(Minghui.org) I was detained numerous times because I practiced Falun Dafa. I tried to tell the inmates the truth about the persecution.
I was illegally detained in a detention center’s “transitional facility” in 2005. Newcomers were sent there first to learn the prison rules. Dong, a drug smuggler who was shackled, entered the facility. His face was ashen and he was listless.
Around the Chinese New Year, guards organized an activity for detainees. Both Dong and I participated. During the activity, I talked with Dong and learned that he had been arrested for smuggling two kilograms of drugs. This was the second time he was arrested for drug trafficking. He previously served more than ten years in prison, and this time he was sentenced to death, and was awaiting review by the Supreme Court. He just wanted to live one day at a time.
I told Dong the facts about Falun Dafa. I explained to him where life comes from, and I said that assimilating to Dafa could help one return to their true home in heaven. He said, “I believe in Buddha. I regret the bad things I’ve done, but I have no hope.”
I said to him, “Falun Dafa is righteous and miraculous. If you can remember ‘Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good’ a miracle may happen and you will still have hope of living.”
Dong replied, “Since I’m going to die anyway, I’ll say it whether there’s hope or not.”
The next day, Dong said, “Last night I had a dream in which I was fighting with ghosts.”
I asked, “Did you win?”
He replied, “I killed all the ghosts.”
I said, “You have hope now.” Dong didn’t believe me, thinking I was just trying to reassure him.
Two days later, the Supreme Court’s review commuted Dong’s death sentence to a suspended death sentence, and the guard removed his shackles. When he returned to the cell, Dong shouted to me through the small window of his cell’s iron door, “Falun Gong (that’s what everyone calls me), what you said is true!”
I replied, “Please thank Master Li for saving your life.”
He answered, “Of course!”
The news that Dong had been spared the death penalty surprised the inmates and the guards. I told them, “Whether you believe it or not, this is a miracle seen when a person sincerely believes ‘Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.’” Many people started to recite the phases.
When I was imprisoned, an inmate named Wu was assigned to watch me. He had read Zhuan Falun previously and had some understanding of Dafa. He believed me when I told him to remember the auspicious words.
Wu was very kind to me, and he even gave me his pen and paper. He also created a good cultivation environment for me. Every day, I could practice calligraphy, write down the Fa (teachings) I remembered, and tell the inmates and the guards about Falun Dafa.
One year, 610 Office agents came to the prison to force practitioners to transform. Because I said no, they called Wu over to pressure me and beat me up, but he refused. “The prison has its own rules, and I only listen to the prison guards. I cannot do what you asked,” he explained.
Not long after, Wu suddenly collapsed. He was in a deep coma. The doctors said he had a stroke which was complicated by cerebral edema. The brain herniation and severe coma put him in a very critical condition, and the prison notified his family. Even in hospitals with good medical facilities, the mortality rate for such patients is very high, let alone in a prison hospital.
I was very concerned about Wu’s condition. While his relative was delivering things to him, I said to them, “If you recite ‘Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good’ into Wu’s ear, it may help him.”
The next day, a miracle happened. Wu’s relative returned from the hospital and came to me, saying, “Wu suddenly regained consciousness last night. The doctors said it was a miracle. Thank you for what you said.” Later, Wu was granted medical parole and was taken home by his family. He recovered very well after that.
Inmate Feng chatted with me. He was sentenced to death for drug smuggling. Although his sentence was later commuted to a suspended death sentence, during the two years he waited for the appeal, he was constantly under stress, always thinking he would be executed any day.
“I often had nightmares and couldn’t sleep well at night. I could only sleep three or four hours. This made me listless, and my appetite was poor; I lost weight too. The doctor said I had neurasthenia, and this has been going on for seven years now,” Feng explained. “At first, sleeping pills worked a little. But later no matter how many sleeping pills I took, they didn’t work. My health is deteriorating each day, and I could die soon. Could you think of anything that I can try?”
After I explained to Feng the physical and mental benefits of practicing Falun Dafa I said, “Please don’t worry, just say, ‘Falun Dafa is good. Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.’ You will get better.”
“Will it work?” he asked.
“Please give a try. If you recite the phrases sincerely, you might sleep soundly and not want to get up in the morning,” I replied.
The next day, while I was chatting with some inmates and guards, Feng came over and said to me, “Falun Gong, the miracle cure you told me yesterday worked well. I almost couldn’t get out of bed this morning, It’s truly amazing!”
Everyone was curious. “What medicine? What did you give him?” one inmate asked.
“It can only be taught privately, not in public yet,” I replied. “I will tell you later.” After some time, I told each one the facts about Dafa, including the guards.
I was sent to a detention center again. One morning in the “transitional facility” I told the inmates in the exercise yard my experience of practicing Dafa. I also told them that if they recited, “Falun Dafa is good. Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good” they would be blessed.
Wen, an inmate newly detained for contract fraud of one million yuan, sat on the side and listened intently. I did not pay much attention to him at the time. After breakfast, he was called out for a checkup.
About a month later, Wen returned to his cell. He told me, “I was diagnosed with leukemia. After coming to the detention center, I went to the hospital again for further examination. But after more than a month of tests—CT scans, ultrasounds, all sorts of blood tests—the results were all normal. Later, because of rectal bleeding, they suspected a problem with my rectum, so I had a proctoscopy, but they found nothing wrong. Now I’m completely healthy and I’ve even gained weight!
“Could this be related to reciting the auspicious phrases?” he asked. He said when first coming here, he heard me telling others to say, “Falun Dafa is good. Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.” So he tried it.
I nodded and said yes. “Thank you Falun Dafa and Master Li!” Wen said excitedly. “After getting out, I will definitely tell my whole family to recite these phrases.” A few days later, Wen applied to be released on bail and he received a suspended sentence.
I often told the inmates how the CCP had harmed innocent people in the past several decades, and they agreed. “Even we gangsters have some moral values. The CCP is shameless, and even worse than the underworld.” Many of them agreed to withdraw from the CCP organizations.
Tang, a mine owner imprisoned for contract fraud, had severe diabetes. Every day he had to receive insulin before he ate. Even then, his blood sugar was still unstable. He liked to chat with me. Whenever we had time I told him about Falun Dafa, and how to be a good person instead of fighting with others, and reciting the auspicious phrases.
Tang often argued with others, so the inmates and guards avoided him. After I told him about what Master said in Zhuan Falun, he almost became a different person. He stopped arguing with others, started looking at himself for his own faults when conflicts arose, learned to be patient, and got along well with his cellmates.
Because of his severe diabetes, Tang was unable to eat sugar and needed an insulin injection before meals. Later, he gradually stopped injecting insulin and dared to eat normally. During the Mid-Autumn Festival that year, the detention center gave everyone moon cakes. Tang wanted to eat it and asked me, “Can I eat it?”
“It’s up to you,” I replied. “If you think you can eat it, it should be fine.”
Tang ate the moon cake anyway, and nothing happened. From then on, he dared to eat anything, including candy. His blood sugar also remained stable.
I told the facts of Dafa to the guard in charge of my cell. He sympathized with my plight and granted my request to practice the exercises and talk to the detainees about how Dafa’s teachings helped me become a better person.
A thug named Kang, who fought for his boss, was transferred to the transitional facility where I was staying. He frequently got into fights, verbally abused guards, and harassed the detention center doctor; he caused trouble almost every day and night. As a result, he was shackled and placed in solitary confinement multiple times. In addition, he had been in almost every cell and was beaten by the guards. Both guards and doctors were very troubled by him.
The night Kang entered the transitional facility, he caused a disturbance for a while. The next day, a guard called me in and said, “Falun Gong, do you have any way to stop him from causing trouble? Even practicing Falun Gong is fine.”
I replied, “Thank you!”
The guard also specifically instructed the cell head (also an inmate), “When Falun Gong teaches Kang the exercises, if the patrolling guards give you a hard time, tell them I give my consent.”
When I returned to the cell, I told Kang, “The guard agreed to let me teach you Falun Gong. Do you want practice?”
He said, “Of course!”
I wrote down one of Master’s poems:
“Dafa is what you carry everywhere,Zhen Shan Ren, rooted in the mind;A great Arhat walks the earth,Gods and demons fear with awe.”(Benevolent Might, Hong Yin)
Kang memorized the poem in a few hours. I also wrote down some other poems Master wrote, and I showed him the exercises.
From that day on, Kang stopped causing trouble, and he even said, “I want to practice Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance and be a good person.” He frequently did good deeds—he voluntarily cleaned the cell and washed clothes. He also brought water to the elderly inmates. Impressed by his changes, the inmates and guards said that Falun Dafa is miraculous.