A Collection of Practitioners' Understandings
By a Dafa practitioner in China
(Clearwisdom.net) August 7th report: below is an article written by a Dafa
practitioner who was illegally arrested in July and was unconditionally released eight days later: The police don't dare to yell at practitioners. They are always smiling, but they are planning
cruel tactics in their head. They try to deceive practitioners by all means in order to achieve
their goal. After I was arrested, they interrogated me. I didn't answer their questions and only clarified
the truth, so they could get nothing from me. They then lied to me saying, "Let's go to the
hospital and have a physical exam, so later we can find an excuse to release you." I believed
them and thought I had done a great job eliminating the evil and clarifying the truth, and that they
really wanted to release me, so I followed them to the hospital. However, they sent me to a
detention center right after the exam. Now I understand that not cooperating with the evil is not cooperating with any of the evil's
attempts, regardless of whether they look beneficial or non beneficial to us on the surface.
Unconditionally following Master's words and never cooperating in any situation is the right
thing to do. I held a hunger strike at the detention center, and the head of the detention center talked to
me, saying, "Why hold a hunger strike? You didn't have any big problems and we'll release you
in a short time. If you hold a hunger strike, you'll be sent to a labor camp for sure." These were again deceitful words: they were afraid of my holding a hunger strike, so they tried
to get me to eat using all kinds of lies. Recently, among the illegally detained practitioners in my
area, at least four were released after holding a hunger strike. When we started eating, they were
no longer afraid and could therefore intensify their persecution. Many practitioners listened to
their lies and stopped the hunger strike, and as a result they were sent to labor camps. They were even lying just moments before I was released. On the eighth day, a police officer came
to the detention center and asked me to pack up. When he saw that I gave several of my clothes to
inmates in the same cell, he said, "You're being sent to forced labor, what are you going to
wear if you give all your clothes away?" In fact, they didn't sentence me to forced labor. The
reason he said this was because he was afraid of the detainees including the practitioners realizing
the power of a hunger strike, so he tried to put on a fa ade: "look, you'll be sent to a labor
camp even if you hold a hunger strike," so he can keep others from doing the same thing. The outcome is good when we clarify the truth to police officers. However, one police officer
said something noteworthy, "Not all you practitioners are good people. I know someone who
borrowed money and didn't return it for a long time." Although I think I answered this question
very well, I deeply felt that if Dafa practitioners don't do well ourselves, when ordinary people
see this they would think Dafa and Dafa practitioners are not all that pure and righteous, and they
would further develop bad thoughts about Dafa. Some practitioners don't think of others and don't deal with issues in an appropriate manner,
which make neighbors and colleagues think Dafa practitioners are selfish; a few practitioners don't
fully devote themselves to Dafa practice and their lifestyle is questionable. The bad impression
they give ordinary people is not something that can be rectified with several flyers. Therefore, if Dafa practitioners don't do well, we would push ordinary people into opposing Dafa.
This issue is very serious and cannot be taken lightly. a) The head of a criminal police division who knows about the truth - In the police car, the driver said something disrespectful of Dafa, and the head of the criminal
police division reprimanded him, "Shut up! I have no choice because this is my job, but what
does this have to do with you? Aren't you afraid of receiving divine retribution for saying
that?" On our way to the detention center, the head kept listening to Master's Fa lecture tape
he confiscated from Dafa practitioners. b) Two young police officers - The young police officers who were in charge of watching me were very focused on listening to my
truth clarification. When I stopped, they would say, "Madam, come on, tell us more,
please." c) Head of the politics committee of the police department - The head of the politics committee of the police department came to "reform" me, but he
ended up listening to me clarify the truth the whole time. 4 The rectified environment of the detention center - For several years, fellow practitioners have done very well in the detention center, and a better
environment has been created. I was completely free to do exercises and send forth righteous
thoughts. When the prisoners sat on the benches, I sat in front of them and clarified the truth to
them for days on end. When the guard saw me, she didn't interfere. Even the prisoners know Dafa practitioners don't wear detention center uniforms. They gave me a
uniform when I arrived, and a prisoner said, "Dafa practitioners don't wear uniforms", and
she put it away. I clarify the truth to the prisoners everyday, and they loved to hear it. Once when I was
talking, two young prisoners said something in a low voice, and "A," a quick-tempered
prisoner grew angry and shouted at those two. When the guard heard the noise, she thought a fight
was taking place and she came over and asked what was going on. "A" said loudly, "She
says it so well yet these two don't keep quiet and always talk." The guard didn't say anything
and walked away. Later, the two young prisoners said, "Actually we were saying it's wonderful,
we've never heard this kind of talk before." 5 Look inward for the problem This time I truly felt that there really was not much evil left, and if our righteous thoughts
are strong they are nothing. I also felt at this time I should not be incarcerated at all, and I
should not be persecuted by the evil, so what was my problem? I was abducted this time because I was not rational when clarifying the truth, and I didn't take
it seriously when I saw a monitor. I just thought Dafa has great power so the monitor couldn't work.
I was almost acting like the person who held a Dafa book and claimed he was not afraid of getting
hit by a car [an example given in Zhuan Falun]. Not paying serious attention to the issue of
safety has always been a problem I had, and this time I learned a good lesson. I could see my own greatest omission in two articles "Our Own Improvement is Fundamental to
Our Doing Everything Well" (1, 2) published on Clearwisdom Net on July 2 and July 3 http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2003/7/14/38106.html
http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2003/7/18/38240.html.
Although I didn't yield on studying the Fa and sending forth righteous thoughts, my xinxing
however didn't improve and I wandered on the same level for a long time. My attachment to fame,
interest and sentiments wasn't reduced, and I became slack in my personal cultivation. I found this issue exists for many fellow practitioners. After we made exchanges, many
practitioners felt that our requirement for ourselves is much more lax then when we first obtained
the Fa, we could even say that we are completely loosening up on personal cultivation, and that we
only think about validating the Fa and not cultivating ourselves. If we keep this way for a long
time, the serious consequences are undoubtedly clear. I only hope practitioners who also have this
issue can pay attention to this. Above is my personal understanding. Fellow practitioners, please point out anything
inappropriate.
Chinese version available at
http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2003/8/7/55259.html
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