On October 25, I watched the CCTV news that President Jiang defamed Falun Dafa as a 'cult'. I then invited several elder Falun Dafa practitioners and went together to report the truth of Falun Dafa to the people's congress. In the past, we were all studying Falun Dafa together. I had introduced Falun Dafa to some of them. Some of them just started to learn Dafa.

In the beginning when Falun Dafa met hardships, those courageous young practitioners and especially those who came to Beijing to appeal for Falun Dafa greatly inspired us. We realized that this was a crucial moment for a Falun Dafa practitioner. Nothing should prevent me from defending Dafa.

The next day, before I arrived at the People's Auditorium, I heard a voice, "Are you Falun Gong practitioners?" I answered immediately, "Yes." "Get on the bus!" Thus I was arrested.

Divine Gathering

The police vans were full of Falun Dafa practitioners. Under close surveillance by the police, several hundred fellow practitioners had already been detained in the police station. When they learned that we were local practitioners in Beijing, they applauded, "You Beijing practitioners have finally stood out for Dafa."

A 7-year-old child led us reciting "Lun Yu" (the preface of Zhuan Falun) and "Hong Ying" (a collection of poems of teacher Li Hongzhi). I was moved to tears by his loud and firm voice. We had not held such solemn gathering for a long time.

We were transferred to a baseball ground. Over a thousand practitioners had been detained there. The police divided us into subgroups according to where we came from. In Beijing group, there were about 60 people. The practitioners from outside Beijing continued to practice the exercises and study Dafa teachings. The ground was full of police's cursing and beating. There were no food, no drink and no access to toilet. Some elders could not stand that long and peed in the trousers. As it got dark, it started to rain with thunderstorm. The police on duty put on their raincoats. But practitioners were suffering in the rain silently. I only had two shirts and I felt very cold in the wind and rain. The police all put on their thick clothes, but an officer was still complaining loudly. I kept reciting "Lun Yu", "Hong Ying", and other articles by teacher Li.

The criminals said, "Falun Dafa is really good."

At about 2am in the morning, we were sent to a suburban detention center and detained together with 20 criminals. We could not have a sleep since it was too crowded. A 63-year-old fellow practitioner and I sat on the edge of the sleeping board until dawn. We 13 practitioners did not eat and drink for a whole day. In addition, we had been rain-drenched and frozen. However we felt energetic on the next day. We felt very happy about that. After the criminals learned our experience, they felt very strange, "How come none of you have caught cold?" We told them that Falun Dafa made us healthy and strong. A practitioner from outside Beijing was also detained with us. Among 14 of us, there were engineers, researchers, middle and elementary school teachers, university students, army members, salesman, and farmers. Every one of us had a different experience. We told the criminals the benefits that Falun Dafa had brought to us. Thus Falun Dafa reached this "isolated corner" of the world.

We got used to the life in jail very quickly. We gave up many human attachments very naturally. We worked very diligently and had no complaints. We went outside to eat in order to leave enough room for others. We bought stuff to share with others. Criminals thus saw the image of Falun Dafa in us. They found that they had been fooled by the government's propaganda. They said wholeheartedly, "Falun Dafa is really good."

A Pure Land Has Been Created

In Beijing's jail, practitioners are not allowed to practice and spread Falun Dafa. But we practitioners have our own criterion. Before, cursing and fighting among criminals were common scene in jail. After we told them that doing bad things would cause one to accumulate karma and lose virtue, the jail became a peaceful land under our efforts.

The criminals were interested very much in listening to our stories of practicing cultivation. Over 20 criminals learned Falun Gong exercises; some of them experienced obvious body-purifying symptoms very quickly. A criminal had been jailed for 2 years. Her pale face became rosy in a short time after she learned Falun Dafa. Her spirit was totally changed. During an interrogation, the officer was shocked upon seeing her change. The first question the officer asked was, "Have you practiced Falun Gong?" She replied proudly, "Yes, of course." A criminal who had negative opinions against Falun Dafa later became the most determined practitioner. She said, "If I had known Falun Dafa earlier, I would not have come here." Many of them said, "If we were outside the jail, we would pursue worldly things to satisfy our greed instead of listening to these principles that teach people to be good. It must be teacher Li who has arranged us to learn Dafa in the environment of jail." Among 20 criminals, 6 of them said that they could not practice Falun Dafa but they would become good people according to Dafa. They were used to speak dirty words. Later, when the dirty words came out of their mouths occasionally they would immediately cover their mouths and said, "Aunt, I am sorry. I am wrong." The cell became a civilized place.

In the cell there was no metal stuff. So they sharpened the nails on the paper packing-box into needles and pierced dozens of teacher Li's poems in "Hong Ying" on all the plastic clothes that they had. Therefore, they could learn teacher Li's poems to the light. Later some practitioners brought in a book of "Hong Ying" and a book of "The Essentials for further Advances". They made the best use of their time to recite the articles in these two books everyday. When we got out of the jail, we left these two books to them.

This forgotten corner at the bottommost of human society had become a pure land. They studied and practiced Falun Dafa together everyday. They also exchanged what they learned everyday. Now outside the jail, it is still hard to find such a cultivation environment.

The Change of the Police Officers

Facing the interrogation, practitioners all walked out the cell smiling and came back smiling. Facing the police officers that represented the government, we told them in an open and dignified way the health and moral uplifting that Falun Dafa has brought to us. The police officers' harshness and hostility were melted by our kindness. The facts changed their conceptions and attitudes. Teacher Li's benevolence also offered them salvation.

There was no standard formality in talking to the police officers. It only reflected each practitioner's own experience. There was an old lady who was illiterate. But she could easily read the books of Falun Dafa. However, she could not read the same characters on other books. She told the police this miracle. Besides, she had had many surgeries before she learned Dafa and it was Dafa that bought her real health.

An intellectual of 71-year-old was freed after 7 days of detention. On the next day, he went to appeal again and was taken back to the cell again. The police officer said, "You come here to improve your level again."

A researcher over 60 had been a communist party member for 30 years. She had written 4 applications for withdrawing from the party before she went to appeal. After she was detained, her membership was revoked. When she was interrogated by 6 police officers, she said, "the party served for people 30 years ago. I felt very proud to join the party. Now the party refuses to listen to the people's voices and has even made such polices against the constitution in order to eliminate the righteous Falun Dafa. I have no regret to withdraw from such a party." Those police officers had no words to refute her. One police officer thus said, "Then you could tell us something about Falun Dafa." She talked about 2 hours and those police officers were really interested in listening to her experience of practicing Falun Dafa.

An officer started to read "Zhuan Falun". She claimed that she read it in order to refute us. She told me, "My life has become much easier since you came here. The fighting and cursing among the criminals have disappeared. I can enjoy a peaceful weekend at home now." She asked us to tell those criminals how to become good people according to the teachings of Falun Dafa.

In jail, we were like nuns and monks in temple. We took hardships as pleasure. We had given up many human attachments. My mind became clearer and cleaner.

The Teacher Arranged The Hardships for Me to Overcome

Among the arrested practitioners, the charges against me were the heaviest. They included illegal gathering, disturbing social order, disrespect to police officers etc. I felt very funny at those accusations. The interrogation was just a test for our cultivation. I had no anger in my words, and my heart was pure.

Several other practitioners went together with me to appeal. I only told them the news on the TV, and they all volunteered to go with me. This led to the accusation of "illegal gathering". I admitted this happily. If I did not admit this, the practitioners who went to appeal together with me would get into trouble.

When the police asked me about some materials I carried with me when I was arrested, I did not tell them who had given them to me. In "Zhuan Falun", it reads, "I am a person who will not say what I do not want to say. But what I have said will have to be the truth." During several interrogations, I had always kept these words in mind. I did not want to bring trouble to other people. Thus, I was accused of "disrespect to the police officers".

The Last Test in Jail

Many fellow practitioners' families practiced bribery in order to get them out of jail. Their family members also kept writing to them in order to persuade them to give up Falun Dafa. However these practitioners' determination about Falun Dafa did not waver at all. None of my family members paid attention to me. It was really like cutting myself off from human society. Other practitioners asked about the situation in my family. I said, "My husband was against my practice of Falun Dafa. I took good care of him and exchange experience with other fellow practitioners in an open and dignified way. If he got angry at me, I would patiently tell him the principle of Falun Dafa. Little by little, he was no longer against Falun Dafa. My daughter is studying in the United States and also practices Falun Dafa. My sister worked in a judicial department. She and her daughter now are also staying in jail because they went to appeal."

The family members of a practitioner had some personal relationship with the police officers. When she was freed, she said, "I will go back to jail if they get me out by walking through the back door (i.e., practicing bribery -- translator)." She asked her family members loudly whether they walked through the back door for her to get out. They told her they didn't.

Practitioners left the jail one after another. They left all their belongings to the criminals except some necessary clothes. These criminals missed them very much. After an old lady left, many criminals were so sad that they did not have their meal at night. Later, I was the only one left. The criminals said, "They all left except you." I said, "It is not really police's decision as to when I should get out. The teacher knows very clearly about whether I have finished my cultivation here." Some even reminded me, "You have been detained for over 30 days. You might be sentenced with labor education." I said calmly, "Everyone has a different path of cultivation. For a cultivator, nothing is accidental." Maybe more criminals with predestined affinity with Dafa are waiting for me to let them know about Dafa. The head of the criminals told me, "On one hand when we see you suffering here, we hope you leave as soon as possible. But on the other hand, we do not want you to leave. We are afraid that the cell will return to the situation in the past." I said, "It won't. You have already learned Falun Dafa to become kindhearted people."

On the day I left the jail, I was not happy; instead, my heart was tranquil. The criminals walked me out with tears. One said, "We won't meet such good people like you."

It had been 33 days since I was arrested. I successfully finished the path of cultivation that the teacher had arranged for me. I could feel my improvement in my spiritual realm, and I could also felt the change in my physical body very clearly.

After I got back home, the environment changed. My husband once again strongly opposed to my practicing Falun Dafa. I had to rectify this environment again. One day, he wanted to have a look at what was happening on the Tian-an-men square and told me not to tell the police that I was a Falun Dafa practitioner if the police happened to ask me. I thought that didn't matter. Under any pressure, I would say that I am a Falun Dafa practitioner. I would give the great Falun Dafa a correct position in my heart. I would bear the hardship if I would be arrested against. Next day, I accompanied my husband to walk around the Tian-an-men square and no police officers asked me.

Now I had a new cultivation environment. I study Falun Dafa diligently. I exchange experience with other fellow practitioners openly.

Teacher Li said in an article "if you do well in your own cultivation, you will do well in spreading Dafa in your area and the practitioners will do better in their cultivation ..." One's diligent cultivation is also the most important help for others.

A Falun Dafa Practitioner from Beijing