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The one who hears the cries of the world

Guan Shi Yin

Quan Yin is a diety in Buddhist tradition. She is the embodiment of compassionate loving kindness.As the Bodhisattva of Compassion, she hears the cries of all beings.

In many images she is depicted carrying the pearls of illumination. Often she is shown pouring a stream of healing water, the "Water of Life," from a small vase. With this water all living things are blessed with physical and spiritual peace. She holds a sheaf of ripe rice or a bowl of rice seed as a metaphor for fertility and sustenance. The dragon, an ancient symbol for high spirituality, wisdom, strength, and divine powers of transformation, is a common motif found in combination with the Goddess of Mercy.

Guan Yin, as a true enlightened one, vowed to remain in the earthly realms and not enter the heavenly world until all other living things have completed their own enlightenment.

The name Guan Shi Yin, as she is often called, means literally "the one who hears the cries of the world."

Ancient Prayers for Love and Peace

 

Do everything with a mind that lets go.
Do not expect any praise or reward.
If you let go a little, you will have a little peace.
If you let go a lot, you will have a lot of peace.
If you let go completely, you will know complete peace and freedom.
Your struggles with the world
will have come to an end. Insight Meditation - Achaan Chah

St. Francis of Assisi – 13th century

Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace;
where there is hatred, let me sow love;

where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;

where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy. O Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood, as to understand;
to be loved, as to love;
for it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.

Lao Tzu– 6th Century BC

If there is to be peace in the world,

There must be peace in the nations. If there is to be peace in the nations, There must be peace in the cities. If there is to be peace in the cities, There must be peace between neighbors. If there is to be peace between neighbors,

There must be peace in the home. If there is to be peace in the home, There must be peace in the heart. Chinese Philosopher -

~Om Shanti

Mary Jane