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Kuan Yin é reverenciada no Budismo como a Salvadora compassiva, a Bodhisattva da Misericórdia. Amada como figura materna e medianeira divina, sempre próxima das atividades diárias dos devotos, o papel de Kuan Yin como Madona Budista é comparado ao que Maria, mãe de Jesus, desempenha no Ocidente. Em todo o Extremo Oriente, devotos pedem-lhe orientação e ajuda em todas as áreas da vida. Nos templos, residências e grutas à beira da estrada, é possível encontrar altares que lhe são dedicados.

O nome Kuan Shih Yin, como geralmente é chamada, significa “aquela que respeita, observa e escuta os sons do mundo”. Segundo a lenda, Kuan Yin estava prestes a entrar no céu, mas quando o pranto do mundo chegou aos seus ouvidos, ela parou no limiar.

Kuan Yin é reverenciada como protetora das mulheres, dos marinheiros, comerciantes, artesãos, dos que estão sendo processados criminalmente e dos que desejam ter filhos. Existe uma crença implícita na graça salvadora e nos poderes de cura de Kuan Yin. Muitos acreditam que a simples recitação do seu nome atrairá a sua presença, instantaneamente. O Rosário de Cristal de Kuan Yin 232 contém os seus mantras e é um meio poderoso de invocar a sua intercessão.

Tradições no Oriente

Por muitos séculos, Kuan Yin simbolizou o grande ideal do budismo Mahayana no seu papel como bodhisattva – literalmente “um ser bodhi, ou iluminado” – que apesar de estar destinada a tornar-se um Buda, renunciou à bem-aventurança do Nirvana por que fez o voto de salvar todos os filhos de Deus. Kuan Yin fez o voto de bodhisattva para trabalhar com as evoluções deste planeta e deste sistema solar, mostrando-lhes o caminho dos ensinamentos dos mestres ascensos.

Kuan Yin já era venerada na China, antes do advento do Budismo. Posteriormente, os buditas consideraram-na a encarnação de Avalokiteshvara (Padmapani). Os devotos invocam o poder e a intercessão misericordiosa da bodhisattva, fazendo o mantra Om Mani Padme Hum – “Salve, joia no lótus!” ou “Salve, Avalokiteshvara, que é a joia no centro do lótus do coração do devoto!”

Segundo a lenda, Avalokiteshvara nasceu de um raio de luz branca que o olho direito de Amitabha, o Buda da luz ilimitada, emitiu enquanto estava em êxtase. Avalokiteshvara, ou Kuan Yin, é vista como um “reflexo” de Amitabha – uma emanação ou encarnação de maha karuna (grande compaixão), a qualidade que Amitabha personifica. Os devotos acreditam que, como redentora misericordiosa, Kuan Yin expressa a compaixão de Amitabha de maneira mais direta e pessoal, e que as preces que lhe são oferecidas são respondidas mais rapidamente.

In Buddhist tradition, Kuan Yin is sometimes depicted as the captain of the “Bark of Salvation,” ferrying souls across the rough sea of their karma to Amitabha’s Western Paradise, or Pure Land, the land of bliss where souls may be reborn to receive continued instruction toward the goal of enlightenment and perfection.

Miao Shan

It is widely believed that Kuan Yin took embodiment as the third daughter of Miao Chuang Wang, identified with the Chou dynasty, a ruler of a northern Chinese kingdom about 700 B.C. According to legend, she was determined to devote herself to a religious life. She refused to be married despite the command of her father and the entreaties of her friends. Finally, however, she was permitted to enter the Nunnery of the White Bird in Lungshu Hsien. Here, at her father’s orders, she was put to the most demeaning tasks, which in no way dampened her zealous love for God.

Angered by her devotion, her father ordered her to be executed, but when the sword touched her, it broke into a thousand pieces. Her father then commanded her to be stifled, but when her soul left her body and descended into hell, she transformed it into paradise. Carried on a lotus flower to the island of P’ootoo, near Nimpo, she lived for nine years healing the diseased and saving mariners from shipwreck.

It is said that once, when word was brought to her that her father had fallen ill, she cut the flesh from her arms and used it as a medicine that saved his life. In gratitude, he ordered that a statue be erected in her honor, commissioning the artist to depict her with “completely formed arms and eyes.” The artist misunderstood, however, and to this day Kuan Yin is sometimes shown with a “thousand arms and a thousand eyes,” thereby able to see and assist the masses of her people.

O ideal de bodhisattva

A ajuda de Kuan Yin é bastante real e tão antiga quanto as montanhas. O voto que a bodhisattva fez, de permanecer com a humanidade, é uma vocação sagrada. No entanto, ela adverte que só devemos assumi-la se compreendermos profundamente o serviço prestado por esses seres dedicados:

Quando somos um só com a vida inteira, tomamos consciência de todas as suas manifestações, da mais baixa à mais elevada. Isso faz parte do ideal de bodhisattva dos que permanecem junto aos homens. E no planeta há um grande número deles, embora sejam poucos se comparados aos que seguem o seu caminho, levando uma existência desordenada. Trata-se de uma ordem muito elevada e sagrada e sugiro que penseis longa e profundamente sobre esse chamamento, antes de responderdes dizendo: ‘Vou fazer o mesmo!’

For when aeons pass and men are not moved by the flame that you hold, remember that you might wish that you had chosen another easier or more gratifying way. As the centuries pass, the thousands of years and the cycles, and the same individuals whom you have nourished by the power of your heart flame are involved in the same involvements in the world, you find that you cry out to God and say, “O LORD, how long, how long will this wayward generation be in coming to the knowledge of their divinity and of the love of the sacred fire that we have held for so long?”

Kuan Yin

Kuan Yin representa as qualidades da misericórdia e da compaixão para as evoluções da Terra. A chama da misericórdia é o meio pelo qual o Cristo intercede em prol dos que erram, dos que não conseguem suportar todo o impacto da Lei, que exige que toda violação seja reparada rapidamente. A misericórdia minimiza o retorno do carma da humanidade, detendo a mão da justiça até ao momento em que os indivíduos estejam aptos a erguer-se, encarar e superar a própria criação humana. Kuan Yin diz-nos que:

Kuan Yin representa as qualidades da misericórdia e da compaixão para as evoluções da Terra. A chama da misericórdia é o meio pelo qual o Cristo intercede em prol dos que erram, dos que não conseguem suportar todo o impacto da Lei, que exige que toda violação seja reparada rapidamente. A misericórdia minimiza o retorno do carma da humanidade, detendo a mão da justiça até ao momento em que os indivíduos estejam aptos a erguer-se, encarar e superar a própria criação humana. Kuan Yin diz-nos que:

A misericórdia é a qualidade do amor que suaviza as asperezas da vida, cura as feridas do corpo etérico, repara as divisões da mente e dos sentimentos, remove os fragmentos do pecado e o sentimento de contenda antes que estes se manifestem no corpo físico, como doenças, decadência, desintegração e morte”.

Kuan Yin diz-nos que “a misericórdia é o maior poder do universo... pois é o poder da vontade de Deus. O poder da misericórdia é a intensidade do amor que dissolve todo medo, toda dúvida e toda recalcitrância e rebelião da raça. A misericórdia da Lei é, às vezes, muito severa, mas é sempre paciente e tolerante, e vê as chama do coração elevarem-se continuamente, indo ao encontro do Cristo”.

Kuan Yin lembra-nos: “Quando sentirdes necessidade de vos fortalecer, iluminar, purificar e curar, lembrai-vos de que todas essas qualidades chegam até vós, vindas do coração de Deus, graças ao poder da própria chama da misericórdia. Com o perdão, chega uma oportunidade renovada para cumprir a Lei e sem ele não se progride muito”.Para retomar a caminhada com Deus, precisamos de perdão.

Kuan Yin, por Ruth Hawkins

A necessidade de perdão

Quando invocamos o perdão, percebemos que o [[Special:MyLanguage/Christ Self]Cristo Pessoal]] é o psiquiatra, o psicólogo, ministro, sacerdote, rabino e o amigo a quem podemos recorrer diariamente para nos aliviar. Era o que faziam os índios americanos quando, à noite, formavam um círculo em volta de uma fogueira e discutiam os acontecimentos do dia. E lançavam na chama tudo aquilo de que não gostavam. É o mesmo princípio que tem sido ensinado por todas as religiões. Quando lançamos na chama o que nos desagrada, conseguimos dormir em paz. Muitas vezes temos insônias por que não nos livramos do carma e do jugo diários e, portanto, não ficamos em paz conosco, nem com Deus.

Temos necessidade de nos confessar, de contar a Deus o que fizemos em desacordo com a Sua Lei. Enquanto não o fazemos e não pedimos que a Sua chama passe por nós, nutrimos um sentimento de culpa, de medo, de vergonha e, sobretudo, de estarmos separados d’Ele. Hoje em dia, isso manifesta-se em diferentes tipos de doenças mentais e emocionais, em dupla personalidade, ódio ao pai e à mãe, ódio aos filhos e outros tantos problemas dos quais a sociedade moderna se tornou presa. Invocar a lei do perdão é o caminho que nos leva de volta ao Guru, ao Cristo Interior.

Forgiveness is something we need to invoke not only for ourselves; we need to invoke it for every part of life—all who have ever wronged us, all whom we have wronged. Saint Germain teaches us that when we invoke forgiveness, it must be by a very intense love in our heart. We need to let each other know that we forgive and that we are asking for forgiveness. And it’s a point of humility to say, “I’ve done wrong, and I ask you and God to forgive me.”

When we invoke the law of forgiveness, it bursts like fireworks in the aura as violet, purple and pink, dissolving unpleasant conditions in our world. And it begins to intensify until great spheres of energy are going forth from our heart and inundating the world. You may visualize a loved one, a child, a self-styled enemy, a political figure; you may visualize an entire city, the government, the whole nation or the planet within this brilliant sphere of mercy’s flame, becoming the recipient of waves and waves of this wine of forgiveness.

Forgiveness is a law, and by this law, our sins are set aside to give us the opportunity to develop the Christ consciousness. “Training in the law of forgiveness is necessary,” Kuan Yin instructs us, “for it is indeed the foundation of the Aquarian age.... Forgiveness is not the balancing of karma; it is the setting aside of karma whereby you are given the freedom in renewed creativity to conquer, to go forth, to make things right without that heavy burden, that weight of sin. And when you come to the place where you have further attainment, then, according to the law of forgiveness, that karma that was set aside is returned to you. And in your heightened state of consciousness in the plane of self-mastery, you are quickly able to place in the flame that substance for transmutation and to pursue your high calling.”

There is a difference between the forgiveness of sins and their transmutation. Someone may steal your purse and later tell you that he is sorry he took it. You may forgive him, but the matter is not closed, karmically speaking, until he returns that purse to you with every penny intact or makes whatever restitution is necessary. Forgiveness is not the balancing of karma; it is the setting aside of karma whereby you are given the freedom to make things right without that heavy burden of sin.

The foundation of the path of the abundant life or of science is forgiveness. It is the resolution of harmony between every part of God. It is an intense love action of the freedom flame. The energies of the violet flame, the energies of God, are always pulsating, always moving, and they are transmuting the records of the subconscious. Forgiveness is the fulfillment of the law in Isaiah, “Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.”

The need to forgive

Kuan Yin riding a dragon

If you expect forgiveness, then you must be ready to forgive seventy times seven, as the Master Jesus taught. “In small ways and in great ways, mankind are tested,” Kuan Yin says, “And the bigotry that remains in the consciousness of some is also a lack of forgiveness. Those who cannot forgive their fellowmen because they do not think or worship as they do—these have the hardness of heart that encases the flame of love and also prevents the flow of wisdom.”

The mercy of the law is like a two-way street. It is the signal that you send to God and the signal that he returns. A two-way street means the give-and-take with God. If you expect mercy from God, then you must give mercy to every part of life. The fulfillment of the law of mercy must be for the ultimate liberation of each and every soul. Thus, as we forgive life, life forgives us.

Time and time again we have all heard the cliché, “Let bygones be bygones. Forgive and forget!” This is so true, because if you can still resurrect the memory of a wrong that has been done to you, then you have not truly forgiven. In order to forgive, the record and the memory must be dissolved from your consciousness. Kuan Yin tells us that if this is not the case, not only have you not truly forgiven, but “you have hardened your heart. You have stored the record as a squirrel with his nuts deep within the subconscious. Deep in the etheric plane, you have stored the record of that wrong. You have not released it into the flame. You have not been willing to let go and let God be free to express in those who have wronged you, in those whom you have wronged.”

One of the best ways to accomplish this complete “forgiving and forgetting” is by the use of the science of the spoken Word, accompanied by visualization, in a mantra for forgiveness written by El Morya in his “Heart, Head and Decrees.”

I AM forgiveness acting here,

Casting out all doubt and fear,

Setting men forever free

With wings of cosmic victory.

I AM calling in full power

For forgiveness every hour;

To all life in every place

I flood forth forgiving grace.

As you give this prayer daily, you may wish to visualize the flames of mercy, which are a lovely pink-violet color, enfolding your being and removing the cause and core of many wrongs of the past. It is possible to experience a great sense of relief from burdens you may have been carrying for centuries as you call for forgiveness for your sins—even those of which you may not be aware in this embodiment—and then truly accept God’s grace and forgiveness that he is extending to you through the gift of his violet transmuting flame.

The color violet has many hues ranging from the orchid-pink of mercy’s flame, containing a greater saturation of the pink ray of God’s love, to the deep-purple flame that embodies more of the blue of the will of God. The purple flame has a greater electronic cleansing action, which, when used alternately with the healing green decrees, will effectively purify and heal the four lower bodies, especially the etheric body (the memory body) of the records of the past that may be buried deep within the subconscious. To invoke this flame, take any violet-flame decree and substitute the word “purple” for “violet.” Oftentimes it is more difficult to penetrate to the etheric body than to any of the other lower bodies, and therefore the repetition of a mantra thirty-six times can be very effective in clearing old records of past momentums.

Service on the Karmic Board

Kuan Yin reminds us of another facet of the flame of mercy as she says:

For many of you I have pleaded before the Lords of Karma for the opportunity to embody, to be whole, to not have dealt to you in the physical the great karma of being maimed and blinded at birth that some of you have deserved. I have interceded with the flame of mercy on your behalf so that you could pursue, in the freedom of a sound mind and body, the light of the Law. Some who have been denied that mercy by the Lords of Karma are today in the institutions for the insane; for them it was meted that they should experience the agony of the absence of the presence of the Christ mind, that they might know what it is to defile that mind, that they might return in another life and appreciate the gift of reason, the gift to pursue the Holy Word Incarnate by the power of the Logos.

You do not realize how much has hung in the balance of your own life because mercy’s flame has been available to you. You have called and God has answered, and through my heart and my hands, mercy has flowed. I say this that you might also have the wisdom to understand that when mercy has been accorded for a time, you are expected to deliver the fruits of mercy, following the works of the LORD and the way of wisdom.

The Bodhisattva Kuan Yin is known as the Goddess of Mercy because she ensouls the God-qualities of mercy, compassion and forgiveness. She serves on the Karmic Board as the representative of the seventh ray (violet ray). She also held the office of chohan of the seventh ray for two thousand years until Saint Germain assumed that office in the late 1700s.

Her retreat

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Kuan Yin ascended thousands of years ago and has taken the vow of the bodhisattva to serve planet Earth until all her evolutions are free. From her etheric retreat, the Temple of Mercy, over Peking (Beijing), China, she ministers to the souls of humanity, teaching them to balance their karma and fulfill their divine plan through loving service to life and application of the violet flame.

Kuan Yin’s flame is the color of orchids, the pink of divine love tempering the blue of the will of God. Her flower is a pink and violet lotus; the center, being pink, is as the mercy flame, becoming deeper and deeper violet on the periphery.

See also

Kuan Yin’s Crystal Rosary

Sources

Mark L. Prophet and Elizabeth Clare Prophet, The Masters and Their Retreats, s.v. “Kuan Yin.”

Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 31, no. 57, September 9, 1984.