PureInsight | July 8, 2002
On May 13 2000, all the disciples of the world celebrated World Falun Dafa Day. On that day, plain-clothes police arrested me in a fellow practitioner's home in China. Later they sent me to a forced labor camp. In the second half of 2000, an article was published on the web that described how ten people had beaten and abused me. I wrote the article and asked others to send it to our web site. In interviews with the media and human rights organizations, I have also reported in detail on the persecution I experienced. As my reports are also published on our web site, I will not talk about them here.
The situation in the forced labor camp was very complicated. There were so-called "transformed people" who were not cultivators at all. There were also fellow practitioners whom I had met before. The transformed people had been quite active in appealing to the authorities in order to safeguard the Fa. However, after having been transformed through brainwashing, they then tried to "transform" others. No matter whether they came to this world as positive or negative factors, their xinxing manifestations were this: they had appealed many times and had suffered a lot. However, when the suffering exceeded what they could endure, and they had not yet achieved the Consummation they expected, they pulled back, turned against Dafa, and started to persuade others to "be transformed." That is to say, they had an attachment at the root of their cultivation -- to ensure their personal consummation. I realize that their xinxing is the same as that of the old forces that intend to manipulate the Fa-rectification as Master mentioned. They have concealed their selfishness. They do not really want to change themselves but to save themselves from harm.
I was not sure what I was going to face when I went back to China to appeal to the government and to take part in safeguarding the Fa. I didn't even know if I could withstand what might happen. I only knew that I would do my utmost to assist Master in Fa-rectification. As for the evils that persecute the Fa, I would eliminate them even if it meant giving up my life or perishing together with them. Master said that the new cosmos is absolutely pure. If I could not get over the forthcoming tribulations and meet the standard, I would rather be destroyed. However, before I was destroyed, I would do my utmost to create opportunities for other lives to enter the future.
Over the entire course of tribulations, I did not waver in my understanding and conviction of the Fa. In the whole process, I clearly knew in my heart that Master was by my side and took care of me all along. I also understood that the tribulations persisted because Master was waiting for those disciples who had not stepped forward to free themselves of their human restrictions. The evil is bound to suffer retribution sooner or later.
There were many occasions when I felt I was in great difficulty. One day, I mumbled Master's name and said to Master in my mind that I felt it was a little hard for me to endure. Later, I fell asleep in a sitting posture while I was writing. When I woke up, I saw a sentence written on the paper: "The root that has been published is able to absorb water very well." I had fallen asleep and had been in an unconscious state. I definitely had not written the sentence. It must be Master using this to enlighten me. It told me that the article I had published was like a root that was absorbing water, growing, developing and functioning. It encouraged me to go on with my diligent cultivation.
Translated from:
http://www.zhengjian.org/zj/articles/2002/5/19/16126.html
