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Taking the Initiative to Eliminate Evil - [Righteous Thoughts and Righteous Deeds Article]
By a Falun Gong practitioner from China
(Clearwisdom.net) I recently read an article from the Clearwisdom website
that described an incident in which people from Longshan Reformatory in Shenyang
City, Liaoning Province, were forced to step on a photo of Master Li Hongzhi
that had been placed on the floor. This article was very disturbing to me, so I took the opportunity while
visiting fellow Falun Gong practitioners in the area, to visit the Longshan
Reformatory as well. At the beginning of my visit, a police officer asked me to
walk where Master Li Hongzhi's picture had been placed. I replied, "He is
my master. What you are doing is wrong." I stopped at the door and resisted
walking in, saying, "Master Li Hongzhi teaches people to be kind and to
become good people. He cures our illnesses and makes us healthy. What has he
done wrong? Why do you force people to disrespect him by stepping on his
photo?" Speaking quite loudly to the police officers, I continued,
"Take a good look at me. I am the same person that you once released
because I had gotten cancer. But I didn't die like you were so sure that I
would. My master took care of me again. Do I look like a person who is
dying?" I spoke at length in this vein. They all lowered their heads and
had nothing to say. That day, all the family members who had come to visit
imprisoned Falun Gong practitioners received permission to do so. The family members of the fellow practitioners brought the news of my visit
to the practitioners inside the reformatory, who then passed it on to one
another. One day soon afterward, the reformatory officials held a meeting in
which the imprisoned practitioners solemnly raised the issue of being forced to
step on Master Li Hongzhi's image. Since that month, people were no longer
required to step on Master's image, and this reformatory was later closed down. April 5, 2005 |