(Minghui.org) To underscore the seriousness of cultivation and my reason for writing this experience sharing article, I will begin with a quote from Master:
“And some people ask me why they are persecuted so severely. Perhaps that person is bearing things on behalf of the many lives behind him. The lives that he needs to protect, and who he needs to save, are simply that enormous and that numerous. Perhaps that is caused by both his own factors as well as the factors of the beings he should save; the amount of karma or the number of factors that he shoulders from the past might also be great; there might also be accumulated old scores that he can’t resolve as well as long-standing grudges that can’t be undone at all—some of which can only be settled by exchanging his own life. So it’s on this account that things are so exceedingly complicated in the persecution.” (“20th Anniversary Fa Teaching”).
Passing Tests While Imprisoned and Tortured
I wasillegally detained in a Chinese prison for a total of ten years, because I refused to renounce Falun Dafa. I was tortured many times to the verge of death by guards in two prisons in Hunan Province. Each time I was released because it appeared that I was near the end of my life. During times of unbearable tribulations, Master would let me see predestined relationships in dreams. This helped me to remain steadfast in my belief and allowed me to pass tests.
A few months before the onset of the persecution of Falun Dafa in July 1999, I saw police chasing me in my dreams many times. I also saw evil specters holding a knife in front of me saying, “If you want to practice Falun Dafa, you will have to pass the knife test.” I walked toward the knife and the blade cut across my chest, yet nothing happened to me. After the persecution started, I realized that I saw the persecution before it happened.
In July and August 1999, I was forced to report to the police station daily. I refused to turn in my Falun Dafa books and renounce the practice. The police beat me until I vomited blood and I was seriously injured. I had chest pain and got weaker by the day. One day in a dream, I was killing someone. I realized while in my dream that I had to steadfastly cultivate in Falun Dafa so I could repay this life. I understood that doing what a practitioner must do during the Fa rectification was the only way to resolve historical grudges.
Becoming More Confident to Protect Falun Dafa
I overcame my biggest tribulation and wrote to the Public Security Department, telling them the facts about the persecution and voiding the guarantee statement promising not to practice Falun Dafa that I had signed. I was then fired from my job and couldn't find another one. Most people believed the lies and propaganda by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and did not want to hire me. I became a street vendor.
My family caved in to the pressure from the CCP minions and constantly beat and verbally abused me. I felt alone and helpless.
One day at the end of November, I was resting after dinner. Suddenly, I felt a strong energy surrounding my body and I couldn't move. I looked and saw that I had a golden divine body. A thought emerged that I wanted to leave this world, but my main consciousness quickly stopped that thought, “If I left now and my physical body died, people would hold a misconceptions about Falun Dafa. I want to cultivate before I leave this world.” The feeling in my hands and legs came back. This increased my confidence in validating the Fa and there was no other option for me.
Learning of the Past from Dreams
In 2002, I was arrested and taken to Chishan Prison in Yuanjiang City, Hunan Province. I was tortured and severely injured. Twice I dreamed that high level beings of the old forces were manipulating me. One time I saw row houses and I entered one house that was at a higher level. I could not see the ground but several wood logs were standing there. I stood on one of the wood logs and saw a goddess standing on a podium reporting to a god in the house above. She pointed at me and said, “He came from above.” The god said, “According to the principles of the (old) universe, a life underneath is not allowed to rise up.” I wasn't scared when the goddess started to throw large rocks toward me, so all of them missed me. She said, “He has the book Zhuan Falun with him and it won't work.” I asked both of them to assimilate to the Fa. The goddess cried but the god showed no interest.
I was hung up and tortured many times. One time I saw a leopard hung by an iron wire from the neck, with fire burning underneath it. The leopard had come to the world to torture practitioners by hanging them up. The cat held no regrets. Seeing the animal in extreme pain, I felt sorry for it and poured a bucket of water on the fire. The fire burned more intensively and the leopard disappeared instantly. From then on, I no longer was hung up. I realized that I should not be sympathetic to the evil in other dimensions and should destroy it with righteous thoughts. I thank Master for protecting me.
Xu, one of the inmates, was vicious and was even worse than the guards when torturing me. One night I dreamed about my relationship with him. The old forces assigned him to persecute me when I became a practitioner. In a previous life he became a poisonous centipede and crawled into my house so that I would kill him. When I saw the centipede, I quickly asked my wife to kill it. In this life, he held such hatred that his only thought was to kill me. He wanted me to denounce the practice, and he often got me near the point of giving up, but he didn't succeed. Thanks to Master's protection. I passed the tests again and again by letting go of life and death.
There were also those that came to help me. I met one such guard, D, and Xu managed to have him transferred away. I dreamed that during a wartime, D and I were soldiers who looked out for each other. Another prisoner was also trying to help me. I saw in a dream that on one on his fingers there was a mark Master had given him during a prior life.
Ling Zheng (alias), a guard, was transferred to the prison. He liked to listen to me clarifying the truth about Falun Dafa. He understood the Fa principles and often stopped other prisoners from torturing me. While I was imprisoned, I saw quite a few guards that sympathized with Falun Dafa besides Ling. Once when I was dozing, I saw that I was a monk cultivating in the mountains. Ling cultivated the Tao in the mountains as well. We often met with each other. When we turned old, I told him, “In the future, let's practice Falun Dafa and consummate together, what do you think?” He said, “I don't believe that practicing Falun Dafa can allow me to consummate. If I see with my own eyes that you reached consummation by practicing Falun Dafa, then I will practice it!” In this life, Ling graduated from a top university and liked to read books on Taoism. He often asked me to clarify the facts about Falun Dafa to him and write down the Fa principles. I asked him many times to quit the CCP and its affiliates. He did not give me a definite answer.
I have recounted my dreams above. Please understand that this is what I saw at my cultivation level. It does not represent Falun Dafa.
My hope is that everyone progresses more diligently on their cultivation path and does the three things well.