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Not in the Least Afraid of "Mountains of Knives and Seas of Fire" - A Loyal Heart Devoted to Fa-Rectification (Part IV) However, the evil forces did not stop their persecution against me. They
hired two people near my home to watch me. When my body was still swollen and
before I could walk steadily, 7 or 8 police officers arrived at my home
to arrest me again. At that time, I made a wish. I said, "Teacher, please
give me a chance and I will certainly be able to get away!" Then I took the
opportunity of going to the toilet and I climbed over the wall and escaped into
a crop field. While running, I kept sending forth righteous thoughts: "I am
an enlightened being and I certainly am able to escape! Teacher, please help
me!" I hid myself well. They started to block all the roads and placed a
search post after every 100 meters. I thought, "What I am doing now is
according to 'just by having your heart unaffected you will be able to handle
all situations.'" ( "Eliminate Your Last Attachment(s)")
Therefore, I laid down for a while and waited to escape in the evening.
In the evening, I heard the loudspeakers in my village and nearby villages
broadcasting the higher authorities' order to arrest me. At that time, I
realized that I could only escape by going over the mountains. I then made a heshi
gesture [i.e., pressing the hands together in front of the chest] and
said to Teacher, "Teacher, I definitely will break through the evil's
blockade. I do not accept the arrangement of the old forces in the universe.
Teacher, please help me." Then a cloud covered the moon and I took this
opportunity and walked toward the mountain.
When I climbed half way up the first mountain, I saw the police riding
motorcycles along a small path toward the mountain to intercept me. My legs had
not completely recovered, so they were not strong; as a result, I collapsed many
times. I even fell from many high places as I walked and climbed over the
mountains. Every time I fell down I sent forth righteous thoughts,
"I am like a divine being and it does not matter to me!" and indeed, I
was all right. Teacher is compassionate. Since I just wore a short-sleeved
shirt, my arms and hands were severely scratched and bleeding. By the next
morning, I had climbed over another three or four mountains. At noon, I had
gradually moved far away from their blockade. By that time, I had climbed over
17 or 18 mountains.
At dusk, I met a kind-hearted person. I then promoted Dafa and clarified the
truth to him. He led me to his home and I had a meal there. His wife gave me a
coat. He escorted me away for a long distance and gave me 10 Yuan [about
US$1.2, one-day income in rural China] when I departed from him.
While I was walking, the patrolling police found me. Again I had to run into
a crop field. This time, they mobilized over a hundred people and blocked every
road and set up blockades one layer after another.
In order not to let them see me, I walked by bending my body or by creeping
with my knees. When I was really tired, I would sleep for a while in the field.
Because I tried my best to avoid them and made detours, it took me a long
time. I thought about whether I still had the attachment of fear. I then
remembered what Master Li said in Hongyin, [Master Li's collection of
poems] "Every test must be passed, every place, everywhere are demons.
Hundreds of hardships drop down at once, to see how one survives them.
Having endured all worldly suffering, leave the world as a Buddha."
I thought, "Now that I do not know where I am, I just look at your vehicle
lights to see where you are afraid that I would go and I will go toward that
direction. I then took off my shoes and traversed the roads barefoot. After a
while, my soles were very painful from the rubbing. The wild grass scratched my
insteps and was extremely painful. I thought: "I am a divine being and my
feet are made of diamond. How can I be afraid of the scratching and
rubbing?" (After I escaped, I checked my feet and saw no thorns. There was
only a small blister, which disappeared after just one evening.)
When I reached a three-way intersection, I changed my direction. When it was
around 4 a.m., I met a "demon of lust," a man who, seeing I was a woman, tried to drag me off the
road and into a ditch. I said sternly, "If you continue doing this, I will
scream for help!" After hearing this, he ran away and disappeared.
At dawn, I recognized my location. I put on my shoes and got in a taxi. By
then, I had spent three days and nights and had "flown" over the tight
encirclement set up by the demons. I again put myself into the current of the
Fa-rectification.
Posting date: 10/24/2001
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