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Not long after a sister initiate in Beijing gave birth to her daughter, she asked a fortune teller to tell her the daughter's fortune. The fortune teller said that her daughter would be missing for a period of time when she was five and a half years old; that this period would be quite long but that she would eventually be found. The sister initiate worried about this for quite a while. However, with the passing of time, she soon forgot about this prediction. Last year, the sister initiate went to Paris on a business trip. By a lucky coincidence, she was initiated by Master. After initiation, she returned to Beijing. Shortly after, her job required her to go to Shantou on a ten-day business trip. Therefore, she entrusted her husband with the task of picking up their daughter from kindergarten every day. During the afternoon of the following day, her husband went to the kindergarten by bicycle, but the teacher told him that the child's mother had just picked up the child. Naturally, the husband felt very uneasy. While riding home, he was wondering why his wife had come back so soon. The more he thought about it, the less he could set his mind at rest. So he decided to go back to the kindergarten to have another look. While riding on a busy street, he saw a little girl standing near an electricity pole by the roadside and realized that it was his daughter. He quickly pedaled his bike toward her. As soon as his daughter saw him, she cried loudly. | What had happened was that when the kindergarten closed for the day, the daughter saw a person who she thought was her mother, so she followed her. After walking for quite a while, she saw that "her mother" did not pay attention to her. So she looked at that person again and discovered that she had followed the wrong person. By this time, she was already on a busy street and could not find her way back to the kindergarten. She was very worried and scared. She told herself, "Mother has been initiated so Master will definitely take care of me. I can't run around here and there. I should stand here and wait for my father. I can't cry. If I do, others will know that I'm a child without my parents and they'll take me away." So she stood by an electricity pole and silently recited, " Namo Supreme Master Ching Hai, please help me! Namo Supreme Master Ching Hai, please help me!..." While doing this she watched all the pedestrian passing by with wide eyes. Finally, she saw her father. After this unexpected incident, the sister initiate and her husband remembered the prediction that the fortune teller had given years earlier because they realized that their daughter was exactly five and a half years old. The incident had happened quite coincidentally. However, the difference was that their daughter was supposed to be missing for a long time according to the fortune teller; but she was actually missing only for less than an hour. Master often says that after initiation, if we seriously pursue our spiritual practice, our enormous fixed karma can be turned into small karma, and this small karma can even be turned into nothing. This incident of a missing child is an excellent example of this.กน |