(Minghui.org) I am 61 years old and began practicing Falun Gong in 1998. After the persecution began in 1999, I started clarifying the truth to the people I met. Many of them listened to me and became more positive about Falun Gong.
While I was distributing truth-clarification materials in a residential area with other practitioners in 2018, I was arrested and sentenced to two years in prison. After being released in 2020, I learned that my brother, who was also a practitioner, had been arrested in 2019. My elderly father had been so afraid after the arrests of both his children that he died quite suddenly, and my mother became confined to a wheelchair, requiring care.
I took in my mother, along with my mother-in-law who was suffering from Parkinson’s disease, so I could care for both of them. I’d bought my house in 2016, and people in the neighborhood believed the propaganda from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) that slandered Falun Gong. Because I practiced Falun Gong and had just moved there, they discriminated against me, and I became a key target for surveillance, which made me feel tense.
One day, the director of the Comprehensive Management Office brought a few people to my house while I was feeding my mother-in-law. When he asked if I still practiced Falun Gong, I said, “Yes, I practice it every day.” He then asked, “Can’t you practice other things?” I replied, “I tried many things, but none worked. Falun Gong is the best! Falun Gong is a Buddhist practice that teaches people to do good things. Falun Gong practitioners only do good things.” He said I was still distributing Dafa flyers. I told him, “Nowadays there are many people handing out flyers so they can make money. Falun Gong flyers can save lives.” He stopped talking and left. When he saw me again later, his attitude had changed and he became friendly.
Two policemen came on another day and asked, “Do you know why we came to see you?” I smiled and replied, “Yes, because I practice Falun Gong.” I asked them to sit down and said, “I have been practicing Falun Gong for more than 20 years. After I started practicing, my diseases were cured. I meditate whenever I have time. It doesn’t bother anyone. In addition, Falun Gong teaches us to cultivate the mind, and improve our temper and character. It’s good for society and family.” Before I could finish, the young man sitting on the left said, “Auntie, we won’t bother you any more.”
The truth awakened the kindness in their hearts. When they left, they were friendly and completely different from before.
Another time, a man and a woman came looking for me so I invited them in. They saw my two elderly mothers in their nineties sitting in wheelchairs, dressed in clean clothes and looking well. They praised me for taking good care of the elderly. They sat in my house for nearly two hours. It turned out that they had been tasked with holding a brainwashing session, and they came to see if I needed to attend. After hearing the truth about Falun Gong, the man said he would no longer participate in the persecution of good people. He took out his mobile phone and deleted the photos he’d taken of me. The woman agreed to withdraw from the Young Pioneers, which she had joined as a child.
One day a coworker came to persuade me to quit my practice. I said, “We are on the same team and know each other well. After I started to practice Dafa, you know how I conducted myself. The CCP can deceive others about Dafa, but it should not deceive you. Both you and your son are blessed with good jobs. You should not commit bad deeds that will incur karma and harm you and your son.”
My coworker tried to get me to sign a letter to quit practicing. But after I refused, he never mentioned it again. To further clarify the truth, I invited him to dinner. In the end, he withdrew from the CCP and said he would never get involved in the persecution again.
In 2021, the village head of my hometown came with a group of people to try to force me to quit Falun Gong. I told them about my experience before and after practicing, and persuaded them not to participate in the persecution, because those who persecute practitioners often suffer retribution. The village head had heard the truth before and had once protected me when I was in trouble. He told me that his superiors forced him to do this, but he didn’t want to get involved. They left happily.
Earlier this year, I took my mother out in her wheelchair for a walk, and clarified the truth to people along the way. I noticed two people following me. I looked inside and recognized my fear of being persecuted again, along with a desire for comfort. I had the strong thought that clarifying the truth and saving people is the Creator’s arrangement, and no one can interfere with what I am doing. After that, the two men stopped following me.
The next morning, the director of the Comprehensive Management Office came to my house with a few officers, but they were smiling. I said to them, “It is fate that you have met a Falun Gong practitioner. You should always remember, ‘Falun Dafa is good, and Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good’ so you can stay safe! Good is rewarded and evil is punished.” The director said that someone had reported me yesterday, and he came just to go through the motions. He and the other officers didn’t want to cause me trouble, as they all knew the truth.
These people used to create trouble for no reason, but now they protect Dafa practitioners. The truth of Dafa has awakened them.
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