(Clearwisdom.net) I became acquainted with Zhao Ming while he was working as a network engineer at the Ziguang Incorporation of Qinghua University. He was a single young man with a stable income, living a very simple life. He used words sparingly but was warmhearted and used all he had to provide conveniences for others.

In 1995, the difficulty of buying Dafa books was worrying many practitioners. Zhao Ming used his personal savings of 10,000 Yuan as circulating funds for purchasing Dafa books from publishers and distributors. This helped solve the problem of providing books for fellow practitioners and people who had just begun practicing Falun Gong. When autumn had begun to set in, he saw that the cold weather made it inconvenient to have outdoor Fa-study. He then moved out of his school dormitory, rented a two-bedroom, one-story house, and offered that house as a place for fellow practitioners to hold Fa-study. He also bought a TV, audio cassette player, VCD, and Dafa materials for fellow practitioners to use. He placed the key to his front door in a place known to everyone so that they could come into his house to study Fa and exchange Fa-study experiences.

The spring of 1996 was a high tide for spreading the Fa. Zhao Ming and fellow practitioners made some banners to introduce the Fa and rented some venues to play Dafa lecture videotapes and exercise videotapes. Almost every day, Zhao Ming taught the exercise movements to people who had just started practicing and also helped them refine the movements. He used all of his spare time for Dafa.

In the spring of 1998, many millions of people were practicing Falun Gong, and many places often held experience-sharing conferences of various sizes. The practitioners at Qinghua University held an experience sharing conference in the Mengmin Building. Before the conference, the organizers received more than 100 experience-sharing papers. Zhao Ming, as one of the reviewers of the papers, often worked until midnight. The papers read at the conference were touching and inspiring. Many participants wanted more people to learn what they had heard shared in the presentations. After the conference, Zhao Ming and the others compiled the experiences into a book named "Falun Gong at Qinghua University." This book soon spread among friends and relatives and even spread aboard.

At the end of 1998, Zhao Ming was moved when he saw the photos of the splendid scenes of a group practice with 10,000 practitioners at the Shengyang Industry Exhibition in Liaoning Province, the large group practices at Changchun City and at Leshan Sport Stadium in Sichuan Province. He hoped that more people could see these precious photos so he tried various means and used his own money to print the photos as a collection called "Great Virtue and Great Fa." He then distributed them for free to many people.

When the crackdown on Falun Gong was launched by Jiang's regime in July 20, 1999, Zhao Ming was very concerned about the safety of fellow practitioners with whom he had spent many days and nights. He decided to take the opportunity of visiting his family members over the Christmas holiday to examine the situation of his fellow practitioners, and to appeal for Dafa.

Zhao Ming, however, was monitored as soon as he landed at the airport. He was constantly followed when he returned to Qinghua University and when he walked down an alley, a police car would be waiting for him on the main road, just ahead. Zhao Ming was in the shadow of national terrorism as soon as he entered China, yet he remained unafraid. He managed to elude his monitors and find some practitioners with which to exchange experiences. When he learned that some fellow practitioners had been poisoned by false scriptures of the Teacher, he immediately found the one spreading these scriptures and persuaded her to stop. When she insisted, Zhao Ming spoke sternly to her and asked her to stop.

January 6, 2000 was the date for his return to Ireland for the beginning of the university semester. Many people tried to persuade him not to appeal since it would surely result in his imprisonment. At the time, the Office of Appeal had become a place to arrest Dafa practitioners. Zhao Ming, however, with disregard for his personal safety, resolutely entered the Appeal Office of the central government in Beijing. As soon as he stepped through the entrance, upon finding out that he was a Dafa practitioner, they arrested him without letting him speak a single word. They took his plane ticket and his passport, detained him, and sent him back to the Changchun Public Security Department in Jilin Province.

As a student studying aboard and concerned about his country and his people, Zhao Ming was deprived of his rights of speech and belief bestowed by the constitution of the totalitarian government. However, "coercion cannot change people's hearts." Zhao Ming didn't change his righteous belief in Dafa even though he experienced physical and spiritual torture at the notorious Tuanhe Forced Labor Camp, the devil's lair in the human world created by Jiang and Lou's regime. Five policemen used electric batons with a voltage as high as 30,000V to shock him, but were not able to change his righteous belief in Dafa. That only served to expose the evil deeds of Jiang and Lou's regime and exhibit their sad state during their approaching last days. The pain and torture Zhao Ming endured to defend the universal principle of "Truth, Compassion, and Forbearance" won the respect of people with a sense of justice and awakened the hearts of millions.

Posting date: 4/18/2002
Original article date: 4/9/2002
Category: Cultivation Experiences
Translated on 4/13/2002
Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2002/4/9/28170.html

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