(Minghui.org) A 68-year-old practitioner that I affectionately call “Big Brother” is still very healthy. He had lost some teeth but, after he began to practice Falun Gong, new teeth started to grow and his vitiligo, the loss of pigment in his skin, went away.
He was addicted to gambling by playing Mahjong and found it hard to stop. He barely missed arrest by leaving just before the police raided gambling establishments.
Experiencing the Beauty of Practicing
When he did the sitting meditation exercise for the first time, his legs were in excruciating pain. He remembered that Master said:
“You will have a very comfortable sensation when you are sitting there, feeling so wonderful as if you were sitting inside an egg shell” (Zhuan Falun).
He thought: how could I achieve that? As he thought this, suddenly he entered into the state of tranquillity and wasn't aware of where his legs were.
One night soon after he started practicing, he turned off the lights. The ceiling looked like the sky filled with stars. It was so vivid. At first he thought it was a dream, but then realized that his third eye was opened.
Persecuted for His Belief
Big Brother was arrested and held in a detention center for his belief in Falun Gong. He was forced to lay on the ground, immobilized. His arms and legs were stretched out and cuffed. A guard put a piece of wood under his back, which caused excruciating pain.
When he endured as much as he could, he heard a voice. “If you were pinned like this for three months, would you still practice?”
Big Brother answered, “If I were pinned like this for a lifetime, I would still practice.”
As soon as he had that thought, the pain disappeared. He felt as if he was lying on a sofa.
He was pinned that way for three days. He was given no food. A guard later gave him a bowl of porridge and told him that a practitioner in the room next to his hadn't eaten for days either, so Big Brother said to the guard, “Give my porridge to the other practitioner.”
The head of the provincial 610 Office went to the detention center and tried to get him to renounce his belief, but Big Brother refused.
Big Brother actually used this opportunity to talk to the man about Falun Gong and the persecution. In the end, the head of the 610 Office said, “I will find the best labor camp in our province for you. The food and conditions will be better for you there. But you need to stay there for two years.”
Big Bother thought to himself, “No, Master has the final say.” He began a hunger strike to resist the persecution and was released 15 days later.
One day he got a ride home from another city. On the way, he talked to the two drivers about Falun Gong. One of them accepted what he said, but the other did not.
Halfway home, the driver stopped the car and went to a police station to report him. However, police there didn't want to get involved with the persecution anymore.
When the driver came back from the police station, he demanded that Big Brother get out of the car. Big Brother told them to remember that saying 'Falun Dafa is good' would bring them a good future.
It was 8 p.m., and he had to walk along a lonely road in the dark. It seemed that he had just walked a short while when he noticed that his home was right there in front of him. He realized that Master had helped him.
Since last May, 200,000 people have filed complaints against Jiang Zemin for initiating the persecution of Falun Gong. Big Brother decided to do the same for a relative. He went to the post office to mail his lawsuit.
The young man at the post office refused to send it for him. Big Brother told him about Falun Gong, but he still refused. He said that his boss would not allow him to do it.
Big Brother told the boss about the persecution of Falun Gong and that practitioners' organs were being harvested for profit. “It is time to sue Jiang.” he said. After listening to him, the boss agreed to send it.
