The Righteous Thoughts and Actions of a College Professor

Jinan (pseudonym) is a teacher from a university in Northeast China. After he began to practise Falun Gong in 1996, with the help of fellow practitioners, he established a Falun Gong practise site at the university. After April 25, 1999, he did his best to reveal the true facts about Falun Gong; his selflessness and courage greatly encouraged fellow practitioners. Jinan was arrested in 2001 and illegally detained in an infamous and evil forced labour camp. He was inhumanly abused because of his firm faith in Falun Dafa and his non-cooperation with the evil persecutors. He was once locked in a hot-water boiler room for a month during steamy summer days, and lost consciousness many times as a result.

Jinan started seeking the truth about life when he was a college student. He became very excited after reading Zhuan Falun [The main text of Falun Gong] in 1996, and immediately vowed to cultivate until the very end. Before April 25, 1999, he travelled to many parts of China during summer breaks. He brought Falun Dafa everywhere he went, and set up Falun Gong practise sites everywhere. He often tells many touching stories about his travels.

After July 20, 1999, Jiang's regime started the nationwide arrests of Falun Dafa practitioners. Staying in a detention centre for criminals who are sentenced to long-term or death penalties, Jinan endured great suffering to spread Falun Dafa and hope to those desperate criminals using his firm faith in Falun Dafa, righteous thoughts, and wisdom. All the criminals there were deeply moved by Jinan's touching truth-clarifying efforts.

Because of his actions and effort, the cell head decided to dedicate the daily "sitting period" of several hours as truth-telling time, asking Falun Dafa practitioners to talk about Falun Dafa. People's minds that were lost in the maze started to become sober. As a result, whenever the TV broadcasted any news slandering Falun Dafa, the whole cell would complain, "No, no, we don't want to watch this!" As soon as Jinan held one palm erect to send forth righteous thoughts [using upright thoughts to purify oneself and the surrounding environment], many criminals would silently follow him, erecting their palms.

One day, a person who had stopped practising Falun Dafa was sent to the cell. Because he was afraid of the torture, he shouted some negative things about Falun Gong as soon as he entered the cell. Before Jinan said anything, several criminals stopped him and said, "Falun Gong it so good, how could you say that!" Later, Jinan learnt that this person was a former Falun Gong coordinator of a city in northwest China, and he had suffered all kinds of vicious torture for revealing the truth about Falun Dafa. He could not endure the torture any longer and had gave up the practise of Falun Gong while in Xinan Labour Camp in Beijing. A dozen days later, through Jinan's great effort in telling him the facts about Falun Dafa and revealing the lies behind the evil brainwashing, the person realised his mistake. Happy that he was once again practising Falun Dafa, he cried with Jinan. Soon he announced to the forced labour camp his decision to practise Falun Dafa once again. Before he left, with tears in his eyes he repeatedly asked Jinan that if Jinan was released, to please publish a solemn statement [reaffirming his belief in Falun Dafa] on a Falun Dafa website for him.

March 15, 2003 was the last day of Jinan's sentence. However, the police planned to further persecute him in order to force him to give up his practise of Falun Dafa. Dear fellow practitioners, let us send forth powerful righteous thoughts together to help our detained practitioners be released, and completely deny these evil arrangements.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2003/3/18/46688.html