A Norwegian Boy Changes After He Practises Falun Dafa

Ola is an 18-year-old high school student. When he was nine years old, he started practising martial arts, which he did for nine years. Four years ago Ola's parents began practising Falun Dafa. He followed his parents' example and read the book Zhuan Falun [This book comprises the principal teachings of Falun Dafa]. However, at first he did not really cultivate.

A month and a half ago, Ola began to actually cultivate. He said, "Now I am a genuine Falun Dafa practitioner and I will behave as a cultivator should."

After seriously practising for one and a half months, Ola enlightened to this understanding of the Falun Dafa principles: "The key in cultivation is to improve xinxing." He said, "In the past, I needed others to feel that I was important and I did a lot of things to attract others' attention. In addition, I especially paid attention to working out. Now I eliminate these thoughts and my inner heart feels free. I am becoming peaceful and my bad temper has disappeared. I can also be considerate of others because I understand why I am here and I now have a deeper understanding of life."

18-year-old Ola

During the past month and a half, Ola has made great changes in his ways of thinking and behaviour. His parents and friends have all noticed. People around him have noticed that he is becoming compassionate and peaceful. His mother also noticed because Ola even began to help her with the housework.

As soon as Ola decided to truly cultivate, he gave up his practice of martial arts even though he had done it for nine years. He felt that practising martial arts would bring about a competitive mentality and this type of mind-set should be eliminated for a cultivator. He feels that cultivation should be the most important thing in his life.

Now Ola treats everything that happens in his life as a test on his cultivation path. When a conflict occurs, Ola does not get annoyed anymore, but instead treats it as a good opportunity for cultivation. Before becoming a cultivator, he always weighed things subjectively, from his own viewpoint. However, after taking up the practice, he has learned to weigh things with the principles of "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance."

Over the past month and a half Ola has studied the teachings and done the exercises every day. He has read Zhuan Falun four times and has also read Master's other books. He started to tell people about the persecution against Falun Dafa in his school and even introduced Falun Dafa to his classmates. The teacher in charge of his class is very supportive, so he intends to go to all the classes in the school to tell them about the persecution. After some of Ola's friends learned the facts about the persecution, they helped Ola to tell others. Their teacher suggested that they should write a letter to the chairman of the Olympic Committee in Norway and urge them to voice their concern about the persecution in China.