最好的胎教

The Best Fetal Education

——怎样才能生一个德行好、福报大的孩子？
----How to have a child with good virtues and great blessings?

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摘自认识菩提心01
Excerpt from knowing Bodhicitta 01

在怀孕期间 很多准妈妈会给胎儿放音乐来做胎教 事实上 胎儿在母亲肚子里是听不到音乐的 他听到的都是母亲肠子里面消化食物的声音。孕期的胎教不是让胎儿听音乐而是让母亲听音乐。因为母亲的心态是有一种磁场的会影响胎儿。如果母亲保持一个善良的心态，她的那种磁场就会罩着胎儿，孩子在胎里就受到了良好的磁场影响，生出来就比较好。
During pregnancy, many expectant mothers will play music to the fetuses for fetal education. In fact, the fetus can't hear music in the mother's womb. What all they hear is the sound of digesting food in the mother's intestines. Fetal Education during pregnancy is not for the fetus to listen to the music, but for the mother, because the mother's mindset is a magnetic field that affects the fetus. If the mother kept a kind-hearted attitude, her magnetic field would cover the fetus. The child who is influenced by a positive magnetic field in the fetus will be born better.
其实 真正的胎教不是从怀孕开始的 胎教最重要的时间段是在怀孕之前。在怀孕前就让父母先接受教育，让他们有一个良好的心态，然后生孩子一定是好孩子。
In fact, the most important period in true fetal education is before pregnancy, not during pregnancy. Educating the parents before the pregnancy enables them to gain a good mindset so that their child must be good.

在佛家有这么一个真实的故事，在公元四、五世纪的北印度有一位虔信大乘佛法的婆罗门女人 不忍见大乘佛法衰落，便在心中不断迫切地向十方诸佛祈求：“ 但愿我能生下两个儿子，由他们来弘扬大乘佛法！ ”后来她真的生下了两个儿子——在佛教史上大名鼎鼎的无著菩萨和世亲菩萨。

There is such a true Buddhist story about a Brahmin woman in North India in the fourth or fifth century AD. She believed in Mahayana and could not bear to see the decline of Mahayana Buddhism, so she kept praying urgently in her heart to the Buddhas of ten directions, "May I give birth to two sons, who will be the ones to preach the Mahayana Buddhism!" Later on, she did give birth to two sons - Bodhisattva Asanga and Bodhisattva Vasubandhu, who are well known in the history of Buddhism.
当然了，无著菩萨和世亲菩萨的母亲本来就是位德行高尚的修行人。对于我们普通人来说，我们至少做到能生下健康、有福报的孩子。夫妻俩通过培养良好的德行，发起好的善心善念来，就能感召好的孩子来入胎。
Of course, the mother of Bodhisattvas Asanga and Vasubandhu is a noble virtuous practitioner. For us ordinary people, the least we can do is to give birth to healthy, blessed children. By cultivating good virtues and initiating good and kind thoughts, the couple will be able to inspire "good children" to come to them.
比如母亲怀孕之前心胸豁达、爱帮助人、爱付出和给予，那这种布施的心就会感召德行好、福报大的孩子来投胎。这样的孩子天生聪明又善良，父母教育也省心。
For example, if the mother was open-minded, helpful, happy to pay and give before she became pregnant, then this kind of spirit would inspire a child with good virtues and great blessings to be reincarnated. Such children are naturally intelligent and kind, and their parents will have less trouble in raising them.
所以，胎教不是教育胎儿，而是教育父母。
Therefore, fetal education is not about educating the fetus, but educating the parents.

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翻译人： 梁雪玲
校对： Koala