Poem: Honouring the Fa

Honouring the Fa

Before I am taken away, Let me read my experience-sharing article. I feel unspeakable joy and solemnity. Only because I am assimilated to the Fa, My life has become meaningful. Let life be splendid in honouring the Fa.

Falun Gong practitioners will often hold experience-sharing conferences, both large and small, to exchange understandings of the “Fa” (translated from Chinese as the “Law” or “Guiding Principles”) and share experiences as cultivators. In November of 1999, Falun Gong practitioners from 13 provinces of China, Australia, the US, Sweden and other countries gathered in Guangzhou, China to hold a special experience sharing conference. The poem above was adapted from an excerpt of an article read at this conference.

At 3am on November 25th, the seventh day of the conference, a group of police officers broke into a place where 17 practitioners were staying, arresting them under the accusation that they did not have identification cards. A practitioner rushed to the tape-recorder to play the Falun Dafa music “Pu Du (saving all sentient beings).” Ding Yan from Shijiazhuang looked at the policemen and said smiling, “Before I am taken away, let me read my experience sharing article that I prepared to read on November 27th.” The other practitioners gathered tightly around Ding Yan as she read the article, finally concluding with, “I feel unspeakable joy and solemnity. Only because I am assimilated to the Fa, my life has become meaningful. Let life be splendid in honouring the Fa.” All of the other practitioners were in tears, and some police officers were also moved to tears. Ding Yan later became a victim of the persecution of Falun Gong and died for her belief.