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    Kuan Yin: "The One Who Hears The Cries of The World."

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    Kuan Yin is known as the Goddess of Compassion and is one of the most popular deities in Asia. She is believed to be a Bodhisattva who chose to forgo nirvana and help beings attain enlightenment. Legend says she was a princess who became a nun against her father's wishes and vowed to stay on Earth to ease suffering until all could reach Heaven. Kuan Yin is often depicted holding a vase pouring healing water to bless all with peace or seated on a lotus symbolizing a pure heart despite living in an impure world.

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    Kuan Yin is known as the Goddess of Compassion and is one of the most popular deities in Asia. She is believed to be a Bodhisattva who chose to forgo nirvana and help beings attain enlightenment. Legend says she was a princess who became a nun against her father's wishes and vowed to stay on Earth to ease suffering until all could reach Heaven. Kuan Yin is often depicted holding a vase pouring healing water to bless all with peace or seated on a lotus symbolizing a pure heart despite living in an impure world.

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    Kuan Yin is known as the Goddess of Compassion and is one of the most popular deities in Asia. She is believed to be a Bodhisattva who chose to forgo nirvana and help beings attain enlightenment. Legend says she was a princess who became a nun against her father's wishes and vowed to stay on Earth to ease suffering until all could reach Heaven. Kuan Yin is often depicted holding a vase pouring healing water to bless all with peace or seated on a lotus symbolizing a pure heart despite living in an impure world.

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    Kuan Yin: "The One Who Hears The Cries of The World."

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    Kuan Yin is known as the Goddess of Compassion and is one of the most popular deities in Asia. She is believed to be a Bodhisattva who chose to forgo nirvana and help beings attain enlightenment. Legend says she was a princess who became a nun against her father's wishes and vowed to stay on Earth to ease suffering until all could reach Heaven. Kuan Yin is often depicted holding a vase pouring healing water to bless all with peace or seated on a lotus symbolizing a pure heart despite living in an impure world.

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    Kuan Yin

    The one who Hears the Cries of the World.


    Kuan Yin (also spelled Kwan Yin or Quan Yin), is known as the Goddess of Compassion. She is one of the most popular deities in all of Asia. Her name in Chinese roughly translates as "One who Hears the Cries of the World." It is believed that she is a Boddhisattva, one who has earned the right to leave this world of suffering and enter nirvana, but has forsaken the final stage of enlightenment in order to help all earthly beings attain enlightenment first. Legend says Kuan Yin was a princess who, having forsaken marriage, lived her life in a convent, much to her father's anger. When at the gates of Heaven, she heard someone on earth cry and so turned back, vowing that she would stay on earth to do all she could to ease our suffering. She would not enter Heaven until everyone could go there with her. It is said to have a Kuan Yin picture or statue in your house brings good luck and protection to the household and family. It is not unusual to see Kuan Yin in various forms and poses. Often she will be holding a small vase, or pouring a stream of healing water, the Water of Life from the vase, which symbolizes her pouring compassion onto the world. With this water all living things are blessed with physical and spiritual peace. She may be seen standing or seated on a lotus blossom, which is a symbol of purity of heart, since the lotus flower is able to maintain its beauty despite the fact that it grows in the mud. The meaning is that our hearts should be pure like the lotus flower, even though our lives may be surrounded by impure people and situations.

    To gaze upon Kuan Yin is to be calmed and centered, and in this way brought to see both your depths and your limitations.

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