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Encouraging our Fellow Practitioners Incarcerated in China
(Clearwisdom.net) At the end or the beginning of the year, the jail
authorities usually allow practitioners to send letters home. However, they do
not allow people in jail to call home or be visited by family members. I am
hereby appealing to practitioners who are not in jail to send letters extending
cordial greetings to incarcerated practitioners in the name of their relatives
and friends. This will very much encourage practitioners who are illegally
jailed, and will bring the power of Dafa to the dark dens and the evil persons
in them. We should write the letters with wisdom and use words with double
meanings. Otherwise, the letters will not be delivered to the practitioners. We are one body. Didn't phone calls from practitioners abroad awaken many
people in the maze? Especially to those practitioners who still insist on
practicing Dafa under such evil circumstances, the letters are not only
greetings and heart-warming words, but also something that can make the jailed
fellow practitioners feel optimistic. These hearty greetings by mail can both
strengthen practitioners' righteous thoughts and awaken the kind human nature of
those around them. A little piece of my own experience can serve as a proof. It was in the spring of 2002 when people in room number 180 of Shijiazhuang
Forced Labor Camp tried to reform me forcibly within three months. They deprived
me of sleep for 24 hours, and cuffed me up at the same time. On the day they
were sending me to the "Law Enforcement Center" my seventy-year-old
mother-in-law brought my nine-year old child and seriously sick husband to see
me. Tears poured down my mother-in-law's face as she said to the team leader,
"My daughter-in-law is very good ... please save our family with all its
old, weak, and sick people!" Although her thought was not very righteous,
it still aroused people's sympathy. On the third day after I arrived at the Center, I wrote a "solemn
declaration" and submitted it to the brigade to clean up my own dirty
spots. They then severely cursed at me and threatened, "Who dares to jump
out? This is a law-enforcing place!" My heart was calm with nothing to fear
because I had obtained Dafa. Since that time, over the next several years I have
been locked up in isolated cells without being allowed out. At the same time I
also utilized everyday people's laws and wrote a request "Asking for
re-discussion" (in accordance with a regulation document of "Decisions
on Forced Labor Education,") exposing the local office for extorting
confessions by torture, using physical torture and other illegal means, and
asking for unconditional release. Whenever the end or the beginning of a year
came around, I extracted some passages from historically famous people's
writings, and sent them by letter to my relatives, eulogizing the past and
satirizing the present to show my suffering due to my losing freedom. One day in July, a young man (not a practitioner) from my hometown came to
see me. This puzzled the team leader. When asked about the relationship between
us, the young man answered humorously, "From the same father and a
different mother" and he left a note and 100 yuan in cash for
me. I told the team leader honestly that he was not my relative but a stranger.
He did this because many people realized the truth about Dafa and knew that good
people are jailed here. This good person's action shocked the team leader and
convinced him. Using the return address on the envelope, I instantly wrote a
letter to thank the young man and praise his action. This made the team leader
believe more in my good behavior. Finally, they said: "Someone even came to give you money while you are
jailed. Your situation is better than ours!" "Yes, I will only be
jailed for a while. But you will be jailed here in the place where you stay,
which is just another kind of imprisonment," I replied. From that time on, a team leader said, "You may keep your own belief and
we will no longer try to transform you." He even frequently had discussions
with me to learn the meaning of "Dafa rectifying the human world,"
"consummation," and so on. And I always used Dafa to check my behavior
more strictly. I sent forth righteous thoughts, recited Dafa books, practiced
the exercise movements, helped other people, and created a good environment
around me. Someone had been arranged to watch me but after she obtained the Fa,
she helped me deliver Teacher's articles and validate the Fa. In that cruel
situation, even common people come to help. Their behavior not only demonstrates
their predestined relationship with Dafa, but also manifests their courage,
righteousness and conscience. Yes, we might be from the same family historically, and we may have once been
brothers or sisters, which accounts for the fact that we now live together in
this dirty hell of humanity. No matter when our predestined relationships
manifest, they will all be resolved after we obtain Dafa. How lucky we are! We
obtained the Fa in the same lifetime, and together we are bathed with Buddha's
light. So many thanks to our Teacher! He takes care of us like his children.
Let's pick up our pens and use our righteous thoughts to write articles to wipe
out all the evil that is trying to impede the progress of Fa-rectification, and
let's awaken common people around us to help Teacher in carrying out our duties
in this world. If anything I have talked about here is improper, I will be happy to accept
my fellow practitioners' corrections. |