How I became a better person

I was born in Prague 51 years ago in communist Czechoslovakia. In my childhood and throughout my life I was always searching for the spiritual meaning of life. I had many masters and teachers. Deep inside, in a place I was afraid to enter, above anything else I always wanted to be a good person. Just to be a good person. Just to have that chance. Just once, in this lifetime.

I want to tell you what I learned and how I changed since I started Falun Gong Cultivation eleven months ago- how I became a better person. For most of my life- since I was 16- I could not get above the weight of 67 kg or 10 and half stone. In the last 6 months I have put on 10% extra weight. I am now 74 kg or 11 and half stone. That means I am stronger. I feel stronger and I am calmer. I do more work every day and I put up with tribulations that would have confused me for days or weeks before. We have three grown up children. Our two daughters in their twenties have returned home to live with us. They tell me I am easier to live with, kinder to my family and to other people. They tell me I do not get so angry any more. Before Falun Gong, even a small thing could make me angry and I would fly into a rage seemingly without any reason. I no longer drive myself as hard as I used to.

In February when I visited my 80 year old mother in Prague, she asked me what had happened to my grey hair, did I dye my hair? Of course I did not! My hair has changed colour. The injuries from the years of sports and martial arts have mostly healed and so has my tennis elbow and computer wrist, my shoulder and my knee. My sinuses have unblocked and the lumps in my throat have also disappeared. My back and neck are no longer painful. I take no remedies and have no health or therapy treatments of any kind anymore. I have given up the morning chanting, tai chi, the old qi gong, Buddhist meditation and the Tibetan self realisation techniques. For years I used to practice and teach them. I have never felt so good as I do now and have never had to put up with so many painful tribulations.
Sometimes I can see that everyone is suffering. I used to have goals in my life and I just had to surpass them. I had goals about my prosperity, spirituality, relationships, wealth and health and I have none today. I take things more lightly, it is not such a big deal. I am learning to live the life of cultivation - it is the greatest adventure that is available to anyone. I am learning to let things happen naturally, so there is a greater ease in our family now. I have become more tolerant of other people's ways. I let people do what they want without insisting on my best way for them. For me that is a big change! I no longer think I know what is the best way for other people to live their lives. I let them work it out for themselves.

My eyesight has also improved, I wear no glasses and I can clearly see what is in front of me. My wife says I can see other things more clearly as well. Today I can sit quietly in meditation and I can sit quietly listening to others.

I am grateful for the opportunity to change my life according to Falun Dafa and to give my life meaning again. Now I have even a greater gift then I could have ever imagined. I can become more than a good person. For that I thank you Master Li.