On Strong Righteous Thoughts

[PureInsight.org] Many fellow practitioners have shared their strong righteous thoughts stories. I’d like to share some of mine here.

Letting Go of One’s Life and Death

In the summer of 2007, a few purple bruises suddenly appeared on my thighs. When my sister heard the news, she was very worried and forced me to go to the hospital for an examination. My sister told me, “Look, our Aunt had died of septicemia. Before she passed away, she got similar symptoms like what you are having right now, and in less than 3 months after showing those symptoms, she died.” I said to myself, “I am a Falun Dafa practitioner, I am protected by Master and I don’t accept any other arrangements.” After my sister received my physical examination report from the hospital, she was even more frightened. One doctor told her that I was running short of blood cells in my body and I could develop septicemia at any moment. I kept a very calm heart when I heard the news. I recalled Master’s words: “If you can let go of life and death, you’re a God.” (Teaching the Fa in New York City”, March 23, 1997). I said to myself deep in my heart, “Septicemia? So what? I’ve already let go of life and death, I am a God!”

My family was very frightened to learn of the hospital report. They tried to force me to go for treatment. I simply refused. My husband begged me and said, “Please go to the hospital just for the sake of this family, for the sake of me and the kids.” I told my husband, “Have you ever heard of any cancer patients being cured in the hospital? If I go to the hospital for the so-called treatments, not only won’t I be cured, our family will definitely be bankrupted from medical bills. I am a Falun Dafa practitioner. I have my standards and I will apply those standards to myself. Don’t worry about me. There is nothing to worry about. I am pretty sure I am fine, our family can only get better and better.” My husband didn’t listen to me. He still forced me to take medicine. I then pretended to take the pills but hid them in my pockets whenever I had the chance.

Although I didn’t’ take medication, my physical body didn’t seem to recover. I also had nightmares as I slept. The evil forces were threatening in my dreams, “Look, this is cancer.” I would tell them as I dreamt, “Don’t ever think of taking me under your control. I am protected by my Master!” When I woke up from such a dream, I would tell myself, “No matter how my life may end, while I am still alive, I want to save more sentient beings.” So I continued to pass out truth clarification materials.

My thighs started to swell as much as twice the usual size. The purple bruises seemed to get darker; however, I didn’t pay any attention. No matter how high those staircases might be, I would still climb them to distribute truth materials. Whenever the thought of septicemia popped up into my mind, I would immediately clean it out. I had never hesitated from this strong righteous thought deep in my heart: “I am a God, I’ve already let go of life and death!”

Later, all those septicemia symptoms disappeared. When my husband saw the re-examination report from the hospital, he said, “Look, you still have to believe in science, how can doing exercises cure you?” I then took out all those pills that I had hidden from him and said: “Look, these are the pills you gave me before. I didn’t take a single one of them.” My husband was very surprised, “So you really believe in Falun Dafa that much? You are not afraid of death at all?” I replied, “Yes, of course. This is the evidence of my letting go of life and death.”

Escaping Police Harassment

My whole family now believes in Falun Dafa even more. They support my cultivation in Falun Dafa very much. Once I was going out with five other fellow practitioners to distribute truth materials in a nearby county. While we were on our way, we suddenly ran into a police check-point along the road. A police vehicle was parked right in the middle of the road. It was obvious that the police were trying to block us. The road was very narrow. It was very hard to try to swerve around the police car. The driver of our car said, “Well, it seems a little bit tough to get through now.” Right at that moment, two policemen were already approaching our car from both sides. They were apparently getting ready to open the car doors once we stopped. The three fellow practitioners sitting in the back seat started to panic. The car was full of truth materials. I was sitting in the front seat. There were two bundles of “The Nine Commentaries on the CCP” on the floor. I said without thinking, “Let’s send forth righteous thoughts, we can escape from them!” The driver closed the door windows immediately and held tight on the wheel, and we drove off.

The police car followed us immediately, and we all started to send forth our strong righteous thoughts. We absolutely didn’t allow the persecution of us by the evil forces. We wanted to clear out any interference in saving the sentient beings. There was a crowded market right in front of us. We drove through the market. People automatically made way for us and they would gather once more behind us. Even though the police car had a loud siren, nobody seemed to pay attention to it and the police car simply couldn’t move ahead. We thus escaped from the possible police harassment.

Later, we discussed this incident. Some fellow practitioners told me that they were encouraged by my words to send forth righteous thoughts to escape from the police at the scene. My heart became heavy. I said, “I felt that my words were from the very depth of my heart at that time, that’s why they were so powerful.”

I Will Definitely Get out Soon

Last year, a couple of other fellow practitioners and I were illegally kidnapped by police. I didn’t develop any fear at all and remained calm. The evil forces took us to a detention center. When I was asked for my name, I told them that I am a Dafa disciple.

I continued to practice the exercises, recite the Fa, send forth righteous thoughts and sing Dafa songs in the detention center. I would clarify the truth to the inmates. One inmate said to me, “Hey, look, you seem to be very relaxed in here as if you were at your own home.” I replied: “I’ve always been like that no matter where I am.” Some other inmates then said: “Well, just wait until you’ve stayed here for half a year or so, you won’t behave like that by then.” I replied, “How can they lock me up here for more than half a year? I will definitely get out soon, one month at the most.” Those inmates all laughed: “Don’t be so confident. One month? Look, no Falun Gong practitioner will leave here in less than half a year. For people like you, you will either end up being sentenced to prison or being detained forever.” I said: “No, I won’t be subjected to such a thing!”

In the room where I was detained, there were two fellow practitioners. One of them said to me, “Hey, the police officer that’s guarding us seems to be a good person, you may want to talk to her to use her phone and call your family. Ask your family to do something to get you out soon.” I said, “We are all practitioners, how can we rely on ordinary people? I won’t be locked in here for too long, I will definitely get out soon.” The same fellow practitioner then continued, “Yes, I used to think like that when I first got in here as well. I had thought that nothing would happen to me, but look, it’s almost one year for me now. I am still being locked in here.” The other fellow practitioner jumped in, “Don’t think like that, you are not following the principles of the Fa, I think she’s got very strong righteous thoughts.”

I was very clear in my mind. Ever since I mentioned that I won’t be locked up for long, I kept this strong thought in my mind all the time. I told myself, “Once I’ve done my truth clarification work inside this detention center, I need to get out and continue my Dafa work. I shouldn’t waste my life in here.” My mind remained detached from any other concerns or notions, and I felt my righteous thoughts were very powerful. Whenever I sat down to practice the sitting meditation at night, I would immediately go into a deep trance. I’ve enlightened from my experiences these years: The righteous thoughts from the very depth of one’s heart are very powerful, one should never try to use one’s human notions to deal with things; as soon as one’s human notions start to take over oneself, demons would follow.

Indeed, in just a month I was released from the detention center. The fellow practitioner that had asked me to talk to the police officer for help exclaimed to me before I left, “Now I know what righteous thoughts are!” Yes, Dafa practitioners should indeed never try to resort to one’s human notions. As soon as one’s thoughts are righteous, everything will be in its proper state.

Translated from: http://www.zhengjian.org/node/127535