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Waking Up from Nightmares
(Clearwisdom.net) There was a deputy director named Liu of a certain
police station in Changsha City, Hunan Province who was very active in
persecuting Falun Dafa practitioners under the direction of the city 610
Office and the police department. In all the communities within the
jurisdiction of Director Liu's station, monitoring sentries were set up in big
streets and small lanes to monitor Falun Gong practitioners. Director Liu also
sent people to secretly follow and monitor practitioners, illegally ransack
their homes, arrest, brainwash and force them to write pledges to denounce Falun
Gong. This caused many losses to Dafa truth-clarification materials
production sites and to Dafa practitioners in that area. Director Liu was
praised and awarded by the Chinese Communist Party, and his supervisor. During this time, Liu suddenly felt very uncomfortable and his whole body
felt weak. His limbs were numb and painful. He often had a high or low fever and
nothing worked at all to alleviate his discomfort, no matter whether he took
medicine or injections. His illness lasted for several months and he went to
many big and small hospitals, but none of them could cure him. He changed from a
strong man to become very skinny and lost his previous imposing image. Director Liu began to have nightmares one after another. One night he dreamt
that he was walking on a road in the suburbs and the sky and earth were dark.
Suddenly a big truck with a full load of stones drove toward him, he didn't have
enough time to avoid the truck and he was pressed under the wheels of the truck.
He made an effort to struggle and then woke up. He breathed quite heavily and
said out of breath, "What is this about?" On another evening he had a dream again. Two strangers came towards him. They
didn't look like human beings, nor did they look like ghosts. They came to him
and pulled his hands behind his back and pushed him to go with them. He felt
flustered and gathered his courage to ask, "Sir, where are we going?"
"Don't ask. You will naturally know it when we arrive there." They
continued walking for an unknown time period, his feet were tired and powerless
and he could not walk any longer. He got his courage to ask again, "How far
away is it? Where are you bringing me to?" That big stranger extended his
tongue and said wickedly, "As a policeman, you have done all kinds of bad
things in the human world. You damaged Dafa and persecuted Dafa practitioners
and so we are escorting you to Hell." After they walked for another long
period of time they came to a river with black water, which had a single-plank
bridge. In front of the bridge, the two strangers pushed him with force and said
that you must walk across this bridge. Before he could stand firmly, a big dog
jumped out and fiercely ran to him. He was so scared that he screamed and woke
up his wife from a sound sleep. He said, "I had another nightmare!" On the evening of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Liu lay in bed and tossed and
turned. He didn't feel sleepy. He remembered that in the past few years after he
graduated from college his supervisor had been very satisfied with his work
performance and was considering promoting him. However, his health was not very
satisfactory. He had been ill for several months and was still getting worse. He
wondered, "What kind of illness is it and can I ever recover from it?"
He thought about the nightmares he had had and the more he thought about it, the
more scared he got. He wondered if he had really received karmic retribution for
his role in persecuting Falun Gong. After some time, he had another dream. He
rode a black horse and galloped through mountainous and wild areas, passing by
one mountain after another. Before he was about to pass another hill, he saw a
kind-looking old man who called out his name and shouted to him, "You
should rein in at the brink of the precipice. If you come back now, there is
still hope." Liu ignored him and continued proceeding willfully. The horse
neighed, jumped up and crossed the deep gulley. He fell off the horse and
dropped into the abyss. He only felt the bone-chilling wind and at this
desperate moment he suddenly remembered that a Dafa practitioner sent a small
button to his office which said "Truth-Compassion-Tolerance is good and
Falun Dafa is good." The practitioner had told him that he would be
rewarded with good fortune if he would often say, "Falun Dafa is
good." Then Director Liu started to repeat,
"Truth-Compassion-Tolerance is good and Falun Dafa is good." When he
started to say this sentence for the fourth time, suddenly a beam of golden
light flashed before his eyes and he woke up. After Liu woke up, he immediately told this dream to his wife and said,
"I will never do those evil things to persecute Falun Gong
practitioners." His wife smiled and said, "You should have said that
long ago." Since then, Director Liu seemed to change into another person. He put the
small Dafa button in an inner pocket of his clothes. He often says,
"Truth-Compassion-Tolerance is good and Falun Dafa is good," in his
mind. He recovered from his illness very quickly and he became energetic again.
He tells people he meets, "Falun Dafa is good" and "Falun Dafa
saved me." Written on April 9, 2006 |