The Cultivation Experiences of a Practitioner from Bulgaria

By a western practitioner
Shared at the Israeli Fa-Conference

Hi!

My name is Sacha. I come from Bulgaria and I am temporarily living in Israel. It is clear to me now that I was meant to come to Israel to obtain Falun Dafa. One Saturday morning, whilst walking in the park I saw some people exercising to some quiet music. I did not want to disturb them so I came from the other side to sit near so that I could watch and listen to the music. I felt very calm. One of them came towards me and told me they would be exercising tomorrow as well. Since then (two months now) I have been practising Falun Dafa. I read Zhuan Falun [The main text of Falun Gong] in Russian. Though I do not have difficulties in reading Russian, I hope that someday I will have the Bulgarian version. As I read Li Hongzhi’s nine lectures on the Fa [Law and principles of Falun Gong], lots of my questions that I have been asking for my whole life were answered. The exercises charge me with energy’ and the atmosphere in the group-study calms me down and gives me the feeling of order and responsibility. Ever since I started practising I try to improve myself everyday, to let go of attachments, and to be tolerant, so as to get rid of my karma. My attitude towards my environment has changed. With every situation I encounter I try to act according to the Buddha Fa.

In Bulgaria I live next to a well-known fortune teller called, “Vanga”. The place is considered to have special magnetic attributes and tourists always go there to be cured. I always wanted to know why people became ill and I have read a lot of books dealing with people’s destiny, like: Banes, Blabetsky, Rerich. I knew that a human being’s destiny is self-cultivation. But I had no idea how to do it. I thought self-cultivation was to study more languages, to create pieces of art, to be a man of culture. Whilst studying Falun Dafa, It became clear that the Buddha Law is the most righteous and shortest way. I received answers to questions like: What is the essence of human life, how to live life, what should we aspire and what should we achieve. I have read so many books before and have studied so much about so many issues, yet the answers I found were unconvincing. I concluded that man should just live for pleasure. How can one be so mistaken! In the last 10 years I read mainly books dealing with how to cultivate moral values etc., but they did not satisfy me. The great Teacher Li Hongzhi has opened a path right in front of me, a Tao to follow step by step. I am thankful for obtaining a way to know the truth. Now it is my choice if I can understand the Fa [Fa means universal laws and principles; namely in Falun Dafa - Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance] and to live by it. It depends only on me.

In my opinion, the more people that obtain Dafa in big cities, in small villages and all over the world, the more these place’s karma and all the world’s karma will become smaller and smaller. My experience in distributing Dafa began with Chinese workers. I handed them out in their television-room so that everyone had one. They smiled and then read them.

When I phoned home to my family in Bulgaria, my wife asked me to have a serious talk with our son. I told him: “Listen carefully and remember these three words: ‘Truth-compassion-forbearance’. We must live by these principles. This is the right way to do it. A week after I asked him: “Do you remember those words?”. He said: “Truth Compassion Forbearance”. My wife told me he hung a banner with these words on his wall.

I have a vision of starting a Falun Dafa practising site in my hometown in Bulgaria when I get there.