Prison Inmates Benefit from Learning the True Facts About Falun Gong

I was unlawfully detained twice and hence had opportunities to meet many prisoners. The prisoners attitude impressed me greatly when they learnt the true facts about Falun Gong.

A 22-year-old girl was sentenced to 8 years in prison because she had committed fraud and was the cells bully. She couldn't understand why I went to Tiananmen Square to unfurl a banner when I knew that I could get arrested for my actions. Because of this I introduced Falun Dafa to her and allowed her to see how wonderful Dafa is. She gradually understood. She disregarded the beatings from the guards and watched out for me when I was practising the Falun Gong exercises. When a new prisoner asked me why I went to Tiananmen Square to unfurl a banner, she replied for me that; "Their Falun Dafa is so sacred that they went to appeal and ask that they stop persecuting Falun Dafa."

An elderly lady in her 60's, who was also detained for fraud, often told me the story of the first Falun Gong practitioner she ever met in the detention centre. At that time, all the people in that cell started practising Falun Gong. The guard found out and asked everyone to write a Guarantee Statement to give up the practise. No one in the cell yielded to the guards demands. She thought that one Falun Gong practitioner would be enough to enable all the people in the cell to practise Falun Gong. She held that Falun Gong just possesses that power.

A lady of forty was subjected to torture with the use of every torture instrument that the police could find. She was introduced to the teachings of Falun Gong in the detention centre. She said it would be nice if the methods of torture that she had experienced were for practising Falun Dafa. When I brought Teacher's new articles into the cell, she was very happy to read them. She was especially excited when she saw the pictures of Teacher sending forth righteous thoughts. She asked, "Can you bring in some Falun Gong leaflets? I really want to read some leaflets." She never avoided being seen by the guards when she practised the exercises of Falun Gong. She said if she could get out of prison soon then the first thing she would do is to go to Tiananmen Square to appeal for Falun Gong. She said she has been longing to be a Falun Dafa practitioner in this period of time.

One night, a drug addict who slept beside me was suffering from withdrawal. I held her right hand and told her to recite by heart the words, "Truth, Compassion, Tolerance". A short while after she started to silently recite the words, she became quiet and soon fell asleep. The second day, she told everyone in the cell, "Falun Gong is really marvellous. It can do anything for you if you just recite, "Truth, Compassion, Tolerance."

When I was illegally detained for the second time, over half of the prisoners in my cell were young girls in their twenties. I told them that what solves problems is not the wisdom of human beings, but the compassion of our Teacher, as well as our righteous thoughts. Thereafter they sent righteous thoughts with me every night. The first day after sending righteous thoughts, a girl told me excitedly, "I felt like I was flying in the air as soon as I pulled my legs up (into the sitting meditation position). What a wonderful feeling!" [Note: only Falun Dafa practitioners can effectively send righteous thoughts. This girl's response was the result of her kind heart emerging after learning the truth, allowing some extraordinary phenomena to show up for her].

An 18-year-old girl who was a very kind person worked hard to advance herself after she obtained the Law. Every day, she would recite Teacher's articles with me. Later, she was transferred to a cell that had quite an evil environment. She said that she wasn't afraid and when she arrived she would tell everyone in the cell, "Falun Dafa is good!"

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2003/5/3/49583.html