(Minghui.org) I send my sincere greetings to our compassionate Master and fellow practitioners!
I would first like to thank our Master for guiding me on my cultivation path for 27 years, and for guiding me while writing this experience sharing article. I had various notions, but do not have time to put them down. This is just too difficult.
I would also like to thank the coordinator of our Dafa association for not giving up on me writing about my experiences, saying that I did a great job initiating the seminar and taking on so many tasks. He suggested I write a sharing article for the Fahui, saying that it would be inspiring to everyone. I said no twice but he did not give up. After sending forth righteous thoughts my daughter said I could tell her my story, and she would write it as I talked. A practitioner then suggested that he would record what I said. He found a way to turn it into written text and email it to me. I realized that Master was asking me to do it, so I said yes. I then revised my sharing again and again.
Let me share with you my journey in becoming a Falun Dafa practitioner.
I was born in communist Czechoslovakia and experienced communism right from day one. Later I escaped to London and began to study there. I also attended some qigong classes. By 1997 I was very disappointed with everything I learned. I felt that it actually wouldn’t get me anywhere spiritually.
At that point, my husband and I were teaching some of these things. So we went to the Mind, Body, Spirit exhibition in London where we used to have a stall, gave lectures, and met friends. We walked around and saw a little stall called Falun Gong, with a little television showing the Falun Gong cultivation exercises. There was no book in English, only sheets of paper stapled together which was called Falun Gong. We bought that and a video, costing only £1 or £2. That’s so unusual because the others cost about £20 pounds. We learned that there was a class in central London, and my husband decided to go there to attend. He learned the exercises, and bought Zhuan Falun, the main text of Falun Dafa. I was disappointed with the previous practices, and with my husband’s encouragement I watched the Falun Gong video and read “Lunyu.” I then felt that this was what I had been looking for all my life.
When we started to practice the cultivation system there was no persecution, just a spiritual practice. In July 1999, we suddenly learned that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) had started persecuting practitioners. At that point, Master also stopped speaking for nearly a year. Each one of us had to think as to what to do. My husband and I decided that we needed to let people know that such a good practice was being persecuted. I knew about communism, as I and my husband had escaped from it. We just wanted to find ways to raise awareness in the UK and in the Czech Republic to stop this persecution. We had a friend who was a Lord, and we shared with him about Falun Gong and the persecution. He suggested hosting us in the Parliament by giving seminars about the persecution of Falun Gong. I understood that this was my mission and that I needed to keep raising awareness to the politicians until it stops. So nearly each year from that point on I was involved in Parliament work. Over the years different practitioners were involved, and we also contacted politicians in the Czech Republic and helped organize seminars there.
In the process I encountered various experiences and difficulties to improve my character, and sent more righteous thoughts. For example, one of us who helped with one seminar was supposed to do certain things, but I only found out a week before the seminar that he had not done them. I asked my husband to sit next to me and send righteous thoughts while I emailed people, inviting them and organizing the seminar. It turned out well and we had a successful seminar.
This year the seminar was very busy. A lot of people wanted to attend. We needed to take some people to another room because we didn’t realize that the House of Lords doesn’t allow more than 45 people per room. But fortunately it worked out very well. Someone I knew and who worked in the Parliament had access to another room, and she asked 30 people to go there. There was no problem and they could hear everything. We got nice interviews from the Epoch Times and NTD TV. It was great teamwork.
And of course, we had different opinions and understandings. I cultivated myself to stay calm, look inside, and let go of my understandings and attachments.
David Matas came, and we took him to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO). He focused on transnational repression. The persecution in the West is getting worse, and in China it’s horrendous. So, even though people are becoming more aware of what’s actually going on, it hasn’t yet ended. So I need to stay here on this planet and keep going until the matter is resolved. I realized that it is my mission. I had all kinds of tribulations and difficulties during my cultivation.
I often repeat this to myself:
“Just by staying unaffected you will be able to handle all situations.” (Teachings at the Midwestern U.S. Conference)
I then calmed down. I gradually understood that no matter what I encountered, I must remember Master’s Fa. The Fa is able to eliminate all attachments, interference, and obstacles. Sometimes I didn’t do too well. This happened when my husband passed away. I thought I could have done better to support him and I was worried about what would happen to him. Some other practitioners that I knew quite well from around the world also passed away.
I always wanted to read Minghui website articles, but I didn’t have much time. I was told that there were also podcasts, so I could listen while doing other things. A practitioner helped me install the podcasts on my mobile phone. They really helped me with my cultivation. Every day I listen to some, while doing things. If there is a tribulation that affects me, or I feel upset, not treated well, or am misunderstood, I just quickly start looking inside and let it go.
Tribulation in the Form of an Injury
I had a tribulation a while ago. I went to the Czech Republic to visit my sister and attend the Fa Conference. So I was looking forward to seeing everyone. I wanted to come back to London within a week to help with the seminar in Parliament, and I also wanted to help with Shen Yun, talk to people about Shen Yun, and give them fliers. When I arrived in the Czech Republic I was quite tired. It was very hot in my sister’s winter garden. There were also some practitioners I didn’t want to see because I felt hurt about what they did and I hadn’t yet worked through that. So with all of this together, the result was that towards the end of the second exercise, my head started spinning, and I started feeling extremely, hot, and dizzy.
Before I knew what had happened, I found myself on the floor with extreme pain in my left hip. I couldn’t really move much. I didn’t know what to do. I wish I’d remembered to call Master for help. I was just so overwhelmed by this pain. Also my mobile phone was on the other side of the house. So I slowly crawled there to get it, and phoned my sister and others. She arranged for an ambulance, and they took me to the hospital. I found out that I had broken a bone, and I had to stay in the hospital. I was there for only a week though. I couldn’t move much, but I listened to a lot of Fa lectures, and also read Zhuan Falun and talked to the doctors and nurses. I also gave them Shen Yun and persecution fliers. A physiotherapist helped me to walk with a trolley, and this was difficult and painful. But I kept going, and after a week they sent me to my sister’s house. I got another physio, then progressed to crutches, and started doing the Falun Gong exercises and gradually improved. I stayed there about two months. My insurance then flew me to London to my daughter’s house.
Just before Christmas, she took me to my home. I felt I was ready. Eventually I decided to sit in the lotus position for meditation, and I did it. Throughout this tribulation, I asked myself, “What was my attachment or unrighteous thoughts? How did I get into this?” When I read Zhuan Falun about Han Xin crawling between the thug’s legs, I thought that’s what I needed to do. Even when people hurt me I don’t need to look at them but I have to look at myself, and improve myself. I didn’t let go of my attachment, which had to do with something that happened a while before I fell down. I was looking at others and blaming others, which was totally wrong.
That’s what I’m learning more and more from listening to the podcasts. How we practitioners look inside and let go, however terribly the other person may treat us. I always need to think of Master’s arrangements and what I can improve inside, and what I need to let go, so I can overcome the tribulation. So I’m very thankful to Master and the practitioners for helping me let go and cultivate better. I thus raised my cultivation level, saved more sentient beings, and did well in Fa-rectification. We don’t do it for Master, we do it for ourselves, we will rule our paradise. I want to fulfill Master’s trust in me.
Thank you, Master, and thank you, practitioners.
(Selected article presented at the 2025 UK Fa Conference)
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