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Commemorating Mr. Lu Zhen, a Dafa Practitioner Greatly Admired by Everyone Who Met Him
By a practitioner from Shandong Province
(Clearwisdom.net) I was shocked to hear that fellow practitioner Mr. Lu
Zhen had been tortured to death, I was speechless and choked up. I could hardly
contain myself when I stared at this news on the Minghui website (the Chinese
version of Clearwisdom.net). How can this be possible? Mr. Lu Zhen, that young,
healthy, talented man who nobly clarified the truth to people--how
could he have "become mentally disordered and died?" Unless he had
been overworked in a forced labor camp and tortured physically and mentally,
what else could be the reason? One winter morning when I had traveled some distance to the distribution
place to get truth-clarifying materials, I saw Mr. Lu Zhen sitting on the
ground, reading Zhuan Falun very carefully. Numerous
illegal arrests of practitioners were taking place around us, and
material centers were being destroyed one after another, so I was feeling
scared. I asked Mr. Lu whether he felt the hardships, and he smiled and said
"Whoever we chat with are talented scholars and whoever we have contact
with are never unrefined persons." I still recall the spring of 2001, when I met Mr. Lu Zhen. At that time, I
had quit practicing because of the persecution. I had sunk into the worries of
this human world. Another practitioner took me to meet him, and Mr. Lu Zhen very
politely stood up to greet me. Because it was very hot, he had rolled-up his
sleeves. I saw on his arm a very deep scar. When we all sat down, I noticed a
very deep scar on the top of his head, and no hair grew around it. I could not
help shedding tears over the fact that he was still so very young. He said in
return, after trying to hold back his own tears, "Don't be like this." From our conversation, I learned that he had just been released from a forced
labor camp. He had obtained the Fa when he was studying at Chongqing University.
He fully appreciated how precious Dafa is. In facing the overwhelming defamation
of Falun Gong, he was detained for going to Beijing to appeal for Dafa. He was
again jailed and sent to a forced labor camp since he refused to give up his
belief. He was severely tortured at the forced labor camp when he worked hard
with fellow practitioners to create a cultivation environment. His scars were
obtained at that time. After he came home from the labor camp, he still had no
peace in his life. Every day, the loudspeaker called out his name in his local
village, telling the local residents not to have any contact with him. His
family suffered from great pressure. As a result, Mr. Lu had to leave his home. Mr. Lu Zhen was strict with himself, and he cherished very much the funds
that fellow practitioners donated to save the sentient beings. He would not buy
any new clothing for himself unless fellow practitioners objected to how poorly
he was dressed. I still recall one very hot summer afternoon. He came to give me
some materials. I saw he wore a big straw hat and a pair of very long, thick
pants. Since it was so hot, he had his trouser legs rolled up very high. His
bare feet were in very old slippers, and he was sun-tanned all over. My
colleague could not understand why I had contact with a person who dressed so
miserably and shabbily. I told my colleague, "You should not judge a person
by his appearance. You will understand after you talk to him." After he
talked briefly to Mr. Lu, my colleague was very surprised and said, "He is
so profound." Later on, this colleague of mine also obtained the Fa and
walked on the path of cultivation. Not only this friend of mine, but among all who had contact with Mr. Lu Zhen,
very few of them failed to admire him when he shared his understanding of Dafa.
I also very much admired such a Dafa disciple who fearlessly saved sentient
beings, braving the evil persecution, rain or shine. It is difficult for me to
accept that now, in this human world, we can no longer see him, a person so
impressive when he carried large cloth bags filled with truth-clarifying
materials, approaching the sentient beings with light steps... I also heard that, in the past when Mr. Lu Zhen returned home to his village,
the older people on the street would run over as if they had seen a relative,
and they would always hold his hands. A Dafa disciple who had assimilated to the
universal truth, he truly understood the pain of sentient beings wandering in
the sea of sufferings. Under any circumstance, those who follow the teachings
are the most beneficial, most approachable, most admirable, and most
trustworthy. It is difficult to imagine that such a precious life was described
by the Lingyi and Mengyin "610 Offices" as "mentally
disordered." They had squandered great financial and physical resources to
arrest and sentence him wrongfully to eleven years. Eventually, he became
mentally disordered and died as result of torture. In present day China, those
that have participated in persecuting Dafa practitioners know how ridiculous,
unreasonable, and miserable this persecution is. How could such a young and
precious life be tortured to mental disorder and death? What a bitter tragedy! Mr. Lu Zhen died young but his life was filled with meaning. Now that Falun
Dafa has spread to over one hundred countries around the world, and the truth
about the persecution is clear to most of the human world, the demand for an end
the persecution runs high. Those kind Chinese that have remained true to their
conscience are aware of the true nature of the Chinese Communist Party and stay
away from or quit it and its affiliated organizations. Heavenly punishment
awaits those who have participated in persecuting Dafa practitioners. They will
be held responsible for what they have done. |