Turkey: Stories of New Practitioners

1. The story of a bank CEO

A new practitioner is a CEO of a bank. She likes Falun Dafa very much, and she took the initiative to call me after she heard about Dafa from a practitioner friend of mine. When she was learning the exercises for the very first time, she was able to do the third exercise correctly. This is quite unusual, as many need to see it two or even three times to do it right. She also brought several friends to learn the exercises. Because it is quite cold outside now, she has offered the living room of her house as a practice site.

Practising the first exercise

2. Falun Dafa is indeed very good!

Alicia learned Falun Dafa about 3 months ago. As soon as she started to practise, however, she enlightened to the importance of Fa study and started to read the Turkish version of Zhuan Falun [the main text of Falun Gong practice]. She has always been diligent and taken the initiative to organise her friends to practise Falun Gong and to promote the Fa. For example, she made more than 40 calendars with photos of people practising the exercises, and she mailed them together with Falun Dafa introductory materials to her friends and relatives all over the nation. She also promotes Falun Dafa whenever she has dinners with relatives and friends. Alicia formerly had a big belly which disappeared recently, yet she said that she didn't even try to lose weight. What a miracle! We have noticed that she has become prettier and more energetic than before. She told me: "Nowadays people are so stressed... thank you for bringing us such a great practice which can relax both body and spirit and improve health!" I told her: "You should thank our Master! She said: "Please send my appreciation as well to Master Li!"

Alicia's older sister acquired a lot of Falun Dafa truth-clarifying materials from me, and she makes phone calls to spread Dafa and clarify the truth whenever she has time at home. She said, "Jiang Zemin can't intimidate me! Falun Dafa is indeed very good!"

There is another lady who recently began practising Falun Dafa. When she was doing the second exercise for the second time, she cried and she was quite emotional. She told me that she practised other qigong methods before and always felt that it wasn't good to accept qi from others. One day, she saw the book, Zhuan Falun in Alicia sister's home. She opened the book, and the part she happened to read was Master addressing the issue of emitting qi. She came to understand this issue right away. She said: "What a predestined relation! I just opened the book and found the answer to my question." The next day, she quit that qigong class and started to eagerly read Zhuan Falun. From time to time, she asked us to correct her grammar and usage of words, she also asked us a lot of questions.

Alicia's sister and a friend meditating

3. "Falun Dafa Month" in a Shopping Centre

This is the second time for the manager of this shopping centre to invite us to promote Falun Dafa, because many people asked him about the practice after our last Falun Dafa festival, and a lot people who hasn't seen the practice also wanted to see our exercise demonstration. We thus started our next Fa promotion project at the shopping centre. The manager allowed us to hold activities in the shopping centre for a month and he provided the space for free

4. World Human Rights Day

On December the 10th 2004, World Human Rights Day, practitioners in Mersin held a public event to clarify the truth about Falun Gong and the persecution to the Turkish people.