- Title
- Bodhisattva of Mercy, also written Quan Yin or Kwan Yin
- Name means
- She who hears the cries of the world
- Ray
- Seventh Ray, on which she serves the flame of mercy
- Color
- Violet and soft pink, with pearl white
- Office
- Member of the Karmic Board
- Etheric retreat
- The Temple of Mercy, above the hills of northern China
- Symbols
- The lotus, the willow branch, the vase of pure water
Kuan Yin is the great embodiment of mercy. She has been loved and prayed to across Asia for many centuries, and within the ascension teachings she is honored as an Ascended Master who serves the flame of mercy and compassion on the Seventh Ray.
She is a bodhisattva: one who has earned complete freedom and has declined to enter it until every other being is free. The tradition says that she stood at the threshold of the highest heaven, heard the cries of the world behind her, and turned back.
The Vow
Kuan Yin's vow is the heart of her teaching. It shows that the purpose of ascension is not escape. A being rises in order to have more to give. For those who fear that the spiritual path will make them remote or indifferent, she is the proof that the opposite is true.
Service to the Ascension
Kuan Yin sits on the Karmic Board as the representative of the Seventh Ray. When the record of a life is reviewed, hers is the voice that speaks for mercy. She is said to have preceded Saint Germain as Chohan of the Seventh Ray, and the two work closely together: his flame transmutes, and hers forgives.
In the present cycle she is especially near to those who are worn down: by caring for others, by grief, by a long illness, or by their own unforgiving standards. She does not ask them to try harder. She asks them to stop, and to receive.
What Kuan Yin Teaches
- Mercy is the love that does not wait for you to deserve it.
- Be as gentle with yourself as you would be with a frightened child. You are both.
- Compassion without harmlessness is only sentiment. Do no harm, beginning with your own thoughts.
- No one is beyond the reach of grace. No one.
When to Call on Kuan Yin
- Forgiving yourself
- Exhaustion from caring for others
- Mothers, children and those who long for a child
- Releasing guilt and shame without reliving them
- Softening anger into understanding
How to Work With Kuan Yin
Kuan Yin is called by the simple repetition of her name. Sit quietly and say it, aloud or inwardly, in time with your breathing. Picture her pouring clear water from a small vase over the crown of your head. Let it run down through the whole body and carry away whatever is tired, ashamed or afraid. Continue for as long as you wish. Nothing else is required.
An Invocation
Beloved Kuan Yin, mother of mercy,
you who hear the cries of the world, hear mine.
Pour your pure water over me.
Wash away guilt, shame and weariness.
Teach my heart to be as gentle with itself
as you are with all that lives.
A Word From Kuan Yin
Child, put it down. You have carried it far enough. No one in any heaven is keeping the account that you are keeping against yourself.
I am not waiting for you to become better. I am here now, as you are, and there is nothing in you that I would turn away.
Received by Ilse Varrow