"My reluctance to write a book about my life was cunningly overcome
by my wife, who started interviewing me onto a camcorder. She
enjoyed hearing about my idyllic childhood in Jemnice, South
Moravia, but ended up transcribing 46 hours covering the years up
to 1968 when I emigrated. During the war I worked for a German firm
in Brno, then obtained a doctorate and was poised for a
professorship at Olomouc University. After the communist putsch,
only manual jobs were available to me. I became a good tram-driver
but a less competent coal-miner and plumber. Unwittingly I gave the
political commissar a nervous breakdown during my army service,
most of which I spent sitting at a typewriter. From my teens I had
been interested in oriental philosophy and was practising deep
meditation, which helped me to stay true to myself during secret
police interrogations and at other times of intense pressure. My
research into the benefits of Hatha Yoga led to my writing the
first book on it in Czech, and founding the Yoga Club in Brno, all
under the eyes of the communist regime. Before I was deemed to be
'illegally abroad', the book had sold 95,000 copies."
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