(Minghui.org) I was arrested and my home ransacked by plainclothes police when I was clarifying the truth in May 2020. After that, I experienced more than three months of amazing incidents. In the process, I realized Master’s compassion and the power of Dafa practitioners cooperating as one body, as well as the importance of studying the Fa.
When I was clarifying the truth at a local farmers market one morning in May 2020, I was photographed and followed by plainclothes police officers of the Domestic Security Brigade. I was arrested and taken to the local police station. The police of the Domestic Security Brigade confiscated my keys, ransacked my home, confiscated my Falun Gong books, photos of Master Li (founder of Falun Gong), the posters on the wall, and much more.
During the interrogation, the police asked me if these items belonged to me. At that time I didn’t have a good understanding of the Fa, so I admitted to owning the materials. In the process, I told them why I practiced Falun Gong and the powerful effect of Falun Gong on curing illness and achieving fitness. Finally they asked me to sign a document, but I refused. At 6 p.m., my son secured my release on a one-year bail, and I went home.
A few days later, the police told me to return to the police station. At first I didn’t agree to go, but my son demanded that I go. He hit the wall and cried, my granddaughter cried, and my husband cried. Not recognizing that it was a test of my determination, I finally went so as to calm my family down. The police showed me the transcript, and asked me to sign. I thought that it was a transcript of what I said, and it also did not say that Falun Gong was not allowed to be practiced, so I signed it. It later became clear that this was material that they needed to frame me further. In fact, when the abduction first happened, practitioners and I talked about how to stand up against the persecution using Chinese law. But I did not listen to what was said at that time, nor did I remember it.
I went home, and didn’t pay much attention to this incident. But the incident brought great pressure to my family, especially my son, who was quite upset. My husband was scared, too. He always asked me where I went, and who visited me. I became depressed. At that time, I couldn’t eat and lost 10 pounds within a month.
One day at the Fa-study site, I happened to see myself in the mirror. My face was very pale. Then a gust of wind blew away the thing I was holding in my hand. Someone said to me, “Today you look stressed out. It is all pressing on your heart.”
I fell asleep and had a dream. When I woke up, I was still affected by my dream. My heart did hurt. Was it really killing me? I kind of thought so. I sent forth righteous thoughts for more than half an hour and did the exercises.
The next day, when I was studying the sixth lecture of Zhuan Falun, I read:
“But it is not the case if demonic interference from one’s own mind occurs, as this life of the person will be ruined. Particularly for those practitioners with the Celestial Eye open at certain levels, this problem can happen easily. Also, some people are always interfered with by foreign messages in their consciousness, and they believe whatever they are told by foreign messages; this problem can also take place.” (Lecture 6, Zhuan Falun)
My heart hurt, and thanks to Master, I understood that the sensations in my heart, including the dream, were an illusion⸺it was a very dangerous situation!
However, I still didn’t pay attention to how to dissolve this persecution. A fellow practitioner reminded me to look inward, and I did: I did the three things well, and I could not find what I had done wrong. More than two months later, my case went to the district prosecutor’s office. I faced illegal prosecution.
After the case arrived at the district prosecutor’s office, I felt anxious. Fellow practitioners encouraged me not to acknowledge the persecution, and helped me establish the right belief in Dafa. I felt that I had the strength and could forbear. Practitioners proposed to send forth righteous thoughts with me at noon. We did it each time for 40 or 50 minutes. At night fellow practitioners also contacted me and sent forth righteous thoughts for me. We did this for nearly a month⸺almost every day.
A week later, a prosecutor from a county-level in our area called me and scared me: “You will be sentenced,” he said. It turned out that the case was transferred to an off-site location.
My son, my daughter-in-law, and I drove to the procuratorate. The prosecutor asked me about the home raid. I said that no one was home when the police raided the house, so the raid was illegal. I told him and an assistant female prosecutor the truth behind the persecution of Falun Gong. I told them: I didn’t do anything bad, and those who practice Falun Gong are good people; The persecuted families of those who practice Falun Gong over the years were wronged. Then I told them that everything I said was for their good.
They were vicious at first, but then the atmosphere eased. They said that they didn’t want to handle the case. They asked me if I still practiced; if so, my grandchild would not be able to go to school, and I would no longer get a salary. They said, “If you quit practicing, we will let you go back. But if you don’t, the case will be sent to the court.”
The test came. My son knelt and kowtowed to me, the prosecutor pulled him up, and my son threatened that he would jump off the building. At this time, I thought to myself: Master is behind me, my heart is determined, no one can move it. Seeing that I was uncompromising, my son couldn’t do anymore, so we left the prosecutor’s office.
At that time, I felt very strongly that Master was standing beside me. I was not afraid at all. According to a fellow practitioner, local practitioners helped me by sending forth righteous thoughts that day.
On the way home, my son still tried to convince me to quit practicing. He called my relatives again and asked them to persuade me, but none of them could make me change my mind. Master’s poem kept echoing in my mind:
“Cultivate away fame, material interest, and emotion, Reach Consummation, ascending the firmament, With compassion, looking at the world, Only then, awakening from confusion.” (“Reaching Consummation, Completing Gong, Hong Yin)
I recited it repeatedly, and finally they stopped. I said in my heart: “I don’t want anything, let it go.” As soon as my heart let go, I was no longer worried, and I was not moved.
At home, my son called my relatives again and tried to persuade me to compromise again⸺crying and pleading, scolding and persuading, one by one. But I still didn’t move. So, they all gave up.
A few days later, the police took photos of my house, and then my son and I were called to the police station to take new photos and videos. They asked about the amount of materials that were confiscated, whether my son practiced, etc. At this time, I gave a positive answer wisely. Later, I learned that these became the materials for the procuratorate not to prosecute me.
In mid-August, the procuratorate informed me that it had dropped the case. It was nine days since I went to the prosecutor’s office.
The case was returned to the local police station. One day, my son and I were called to the police station again, where they said that they were going to detain me.
I remembered that a fellow practitioner told me that we should think about all living beings and not about ourselves, and she made a figurative analogy: just like a hen protecting her chicks, we should think of fellow sentient beings. My heart was touched.
At noon the next day, when I was sending forth righteous thoughts, I became energized. I found my fundamental attachment to selfishness. Before, I could not find my own problem; I couldn’t find the reason why I was arrested. But this time I really found my fundamental problem. My heart was deeply touched. The previous sense of depression was gone, and it was like dropping a piece of something. After that, every time I sent forth righteous thoughts, I deliberately strengthened the need to clear my mind of selfishness, and I had to think about all sentient beings. From that day on, my state changed radically.
When my son came back for dinner in the evening, he told me: “The police said that they would definitely detain you, either 3 days, 5 days, or 15 days.” My son said money may solve the problem. I told him that we would not spend any money. I wasn’t moved. That evening, a practitioner and I communicated, and sent forth righteous thoughts again. When I was about to finish, my son called and said that the police station asked me to go see them the next day, claiming that there was a typo in the signed transcript last time.
In fact, I knew that it was a mistake to sign the file, so it was Master who gave me a chance to make up for it. I was not nervous. I said to myself: “I am a Dafa practitioner, I will consider all sentient beings.”
Master said:
“...Dafa disciples, ascending to the ninth heaven, Preside over heaven and earth and rectify the human way” (“Foretelling,” Hong Yin II)
I had no fear, but held a dignified and upright mentality.
I went to the police station, asking them to withdraw the case. This was nine days before the procuratorate dropped the case. However, the police said that they were still going to detain me.
At this time, practitioners generally believed that since the case was withdrawn from the procuratorate, the police did not have a reason to persecute me. But, my release on bail had not yet been implemented, and the police had been saying that they wanted to detain me. Following the lawyer’s suggestion, a practitioner wrote an application for release on bail. It was also an opportunity to contact and save the police.
The practitioner asked me if I wanted the application filed by myself, or by my son. I asked my son, but he said it was nonsense. I realized that this was telling me not to rely on ordinary people, so I thought I would go with there with the heart of hoping to save all sentient beings, without fear.
It was really a battle between good and evil that day. It had been raining since the night before, and began to storm in the morning. When I walked out of the house, I saw a fellow practitioner standing in the street sending forth righteous thoughts for me, and the rain gradually stopped.
I spoke to a policeman who said that my bail was almost done, and he did not mail the notice to me because he still wanted to detain me. He said it would happen in just two days. My heart was not moved. In my heart I knew that Master is in charge of everything, and what the police say does not count. I told him in a dignified manner, that it is not good for him to detain me.
That night, practitioners and I talked. We decided to send forth righteous thoughts to eliminate the evil. The interference was very large, and my legs hurt a lot. I couldn’t hold them up in the full lotus position. We sent forth righteous thoughts that night for 45 minutes, and I felt much better.
The next morning, one practitioner told everyone to send forth righteous thoughts. At nine o’clock, I sent righteous thoughts with two other practitioners. After a while my hand dropped without my realizing it, and one of the other practitioners corrected me. But it happened again and again. During the process, in my mind’s eye, I saw several policemen show up outside my house, trying to detain me. I told them that my son wasn’t home. The scene ended there, and then it suddenly dawned on me. Don’t I have a master? Why did I think of my son first? I immediately corrected myself. I thought that Master was by my side, and this was all an illusion; no one could move me. I recalled Master’s teaching:
“I am rooted in the universe. If anyone can harm you, he or she would be able to harm me. Put simply, that person would be able to harm this universe.” (“Lecture One, Zhuan Falun)
I began to disintegrate the illusion with righteous thoughts. It took a while for the scene to disappear. At that time, I was in a fully awake state. It was just an illusion! Evil was disintegrated. Later, the other two practitioners said that at that time, they also saw some scenes when sending righteous thoughts, in which Master dissolved the evil for us.
The next day I learned that the police station no longer planned on detaining me.
I am 63 years old this year. I am very patient, having few conflicts with anyone. My son is in charge of all the family affairs. I cook three meals every day for me and my husband. I do the three things well. But I feel that I didn’t cultivate well, I didn’t seem to improve much for so many years, and I was hard-headed, like a piece of wood.
After this arrest, I also looked inward, but I didn’t know what the problem was. Through this, I felt that Master was using this chance to make me improve, which was a great thing. I also found the reason that my cultivation had not improved for so many years: I used everyday people’s rationality to measure things instead of the Fa, so I could not see my problems. It took three months to overcome the challenges.
In the midst of this tribulation, I changed my thinking. I felt that I know now how to cultivate, and I can find my problems. I enlightened a lot, and experienced the power of the Fa. I felt as if I was reborn. I gained wisdom, and my fellow practitioners also said that I became wiser.
Being able to succeed is due to the blessing of Master, the help from local practitioners, the cooperation of fellow practitioners, and the selfless help from overseas practitioners, who made phone calls to the local law enforcement. Without all this, I wouldn’t have succeeded.
Thank you, Master! Thank you, fellow practitioners!