Date: 28/03/2024
Time: 8:00pm
Venue: Nyingma Kathok Buddhist Centre
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Guan Yin’s birthday falls on the 19th day of the 2nd lunar month. On this day, the Centre will hold a group practice of Guan Yin, together with light and flower offering.
The recitation of Guan Yin’s heart mantra will help us avoid the seven calamities (of fire, water, robbers, muggers, rakshas and evil spirits) and separate ourselves from the three poisons. Therefore, seek to recite the mantra as much as possible. Do join us on Guan Yin’s birthday in the practice of the eponymous sadhana.
On this auspicious day, besides offering praises, we should also contemplate his unconditioned great compassion. We should ceaselessly learn to expand our compassion and do our utmost to help sentients beings that are suffering and in hardship. Like this, we will mold ourselves into Bodhisattvas and obtain blessings quickly. Thus, we benefit both ourselves and others.
The Inconceivable Body Of Avalokiteshvara (Guan Yin) : Bodhisattva Samantabhadra once lived amid the pores of Avalokiteshvara for twelve years and still could not find any limit to the number of pores. He only saw that in each pore there is a Buddha and his retinue. This was praised by the Buddha as due to the lack of characteristics (signlessness) that enables the appearance of such an inconceivably large body.