(Clearwisdom.net) During four years of imprisonment, I met some imprisoned criminals who completely changed into good people after they cultivated Dafa. Some of them openly stepped forward to be in a group of Dafa practitioners. That meant that their terms could not be reduced. Since they openly did the exercises, they were subjected to all kinds of torture by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) police and were put into small isolation cells. Some of them were even tortured to death. Some others did not openly cultivate after they obtained the Fa. Instead, they helped hide Master’s new articles and helped pass around new articles and other information.

The following three articles were recently smuggled out from a women's jail. Those who wrote the articles were practitioners who obtained the Fa in jail. They were imprisoned for criminal offenses, but they are determined to cultivate Dafa in this difficult and dangerous environment.

1. New Article Glowed

I am a practitioner who obtained the Fa while I was imprisoned in 2004. I was sentenced to “life imprisonment.” Studying the Fa as a prisoner is something that I dared not even think of, since the increase or reduction of a prisoner's term is a matter of life and death. Everyone was aware that I studied the Fa, so I was monitored by the prisoners, the guards made things difficult, there would be no reduction of my sentence, I was put in a small isolation cell, etc. Luckily, however, I was protected by our compassionate Master. It was really a miraculous experience when I first read Master’s Fa.

In 2000, I heard the truth about Dafa, but I did not read Dafa books. In 2003, I was sentenced to a women's prison. In the spring of 2004 when I went to the washroom, I saw a piece of square paper and took notice. I was sure that it was Master’s new article. I picked it up and quickly returned to the dormitory.

I was sleeping on the lower level of bunk-beds in a big dormitory. Our team leader was present, and I dared not read the paper in plain sight, so I pulled the blanket up over my head. I opened up the paper but could see nothing. I was so anxious: How could I read it? Suddenly a bright light illuminated my bed. I thought someone was shining a light on my bed, so I quickly took down the blanket, but there was nobody. I covered myself up with the blanket again, opened the piece of paper, and the light appeared again. I saw it. The light came from the new article, and it illuminated my bed. The words also became very big. Tears came to my eyes from my excitement. I read the new article three times.

It is Master’s compassion that helped me obtain the precious new article. I found the source of life in the darkness.

2. The Alarm Clock Talks

Last night I woke up after 2:00 a.m. When I looked at my watch, it was not yet time for global righteous thoughts. I sent forth the righteous thoughts before I laid down to recite the Fa. I fell asleep again without realizing it.

Suddenly I was awakened by the alarm in my dream. I thought to myself, “I did not set the alarm clock.” I looked at the clock, it was glittering: “Get up, and do the exercises.” I heard this coming from the clock. The sound was so clear. I quickly got up; it was 3:43 a.m. I understood it was Master’s compassion to ask me to be diligent.

I told myself I should definitely write down this miraculous occurrence so that more people will know the miracles of Dafa. I want more fellow practitioners to share Master’s compassion with me.

3. Get Rid of the Attachment of Fear

I obtained the Fa in jail and am currently imprisoned. The evil CCP refused to reduce my term since I cultivate Dafa. One experience made me truly experience the Fa-principle of “Remove your human thoughts and evil will naturally die out” (Hong Yin, Volume II). I wrote this article so that those fellow practitioners who still have the attachment of fear can learn from this experience and let go their attachment to life and death and get rid of their fear.

One day, the chief of the jail went to visit Falun Gong practitioners in different cells. They told the practitioners to put on the prison uniform and line up. We were told to sort out our belongings the same way the other prisoners did. This is one way that the CCP persecuted Dafa practitioners [Note: Dafa practitioners often refuse to follow the prison regulations stipulated for criminal inmates, because they have committed no crime by practicing Dafa, they are not criminals, and should not be imprisoned]. Of course we did not cooperate. They said that if the practitioners who were arrested from outside did not do as they were told, they would be tortured; for those practitioners who obtained the Fa in the cells, they would be put into the small isolation cells. When one fellow practitioner talked to me about this, my human attachments kept surfacing. Because of the attachment of fear, I put my belongings the same way the other prisoners did. This went on for a month.

In studying the Fa, I understood: I should not cooperate with the evil. In looking inside, I found my own attachment of fear, and I thought it would be a good opportunity to get rid of that fear. For those days, I recited Master’s Fa every day. My whole brain was filled with Master’s Fa, and I kept sending forth the righteous thoughts: “I won’t fear, I won’t fear, I will be as determined and solid as a rock and believe determinedly in Master and Dafa.”

Several days later, I obviously felt that most of the evil factors were cleared away. Again the authorities came to check how our belongings were placed, saying that people from the supervisory office of the forced labor bureau were coming. The team leader asked me, “How come your belongings are not placed like the others?” I had a determined thought, “I not only won’t do things the same way they do, I need to report things to the supervisor.” The team leader was afraid and asked, “What did we do to you that you would want to report anything? Come to my office and have a talk with me.” I thought that I would not be afraid of her and I would just go.

When I entered her office, the team leader was sitting on the bed. She said, “You came in to make a report. Do you have anything to say?” I looked at her. Her face was a mess, all red, with sweat running down her forehead. Seeing that she could hardly sit down, I cried out loud, “You are committing crimes! Don’t you know that? I did nothing wrong in learning Dafa. It is the evil head Jiang Zemin who harmed people. It's dragging you people to hell. You did not reduce my term here, you robbed me of my rights, and you still asked to do this and that. If you reduced my term, I would immediately go out and get a job.” She said quickly that it had nothing to do with her, but she still said, “You are really courageous.”

In the afternoon, the team leader came to see me, asking me to sort out my belongings like the other prisoners. I sent forth the righteous thought: I won’t cooperate with the police. I said determinedly, “You show me the law, which section, that says that Falun Gong practitioners should do things like this or that. She lied, “Yes, there is a law.” I said, “You show it to me.”

Later on, I also talked about the heavenly principle that good will be eventually rewarded with good, and evil be punished. I sent forth the righteous thoughts to dismantle the evil factors behind her. Gradually she did not speak. She agreed and sent me back to the cell. She said that Dafa practitioners no longer need to sort out their belongings like the other prisoners.

This experience made me understand that “If thoughts are righteous, evil will collapse” (Hong Yin Volume II, “What’s to Fear?”) For those days, I truly felt that my own dimensional field was very clean and clear and that my own body and the area it covered were especially clear and clean.