Great Escapes

Overcoming the Obstacles--My First Trip to Beijing
On November 27, I set out to go on my first trip to Beijing to validate Dafa. While waiting for a train in Wafangdian City, Liaoning Province, I was stopped by the police , who tried to force me to curse Teacher. I said, "Do the police order people to curse others?" Several policemen took me, along with two other practitioners whose names were unidentified, to the police office in the train station. They tried everything to force us to reveal our names and addresses, yet they got nothing. Later they took the three of us to Wafangdian police station. An officer offered me his phony kindness to find out my address and name. After playing the "good cop" and the "bad cop," he still could not get any information from me.

It was past 10 p.m. when the police cuffed the three of us to a pipe of a heater. That night, all the policemen of Wafangdian police station were on duty. By 12 a.m., the other two practitioners were picked up by their local policemen. Facing all this, my mind was very calm and my thoughts were pure and clean. I studied the Fa, recited the Fa, and was not affected by it at all. While reciting the sentence, "In order to explore this domain, humankind must fundamentally change its conventional thinking" (from "Lunyu," the introduction to Zhuan Falun), I turned my eyes to the handcuff, and this thought came to me: "Nobody can stop my journey to Beijing." Miraculously, I opened the handcuff, and I waited for a good opportunity. I held the handcuff with my hands, which were blocked by a desk so the police could not see them. By 1 or 2am, there were only two guards left in the room: one was playing poker at the other end of the desk; the other was walking around in the room. I thought I should wait until they fell asleep to make any move. I was not in a hurry, and I even relaxed and slept for about half an hour. When I woke up, all the policemen had fallen fast asleep. I immediately put on my overcoat and walked out. When I walked along the long corridor, the only sounds to be heard were my footsteps, yet I was not afraid at all. I calmly walked out of the main hall and came to the front yard. The light of the front gate was not on, and I could not push open the door. Considering that climbing the high wall while wearing heavy clothing was not very easy, I [found] a side door that was not locked. So I walked out from that side door and ran along a big street. When I was too exhausted to run any further, I thought to myself, it would be nice if I could take a taxi. Then a taxi drove toward me. Overcoming the many obstacles on the way, I finally arrived in Tiananmen Square on the 29th.

After being arrested again and transferred back from Beijing to my resident city and detained for half a month, I just couldn't stop my tears from flowing down my face when I saw Teacher's picture. My cultivation path had long been arranged by Teacher. I knew that if I just simply cultivated with my mind on the Fa, Dafa would be manifested. At the time, reading Zhuan Falun again, I had a new understanding about "Cultivation depends on one's own efforts, while the transformation of gong is done by one's master."
Clear Wisdom 8/27/2002 To be continued next issue

Sending Forth Righteous Thoughts To Walk Away From Police Detention Unnoticed, Twice
I was kidnapped by the police and sent to a brainwashing class. After being released, I was forced to leave home to avoid further persecution and had no place to stay.

On the morning of June 17, 2002, I ran into one of my older brothers near a hotel. He had brought several policemen with him and they dragged me off to the local police station. I was quite calm and realized that I should not have to stay in such a place. I could not allow the police to hold me there since I still had a lot of work to do to assist Teacher in rectifying the Fa. I then quietly sent forth righteous thoughts while waiting for a chance to escape. Not long after, the police ended up leaving me alone in the room, so I jumped out of the window and escaped from the police station on the morning following my arrest.

On the afternoon of August 13,... another Dafa practitioner and I were arrested. Recognizing me, they looked very angry and said to me, "We let you run off last time, but now we've got you!" They tried to drag us into the car.... A policeman slapped me in the face very hard a couple of times, but I still said loudly, "Falun Dafa is good!" He slapped me in the face again. The police took us to the police station at my workplace and locked me in the same small room that I was kept in the last time. I found that they had installed a wall of tight steel wire mesh around the small room since my last time here. I thought to myself, "No matter how dense these wires are, they must not stop me from escaping. I will break out again." The policemen were criticized last time for not being able to hold me securely. To prevent the same thing from happening again, this time they had sent three policemen and cuffed my hands to the heater pipe. I thought, "This is not decided by ordinary people." So I closed my eyes and sent forth righteous thoughts... I thought, "I am a Dafa practitioner, I need to clarify the truth to more people. How could I allow the evil to handcuff me here? They are not worthy of testing me."

I sent forth righteous thoughts continuously. After a while, after one policeman went to sleep, the other two who were watching me also nodded off. I thought, "Teacher, could you help me once more, take off these handcuffs and unlock the door so that I can get out." Then the handcuffs came off effortlessly. I walked by the police and they did not even stir. I went to the entrance. The door wasn't locked. It was wide open just waiting for me to walk out. So with Teacher's help I left the police station at about 4:00 a.m.

After going through the two incidents, I truly felt the power of righteous thoughts. I sensed that Teacher is watching over and protecting Dafa practitioners as we journey through our individual cultivation paths. Tears rolled down my cheeks at this thought. I made up my mind to follow the Fa-rectification progress and accomplish what a Dafa disciple should do.
Clear Wisdom - 9/25/2002

Indestructible Dafa
A Dafa practitioner went to Beijing to appeal and was arrested and taken to the police substation. A policeman who is familiar with the practitioner held three coins in his hand and told the practitioner, "Sister, I am going to do a fortune telling for you. I will throw these three coins up. If they all land heads up, it means that Falun Dafa is good and you may go home and practice as you wish. If not, you should stop practicing it." He then threw the coins with confidence. When the coins all stopped bouncing and spinning, he was stunned. The three coins had all landed heads up!

Feathers and Fur Help Spread the Fa
On August 18, 2002, an Agricultural Food Festival in Dehui City, Jilin Province had a grand opening. At 8:30 a.m., in the residential areas just next to the square where the opening ceremony was being held, Dafa practitioners successfully released dozens of doves carrying Dafa truth-clarification banners. One dove with a banner reading, "Falun Dafa is the Righteous Fa" landed right above the rostrum, bringing forth peace and wonderfulness to the world's people, and displaying the sacredness and solemnity of Dafa. The police inside the square were biting their nails while watching the banner flying up high in the sky. The police outside the square were busy catching the doves, yet they could not come up with any good idea to stop what was happening. In the end they resorted to setting off firecrackers to frighten away the doves, fearful that more people might see the truth.

The second day, the police department required the policemen to carry hunting rifles to prevent a similar thing from happening.

Now, people everywhere in Dehui City are talking about the "doves of truth," and they are amazed by the miracle of Dafa.

Another practitioner recieves some help from an unexpected source: I am a Dafa practitioner in northeastern China. I’d like to share a marvelous experience I had yesterday when I hung up truth clarification banners in the street. Before I tell the story, you should know that I followed the banner-hanging method specified at minghui.org on August 1, 2002....

Yesterday I found an appropriate spot to hang the banner in an alley. I threw a fine string with a large screw over an electric wire. When the screw fell on the ground, the end with the string tied onto the screw was neatly hung over the electric wire. At the other end of the string was a piece of cardboard, connected to a wire frame to keep the banner upright.... Pulling the screw-end of the string would raise the banner on the other side. The paper,... would balance itself perfectly over the electric wire caught in the loop. When I pulled the string again all the way down, the entire string would travel through the “paper card” and fall on the ground. Thus, the fine string and the heavy screw were reusable.

I had set up everything and thrown the string over the electric wire. All I needed to do was to pull the fine string to hang up the banners. At that moment, two electric tricycles rode toward me. I stood by the side of the alley to yield to the tricycles. When the tricycles had just passed, I turned and saw the banner was pulling itself slowly in the air. Inch by inch, the banner seemed to pull itself higher and higher with some rustling sound coming from the bushes. This really puzzled me. How could the banner pull itself? I was very certain that one end of the banner was tied to the cap, and the other end was tied with the banner, and that both ends of the string were on the ground before I gave way to the tricycles. How could the string move if nobody had pulled it? Finally, the banner was hung successfully on the electric wire. Then it moved to the left for about half a meter before the string fell off from the paper card, and the banner completely settled down on the electric wire. I looked closely and found that the banner was completely secured on the electric wire.

Then I checked the bushes below the banner to find that a mouse had helped hang this banner by pulling the string! When I discovered that it was a mouse that did the work, my mind turned blank, and I did not know what to make of this. After the mouse helped hang up the banner, it took both my string and the screw. In hindsight, the credit did belong to the mouse; all I did was some preparation work. Although the string and screw were gone, I had a spare pair of screws and fine string for the remaining banners. ... I hung five banners altogether. Everything went smoothly, especially when I had that mouse to help hang the one banner. How marvelous and bizarre!

This morning I went back to the alley to check on the banner that the mouse and I had hung last night. ... several people were coming out of the alley.. One woman said loudly, “Who hung this ‘Falun Dafa Is Good’ banner? How did it get up there? This is a perfect spot for a banner. It is impossible to take it down, and everybody has to pass by this place and will see it!” We smiled at each other. She admired the banner for while and then left. After a while, many more people came to read the banner. After I had walked far away, I could still hear some elderly women saying loudly, “Who hung up this banner?” “How did they manage to hang the ‘Falun Dafa Is Good’ banner up there?”

At that moment I had deep appreciation for my fellow practitioners’ wisdom [to think] of such a wonderful method to hang banners on the street. ...Meanwhile, I wonder if anyone would believe my story if I told them that a mouse had hung up this banner.... Many lives want to participate in Fa-rectification, but they are not granted the opportunity. We must cherish our opportunities and do well in the final stage of Fa-rectification.
Pure Insight - Monday, November 11, 2002

True Friends of Falun Dafa
For many kilometers around Liyun'er Village, Meichuan Township of Wuxue City in Hebei Province, the people all know one strange thing - It is against the law to fix bridges or repair roads.

In February 2001, there was a small road at the back of the village. Due to continuous rain, passengers and vehicles could not pass through this road. All those people passing by kept complaining about it, but no village officials took care of it. Other villagers were also unwilling to put in effort to fix it because there would be no payment.

One Dafa disciple living in that village was arrested and imprisoned for insisting on his belief. After he was released, he went to find another five Falun Gong practitioners to voluntarily repair the road; they spent a whole day working. On the second day, people were able to use the road. Many people who knew the situation said, "It is fortunate that we have several Falun Gong practitioners in our village. If not, who would repair this road?"

Three days after that, five policemen from the police station of Meichuan Township came to the village and forcibly took away the Falun Gong practitioner who led other practitioners to fix the road. When this news was spread to the village, people started to complain, "What law did they violate by repairing the road?" There was an old village head in the Liyun'er Village and he was an upright and kind person. When he heard about this news, he immediately went to the police station to ask for the release of this practitioner. He shouted in anger, "I don't know about Falun Gong, but it is a good thing to repair the road. If you detain and fine him today, our village will keep finding trouble with you." In the end, he got this Dafa disciple released from the police station.

A practitioner was distributing Dafa materials on the street. A plainclothes policeman took the flyer from the practitioner's hand and said, "Do you know who I am?" He then showed his police badge. "I don't want to arrest you. I will walk this way, and you go that way. I will pretend that I did not see you."



Village residents reading
Falun Dafa truth
clarifying posters put up
by practitioners in
mainland China.
Minghui - 11/6/2002