We should emulate the compassion of Guan Yin to transform our minds.
Let the mind settle and become serene.
Consequently, by generating thepower of love,
we can resolve many environmental and global crises.
Each year during the first half of the year, the Ling Jiou Mountain Buddhist Society holds a twenty-one-day Great Compassion Mantra Retreat...
By emulating Avalokiteshvara’s immeasurable loving-kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity, we also aspire to relieve suffering, rescue those in distress, and dedicate ourselves to the welfare of beings.
Guan Yin had, in fact, already attained Buddhahood in the distant past. Yet, by the power of her great compassion and aspirations for sentient beings, she chose to manifest in the form of a bodhisattva.
The Great Compassion Mantra (Long Dharani) embodies compassion and bodhicitta. Bodhicitta is the aspiration for buddhahood, the mind that awakens oneself and awakens others. This mind is the very essence of the Great Compassion Mantra.
The Great Compassion Dharani Sutra introduces us to the course of Guan Yin (Avalokiteshvara)’s practice and the merits and benefits of the Great Compassion Mantra (Long Dharani).