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Mother Righteously Rebukes Police: "You Don't Have the Right to Detain My Child and Me"
(Clearwisdom.net)
My husband and I are Falun Gong practitioners. We were illegally arrested for
clarifying the truth of the persecution of Falun Gong in 2000. Our home was
ransacked. They took away my computer, printer and mimeograph among many other
things. My husband was illegally sentenced to 9 years in prison. At that time, I
had just given birth to my child 28 days previously. From that day, I was forced
to leave my home in order to avoid further persecution, and joined in the Fa-rectification
with fellow practitioners. Practitioners were illegally arrested group by group.
Even though I was arrested several times, I walked out the detention center with
righteous thoughts every time. Once, when I was illegally arrested, I conducted
a hunger strike to protest for 9 days. The police said to me, "If we send your
child to an orphanage, I don't believe you won't compromise [referring to
renouncing her belief]." I said to my child with tears in my eyes, "My
child, we are practitioners. We can't ruin great living beings in the cosmic
bodies because of our attachments to affection for family. My child, Teacher is
watching over us." The poems in Hongyin written by Teacher sounded in my
ears: "Who dares to give up an everyday person's heart."
I pointed at the police and said, "You don't have any right to detain my
child and me. You are aware of the law and still violate the law. Release us. I
won't allow you to touch my child!" I sent forth strong, righteous thoughts from
my heart and loudly shouted, "Release us!" This shout terrified the police.
I put down my attachment to sentimentality and fear and recited Teacher's
article "True Cultivation":
"My truly cultivating disciples, what I have taught you is the Fa for
cultivation of Buddha and Dao. Nonetheless, you pour out your grievances to
me over the loss of your worldly interests, rather than feeling upset for
being unable to let go of ordinary human attachments. Is this cultivation?
Whether you can let go of ordinary human attachments is a fatal test on your
way to becoming a truly extraordinary being. Every disciple who truly
cultivates must pass it, for it is the dividing line between a cultivator
and an everyday person."
On the second day, my child and I were released.
Posting date: 2/2/2003
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