"We are wrong, we must
cease doing harm to our country!" On the morning of
March 12, two crazy "Falun Gong" followers and
their families embraced each other weeping in the reception
room of the third brigade of the Henan Women Reformatory.
These two "Falun Gong" followers are
He Haihua and Wang Juanjuan, wife and daughter of Wang
Jindong, the chief organizer and plotter of the immolation
incident at Tiananmen Square on January 23. More than a
month ago when they learned of the news about Wang Jindong
setting himself on fire, they still clung to their obstinate
attitude, saying, "He is very great, we are proud of
him!".. Now, thanks to the patient and painstaking help
from the reformatory staff, they have become aware of their
errors and turned back from the wrong path, expressing their
feeling of shame and uneasiness.
"Spiritual Control" Makes One
Suffer
In 1996, the three-member family of Wang
Jindong, He Haihua and Wang Juanjuan began to be infatuated
with "Falun Gong". On December 19 last year, they
participated in trouble-making at Tiananmen Square in gross
violation of laws and decrees, holding a banner bearing the
words "the universe Dafa (abhidharma) of truthfulness,
benevolence and tolerance". On January 23 this year,
Wang Jindong, instigated by Li Hongzhi, participated in the
immolation at Tiananmen Square, causing immense harm to his
own body and also damaged his originally very happy family.
On February 27, He Haihua and Wang Juanjuan
were sent to the Henan Women Reformatory for violating laws
and decrees.
He Haihua, after being
transformed, said, "During that period of time, I
suffered greatly in my heart, but I wanted to let people
outside know I was very firm and steadfast, I could not cry
though I wanted to."
After He Haihua
began practicing "Falun Gong" for feeling
physically unwell, she was gradually being deceived by Li
Hongzhi and the lies he fabricated, but since she watched
the TV program showing the pitiful sight of her husband who
set himself ablaze, she had begun to doubt about Li Hongzhi
who guided his followers onto the path of death. She
recalled the days when she enjoyed the happiness and harmony
between her family members who got along with each other day
and night, tears ran down her cheek unnoticed many times.
But when she thought of Wang Jindong who left behind a slip
of paper written with the words "My respected wife,
you're really terrific, the Master is on your side, I
congratulate you with my palms held together.", He
Haihua, with a regretful mind, began to suffer mental
torment again.
She, bogged down in a dilemma,
kept thinking over these questions: If "Falun
Gong" were correct, then why couldn't I answer the
persuasive questions put to me by the reformatory staff?
Something she was sure to be wrong and wanted to confess her
mistake, but she was afraid of "dropping to a lower
level". At the same time, her husband was suffering
from the pain of ailment She feared that admitting her
mistake would bring harm to her husband.
Since
she followed her father in practicing "Falun
Gong", Wang Juanjuan who knew little about the ways of
the world had been pursuing "nirvana" with blind
passion and her mind was thus deeply poisoned. She had once
been one of the best students in the Japanese language class
of Kaifeng University. Turning a deaf ear to persuasions
from her teachers, elderly and her boy friend's family, she
continued practicing "Falun Gong", and for this
she even gave up the opportunity for advanced study in
Japan. Indeed, she had abandoned much, and her relatives and
friends had also suffered a great deal because of the
"Dafa"
On the afternoon of February
27, He Haihua and Wang Juanjuan came to the Henan Women
Reformatory. Since the mother and daughter came here, the
reformatory staff have tried to find out their main real
thoughts through the method of chitchat in order to make
their ideological work fruitful.
After
dispelling Wang Juanjuan's precautionary psychology, the
staff members asked her to contrast Li Hongzhi's
"truthfulness, benevolence and tolerance" with his
instigation of the practitioners to create disturbances at
Tiananmen Square and think over the question whether a
"good man" would disrupt social security. These
incisive remarks enabled Wang Juanjuan to see the light.
That same night she wrote, "Through our talks, I was
overcome by their sensible way of thinking, I've come to
realize that "Falun Gong" is a heresy." Wang
Juanjuan has made up her mind to break with Li Hongzhi and
his "Falun Gong" cult.
Using
Sentiment to Shift One's Affection from "Turing Falun
(the Wheel of the Law)"
The reformatory staff
told He Haihua the news about the conversion of Wang
Juanjuan, she was rather dubious of this, but she expressed
her wish to meet with her daughter. Using sentiment, the
staff arranged a meeting between mother and daughter. Wang
Juanjuan, who had been ideologically converted began to help
her mother to untie her ideological knot. After returning
from her daughter's lodging place, He Haihua was greatly
touched. She made a clean breast of her mind, saying,
"My husband set fire on himself, my daughter and I are
put in the reformatory, what a great contribution we've made
to 'Falun Gong!', some of our fellow practitioners regard my
husband as a monster. I feel I sustain great pressure in my
heart. Hearing these, the staff asked her, "What kind
of Dafa you are protecting?". In the light of her
family condition, the staff persuaded He Haihua to make an
early transformation of herself, so that she could go to
save Wang Jindong. He indicated that she had understood this
truth, but in feeling she could not accept this all of a
sudden.
In the evening, He Haihua and other
former fellow practitioners sat together to watch TV program
that exposes and criticizes the "Falun Gong" cult,
the tragic figure of her husband pricked her heart. She said
as she recalled, that night I simply could not fall into
sleep till the wee hour of two o'clock, "my heart is
bleeding".
On March 1, seeing that He
Haihua had somewhat changed her attitude, the reformatory
staff decided to transfer He to the third brigade where Wang
Juanjuan was in. That same day, the reformatory organized
all the personnel serving reform-through-education to watch
video tapes, such as "Li Hongzhi the Man and His
Deeds", "The Truth about April 25",
"Falun Gong Harming People and Killing Their
Lives", as well as CCTV programs. Through watching TV
programs and studies, He Haihua had taken a gratifying step
forward. That night, she made up her mind to say goodbye to
the "Falun Gong" cult. Thereafter, she also
persuaded other obsessed "Falun Gong" followers
not to go too far in the queer circle of the "Falun
Gong" cult, instead they should repent and mend their
ways. He asked herself: I had practiced "Falun
Gong" for so many years, what had I brought for the
country and my family? She thought to herself: I had only
myself in my heart, to pursue "Nirvana", I did not
care about the death or danger of others, what I had gained
in practicing "Falun Gong" was the term
"selfishness".She appealed: "Wake up, all
obsessed followers, we must cease harming our own country,
and must not do anything that sadden our friends and gladden
our enemies¡."
When One
Jumps Out of the "Falun Gong" Circle, One Finds
the Vastness of the World
He Haihua and Wang Juanjuan
who had said goodbye to "Falun Gong" cult felt a
sense of relief, now they have renewed their personal
experience of their long-forfeited true feeling of the human
world.
On March 10 when learning about the
conversion of He Haihua and Wang Juanjuan, Wang's boy friend
immediately took a long-distance bus to come to the
reformatory, the young man's father also asked him to bring
100 yuan for Wang Juanjuan. Unfortunately since it was not
visiting time, he could not see her, still, Wang was very
glad when she learned about this matter.
On
March 12, the reformatory made an exceptional arrangement
for the mother and daughter to meet with their
relatives-sisters and niece of He Haihua, they had all came.
Holding their relatives' hands, they chatted endlessly. Let
the bygone be bygone, only after repented and mended their
ways that the mother and daughter felt the beauty of love
and affection.
Wang Juanjuan said: "In
the past I was really too selfish, for the impossible thing
of "going to heaven", I did not hesitate to do
harms to the country and my relatives. As we have changed,
our relatives laugh, people who show concern for us also
laugh. It was not until now that I discover that the true
feeling in the man's world is most beautiful."
He Haihua said: Members of my family all took
to the evil ways, this is because we slacked off in my
studies and had a fading awareness of the law. From now on
I'll start afresh and earnestly remold myself."
The reformatory staff told the reporters that
Wang Juanjuan had brought her Japanese teaching materials to
the reformatory, she would study while she was remolding
herself there. She was prepared to work herself up to be a
person useful to the country. He Haihua also ceaselessly
strengthened studying, trying as far as possible to shake
herself off, from the depth of her mind, the yoke of
"Falun Gong" cult. She would try her best to help
more people bogged down in the mire. She also expressed the
hope to go to Beijing together with her daughter when
opportunity arises, so that she would do ideological work
with Wang Jindong in the hope that he would transform
himself at an early date.