How does Avalokitesvara,
The Bodhisattva of Great Compassion,
Use her myriad hands and eyes?
The entire body-mind is hands and eyes.
Arousing the wind,
Enormous waves billow
In the Ocean of Being.
Picking up a speck of dust,
The vast world is revealed
In Indra's jeweled net.
(An image with this poem was originally posted on Instagram in July 2022. Finally able to read the text from another version.)
—From Dan Welch at
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Friday, January 13, 2023
The Bodhisattva of Great Compassion
