the pipe became flexible, just like an elastic band. When I relaxed and pulled back my hands, I saw the handcuffs return to their original shape.
One time in the cold of winter, after the guards beat me cruelly for a long time, they cuffed my hands to a heating pipe high up on the wall. Immediately I sweat, so they turned off the heater and forced me to take off my cotton clothes. They opened the window that was facing north, the direction of the cold wind. Immediately I was chilly. I was trembling. At this moment I communicated with the cold wind, "Cold wind, don't cooperate with the evil to freeze me. I am a Dafa disciple. We all came here for Dafa. I hope you can also learn Dafa and choose your own wonderful future. Immediately the cold wind went around me and I felt warm again.
Another time I was handcuffed to the toilet but was not allowed to use it. At the beginning, I felt pain in my belly and it distended. I asked the guards to release my hands and allow me to use the toilet, but they refused. I looked within and asked, "Why won't they allow me to defecate and urinate? At the surface, they are torturing my physical body, but actually they are trying to force me to give up practicing. I am a Falun Dafa practitioner. Teacher is here. The Fa is here. Every practitioner is endowed with the divine power of Buddha Fa. Why don't I use it at such a critical moment? Now, I am using my supernormal abilities to excrete feces and urinate from other dimensions." I suddenly felt that I excreted all I needed to in other dimensions. My belly was no longer swollen. I suffered this torture around the clock for four days. I have now come to understand that I shouldn't have accepted such evil persecution at any time.
Teacher strengthened me and helped me eliminate such tribulations. I enlightened that because I admitted that there was an evil persecution, I made the tribulation more serious; because I failed to stop the evil with righteous thoughts, the guards committed more sins. If at the moment I had a firm righteous thought that was based on Dafa, I would have been indestructible and unshakable. If I denied the persecution or used my righteous thoughts to turn the tables on the evildoers, things would have been different.
I would like to share with fellow practitioners one point. Under any circumstance, we must hold firm belief in Teacher and Dafa, and remember that we are Dafa disciples at all times. Always use true thoughts instead of human thoughts. The difference between humanness and godhood is just the difference of one thought.
