Brutal Torture Could Not Shake My Firm Heart to Practice Falun Dafa

By Chen Xiangming, practitioner from China

(Clearwisdom.net) I am 54 years old and live in Shehong County, Suining City in Sichuan Province. I began practicing Falun Dafa in 1997. After that, my neighbors used to call me a "very kind man." Seeing my benefit from Falun Dafa, more than 80 people in my county have also begun practicing Falun Dafa.

On July 20, 1999, out of envy and resentment, and acting against China's Constitution, Jiang's faction started to slander, frame and persecute Falun Gong, a practice which does no harm but benefits all. As a personal beneficiary of Dafa, I went to Beijing on January 14, 2000 to speak for justice and plead my cause with the Appeals Office of the National People's Congress.

My written appeal consisted of five statements: "1.We are not against the government. Please, Premier, listen to the facts we present; 2. Restore Falun Dafa's and our Teacher's reputation; 3. Release all detained practitioners; 4. Falun Gong is the righteous cultivation way; 5. Restore a lawful environment for Falun Gong practitioners."

After I wrote these statements, I handed the paper to the appeals office employee. But then the police surrounded me, abducted and took me to Suining County's Liaison Office in Beijing, forcibly sent me back and detained me in the county detention center. Without any evidence, they illicitly sentenced me to one year of forced labor year and sent me to the Ziyang Labor Camp. In the meantime, the police searched my home and extorted 5,000 Yuan (1) from my wife.

On October 19, 2001, county security team leader Zhou Yuan abducted me when I was spreading truth-clarifying materials. I was sentenced again to two years of forced labor. In the Xinhua Labor Camp of Mianyang City I suffered all kinds of humiliation and cruel persecution for resisting the slander and brainwashing. I was locked into a brick kiln while it was fired up. This torture method was called "embracing the red sun." When the temperature outside was up to 38-39 centigrade (101F) during the summer, the temperature inside reached so high that a cigarette would spontaneously light up. When my hair came in contact with the kiln wall, the sizzling sound kept being heard and I felt as if several awls drilled into my head. It was so painful that no words could describe it. The person who was assigned to monitor me passed out that day. I helped him to get out. I was thinking: Master is here! Fa is here! I definitely will not yield to the evil! I recited in my heart again and again, "To live with no pursuits, to die with no regrets; All excessive thoughts extinguished, Cultivating Buddhahood is not difficult" ("Non-existence", Hong Yin). "Dafa never leaves the body, Heart contains Zhen-Shan-Ren; A great Arhat in the world, Spirits and ghosts fear the most." ("Mighty Virtue," Hong Yin)

Because my mind did not vacillate one bit, such excruciating torment as "embracing the red sun"(also called "entering the oven") didn't destroy my spirit. One day, a criminal the police had urged on ordered me to do "squat walking." I firmly refused. So they exposed me to an excruciating torture called "put down the tire." I was put on the floor under force, with arms and legs stretched out. Seven or eight criminals pinched, nipped, pulled and beat me all over my body, until the wounds turned black and blue and I could not walk. They also pulled my eyebrows and beard, deprived me of sleep, choked my neck, put me under the burning sun and forced me to stand in a military pose. None of these methods could shake my firm determination in cultivating Dafa! I walked out of the labor camp in an open and dignified manner.

On February 2, 2004, He Jianjun, the township's Political and Judiciary Committee secretary (cell phone 86-133 206 34231) worked in concert with Hu Dejiang, the township's comprehensive management office chief, Chief Yang from the township's police station and others. These people tricked me into going to the township government office and said they would let me go after a few words.

After I arrived in the government office, a group of people from the county's "610 Office"(2) and the National Security Team attempted to abduct and transport me to a brainwashing class. I asked them, "Why deceive me? Why abduct me?" The reason they gave was that I had not given up Dafa in the labor camp. I told them, "I didn't violate the law. There is nothing wrong with practicing 'Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance' and being a kind person. I have been persecuted by Jiang's faction for three years, and just after I came back home for three months, you came to persecute me again. No one is looking after the crops in the field. What is my family supposed to eat? Your persecution already broke up my family; now you further claim it is Falun Gong that breaks up families. Who on earth is breaking others' families? Your townships leaders don't speak for your people! Your national security team does not arrest the criminals, but come every day to persecute the kind people who practice 'Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance' and who don't fight back when be beaten and don't talk back when sworn at. Do you still have a conscience? Are you still human beings?"

They looked at each other in astonishment and were speechless. People who were outside the township government compound watching all this time commented, "Chen Xiangming is a good person. What kind of society is it now? The kind people are persecuted and the criminals are set free."

After I was abducted and taken to the Suining City Brainwashing Class, I remembered the words from "Dafa Disciples' Righteous Thoughts are Powerful:" "No matter what the situation, do not cooperate with the evil's demands, orders, or what it instigates. If everyone does this, the environment won't be this way."

I deeply remembered Master's words, conducted myself with righteous thoughts and righteous deeds, recited "Lun Yu," Hong Yin and Master's lectures after July 20, 1999 all the time. I made use of all available time to send forth righteous thoughts, clarifying the facts to those brainwashers and shared with fellow practitioners. On the seventh night of my being in the brainwashing class I thought that I had done all the things I should do. There was no use to stay here anymore. I need to go out to validate the Fa. So I said to Master in my heart, "Master, please strengthen me! This is not the place where I should stay. There is a lot of work outside waiting for me." That night in my dream, Master hinted to me that I should go.

When I woke up in the morning, the dream was still vivid. I thought that the opportunity to leave here would be coming soon. As things turned out, at lunchtime Dean Wang of the brainwashing class announced to play, (to play the game Ma Jong in an attempt to weaken practitioners' determination) downtown that afternoon. During dinner, when they didn't notice, I openly walked out of that restaurant. I called a taxi to ride to the train station. Only five minutes after arriving at the station I got on the train.

Now I have already rejoined the current of Fa rectification to fulfill the due responsibility of a Dafa practitioner.

Notes:

(1)Yuan [500 Yuan is the average monthly income for an urban worker in China.]

(2)"610 Office" [an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems.]
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2004/6/26/78023.html

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