Righteous Thoughts Helped Me Walk Through Danger Many Times

I am a Dafa practitioner from the Chinese countryside who began practicing Falun Dafa in 1998. During the past few years of Dafa practice, I deeply experienced that as long as we have righteous thoughts, we will be protected by Dafa and Teacher.

Right before the New Year's Day of 2000, over ten local fellow Dafa practitioners and I went to Beijing to validate Dafa. We arrived at Tiananmen Square. Back then, our understanding of Fa-rectification was not very clear. We did not realise that we should not be arrested by the evil. Rather, we thought that we had to suffer in order to clarify the truth to people and society. So we were arrested by the Tiananmen Square Police Station and later taken back to our hometown by local police officers.

The local police detained us in several empty rooms. New Year's Days in northern China are so cold that a drop of water will become ice as soon as it appears. On such chilly days, they left us to sit on the concrete floor with no quilts or chairs, and did not allow our families to visit us or send food. They tortured us with cold, hunger, beating and not allowing us to sleep. We were interrogated every night. They hung us up and beat us, and forced us to squat down or hold a painful position between a squat and standing upright. If we only moved slightly, they would hit us once with a stick. If we moved once more, they would hit us with electric batons. Male Dafa practitioners suffered even more severe torture. Every evening after police officers had their supper, six or seven of them would encircle one Dafa practitioner, then started kicking and punching until that Dafa practitioner was full of injuries all over. The fiercest one was a contract police officer. He stuck needles into Dafa practitioners' knees and thighs. The scene was too cruel to look at.

One day after supper, I thought I should escape from this hell on earth. That night at 1:00 a.m., it was raining lightly outside, and the guards were sleeping. I went to the second floor and jumped out. At that moment, fear appeared in my mind, which caused a problem that should not have happened. My cervical vertebra jammed into my neck and my head could not move. My lumbar vertebra was broken and out of place, and I could not move my body. In that situation, a miracle happened, my head became moveable and I stood up by supporting my body with my hands. Walking and crawling, I escaped from that place. At 4:30 a.m., I arrived at the home of a fellow practitioner. It took me over two hours to go that 2.5 kilometer distance. Since that fellow practitioner had left home, I moved to another place and thus began my homeless life.

Facing such calamity, I did not give up my belief in Dafa or yield to pressure. Through studying Dafa, I know that I am a righteous Dafa practitioner who is persecuted by the evil old forces. They are not qualified to persecute me. With my righteous thoughts, through Dafa study and practice, I was recovering miraculously. Owing to the vertebra fracture, I could not do heavy lifting, but I could do Dafa exercises, take part in normal activities, and distribute Dafa truth materials out of town. That was an unbelievable fact. Under the protection of Teacher, I had a second life.

Several months later, my husband and I joined the current of Fa-rectification together with other local Dafa practitioners. We made Dafa truth materials, spread flyers, posted Fa-rectification statements, hung "Falun Dafa is good" banners. Whatever could clarify the truth, spread Dafa or rectify the Fa, we would be happy to do it. From city to countryside, in the streets or on the trees or utility poles, "Falun Dafa is good" banners and flyers could be seen everywhere.

One day in September 2001, a fellow Dafa practitioner and I went to a remote village to make Dafa truth materials. Since we did not know the environment very well, we were arrested by police officers. We refused to tell them who we were and were handcuffed to a pipe in a room with both hands cuffed inline at both sides of the body. At midnight, we sent forth righteous thoughts together and asked for the Teacher's help. It resulted in our hands being freed from the handcuffs. Later the guards fall into a deep sleep, so we picked up the keys hanging on the wall and left.

At midnight on May 4, 2003, since I had been reported by someone to the police after I went back home, the head of the local "610 Office" [The "610 Office" is a bureau specifically created by the Chinese government to persecute Falun Gong. It has absolute power over each level of administration in the Party, as well as over the political and judiciary branches] together with over twenty police officers rushed to my home in three police vehicles. They broke through my door and searched my home thoroughly for me and for Dafa materials. They even lifted up the brick bed, but found nothing. Enraged, the police officers pushed my child down on the sofa and slapped him fiercely. Bloody welts instantly appeared on his face.

Actually when the police officers were breaking through my door, I was still in the room. The noise woke me up. I saw police lights everywhere and it was difficult to escape, so I simply hid myself. A box of Dafa truth material was there and I had no time to hide it, so I simply threw a worn-out jacket onto it, then started sending forth righteous thoughts to prevent them from being able to see the box. Facing over 20 armed police officers, I had no fear at all.

Having searched the bed and the cellar without finding me, the police still doubted that I was not there. They got several steel rods, and probed into the haystack where I was hiding. While the police were searching, I sent forth righteous thoughts inside the pile of haystack. Thus, the police messed up the haystack for over one hour without hurting me. The box of Dafa truth-clarifying materials was also untouched. Righteous thoughts helped me pass through danger once again.

After the police officers left in despair, I transferred the truth-clarifying materials to a safe place, and energetically went back to the Fa-rectification process.

Through the experience of escaping from the evil places of detention several times, I realised that whenever we have even a slight fear, the old forces will use the chance to persecute us. With strong righteous thoughts, all difficulties can be overcome; nobody can persecute Dafa practitioners who have strong righteous thoughts.

The above are my personal experiences; please point out my shortcomings.

Be diligent, dear fellow practitioners!