(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.
