A Falun Dafa Practitioner's Brother and Sister Nobly Help Practitioners and Resist Persecution

My brother had been instilled with Chinese government ideology when he was in the army, and mistakenly believed that all of the propaganda portrayed in the Chinese media was true. When he got the news that I was expelled from school for practising Falun Gong, he asked for a leave of absence to come back home to visit me. I had not seen him in for over a couple of years, and when he arrived back home I noticed that he had changed a lot. He had a bureaucratic air about him that was fake and empty, and he boasted a lot. His thoughts and opinions about Falun Gong were all shaped from the propaganda in the Chinese media saying that China is in a period of great prosperity now and the government is right to persecute Falun Gong. While he was home, he tried to "re-educate" me using some "internal evidence" that he got from the army to show me that the persecution of Falun Gong was correct and justified. Because my brother was deeply deceived by the propaganda and we could only spend a short time together, it was very difficult for me to change his narrow and negative opinions. In the end, he returned to the army without changing his mind.

Over six months later, when my brother retired from the army and returned home, he was still the same as before. However, because we had the opportunity to live together for a long time, he gradually began to see for himself my positive changes and the power that Falun Dafa has in changing people's hearts and minds. This, along with my gradually clarifying the truth to him, allowed him to change his negative opinions and enlighten [to the truth of the persecution]. He stopped criticising me and became more and more understanding and supportive.

From then on, whenever my brother drove passengers (he was a taxi driver), he would clarify the truth about the persecution, such as the so-called self-immolation. He clarified the truth from a non-practitioner's point of view, so it was easier for the passengers to accept. He also used his car to help other Falun Dafa practitioners and I get around. All of his behaviour completely changed and his kind deeds came from the bottom of his own heart.

One day, when the relative of a Falun Gong practitioner reported other practitioners to the police, both my brother and my sister (neither of them practise Falun Gong) were also reported and arrested. The policemen held them in separate rooms and tried to deceive and threaten them into exposing the whereabouts of Falun Gong practitioners. They tortured my brother and beat him badly. Under this extreme pressure, not only did he not betray other practitioners, but he also resisted their evil tricks. When they tried to force him to curse our Teacher, his righteous thoughts held up and he realised he should not curse Teacher Li under any situation. When he reprimanded them in an indirect way for what they were doing, the policemen felt something was wrong and asked him whom he was reprimanding, but my brother just kept silent and continued to reprimand them in an indirect way.

My sister stood firmly and unyielding under the threats from the policemen and their head officer. When they threatened her and asked for information about other practitioners, she knew clearly in her mind what she should and should not say. She dealt with them wisely and did not fall into any of their traps. In the end, the head officer asked her to sign an "answer record," but after she read it over carefully, she refused to sign when she found that the words on the form were not her own. No matter how the evil police cursed and threatened my sister, she insisted on not signing. In the end, they could do nothing and finished their interrogation hastily.

Even though my sister doesn't practise Falun Gong, she helps practitioners when she can based on her own conditions. When other practitioners and I told her that what she has done will have a profound reward, she said calmly, "I offer assistance to practitioners not in order to get any reward, but because I feel it's a human being's duty. If I have the ability, I should do it naturally."

When I think about how wise and kindhearted my brother and sister have been, I feel very happy for them. Meanwhile, I also realise my own responsibility. I should do even better and be more righteous so that more people will be able to see the dignity and greatness of Falun Dafa.