Can We Face the Persecution with a Smile, No Matter the Circumstances?
(Clearwisdom) Before the Beijing Olympics in 2008, the evil took advantage of my gaps because of my many attachments. I was arrested and taken to a forced labor camp. During the five months of imprisonment, I did not compromise with the authorities. I was eventually released because of illness. I looked inward and found that many of my thoughts while imprisoned weren’t as righteous as I thought they were. They were human notions. When I was transferred to a detention center and then to a forced labor camp, I continued to send righteous thoughts and memorize the Fa. I reminded myself to let go of the attachment of fearing death and to be a true Fa rectification practitioner. I refused to acknowledge the old forces’ arrangement. The deep-seated problem was that I wanted to avoid being persecuted. I was afraid of being “transformed,” and I worried that I couldn’t be a qualified practitioner. I treated the guards and police as the evil itself and had no compassion for them. I wasn’t a life
