By a Sydney Practitioner
G’day All,
I would like to tell you about ONE of the many things that Falun Gong has enabled
me to achieve through practicing 5 gentle exercises and living my life according
to the principles of, Truth Compassion Tolerance.
This ONE particular thing, was my addiction to anything that numbed the pain
of reality, as I understood it to be.
I grew up in a small country town, near the Snowy Mountains, that was full
of wonderful country folk. My foundation in life was a solid Aussie way, be
good to ya’ Mum and help those less fortunate.
However, as I got a bit older and was introduced to Alcohol, my life started
to change and go down hill. The hill it was going down was one of despair and
drug addiction. When I say “drug addiction” I mean alcohol, marijuana,
amphetamines, prescription drugs and at the end metho, sniffing petrol, heroin
and methadone, The things that I done to my body was terrible.
The reason that I done these things is very simple. I could not fit in amongst
society and I could not find the answer that I searched for, “What is my
purpose here”. I have had a house, a car, shared a business and managed
many, worked in shearing sheds, fought bush fires, mopped up after floods and
hitched hiked from town to town, been homeless and lived on a pension.
I was diagnosed with, Bi Polar Disorder ( Manic Depression), in 1992 and over
the following 9 years I spent many months in many different rehabilitations.
I tried different “Steps” to rid myself of these addictions. But it
boiled down to this. None of those things could answer my questions 100%. I
could always manipulate different attempts to help me, to suit myself. Wether
it was “I need more Valium to calm down” or “up the dose on it
and I’ll be right”. What ever it was I would be able to justify my “needing”
to have more drugs.
That was until one day when I got a pamphlet handed to me in the street. It
was a Falun Dafa free newspaper. I made contact with a person from the paper
and the rest is history.
I read the main text of Falun Dafa, Zhaun Falun, and I learn’t the 5 gentle
exercises. I will say that the things that have happened to me I never thought
possible. The clarity in my thinking and the things what my physical body has
felt and the level of health I now have is something that should be experienced
by everybody.
I am now completely drug free and I am working hard at my job, paying rent
and my bills. I am now completely responsible to myself. Being responsible to
myself has brought much happiness to my family, as the ones that loved me where
the ones that I hurt the most with my addictions and my search for the Truth.
That search has now ended with FALUN GONG.