In 1973, a piece of lumber that fell from a big construction truck shattered a bone in my right leg whilst I was working on a reservoir. The accident resulted in my permanent disability and for many years I had to use a cane to walk. My right leg was 2-3 centimetres (almost one inch) shorter than the left one. The muscles on my right leg atrophied and the knee joint and the malleolus joint were swollen causing me chronic pain. Afterwards, the muscles on the right side of my body completely atrophied. Even after receiving pain-killing injections, I could only move several steps. Over the past several years I was classed as clinically dead on six occasions.
On September 15, 1998, I had the good fortune to be able to start practising in Falun Dafa. Three months later, the muscles on the right side of my body had totally recovered, and both legs returned to be the same length. Seeing the miracles that were happening to my body, many people in the town came to practise in Falun Dafa.
After July 20, 1999, my father told me, "My child, it is your Teacher who gave you a second life. Whatever happens, you need to keep your Teacher in your heart at all times!" I said to myself, "Teacher lengthened everyday of my life! I must treasure every single day, and use everything in my power to show the greatness of Falun Dafa."
2. Clarifying the true facts about Falun Gong, and peacefully appealing for an end to the wrongful persecution
After July 20, many fellow practitioners in my city went to Beijing to peacefully appeal for a stop to the persecution of Falun Dafa, but I was unable to go because I didn't have the money at that time. However, I went to the Municipal Party Committee, the Municipal Government, the District Government, and the City Police Department. I told them that I had only practised Falun Gong for three months, but my 25-year-long disability was completely healed through practising Falun Gong.
Despite this, the government was now refusing to allow me to practise. In addition, they slandered our Teacher and slandered Falun Gong. I wished to prove with my personal experience that the government was wrong. They all said, "We can see you did change into another person. We are happy that you ave regained your health. If you feel good, just practise at home!" Unfortunately, not long after that, the police department sent some officers to search my house. They took away all my Falun Dafa books and then they abducted me to the police station where they tried to force me to give up practising Falun Gong. Inside the police station I saw that the book was lying on the table. I grabbed the book and held it to my chest. The police tried to snatch my book back.
I shouted loudly, "This book is my lifeblood."
All three police officers present were scared away. At that time, the only thought I had was that it was time for me to practise the exercises and they should let me go immediately. As soon as I had that thought, they released me. After I had finished practising the exercises, I realised that I did not have any Falun Dafa books to read. I thought that this was totally acceptable, and that I must go to get them back the next day.
The day after my Dafa books were confiscated, I went to the district police department to ask for the return of my book. The chief of the National Security Section not only refused to return my book, but also threatened to imprison me. On the third day I went to the Appeals Office for the Municipal Party Committee and asked them to return my book. They did not give it back to me, but ordered the security guard to escort me out. I was not moved by that, but went to one of the side entrances of the Municipal Party Committee and sat down.
Having no other avenue to appeal my unjust treatment, I shouted loudly: "I practise Falun Gong! Please come and take a look. The policemen are unreasonable. They went to my home and confiscated all my books. I was lame for 25 years, and had taken tons of medicines that did not work, yet I have practised Falun Gong for only three months, and all my illnesses have been cured. My Teacher is the greatest! They treat our Teacher and Falun Gong unjustly!" As soon as I raised my voice, the security guard was frightened and quickly ran away. Many passersby surrounded me and so I clarified the truth about Falun Gong to them.
3. Breaking out of an evil environment on three occasions with righteous thoughts and righteous actions
Ever since I went to peacefully appeal and to show people the truth about Dafa, the police frequently sent people to my home to harass me. In mid-December of 2000, the police deceived me into attending a brainwashing session. I warned myself that I must not say that I would give up my practise. More than 30 practitioners were forced to attend the brainwashing session but none of us collaborated with the wicked persecutors. Eight days passed. The police officers had grown flustered and exasperated and imprisoned all of us in a detention centre. As soon as I arrived there I staged a hunger strike to protest the against this illegal treatment. I said to Teacher in my heart, "This is not the place for a Dafa practitioner. I must quickly return home to study the Law, practise the exercises, and clarify the truth."
On the third day of my hunger strike, they attempted to give me an injection. When they tried to do this I pulled the needle out, and refused to cooperate, hence they were unsuccessful. A young guy said that he would force-feed me. With the words coming from the bottom of my heart I said to him, "Thank you." At that moment, he was so scared that he stepped back three steps. I felt that the compassion emitted was so powerful. They located my husband to come to persuade me to give up my practise but I refused and I had already made up my mind that I would not eat or drink anything. My husband also warned them sternly, "If something happens to her, none of you will have a day of peace." As a result, the police released me on the sixth day.
After I had returned home, I continued to act in accordance with the teachings of Falun Gong. The police frequently came and looked for me and the so-called director of the district Political and Judiciary Committee brought newspapers that slandered Dafa for me to read. He also ordered me to curse our Teacher. I sternly warned him: "You officials are far too obscene. You do not have any civilised manners. My Teacher is like a parent who teaches us to be good! Why should I curse him? Does that mean you also curse your parents several times a day?" After hearing these words he left dejectedly.
After July 20th, I took any opportunity to clarify the truth and expose the lies to people. Except for clarifying the truth together with fellow practitioners, I usually clarify the truth to people face to face, and send them the truth clarifying literature, regardless of who they might be -- elementary school students, middle school students, the young or old alike. No matter whether I'm walking, shopping, on the way to work or taking the bus, I always use my wisdom that Teacher gave me to clarify the truth to different people with different methods. I tell them about the miracles that happened to me. I realised that Teacher treasures the lives of us practitioners and sentient beings so greatly. I had been resuscitated after my heart stopped on six occasions in the past, therefore I feel even stronger about how precious life is. I really treasure every living being that I meet. Every person that I come into contact with deserves to know the true situation and therefore I shouldn't miss these opportunities that I have been given.
On the morning of May 13, 2002, when I was clarifying the truth to a customer at work, a person who was misled by the persecution reported me to the authorities. Thus, several criminal policemen searched my home, confiscated my property and abducted me to the police station. They attempted to coerce me to tell them the source of these materials. I refused to cooperate and sent forth righteous thoughts. After a while, one after another, the policemen went out to lunch. The office of a dozen people was suddenly empty so I was able to walk out of the police station with ease. I thought that I was doing the best and the most righteous thing in the universe and that I hadn't done anything wrong, so I went back home. The police searched around and finally abducted me again from home.
During an interrogation the next day I shouted, "Falun Dafa is good! Falun Dafa righteous! Restore the reputation of our Teacher!"
The criminal policeman who interrogated me were scared by my actions and immediately left. Another one also felt it hard to stay around, so the interrogation was in vain. The guard then ordered three criminals to carry me back to the (detention centre) cell. Along the way I shouted, "Falun Dafa is good!" I told those in the cell, "I will return home in a few days, because I did nothing wrong. All I wanted to do was to clarify the truth about Dafa to people!" I continued to clarify the truth to them and they were very willing to listen.
The doctor in the detention centre measured my blood pressure. I thought, "Let it be high." As a result, it was terribly high and as a result I was released that afternoon. The police officer who saw me off said, "It took great effort to bring you in here. Then your Teacher assigned us to take you back home." The next day I went back to the detention centre to get back my 40 Yuan that they had confiscated. The guard said I was stingy. I said, "Dafa practitioners all earn their money with honest, hard work. They use this money to show people what Falun Gong is really about." He was shocked and returned the money to me.
4. Clarify the truth in the police station and in the cities "610 Office" *
Several days later I went back to the police station to ask to have my books returned to me. I took this opportunity to clarify the truth. Many practitioners' books that had been confiscated from our township were locked in a cabinet of this police station. One night several months ago I brought a cloth bag to the police station. The door was locked from inside. I remembered that in Zhuan Falun [The main text of Falun Gong], Chapter 6, Teacher said, "Once her family members left the house, she would unlock the door just by pointing her fingers at the lock." I also pointed my finger at the lock and it really opened. I could not put all the books in one bag, so later another practitioner and I went back and took back all of the Dafa books and literature that were stored there. Since the police station was close to my home, whenever I had time I went to "bring back the books," and clarify the truth to the police and those who passed by. I acted according to Teacher's requirements. With Teacher's reinforcement, I didn't have any attachment to fear or worry. I sincerely wished them [the officers] well and sincerely wanted them to have a clear understanding about Falun Gong.
Later, they said that the books were handed over to their superiors and asked me to get them from the city officers. I went to the director of the cities "610 Office" and asked for the books and literature. He said, "Why do you distribute flyers throughout society and blame Jiang's regime, naming them political scoundrels?" I said, "They used money to perpetrate the Self-Immolation Incident to slander our Teacher and Falun Dafa and persecuted Dafa practitioners. Wouldn't you call this hooliganism? You have our Teacher's books here. You can read them. They are totally different from what the TV or newspapers have propagated. Judging by whether you'd like to return the book, we can also see your attitude towards Falun Gong. It is also an opportunity for you to do something righteous."
He said, "There are few practitioners like you. Many said they gave up." I said, "Before the crackdown, millions like me benefited from the practice. Now those who have said they wouldn't practise any more are mostly forced to say so against their will. I suggest, that for your own sake that you shouldn't persecute Falun Gong any more." I also reminded him of the principle that goodness and evil reap their own rewards. Later, when I was leaving the city hall, hearing that I had failed to get the books back, the guard gave me three brochures, which he said were distributed by Falun Gong practitioners last night. I thanked him and urged him to remember: "Falun Dafa is good!"
Teacher, it is you who purified my body little by little and gave me a new life. Under your merciful care, what I did is just what a Falun Dafa practitioner should do. What can I do to pay you back? I could only treasure every day, and do even better what a Falun Dafa practitioner should do during this period of time
* The "610 Office" is an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems.
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.ca/mh/articles/2003/5/8/49886.html
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