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Clarifying the Truth Publicly From Our Balcony
(Clearwisdom.net) My wife and I began practicing Falun Dafa in September
1995. After Jiang started the bloody persecution on July 20, 1999, the local
police, officials from the Street Party Committee, the Neighborhood Party
Committee and the factory Security Division harassed us at our home dozens of
times, the last time at 9:00 a.m. on May 31, 2005. We were trapped inside our
home for nine days. We ended up opening the window and "clarifying the
truth" to the officials to completely negate all of the arrangements made
by the old forces. More details of the story follow: *** At 9 a.m. on May 31, 2005, Cai, the head of the Neighborhood Party Committee,
accompanied a young man to my home and tried to arrest my wife. We discovered
their attempt and they didn't succeed. At 10:00 a.m. the same day, the
Neighborhood Party Committee sent people to monitor our home. At 1:00 p.m., they
were replaced by a group of security officers wearing fake police uniforms. They
watched us around the clock and sat on the stairway. They claimed they would
arrest us whenever we left home. Faced with these unscrupulous perpetrators, my wife and I sat down and looked
inward to see if we had any gaps the evil was able to exploit. "If you have
fear, it will seize you" (Hong Yin II) Master had already hinted to
us that the evil is testing us because we have fear. The security officers
surrounded our home for two days, and the number of officers increased each
evening. They came and went. The air was so tense you could cut it with a knife.
The old forces were testing us because we were afraid. Master said, "Your own notions and the crooked thoughts that you're still holding
on to among human beings as you validate the Fa, those are what you should
abandon" ("Teaching the Fa at the 2004 Washington DC Fa
Conference"). Master clearly points out that fear is a notion and an attachment. On the evening of June 1, we reviewed Master's poem in Hong Yin II: What Is There to Be Afraid of "If you have fear, it will seize you; The poem tells us how to walk an even more righteous path in this unique
cultivation environment. We agreed that we could not hide at home in silence. We
decided that we should publicly clarify the truth, completely
negating the evil arrangements made by the old forces. Four meters in front of our building is a street that leads to a school. The
school for the children of workers and staff members is across from our home.
The street bustles with activity in the morning. Students and parents come and
go. At 8:00 a.m. on June 2, 2005, my wife and I stood on the balcony. With people
walking by in the street below, we confronted the security officers asking why
they were watching us. The security officers denied they were watching us. It is
just as Master has pointed out, that the evil dares to commit crimes but dares
not admit it. We proved their illegal acts with facts. Some eyewitnesses pointed
out that they were committing a crime. The officers were speechless. They phoned
officer Yang from the Street Party Committee. Yang came over and asked to come
into our home and talk to us. By this time, more than 20 people had gathered to watch. "The gods are
in the human world, to validate the Fa." Master's teachings echoed in my
head. This was a great opportunity to clarify the truth. Master and Dafa were
with us, and the railing around the balcony was protecting us. We were standing
at a high point, so we had the upper hand in every way. We only needed an excuse
to start clarifying the truth. Right then, one security officer quietly told me,
"Yang wants you to write the Three Statements. If you write
them, he'll leave you alone and you can practice however much you want." We
seized the opportunity and said to the crowd, "Dear people, you are
watching with your own eyes two people who practice Falun Gong. We are good and
law-abiding citizens according to 'Truth-Compassion-Forbearance.' The Street
Party Committee and the Neighborhood Party Committee want us to write a
repentance statement and they threaten to send us for brainwashing if we refuse.
What kind of law allows this illicit behavior?" We clarified the truth about why Jiang persecutes Falun Gong, how Dafa
practitioners are brutally persecuted, the truth about the self-immolation
incident in Tiananmen Square, how Dafa is spreading around in the world and how
Jiang is being sued in many countries for his persecution of Falun Gong. We
spoke loudly and clearly and many people nodded. Yang and the security officers
were frustrated because they could neither arrest nor silence us. They made
phone calls for "help." Soon, a police car halted out back. The head of the police department and the
head of the factory Security Division got out of the car. They knocked on our
door. We refused to open it and asked them to go to the front of the building so
we could speak. We sent forth righteous thoughts to disintegrate all the rotten
demons and evil specters as we talked to them. The three head officials went
around to our window and again asked us to open the door. I said to the head of
the factory Security Division, "I know that you don't want to commit
crimes!" The three officials left after they saw that we were not going to
open the door. Only a few security officers remained to continue watching us. Some people expressed anger at this blatant crime. One 60-year-old woman and
another person went to the Street Party Committee and confronted Yang saying,
"They are a nice couple and they are elderly. How can you bully them like
this? If anything happens to them, we won't stand by and watch it happen." During the days we were trapped by the evildoers, the local practitioners
sent forth righteous thoughts to help us and to eliminate the rotten demons and
evil specters that were manipulating people to commit crimes. Some practitioners
phoned us to encourage us to look inward, to regard Dafa as the teacher, and to
act with righteous thoughts and righteous actions. By June 4 we were running out of vegetables and were a little worried. On
June 5, some fellow practitioners and our relatives brought vegetables, oil,
ham, fruit and other food. They handed all the food to us through our window.
The security officers were so angry their faces turned red. We experienced
Master being right beside us, watching and protecting us. With Master and Dafa
on our side, with all practitioners cooperating as a whole body, we cultivated
ourselves and we were even more confident in assisting Master to rectify the Fa. We took advantage of our balcony. We went out on the balcony when people came
to visit us. When no one came we studied the Fa and sent forth righteous
thoughts. In order to further clarify the truth and suppress the evil, on June 7
I copied the content related to human rights in the second chapter of the
Constitution of China and hung it up, sheltered from the rain. Many people
gathered and started reading it. The security officers were exasperated. They
called several young men from the Street Party Committee to come over. Yang,
head of the Street Party Committee came. My wife and I stood on the balcony and
asked them, "Is it true what we wrote on the paper?" They said,
"Yes it's true." I said, "Shouldn't people study it then?"
They said, "Yes." They left. The security officers complained because they had to stay outside, rain or
shine, and endure the onslaught of mosquitoes. From time to time, passersby
confronted them. The evil could not last. As time went on, though, human notions surfaced in my mind, and I was
slightly worried. I then understood and sympathized with Dafa practitioners who
are incarcerated for a long time, and with those who lost their lives through
torture. When I expressed my feelings, my wife opened "Don't Be Sad"
in Hong Yin II, "Your body lies in prison - don't be sorrowful, don't be sad We are Fa rectification period Dafa disciples, and Master has entrusted us
with great historic missions: study the Fa, do the exercises, cultivate
ourselves, send forth righteous thoughts to eliminate the evil, and clarify the
truth to rescue sentient beings. Only when we don't seize the time to do the
three things well do we have time to experience ordinary emotions. Master also
said, People's different grasps of and comprehension of the Fa lead to different
perceptions of the current situation, and all that's happening is targeting
different human thoughts. Those who do well will change the environments
around them, and those who do poorly will make the environments around them
change according to their states of mind. "Teaching the Fa a the Washington, D.C. Fa Conference" During this period of time we witnessed firsthand the supernatural power and
the solemnity of Dafa. When we were agitated and anxious, the security officers
outside would run around in a fluster, and the evil would create an illusion to
deceive us. When we calmed our minds to diligently study the Fa and our minds
were on the Fa, the environment outside would immediately quiet down. When my
uneasy mind calmed down in the Fa, a poem flowed from my heart/mind like a
stream, I call it, "After reading 'Don't Be Sad'" No sadness in being trapped inside a small room, With mind set on rescuing sentient beings, we take to the balcony, Give up attachments and follow Master, Certainly we will bring back the spring wind. At 3:00 p.m. on June 8, the security officers received a notice to attend a
conference, and all of them left. The farce ended after nine days had passed. We
then truly understood the profound meaning of "As soon as your thoughts are
righteous, the evil will collapse" The above is my personal understanding. Fellow practitioners, please point
out anything inappropriate. Posting date: 12/30/2005 |