(Continued)
In the morning of July 20, 2000, the District Policeman asked me to go with him, saying that I would be arrested for three or four days due to the sensitive day of July 20 [the first anniversary of the official crackdown on Falun Gong]. I refused to comply with this arrangement. The stand-off continued like this. When it was close to noon, other practitioners were sent to the detention center. The police kept me until 4 p.m., and I then walked out of the police station openly and in a dignified manner. After that, several policemen went out to arrest me. When I left the police station, three practitioners came to warn me about the impending arrest. When I heard that the policemen had gone to my house, I became a little upset, thinking that I should protect those Dafa books even if I were to die in the process. As I was approaching my home, Master made it clear to me that I should not go back there. At that moment I felt that there were many gods standing at the door, protecting the Fa, so that the police could not enter. My landlady told me later that after the police entered, they searched the kitchen and the bathroom, without entering the room where I was staying. The landlady knew that I was a Dafa disciple, and treated me as her relative. At that time there were three fellow practitioners from Guangzhou at my apartment, one of whom was the one they were looking for. The landlady wisely dealt with the policemen. Afterwards, these fellow practitioners left safely with the help of my landlady. I stayed away for a week, and then returned as if nothing had happened.
On October 1, 2000, my husband, my son and I went to Tiananmen Square to validate Dafa, together with several fellow practitioners from other cities. My husband and a fellow practitioner opened a banner that read "Zhen-Shan-Ren", and they shouted loudly "Falun Dafa is good," "Restore the reputation of our Master!" Many other practitioners opened their banners in the same way and loudly shouted their words, from the heart. The policemen kicked and hit us, without even sparing the children. My son risked his life holding the banner. A policeman trampled on my son's arm. Afterwards, my son told me, "It did not hurt a bit." As soon as our family was about to be dragged into the police car, a policeman who seemed to be in charge approached. He said to a policeman who was restraining us, "What are you doing?" That policeman released his hand immediately. I knew that it was Master who was protecting us. My husband took this opportunity and said very rationally, "You made a mistake and you got the wrong person." They asked again if we were practicing Falun Gong. I remembered the words that Master said in "Rationality," "When the evil ones ask whether you practice Falun Gong, you may ignore them or use other ways to deflect their questions. Don't voluntarily let the evil take you away." I then said, "It is you who arrested the wrong people." Thus our family went free, and we once again immersed ourselves in the immense flow of Fa-rectification.
In the evening of October 18, 2000, the police broke into the room that we were newly renting, taking away three of our family members and a fellow practitioner from another city who had come to pick up Dafa materials (this practitioner was later sentenced to a three-year term). My computer, copy machine, CD burner, television, VCR and all of our private property were seized and taken away, without even sparing a pair of trousers or a shirt. On October 19, I was interrogated by a police officer. I did not respond to his questions, but said to him in all seriousness, "You are not qualified to interrogate me. It is possible that I will interrogate you." The police record stated "No response." Finally, he asked me to sign my name and give them my fingerprint. I was determined not to cooperate with him, and he did not dare say anything. Later, a policeman said to me, "I suggest that you use your advantage and good quality to go out and do something, something significant. It is meaningless to be here." I knew that it was Master who was reminding me, through the policeman's mouth. It was afternoon, and officers from the municipal police station and branch station all came. I just walked out under their eyes, openly and nobly. Within 24 hours of this incident, I once again melted into the immense flow of Fa-rectification. I heard later that after I left the police station, the police did not sleep for the whole night and searched all the practitioners' homes looking for me. They also posted a wanted notice for me at the place where I lived. This time, my husband was arrested and illegally sentenced.
At 10:00 p.m. on December 8, 2000, policemen broke into our house. We suffered a heavy loss this time. The printing place was ransacked. About several thousand truth-clarifying brochures were confiscated and about 200 practitioners were arrested.
I did not cooperate with the police from the beginning to the end. They beat me, but I did not feel pain. Arriving at the police station, they forbade us from speaking. I spoke whenever I felt it was necessary, because I was not a criminal. A policeman shined his flashlight on me and roared, "Get out!" I said, "Leaving is fine with me -- I never wanted to be here." As soon as I got up and stood at the door, the policeman asked me to stand one meter away. I did not obey. He dragged me by the hair and threw me away from the door. The policeman grabbed my neck. I used all my strength to shout, "You are bullying me too much! Do you want to kill me?" The shouting startled all the policemen in the other rooms, and they all came to see what was going on. That policeman was so afraid that he walked backward; the evil is afraid of being exposed to the light.
Three or four policemen wanted to take a photo of me. I refused sternly. They tried to deceive me, saying that if only I would tell them my name and my address, they would release me immediately. I said, "I do not believe you." I used the chance to disclose the evil behavior of some policemen who committed crimes while executing the law. Before I finished, they interrupted me, "Are you finished?" They continued to ask me things they wanted to know. I took the chance and said, "Why do you dislike what I said? From now on I will say nothing." Thus it kept on for several hours like this. They wanted to send me back to the room where other Dafa disciples were confined. Suddenly the idea flashed in my mind that they always deceived Dafa disciples. Dafa disciples should not let them willfully manipulate practitioners. As soon as the idea came out, many symptoms of their recent brutality appeared on my body. They were afraid to take responsibility. Three male policemen drove me to the hospital. I used this chance and asked them to return my 2,300 Yuan [500 Yuan is equal to the average urban worker's monthly salary]. On the way to the hospital, I used human thinking, being afraid that they would follow me into the examination room. I begged Master to make them go and not follow me for the examination. As expected, as soon as we arrived at the hospital, they asked me whether it was necessary to notify my family. I said no. They also said, "Hurry home if you have no other things to do. Do not let your family worry about you." As they left, I expressed my thanks to them and told them that good is rewarded with good and evil with evil, and I asked them to be good policemen. Within nine hours I was once again free, in an open and dignified manner. Just as Master said in "Touring North America to Teach the Fa," "When you conduct yourselves righteously Master can do anything for you. If your righteous thoughts are truly strong, if you're able to put aside the thought of life and death, and if you're solid and unshakable like diamond, then those evil beings won't dare to touch you...."
Every time these incidences occurred, I always had the strong awareness that I must go free. When we encounter any situation, we must surpass our human mentality using the wisdom that Dafa gives. We must not get overly involved in the specific incident while looking at an issue, but instead, we should jump out of it and assess it in terms of the Fa. A lot of fellow practitioners use the human mentality when encountering certain incidents. For example, once something happens they have the idea that, "it is bad," or, "it is finished." When encountering an incident, jump out of the human mind-set and abandon human notions. This way, you can be rational and calm in dealing with all issues. In this universe, it is Master who makes the decisions. The extent that you believe in him will directly bear upon the result that you will have.
One afternoon in late December 2000, I led a practitioner to a place where we could obtain some truth-clarifying materials from another practitioner. As soon as the first practitioner left, the practitioner who gave us the materials and I both felt something wrong in our surrounding environment so we flagged down a taxi van and got in it. Several plainclothes policemen ran over and wanted to get in too, but the driver started the engine and drove away (typically, this driver would be willing to have others share the ride as the van was still relatively empty). They called a taxicab instead and sped ahead of our van. Whenever our van stopped, they would also stop. The other practitioner and I encouraged each other, "As long as our thoughts are righteous, Teacher will surely protect us, and nothing will go wrong." The other practitioner got off the van first and mixed in with the crowd. Several plainclothes policemen immediately ran after him. One of them stopped and looked back toward the van. He even made eye contact with me but my mind was very calm. He seemed to not have seen me and continued running. I left safely, and soon afterwards the other practitioner also easily lost the plainclothes policemen. I came to understand that we can never panic should anything happen to us. We will be more rational if we base our judgments on the principles of the Fa. We're practitioners so as long as our minds are righteous, no one can touch us. Teacher said in Zhuan Falun,
"If you are a true practitioner, our Falun will safeguard you. I am rooted in the universe. If anyone can harm you, he or she would be able to harm me. Put simply, that person would be able to harm this universe."
On another occasion, a policeman used psychological tactics to try to make me feel isolated and helpless: "You're the only one left in this region." I answered calmly, "It doesn't matter; cultivation practice favors quality, not quantity." He then changed his tone and said, "Your master must be happy to have a disciple like you."
I also experienced many tests when I went on a hunger strike. A policeman said to me, "I'll give you a copy of Zhuan Falun if you agree to eat." I wasn't fooled by him and continued to insist on not eating. The director of the "610" office also told me things like, "If you die of hunger, we will show your case on TV and just say that you committed suicide." My heart was not moved and in the end I prevailed. The director of the "610" office found a few collaborators [former Falun Gong practitioners who have gone astray due to brainwashing and torture] with advanced academic degrees to harass me. They said that they had reached consummation at very high levels. I told them, "I wouldn't envy you even if you were higher than the ninth heaven. I'm not concerned about consummation. I only know that Dafa is good and Teacher is good and that is enough." They told me that I was too extreme. I responded, "It's not extreme to be unafraid of brute force." The "610" office no longer bothered me afterwards. It is exactly like teacher said in "Coercion Cannot Change People's Hearts"(Essentials for Further Advancement II): "Humans are not able to change Enlightened Beings."
One morning in early April 2001, at around 10 o'clock, a large group of people from the City Police Department, the branch Police Department and the local police station broke into my home. They had with them cameras and video cameras and announced that I was being arrested, but I didn't sign any of their documents. They forcefully handcuffed my hands behind my back and dragged me out of my home. I saw that a lot of people were watching from outside of my apartment building so I shouted loudly, "Falun Dafa is the righteous Fa! They tell lies on TV! Look at how they treat us Dafa practitioners!" They hastily threw me into a car. I was very calm the whole time. They sent me directly to a section of the Police Department. Upon getting out of the car, a policeman said, "First things first. I'm going to send you to hell." I calmly told him, with a smile on my face, "That's pitiful. Your words don't matter, only my Teacher's do." They dragged me out of the car and held me in the office building for interrogation.
After I went into the building, the back cuff had been causing me so much pain that my ability to forbear had reached its limit. I said to Teacher, "Teacher, please help me." As soon as this mindset emerged, I heard an officer say, "Un-cuff her." In Zhuan Falun, Teacher said, "My fashen (law body) in another dimension knows everything on your mind." Teacher is protecting us each and every minute. Each time I faced an evil person, the first thought I had was that I must be worthy of my Teacher. Whatever they asked me about Dafa work, I would tell them that I didn't know anything about it. An officer asked me, "Why won't your Master save you if he is so capable?" I said, "How do you know that my Master won't save me? My Master is listening to every word we say!" The officer said, "Don't try to scare me like that." I told him that I wasn't trying to scare him and that it was the actual truth. Every time I found it difficult to pass a test, I remembered that Teacher was by my side, so I was able to keep my mind calm and righteous, and I also was able to try my best not to let Teacher down, and be worthy of the title of "Fa-Rectification Period Dafa Disciples." Many Fa principles would emerge in my mind, and strengthen my confidence even more. I told Teacher wholeheartedly, "Teacher, I am willing to validate Dafa with my life. If I don't need to give my life for it here, please deliver me. This is not the place for me."
Soon, I began to see what looked like illusions. My face turned pale and my hands and feet started to twitch. In fact, my right hand became a big Falun and it was rotating in an orderly fashion, and the energy was very strong. I felt more wonderful than I had ever felt before. I chanted silently "Eliminate the evil, send forth Falun to smash the evil factors in other dimensions." At that time I had not known that there were Fa-rectification formulas. By seven or eight o'clock in the evening, someone came and said, "Don't you want to go home? You've been released." I sat there and didn't move. They had to carry me out and send me back home.
One day, the director of the "610" office sent someone to my home. I didn't let them in but instead I telephoned the director of the "610" office and told him, "Never disturb me again. My family has already been broken apart. Are you going to persecute us to death? I'm telling you solemnly today, if you want to brainwash me, it will be impossible. I have written a will stating that I will never kill myself. I will definitely not kill myself! To prevent you from saying that I committed suicide after you have tortured me to death and shift the blame to Falun Gong to deceive people, I have put the name of my persecutors on the will. Watch yourself carefully!" The director of the "610" office said in a panic, "We didn't mean to do anything but just see you. Take care of yourself, we won't bother you anymore." From then on they really did not bother me.
I needed an ID card so that I could visit my husband who was in jail. I went to the local police station for an ID card but they wouldn't issue me one. I said to them, "If you don't allow me to see my husband, I will appeal. Which law of our country doesn't allow us to see each other?" They gave in and drove me there. Some practitioners worried for me, and suggested that I have a relative follow. I thought to myself, "How could a human protect a divine being? Who would dare touch me while Teacher is watching over me?" On the way, I felt that Teacher was sitting on a lotus protecting me. I tried to find opportunities to clarify the truth to the policemen and gave them Teacher's articles to read. I came back safely the same day, and my ID was issued to me as well. I often clarified the truth to the guards, and gave them truth-clarifying CDs. Teacher said in Teaching the Fa at the 2002 Fa Conference in Boston that, "We're doing these things with our hearts, while they're doing things with money--they could never compare."
After the incident on June 25, 2000, the evil never dared to trouble me again. During my journeys in Fa-rectification, I was jailed for no more than 40 days in total. I came through with dignity under Teacher's protection. It is a proven fact that Dafa is holy and inviolable. As long as our hearts are pure and we are equipped with righteous thoughts and faith in Dafa, no evil will dare touch us. My fellow practitioners, let's completely let go of our selves, take the last step well, and always remember: "We are Fa-Rectification period Dafa disciples." Let's seize the one and only opportunity in the history of the cosmos. We, ourselves create our environment. I hope we can all help each other improve as one. Our shortcomings will be eliminated through cultivation.
To encourage us with a final thought, let me repeat Teacher's words in Touring North America to Teach the Fa:
"There are two circumstances in which they can't touch a Dafa disciple. One is that he is rock-solid. They don't dare touch him, because they know at that time that if this disciple has taken a righteous path and conducted himself well and someone still dares to persecute him, it doesn't matter that they're the old forces or what the old principles are--I absolutely won't spare them."
July 15, 2002
