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How My Daughter Validated Falun Dafa at Her School
By a practitioner in China (Clearwisdom.net) My daughter is a middle school student. She admires
those young practitioners that live overseas so much, for they have such a good
cultivation environment. She feels they are so lucky because they can go to
Minghui Schools. Previously, we had a local Falun Gong practice site for young practitioners.
At that time I was the assistant for the site. The younger practitioners liked
to take turns reading Teacher's Zhuan Falun and Essentials For Further
Advancement, and to share with each other how they improve their
character in the classroom and at home. They also liked to share their
understandings about supernormal phenomena and legends. They tried very hard to
do the exercises correctly--some of them would break out in a sweat trying to
keep the proper position for the sitting meditation exercise. After the persecution began in 1999, I went to Tiananmen Square to appeal for
Falun Gong three times. I was detained and sentenced to the forced labor camp
four times for practicing the Falun Gong exercises publicly and distributing
truth-clarifying materials. During that time my daughter showed her
perseverance, support, and steadfast belief in Falun Dafa. She was always
cheerful and considerate around me, but she was seen crying after I left. By the
time I left the detention center with strong righteous thoughts, three years had
passed. I learned how she felt about the persecution by reading her journals and
poems she wrote while she was attending elementary school. Once, her teacher and assistant principal slandered Falun Dafa and Falun Dafa
practitioners during class. My daughter wrote in her journal: "I tried my
best to stop the tears from pouring down my face and turned my head so no one
would see. I wanted to speak out loudly that my mom isn't like what they
said!" At that time she was still very young and didn't know how to tell
others the facts about Falun Dafa. When I came back from the detention center, I
found that my husband had left our home. My daughter still hopes that we will
reconcile some day and doesn't want us to divorce. During that particular
period, I focused on the three things Teacher asked us to do and on my
daughter's school studies. As clarifying the truth locally became more demanding
on our time, my daughter's righteous thoughts became stronger and stronger. She
used every suitable opportunity to expose the staged self-immolations on
Tiananmen Square and told her classmates about what Falun Gong was truly like.
She also invited her friends to come to our home and watch the truth-clarifying
VCD's. Her friends also took literature to school to read by themselves and even
read them aloud to others. My daughter often happily told me the names of the
people that had understood the truth about Falun Gong from her that day. Once her political science teacher asked her to help with printing some
review materials for a test. I reminded her to look for any questions slandering
Falun Dafa. She breezily responded: "Don't worry, it'll be fine." But
when she saw the materials, she noticed that there really was a defamatory
question, so she removed it from the review materials. When she returned the
printed materials to her teacher, she told her teacher that defaming Falun Dafa
was wrong. Falun Dafa teaches people to be good, and practitioners don't' kill
others or themselves like the state-run media says. After that, the students no
longer had to memorize that question, and the teacher never used that question
again. Later, my daughter dreamed about validating Falun Dafa every day. She said,
"Mom, the policemen are chasing me in my dreams. I grab a stack of
truth-clarifying flyers and hold them with my left arm. As I am running from the
police, I pass the flyers to the people I meet on the way. I tell them, 'Hurry
up! Take it. This is very precious. Please read it. My school is forcing the
students who held an experience-sharing conference to leave the school. I'm one
of them. I have no regrets. I decided to study by myself at home.'" This
may have been a test for her in her dream. Once, the teacher of her political science class talked about Falun Dafa and
then asked the students a question. Many students, who had seen the government
videos that slandered Falun Dafa, raised their hands and prepared to answer the
question according to what they had seen in the videos. Although my daughter is
a very shy girl, she raised her hand, and the teacher called on her to answer
the question. She started exposing the staged self-immolation on Tiananmen
Square and described the persecution that Falun Dafa practitioners were
suffering. One student had a truth-clarifying flyer with her and helped my
daughter to clarify the truth about Falun Dafa. Another student, who is the
child of a teacher, also spoke up in support. As my daughter finished talking,
the teacher said, "You answered very well." After the class, many
students gathered around her to hear more about Falun Dafa. Recently, our local practitioners compiled some videos and flyers for the
students and teachers. This morning, my daughter slept very late and described
her dream when she woke up, "Mom, I had another dream. There were a lot of
beautiful flower petals raining from the sky in front of our school. The flower
petals turned into flyers whenever they touched a student or teacher. The
flowers that touched the ground turned into very beautiful flowers, a kind that
I have never seen before." We smiled at each other and I said to her,
"Spring is coming."
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