PureInsight | March 4, 2002
My name is Jia Hongxia. I recently arrived in the United States from Mainland China. I started my cultivation practice in 1996 in Shenzhen. Shortly after the evil began to publicly persecute Dafa in July 1999, I was able to break away from the mindset of individual cultivation and go into Fa-rectification cultivation under the red terror.
In the evening of December 19, 1999, after I studied the Fa over and over again, and after I personally witnessed the escalation of the persecution of Falun Gong, I suddenly came to the realization that I should go to Beijing to tell the government, to tell Jiang Zemin that Falun Dafa is good and that our Master Li Hongzhi is the most selfless and the greatest enlightened person. As soon as I had this thought, I took action. I immediately purchased airplane tickets. Because of my firm determination, things proceeded smoothly. Very quickly I had in my hands the airplane tickets to Beijing for departure in the following morning (12/20). At that moment, I wasn’t thinking about myself at all; I only had the pure thought of appealing for our Teacher. After I arrived in Beijing at noon on 12/20, I went to Tiananmen Square first. Because that day happened to be the first anniversary of Macao’s turnover, Jiang Zemin and other State leaders had already returned from Macao and were going to hold a celebration in the People’s Great Hall in that afternoon. So I hung around in the street between the Square and the People’s Great Hall, waiting for the car of Jiang Zemin or Zhu Rongji to pass by so I could call out what was on my mind. When the celebration was about to end, Tiananmen Square had already been cleared out and was off-limits. I was standing right next to a policeman, yet the policeman didn’t chase me out. However, people leaving the celebration party were all driven away in black cars of exactly the same model, so I couldn’t tell who the passenger was at all. I couldn’t figure out which car Jiang Zemin was in. So I had to go to the State Council Appeals Office the next day. The Appeals Office at that time had already become a place for the police to arrest Falun Gong practitioners. Different local governments from all over the country sent many police officers in both uniform and plainclothes to arrest Falun Gong practitioners from their regions for going to Beijing to appeal. I was arrested by a few police officers from Guangdong Province. I then tried to clarify the truth to them. When I was there, I saw with my own eyes how police officers from Shandong, Gansu and other regions pushed around and beat up practitioners. They even beat an elderly female practitioner. They truly lost their humanity. After I was taken back to Shenzhen, the police officers ransacked my home. They also placed me in detention for 15 days for “disrupting public order.” In the detention center, I persevered in practicing the exercises and studying the Fa. I had no books but fortunately I could recite Zhuan Falun. Because in my mind, I firmly believed that I wasn’t wrong for going to Beijing to appeal and that it was essential and even more so in jail, that I study the Fa and practice the exercises everyday. That’s why I didn’t encounter any resistance. They all respectfully called me “Falun Gong.” I only understood later in Master’s scripture “Eliminate Your Last Attachment(s)” which said, “If you are not afraid, the factor that would make you afraid will become non-existent.” Because at that time Master wasn’t talking, I had to rely on myself to gain understanding of things based on the Fa. During the Fa study there, I also realized that our going to Beijing to appeal was the most righteous thing to do. Although we were not afraid of being arrested, our minds should not entertain the thought of “we will be arrested if we go to Beijing.” After I got out, I also shared this understanding with many other practitioners who hadn’t been to Beijing. After I studied Master’s new scriptures later, I realized that that understanding of mine was actually denying and breaking up the arrangements made by the evil old forces. After I was released, my employer fired me for not reporting to work for 15 days because of the detention.
After a little while, in January 2000, the Shenzhen local magazine published a despicable and absurd article, viciously attacking Master for womanizing. It pained my heart: our Master – the Lord of Buddhas was slandered by those thugs. As a disciple, what can I do? I was crying in my heart. I went to a renowned woman economist that I knew only for a short time for help. I made a fairly good impression on her. She said I was the Falun Gong practitioner who made the best impression on her. She helped me obtain the address of the author. In spite of her kind advice against it, I went to Shaanxi Province by myself to investigate the whole story that was written in the article from beginning to end. I then wrote an article about the true situation and didn’t carry any emotional undertone. The article was published on the Minghui Net. I also faxed it to several newspapers and magazines. At the same time, I sent a copy to the editor-in-chief at the Magazine. At that time, many practitioners in Shenzhen had already written and made calls to the editor-in-chief. Some even went there to report the truth in person and were arrested as a result. After he read the article I sent to him, the editor-in-chief was deeply touched. He told me with sincerity that they had more articles on Falun Gong that their superiors wanted them to publish. In addition, the Public Security Bureau instructed him to detain every Falun Gong practitioner that came to see him. But I found that from that point on, in spite of such an evil environment, they had not published any article slanderous of Falun Gong. In addition, media in Mainland have not used womanizing as a way to attack the reputation of our Master.
I am talking about this now not because I wanted to say how great I was. My understanding is that it was Master who did everything. What we gave out was our heart, a pure heart that was devoted to Master and Dafa. With this firm, diamond-solid and indestructible righteous thought, along with our rational and wise action, we can make evil vanish.
Later when I was clarifying the truth in many different environments, I felt again that such pure and righteous thoughts and firm belief could truly frighten the evil.
Thank you everyone!
December 24, 2001
