(Minghui.org) A fellow practitioner who is 67 years old, and lives in the countryside with only an elementary education, has been following the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance with unwavering righteous thoughts, from the start of the persecution of Falun Dafa in 1999, up to today, with righteous faith in Master Li Hongzhi, Falun Dafa’s founder.
On the 27th anniversary of the persecution of Falun Dafa, events of that year came back vividly to her, and she asked me to write down her experiences to express her gratitude to Master for his merciful salvation, and to serve as a testimony to history.
She Recovered From Her Diseases in Four Days
She used to suffer from severe postpartum illness, and her joints ached all over. She said, “Others experience summer, but I experience autumn; others wear one insulated coat in winter, but I have to wear two. From head to toe, every joint aches.” Because her family was poor she couldn’t afford to seek medical treatment. Upon hearing about Falun Dafa’s free teaching, and the practice’s health benefits, she decided to give it a try.
She went to a Dafa practice site in her village one day in July 1998. She saw people seated in three interconnected rooms, quietly reading. She felt so peaceful and comfortable. Surprisingly, she was able to sit in the full lotus position for 15 minutes on the first try.
A magical thing happened on the fourth day. As she walked out of the practice site, she suddenly found that the pain all over her body had disappeared. She commented, “When I walk, it feels like my feet are floating on air; my legs, which used to feel so heavy I could barely lift them, now have inexhaustible strength!”
Moreover, her family members also benefited. After beginning Dafa cultivation, her mother, who is in her 80s, saw a magic beam of light guiding her back home when she was lost in the dark. A fist-sized lump on her knees also gradually disappeared. Her brother, whose lung and chest were severely injured in an accident, recovered after practicing Falun Dafa, and he could do heavy labor again.
Her entire family firmly believes that Falun Dafa is the righteous Fa, and can save people.
“I am Going to Beijing to Appeal for Master”
On July 20, 1999, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) mobilized the entire state apparatus and launched the brutal persecution of Falun Dafa.
At that time, she had only read Zhuan Falun twice and didn’t have a thorough understand of the Fa principles. But she held on to a very simple truth in her heart, “Master teaches us to refrain from fighting back and to be a good person who follows Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance. This is absolutely correct. I should go report the true situation to the people.”
On Chinese New Year’s eve 2000, the police and village head assumed she wouldn’t leave for Beijing during the New Year, and relaxed surveillance on her. But she indeed went to Beijing by herself. When she arrived at Tiananmen Square, security was very tight and police were everywhere. She asked Master for help in her heart and was able to link arms with a passing-by mother and child, and successfully pass through the ID checkpoint, appearing just like they were a family.
When she arrived in front of the Great Hall of the People, she saw two practitioners struggling to unfurl a banner. Without hesitation, she rushed past the police and grabbed the other end of the banner. Remembering the incident, she said, “At that moment, the scene felt incredibly sacred and awe-inspiring, without the slightest fear in my heart.”
However, she was beaten up badly by the police, and given a three-year term in the Tangshan Kaiping Forced Labor Camp.
With Righteous Thoughts She Felt No Pain During the Brutal Beating
She was tortured by the guards and inmates in the labor camp, who were attempting to get her to renounce her belief.
She was once brutally force-fed while being pinned to the ground by several people because of her continued hunger strike. Food gushed out of her nose and mouth, and almost suffocated her. When she struggled to stand up, all the buttons on her clothes were gone, she was barefoot, covered in mud and food, and looked disheveled. Yet her faith in Falun Dafa remained steadfast.
The darkest scene was on a morning in November 2000, when the head of the division instructed inmates to hang her on a tree in the yard. They took off her pants to humiliate her, while cursing Dafa’s Master. They repeatedly whipped her with a thick leather belt and a flashlight, and spat on her face.
She closed her eyes without any hatred in her heart. She only had a pure thought, “Go ahead and beat me. If I can endure more, Master will have to bear less for me.” A miracle then occurred. As soon as this pure thought surfaced, she couldn’t feel any pain during the brutal beating.
Two inmates beat her from 3 a.m. to 7 a.m. and had to stop because they were exhausted and out of breath. Later, when fellow practitioners lifted her clothes, they found that her entire body was swollen and blackened, unrecognizable. Practitioners protested to the director of the labor camp, and exposed the evil crime. However, the two perpetrators were released early. At that time, the labor camp guards often used inmates who had lost their conscience to commit violence against Dafa practitioners, with sentence reductions as bait.
Unfurling the Banners Twice Shocking the Guards
In the labor camp, she and other practitioners were forced to work in a carpet factory. They secretly made two cloth banners with “Falun Dafa Is Good” on them during their lunchtime.
Around July 20 in 2000, she hid the banners on her person and went to the restroom. As soon as she came out of the restroom, she quickly opened a banner, with yellow characters on a red cloth, and shouted with all her strength, “Falun Dafa is good! Master is innocent!”
Inspired by her righteous spirit, an inmate who was next to her shouted with her. It was like a thunderclap, chilling the evil to the bone, and shocking the officials in the entire labor camp.
A year later, the labor camp called a meeting in the assembly hall for all male and female prisoners. She realized that it was a great opportunity to help the male prisoners learn the truth about Falun Dafa.
When the meeting was about to end, she suddenly stepped on the chair and raised the second precious banner over her head, and shouted, “Falun Dafa is good!”
Practitioners nearby all shouted with her. Guards, prisoners, and fellow practitioners all rushed forward, countless hands gripping the banner. Other Falun Dafa practitioners shouted together, “Guards are not allowed to beat people! The Civilized Labor Camp is not allowed to beat people!”
This powerful righteous thought and spirit completely shocked the guards. The male director grabbed her hair and dragged her out into the corridor, but in the end the guards were helpless and couldn’t do anything about it. From then on, the labor camp never again dared to gather Falun Dafa practitioners for any large-scale activities.
Conclusion
This practitioner is deeply moved when looking back over these years. She is a rural woman and started practicing Falun Dafa a year before going to Beijing to appeal for Dafa. She knew in her heart that it wasn’t wrong to be a kind person who follows Master’s teaching of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance. However, it was this purest, most sincere belief that made her let go of life and death and pass that turbulent period.
The persecution has gone on for 27 years, and as this page of history is turned, it will show that this rural woman left behind a most extraordinary testimony of forbearance and righteous thoughts.
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