PureInsight | February 11, 2002
My husband and I were both cultivators before we got married. So when I was pregnant, we practiced and studied Fa with our baby (whom we nicknamed "Baby.") We didn't deliberately try to give Baby any prenatal education [many Chinese parents believe in "educating" their children while they are still in the mothers' wombs. The "education" usually involves listening to classical music and reading stories, among other things.] But I think Dafa music is the best prenatal education that any baby can hope to receive. Sometimes my husband sang songs he learned during early childhood. Baby loved music when he was born. He even requested songs before he was able to talk.
Our living conditions were not very good during my pregnancy. There was no heat in the house and both the toilet and running water were outside. It was very cold that winter which caused the water pipes to freeze. In order to keep warm, we burned briquettes under the bed with the windows closed. This created a "carbon monoxide poisoning" effect. The next morning my husband had a headache and I felt very weak. We didn't worry about it and continued to go to work. We recovered by that evening. If we were ordinary people, this could have caused serious illness or even death. The possible consequences for an unborn child would be even more serious. However, we were fine. Baby was born healthy and bright. Everyone loved him. It was Master's protection as well as the benefits from practicing Dafa.
Baby's head was a bit big, as we discovered when I was in labor. The obstetrician was worried about me and suggested a caesarean birth. My husband said, "No! Please let her do it naturally. It's no problem for practitioners." Usually the perineum on the woman is cut a bit during labor. I thought that anesthesia and surgery were medical treatments, so I refused. My husband had just given the obstetrician an introduction to Falun Gong in the hallway. The obstetrician was very interested and asked to borrow a copy of Zhuan Falun. So she agreed with our request, which caused a little bit of difficulty with the nurse. But Baby was soon delivered, and both mother and son were safe. The obstetrician said, "Falun Gong practitioners are really different from everyday people. You are so brave."
Unlike those babies with wrinkled skin, Baby's skin was smooth from the start. My roommates called him "handsome little boy." He was very good the first couple of nights. He slept during the night and didn't even cry when he was hungry. I was able to rest. Baby was born very early in the morning. Later that same morning I went to the washroom by myself. I started practicing the exercises two days later. People around me envied my healthy body. In fact, I had had pulmonary tuberculosis before beginning cultivation. Now I am healthy because of cultivating Dafa. Even my milk was fine for Baby. It was his good fortune.
Baby was white and chubby with a wide and high forehead. His arms and legs looked like lily roots, white and smooth. People said he was great. Baby didn't get sick until he was six months old. He got a fever. My husband and I were very healthy since we have cultivated for years. We've never had medicine or shots. So instead of giving him medicine, we gave him much more water. He recovered in two days. Baby lost his voice because of too much crying, but was able to recover in the same day. However, tears rolled down in his ears causing an infection in the ear canal. It was a very difficult choice for us. We struggled a bit, but in the end decided not to give him any medicine. Once we let go out of our fear, Baby became totally healthy that night. After that, we never brought Baby to the doctor, even for immunizations. Baby is healthier than other children. The babysitter took him out to play with others. Those parents said, "Incredible, my child got sick every few days even under special care." If one practices the whole family benefits from it. Baby is benefiting from Dafa.
Baby was very smart and loved to study. The baby magazines I bought for him were on the shelves. He ran over to pick one up and placed it in my hand, asking me to tell him stories. I taught him words with picture cards. If I said the word "bed," he didn't point to the card, but to the bed he was sitting on. If I said the word "telephone," he pointed to the one in the living room. When he was 14 months old, I started reading Zhuan Falun to him and we listened to Master's lectures. He ran everywhere, but seemed to not hear anything. However, when one side was finished, he pointed to the cassette, made some baby sounds, and wanted to play the other side. At the end of each lecture, there was some Dafa music. One day, when the music was on, he suddenly started the third set of exercises, "Chong Guan." We were surprised to see that because nobody had taught him. From then on, whenever we said, "practice" or the music was on, Baby did the third set "Chong Guan." Once I told Baby, "children should not practice, you should work on xinxing. That means be a good boy." Baby looked at me seriously, seemed to understand. Then his little arms did the second set again, up and down.
I went to Tiananmen Square to validate the Fa and was illegally arrested. I didn't see Baby for a long time. By the time we met again, he had grown up. He said, "Mom, I had a dream that you fought the bad guys like Monkey King (a legendary figure who accompanied a famous Buddha in the Tang Dynasty to take a dangerous westward journey to obtain the Dharma teachings)." I knew he meant that I had fought against the evil beings.
Baby and I lost our home by the time I got out of jail. Once he had a rash all over his body, then a fever bothered him all night. In the morning, I played Master's lecture whilw he slept. He had recovered when he woke up. The rash he had had was gone several days later. I practiced every morning while he was still sleeping. He didn't cry when he woke up. He looked at me silently and then said, "Mom, it's beautiful." He also practiced too. He loved to see the fairies in Hong Yin. Gradually, he could recite all 72 poems. I read Master's articles to him every night before he slept. 'LunYu;' 'The Knowing Heart;' 'Rectifying the Colossal Firmament,' he can recite them all.
Whenever we sent out righteous thoughts, he rushed to respond to the alarm. He knew and recited the Fa-rectification verse. One night, the sky was full of black clouds. Hailstones started to fall and the storm was so loud that I thought the windows would break. There must have been intense fighting in other dimensions. My husband and I sent out righteous thoughts on the balcony, Baby stood in front of us bravely, loudly repeating 'The Knowing Heart.' After that, Baby told me, "Mom, I am not scared of hailstones because I am a practitioner. Only everyday people get scared." When I read articles from Clear Wisdom, Baby came to sit on my lap and asked me to read. I told him the stories of little disciples. He loved that. Sometimes he asked me while lying on his bed, "Mom, would you tell me a story from Shan Shan?" Or, "How come evil forces arrest Dafa disciples? Can Dafa disciples fly? Evil beings are bad." He asked me when he could go back home to ride his bike. I said, "When all the evil beings are eliminated we can go home. You should eliminate evil with Dad and Mom. All people will have good fortune when all evil beings are eliminated."
We brought him to my mother's home and his aunt played with him. Suddenly, he told his aunt, "Aunt, would you spend more time studying Fa? Like Mom and Dad, more please." All of us were surprised to hear that. How could he say that so well? During that period, his aunt was so busy doing everyday work and baby-sitting and had less time to study the Fa. Master used Baby to awaken his aunt.
The evil's persecution became more and more serious. It was very inconvenient to bring Baby with us to do the Fa-rectification. We left him at a kind-hearted everyday person's home. During those times, I cried. However, Baby looked at me, not crying, not upset, and said, "Mom, pick me up when all the evil beings are eliminated." I nodded my head heavily, "Yes, I will pick you up when all the evil beings are eliminated." Then I said goodbye and left. I have not seen him since then. People have told me that he is well.
Sometimes I have felt sorry for Baby because he couldn't attend the Fa-rectification with us like other little disciples. However, for the sake of all the children in the world, for the sake of all the living beings who will get to practice freely after the Fa's rectification of the human world, Baby has made sacrifices and contributions in his own way.
This article is written to all practitioners and ordinary people. Compared to those single-child families who completely spoil their children, how special the Dafa practitioners' children are!
Translated from:
http://zhengjian.org/zj/articles/2001/12/26/13028.html
