In Chinese Buddhism, Guan Shi Yin 觀世音 or Kuan shi yin is synonymous with the Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, the pinnacle of mercy, compassion, kindness and love.
Guan Yin
In Chinese Buddhism, Guan Yin 觀世音 or Kuan Yin is synonymous with the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara, the pinnacle of mercy, compassion, kindness and love.
Guanyin
(Ch., “one who perceives sounds”). The female logos, Mother of Mercy; the female aspect of Guanshiyin (Ch., “one who perceives the sounds of the world”) called the Divine Voice.
Lao Tzu
A great sage, saint, and philosopher who preceded Confucius; the author of Tao Te Ching (Ch., “book of the perfectibility of Nature”). The text is based on a kind of cosmogony containing all the fundamental tenets of esoteric cosmogenesis. Thus, Lao Tzu writes that in the beginning there was nothing but limitless, boundless Space. All that lives and is, was born in it, from the “Principle which exists by Itself, developing Itself from Itself.” As its name is unknown and its essence is unfathomable, philosophers have called it Tao (Anima Mundi), the uncreate, unborn, and eternal energy of Nature, manifesting periodically. When reaching a state of purity, man, like Nature, will achieve rest and then become one with Tao, the source of all bliss and felicity. As in the Hindu and Buddhistic philosophies, such purity, bliss, and immortality can only be reached through the exercise of virtue and the perfect quietude of our worldly spirit; the human mind must control, subdue, and even crush the turbulent action of man’s physical nature. The sooner he reaches the necessary degree of moral purification, the happier he will feel.