By a practitioner from Ecuador, living in the U.S.　　　

　　I live in North Carolina now, but I'm originally from Ecuador, South America.　　　

　　In order to improve my spiritual life, I had been practicing some other cultivation ways for about 24 years. I had always been trying to improve the health of my body, mind and spirit. But for many years, no matter how I tried to improve the quality of my life, I always had a lot of tribulations, problems, misfortunes and miseries.　　　

　　Fortunately one morning in September 1998, while walking around a lake, I saw a young man performing his meditation practice. I felt that I would like to practice that type of meditation together with him. Something stronger than my own wish was pushing me to talk with him, but I couldn't because I felt respect for what he was doing and didn't want to interrupt him. he next day, the same thing happened. But on the third day I couldn't hold my strong desire any longer, and I decided to interrupt his exercise practice. I introduced myself to him.　　

　　After a short, friendly conversation, I asked him if there were books describing his exercises. Soon afterwards he gave me a set of books: Falun Gong, Zhuan Falun and an exercise instruction tape. Since that day, thanks to Master Li's wonderful teachings of cultivation, and the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance, my life has changed a great deal, in terms of my physical body, as well as my mind and my spirituality.　　

　　At present, I am an understanding person, and I offer my benevolence when I am mistreated in life. When I am faced with conflicts, I think this is an opportunity to increase my forbearance, and to practice what I have learned from Falun Dafa.　　　

　　For example, a few weeks ago, I was returning home from group practice in the park. I was driving on a road where two lanes merged into one, and I had the right of way. Suddenly a car from the other lane cut me off. Since I was comfortably driving under the speed limit, I had no problem controlling my car. Unfortunately another person tried to do the same, but he failed, and my car was hit on the rear right side. I reduced my speed to stop. his person was so upset that he hit the back of my car again on purpose.　　

　　Both of us stepped out of our cars. As I was approaching him, he insulted me with a lot of bad words like a typical bully. At that moment I started to experience the reaction I had in a similar situation years ago, but this time my mind was thinking about Master Li's teachings on Forbearance. Therefore, with a kind voice I told this person, "I do not understand why you're so upset. It is my car which was damaged, not yours." He had no option but to calm down. When I was getting a piece of paper to write down his name and driver's license, he suddenly drove away so fast that I could not even see his license plate number.　　　

　　I was thankful that, due to learning about Forbearance from Master Li, I behaved in a different way from how I used to. I did not lose anything other than a few minutes and some scratches on my car. But at the same time, I gained a lot of peace in my soul. I now know that it is indeed possible to love and forgive those who try to do bad things to us. I have experienced first-hand that my life is a lot better when my heart is practicing Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance.　　　

　　Spiritually, I had been very dedicated to my beliefs, always hoping to get something better for my spirit, but my improvement had been very slow. In my first month of Falun Dafa practice, my character improved much faster compared with my previous 24 years in other spiritual practices. Today I have more control over my thoughts, and through the exercises I can drain out the negative thoughts that enter my mind. Before, it was almost impossible to do so.　　　

　　Increasing my Forbearance in conjunction with Truthfulness and Compassion is a great blessing that is enlightening my life, which allows me to share the peace that everybody wants to feel inside. Because of the above changes, today I am a peaceful, harmonious, healthy, and happy person, with a lot more tenderness, benevolence, love, respect, tolerance, understanding and forgiveness, not only for my family members, but for all of humanity.　　　

　　In short, I think Falun Dafa is great. I hope, from the bottom of my heart, that every single person in the world will get the opportunity to learn about Falun Dafa.