I Found My Way Back to Dafa

My name is Rosalinn, a practitioner living in Norway. I am 45 years old and have 4 children.

I first started to practice Falun Dafa in July 2000 when I was 19 years old. It was one month before my second child was born. Their father had left us for Tibet to find a master to help him cultivate, but he didn’t get further than Sweden where he met an old friend who taught him Falun Dafa. That resulted in him coming back to us with Zhuan Falun and the exercises and lectures on VHS, and he told me I had to learn Falun Dafa. I read the book and could feel that this was really what I had been waiting for.

I practiced diligently for 6 years and then I stopped practicing. There were many reasons I decided to stop. I really didn’t feel I was worthy of being a practitioner because of many things that happened at the time. It started with challenges at the practice site where I didn’t really feel that everyone was very serious about cultivating, and I also felt that one person in particular didn’t want me to be there or didn’t see me as a genuine practitioner. That ended up with me deciding that I would be better off cultivating by myself.

As I see it now, all those years later, this decision was the biggest mistake I made, and it opened the door for the old forces to exploit all my attachments. I really tried to cultivate on my own, but the challenge was so big, and I started to see myself as a person not worthy of cultivating.

Some of the attachments I had back then were worrying about not being good enough, having too high expectations of both myself and others, worrying about what people thought of me and being afraid of others not being happy with whatever I did. Though I did understand this was all karmic relations between us, it was just so hard to get through it all. By this time I had married again. Through those years I lifted weights, climbed, surfed and practiced yoga.

In May 2022, I had practiced yoga for 10 years and decided that if I was to keep practising, I had to really learn the philosophy behind it. I ordered some books from the internet and was ready to start reading them as soon as they arrived. Almost as soon as I started reading the first book I got this voice in my head telling me “Falun Gong” over and over again. I took that as a sign that it was time to start cultivating again.

I got rid of the yoga books and ordered Zhuan Falun from an online bookstore. As soon as I started practicing again, it was like a door opened and all of the previous cultivation and all the attachments that made me stop cultivating came back. Some of the attachments were easier to handle this time. Most of my insecurity was gone, just from being older and from all that had happened during the years I didn’t cultivate.

One day a practitioner called me to see if I was still practicing and how it was going. After talking to him, I realised it is very important to meet other practitioners. And I realized that we are all cultivating and that it is better to go to the practice site and meet other practitioners even though there are many challenges there. It is also important to not have too high expectations of others. We are all cultivating and have our challenges, and we can’t really see how others are cultivating. After a while I found that when I was able to let go of my own attachments to feeling discomfort and worry around those practitioners and being afraid of conflicts, some of the issues just solved themselves.

Interference Before Shen Yun

I was really happy when it was decided Shen Yun was coming to Norway. My husband got really excited when I asked if he wanted to see Shen Yun, so I bought tickets for myself, my husband and two of my children. We were planning a family trip to go see the show and also enjoy the city as a family. My husband is an atheist, so I thought it would be very good for them to be able to see Shen Yun.

After a while I got the opportunity to help out during the show by working with the Shen Yun Shop. I was so happy and felt so lucky to get this opportunity. I wanted to say “yes” to help out at all the times they needed people.

When I told my husband about it, he got really mad at me. He normally never gets mad and lets me do whatever I want as long as we find a good way to cooperate together to make it work. But now he was just really mad and said that he didn’t want to go and see the show and that I could just go on my own. This was not a typical reaction from him at all. I could see that there was interference from the old forces trying to sabotage both me helping out and my family watching the show. I used the rest of that day to send righteous thoughts to eliminate the evil that tried to sabotage people being saved by making trouble between me and my husband. I also thought about how I could find a solution that would be good for my whole family.

Later that evening I talked to my husband and it was like he had never been mad at me. It was really like whatever had interfered with him was totally gone. We made a good plan for how we would make it work so that we could all see Shen Yun and I could help out at the show.

To Heighten Xinxing Through Tribulations

Most of my time I spend either at work or with my family, so many of my tribulations show up in situations with either colleagues or my husband. I work as a surveyor at construction sites and my work can be really heavy and stressful at times, and sometimes it just turns out to be so much work and so many things to handle from all directions that I am not able to do it. I always try my best and work as hard as I can, and I always manage to get everything done but sometimes it just ends up being a lot more than I can handle without really pushing every limit. When this happens I always think that I am a practitioner and that if I get this challenge it must be because I have attachments to let go of. I also don’t think Master would give me more work than I could handle, so I should just take it with a smile, let go of my attachments, and it will resolve itself. Even though I think that, I often find myself complaining to one of my colleagues when it gets really stressful and I always regret this, thinking that a practitioner should not behave like that.

Having a hard time is the best that can happen to us if we want to cultivate, so I should be grateful and not complain. I have told my colleague that I am sorry I am complaining when it gets crazy at work. The answer I get is that he doesn’t understand how I am able to do all the work I am doing and that nobody else is doing that much. I got the same response in my former job where they didn’t understand how I could do so much. I did tell them it was too much and I needed less work. But I still tend to be assigned more work than I can handle every now and then. As I see it, there is always an attachment that is the reason behind it. Often it is that I get irritated at my bosses who do not understand my job and give me extra work that disturbs my plans, or it is a colleague who isn’t doing what he should so I start to think he does not have a good work ethic. But when I look inside I can see it is attachments to thinking I am better at doing my job than them. I also find that when I try to understand why they are doing things their way they often have a good reason behind it and are really good at doing their jobs. From this I can see that I need to be more considerate of the people I am working with and let go of my selfishness and attachment of wanting to be comfortable.

To Help Master Save People

I find it really hard to figure out what to do to help Master save people, so I have been doing the only things I can think of: being out on stands talking to people, and going out and doing the exercises. For a while now we have been out one Saturday every month in different cities to tell people about Falun Dafa and the persecution. We are also in parks doing the exercises a few times a week. Most of the time a few other practitioners help out on Saturdays, but for the exercises it is mostly me and one other practitioner, or only me. When we are doing the exercises we can hear people who pass by talk about Falun Dafa and they take brochures and lotus flowers. It would be even better to be able to talk to them, but I think it is a great way to reach out to people when we are doing the exercises anyway.

A few times people have asked us questions, and one time there was suddenly a lady doing the exercises beside us. When it is only me doing the exercises, I have sometimes chosen not to go out and practice because of different attachments holding me back, but other times I have done the exercises alone. Sometimes when I do them alone it feels like there is a whole army of gods being there together with me, helping people pass by to find Falun Dafa, but other times I feel all alone and have to really pull myself together to just go out. I find that I have to get rid of attachments to self-awareness and not worry so much about what people think of me when I am practicing in the parks alone. I am there to help them be saved so I try to have righteous thoughts so that my attachments won’t interfere with the people who pass by even if I find it challenging to be all alone.

On Saturdays we hand out flyers, lotus flowers and collect signatures. We also show the exercises. It’s not always that there are a lot of people passing by, but there always seems to be someone who has almost been waiting for us and comes to ask where they can sign the petition. Almost every time we are doing Dafa activities there is some kind of challenge making them hard to do. Most often for me it is that I get some kind of illness karma in the days just before the activity, my job gets crazy or it can be a family member needing help so that I am exhausted when it is finally time for the activity. So far I have just pushed through and it has disappeared after a while, but I feel that it is really important not to ease up or else it will end up disturbing all our Dafa activities.

Thank you, Master!
Thank you, fellow practitioners!

(Submitted to the European Fa-Conference 2026)