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Kuan Yin (Chinese Buddhist Goddess)
was so concerned with humanity that,
upon receiving enlightenment,
she choose to remain in human form. Her name translates to:
"She Who Hears The Weeping World"
A poem to Kuan Yin
Excerpts from The Divine Feminine
Listen to the deeds of Kuan Yin - eternally divine and wonderful.
With great vows, deep as the ocean.
She saves all the suffering when their cries reach her.
Serving the innumerable,
She never fails to answer their prayers
even through inconceivable periods of time.
Responding compassionately on every side.
Giving great, clear and pure vows...
To hear her name, to see her body, to hold her in the heart, is not vain,
For she can extinguish the suffering of existence.
I have raised both my hands!
Once a women went to see her weaver friend. The weaver who had been spinning
different kinds of silk thread, was very happy to see her friend and said to her:
"Friend, I can't tell you how happy I am to see you. Let me get you some refreshment".
She left the room. The woman looked at the threads of different colors and was
tempted. She hid a bundle of thread under one arm. The weaver returned presently
with the refreshments and began to feed her guest with enthusiasm. But, looking
at the thread, she realized that her friend had taken a bundle. Hitting upon a plan to
get it back, she said: "Friend, it is so long since I have seen you. This is a day of
great joy for me. I feel very much like asking you to dance with me." The friend
said "Sister, I am feeling very happy too." So the two friends began to dance together.
When the weaver saw that her friend danced without raising her hands, she said:
"Friend, let us dance with both hands raised. This is a day of great joy."
But the guest pressed one arm to her side and danced raising only the other.
The weaver said: "How is this, friend? Why should you dance with only one
hand raised? Dance with me raising both hands. Look at me. See how I dance
with both hands raised.: But the guest still pressed one arm to her side.
She danced with the other hand raised and said with a smile:
"This is all I know of dancing."
The righteous person says:
"I don't press my arm to my side. Both my hands are free.
I am not afraid of anything. I accept both the absolute and the relative.
From: The Gospel of Ramakrishna - The Divine Feminine
The Song
(for S.M.K.)
Beehive source
Trellised womb
Mother of all beginnings
Hold me
Gather me
Feed me
With the honey-nectar
From the hive.
Nourished
I will sing
The Bee-Song
The long-forgotten threnody
Of praise to thee.
Anne Baring - The Divine Feminine
Circle of Love
Words and Music By: Mariam Therese Winter
Medical Mission Sisters, 1987©
Throw a pebble in a pond, see a circle
Dance and we'll respond with a circle
Sing a happy sound, and the song comes circling round,
till all are caught and held in the circle of love.
Chorus: Reaching out, reaching in, a circle game all will win.
Teaching you, teaching me, how to live inclusively.
Everyone knows a circle grows, all around the globe it goes,
till all are caught and held in the circle of love.
Rain upon a puddle falls in circles
An echoing canyon calls in circles
Share some happy news, it will circle back to you,
till all are caught and held in the circle of love. (Chorus)
Little birds learn to fly in circles
Earth completes the sky: a circle
Some set out to roam, yet all come circling home
for all are caught and held in the circle of love. (Chorus)
Marriage vows are sealed with a circle
Rainbows are revealed as a circle
The life we live extends through a widening circle of friends,
till all are caught and held in the circle of love. (Chorus)
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