(Clearwisdom.net)

Firm faith in Teacher and Dafa has fundamentally enabled me to get out of the detention center. Many practitioners helped me in sending forth righteous thoughts, and eliminating the evil. They also contacted my relatives and friends, clarified the truth about Falun Dafa to them, and told them of the sinister plots of Jiang's regime, which enforced their righteousness. All of this effectively helped me. I appreciate the efforts of everyone who helped rescue me.

Anyone jailed has a deep understanding of the preciousness of freedom. A person inside a jail hopes to return home early and regain freedom. Throughout the 7 months, the path I walked was very arduous. I often recited the Fa quietly and sent forth righteous thoughts, however, without firm belief one could very easily be destroyed mentally. Very often, when my mind was strongly disturbed, I tried hard to calm myself down, asking myself, "Why can I cultivate Dafa with determination?" Then, I started to look back at the time before obtaining the Fa, and the purification of my mind and body by Dafa after obtaining the Fa. That was impossible to achieve by all other Qigong systems, religions, fortune telling, etc. that I had previously studied. Plus, both my child and myself had more or less seen the real, and extraordinary phenomena of Falun Dafa in other dimensions. All these indicated that I have, through my own personal experience, validated that Falun Dafa was real! Since this was real, it could not be wrong to follow Teacher's words!

Teacher said,

"Although the evil seems awfully vicious, it has now exhausted its tricks, and can merely keep escalating the labels it puts on our practice and keep using the media to fabricate things; with its sick mind, it keeps forcing students to write so-called "repentance statements" and to sign its stuff. It knows very well that that's all fake and can't change people's hearts, so why does it insist on doing that? Why does it insist on having you sign that paper? Why does it insist on having you say, "I'll stop practicing" before releasing you? One person says "I'll keep practicing," and they slap him with a sentence; another one says "I'll stop practicing," and just for this they set him free. The difference between these is unbelievable, isn't it? Is this normal? It's not. Isn't that obvious? They just want to make you fall, they just want to make you say those words. Once those words are said, even if they're not from your heart, it leaves a stain. For a Fa-rectification disciple, that's a disgrace. What's more, if you've done things that have harmed Dafa and you aren't able to truly remedy all of it later on amidst the Fa-rectification and make up for the losses you brought Dafa, it will really be serious." ("Teaching the Fa at the Washington, D.C. International Fa Conference" in Guiding the Voyage, July 2001).

I knew that I had blemish points previously as well as other places where I had not done well. This time, I must completely cleanse those blemish points and do well in things that I had failed to do well! Although I still had not gotten out of the evil place, and needed to continue looking inward, reciting the Fa more, sending forth righteous thoughts and clarifying the truth; still, I must have one determined thought: completely opposing the old forces' arrangements.

In addition, I often recited Teacher's words at the end of Zhuan Falun, "When you are overcoming a real hardship or tribulation, you try it. When it is difficult to endure, try to endure it. When it looks impossible and is said to be impossible, give it a try and see if it is possible. If you can actually do it, you will indeed find: "After passing the shady willow trees, there will be bright flowers and another village ahead!""

The more determined I was in the Fa, the clearer I became in my mind. Living there was very painful both physically and mentally. The room had iron windows and iron doors, and my eating, drinking, sleeping, and using the toilet relied on others' help. It was hardly a living environment for a human being. It was impossible to change and wash clothes, or take a shower frequently (the only place for taking a shower was the bathroom, which was less than 11 sq. ft.). During sleep, the space was very small and people were tightly packed together. Lice were rampant everywhere, and many people had scabies, which also infected me. Thus, some places on my body had pus or water coming out, while some were swollen or very itchy. But I established a determined thought in myself: I would not make statements of "giving up" practice even if the scabies spread and killed me. Plus, I would not die, I would wait for the "After passing the shady willow trees, there will be bright flowers and another village ahead."

During this unimaginable hardship, I could feel Teacher helping me all the way. Sometimes, when the physical and mental pains were too hard to endure, I often asked Teacher to support and enlighten me just as if I was a young child. With benevolence and patience, Teacher always enlightened, supported, and encouraged me again and again in many ways. One day, right after asking for Teacher's help in my mind, I casually found a small piece of paper in my pocket, which said, "Never fall down." At that time, I was just like an exhausted mountain climber, and a little swaying in my belief could cause me to fall from half way up the mountain.

On another day, I clearly saw one scene in a dream: many people were climbing a mountain. It was very difficult to climb because its slope was close to 45 degrees and it was slippery. I saw a person, who almost reached the top, suddenly slip down, and fall to ground heavily. The body seemed smashed. Suddenly, this person turned into a crow. With difficulty, this crow flew to a dead tree by the river, to accompany another crow. On the other hand, together with four or five other people, I chose the correct climbing path, and started the climb.

There were several times that I dreamed of being released from the jail. Once I even dreamed of flying. I knew it would soon become real. Soon afterwards, I dreamed of being on a ship. Someone opened a round window and said, "Here we are." I looked out of the window; the ship had slowly pulled into the shore, which was a beautiful place. By looking along the golden beach, one could see a large area of three trees like coconut trees. With many coconuts on the tree, it was really prosperous.

After another few days, after talking to Teacher in my mind, Teacher allowed me to see only one word in a newspaper: "Victory." Thus, after a few days, I got out miraculously.

Dear friends, there were also many magnificent stories of validating the Fa during my experience, which I will not cover here. Ever since July 22, 1999, I have followed Teacher's requirements, and tirelessly cultivated myself, eliminated the evils and helped Teacher save beings. I have lost freedom more than 10 times, and was brutally tortured several times. Other than one time of compromising with the evil, I always used my strong faith in Dafa, used righteous thoughts to quickly "Suffocate the Evil," and regain freedom. In the past three years, with my personal experience, again and again, I validated that Falun Dafa was real, extraordinary and sacred. I also understood Teacher's words:

"Indestructible righteous faith in the cosmos's Truth forms benevolent Dafa disciples' rock-solid, Diamond-Like Bodies, it frightens all evil, and the light of Truth it emanates makes the unrighteous elements in all beings' thoughts disintegrate. However strong the righteous thoughts are, that's how great the power is. Dafa disciples are truly stepping forward out of ordinary humanness." ("Also in a Few Words" in Essentials for Further Advancement II)

If Dafa disciples are considered outstanding and remarkable, that is just like what Teacher has said, "Dafa disciples are magnificent because you are here at the same time as the period of Master's Fa-rectification and are able to safeguard and uphold Dafa." "Disciples, be diligent! Everything that's the most magnificent and the most wonderful is developed in the process of your validating Dafa. Your vows will become testaments of your future." ("Fa-Rectification Period Dafa Disciples" in Essentials for Further Advancement II).

I would like to share Teacher's New Year greetings with you to end this article:

"The endless journey has come to a close
And the pervasive haze is gradually dispersing
While righteous thoughts display the might of Gods
Returning to Heaven is no longer just yearned for"

(Written at the end of the year of the Horse, and beginning of the year of the Lamb)

February 1, 2003