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The Truth Awakens Conscience: Breaking Out of a Brainwashing Center in Four Days

July 16, 2011 |   By a Falun Dafa disciple from Hunan Province

(Clearwisdom.net) My employers called and told me to pick up my stipend the morning of June 20. As soon as I got there, agents from the county 610 Office, neighborhood association, and my place of employment forcibly took me to a brainwashing center located in a local hotel and detained me there.

Refusing to cooperate with them, I clarified the truth to them, sent righteous thoughts day and night, loudly recited Master’s lectures, sang Dafa songs, and also exposed the evil CCP's persecution. Thus I was able to break out of the brainwashing center in just four days.

1. Bearing no resentment; awakening kind thoughts

During the entire time, I treated everyone who had been involved in my persecution, including the police officers, my colleagues, brainwashing center head, etc. as my family members, and clarified the truth to them.

Two male detainees who were assigned to monitor me dragged me to Room 8 on the fifth floor at noon on June 20. I constantly shouted to let people around me know, “Falun Dafa is good; Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good. Persecuting Falun Gong is committing a crime!”

The brainwashing center head arrived a few minutes later and told me to rest on a bed and stop shouting. I said, “This is not a place for me to rest. I didn’t know you were still here. You’ve deprived people of their right to follow their faith, and you’ve violated other human rights as well. If you continue doing such things, your future will really be in danger. I’m truly worried about you, and my heart aches for you.”

I also told her, “I was imprisoned for eight years and was tortured so cruelly that I almost died. But I did not give up my faith in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. Can you reform me now? I want everyone to learn the truth of Dafa.”

Silently she walked out of the room and did not return.

I recited “The Foretelling,” in Hong Yin II, I also sang “Falun Dafa is good,” and other Dafa songs.

I kept clarifying the truth, and singing Dafa songs. Thus the evil forces were frightened, and no one tried to brainwash me with CCP’s propaganda.

2. Unafraid of the evildoers' threats; exposing the evil

The next afternoon the two detainees told me that a so-called “teacher” would come to teach me at 3:00 that day. Right then I sat down to send forth righteous rights. After a while someone knocked on the door. Immediately I shouted, “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.” Suddenly, five men came in. The county domestic security division head was the first to enter. He threatened me, “If you continue shouting like this, I will sentence you to forced labor.” While speaking he hit my face. I told him that as a law-enforcement officer he had just committed a crime by hitting me, and that whoever persecuted me would be guilty. He tried to separate my crossed legs, attempting to stop me from sending righteous thoughts. I told him that since more than ten thousand police officers had died because they participated in the persecution of Falun Gong, he should watch his words and behavior because they would determine his own future.

After that I exposed how he had extorted more than 130,000 yuan from Dafa practitioners over the past decade. While I did that, they left the room, gloomily and disappointed.

3. Sending righteous thoughts, reciting Master’s Fa, shouting out the truth to disintegrate the evil forces

The two detainees brought me food every day and they tried to make me eat. I told them that I should not have been detained there, and should go eat at home. They also tried to make me take a shower and change into the clothes representatives from my employer had brought. I told them that I would not wear other people’s clothes.

When I initially sat with my legs crossed to send righteous thoughts they planned to pull my legs down. I said that it was my basic human right whether I wanted to stand or sit, and it was against the law if anyone interfered. They would have good fortune in the future if they helped protect compassionate people. Hence, the two detainees stopped bothering me when I practiced the exercises and sent forth righteous thoughts. They only told me that I should go to bed early. The first night I did not sleep until after 1:00 a.m., and got up and sent forth righteous thoughts once again before dawn. When the detainees opened the windows and the door to clean the room, I shouted the truth message toward the outside. When they closed the windows and door I recited Master’s Fa and certain poems in Hong Yin loudly. Sometimes when I paused for a few seconds the detainees attempted to brainwash me. I immediately shouted, “Falun Dafa is good; Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good; whoever remembers it will get good returns.” They fell silent after hearing me say that.

Detainees who were assigned to monitor the practitioner next door came to threaten me one day, but were turned away after I shouted out the truth message, and quoted from Master’s Fa. Since then they all treated me gently, with smiles. It was just like Master said in “Fa Teaching at 2009 Washington DC International Fa Conference,”

“At times when your human attachments are severe and there is interference from evil and bad factors, however, it will instead be the case that when you get stronger it becomes weaker, and when you get weaker it becomes stronger.”

There are many office-and-residential buildings around the brainwashing center, and lots of cars parked outside. That is why I shouted through the window, “This Hotel is the location to persecute Falun Gong. It is guilty. The only way out is to stop persecuting Falun Gong!” If there were passers by, I shouted, “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good! Remember that, and you’ll get good returns!” When someone looked up I shouted again. The two detainees had to close the windows, and then I shouted through the cracks in the window.

The 610 Office head and representatives from my place of employment arrived on the fourth afternoon to take me home. On our way home I clarified the truth to them, recited parts of Master’s Fa for them to listen to, and told them to quit the Party.

This experience taught me that we should use righteous thoughts and deeds to resist the persecution. As long as we have faith in Master and the Fa, refuse to cooperate with the evil forces and deny the old forces’ arrangements, it is not difficult for us to disintegrate the evil.