When Proposing Your 2008 New Year's Resolutions Consider The Following Message From Kuan Yin:

These days Westerners especially are inundated by a flurry: all stripes of manifestation or Law of Attraction texts promising wealth and happiness. While perhaps slightly varying in techniques presented, they all stem from the identical concept stating that each and every one of us creates our reality. With this central premise, Kuan Yin has no quarrel. Indeed, her main message in the book, The Living Word of Kuan Yin  is that we all possess free will and have incarnated on earth to learn how to most skillfully utilize it. Learning how to "spiritualize matter" is in fact, according to Kuan Yin, our purpose for incarnating here on earth.

What makes this deity's material so compelling, however, is her insistence that integral to one's highest manifestation is having love and compassion. And, as like vibration attracts like vibration, it just makes sense that ultimately one should strive to develop one's highest intentions of love and compassion.

Kuan Yin's teachings contain certain crucial spiritual precepts not included in other LOA literature. Indeed, there have recently surfaced reports disclosing incidences of suffering: extreme frustration over inabilities to achieve desired LOA results. Perhaps it is the promise of "instant gratification" pushed by certain Law of Attraction gurus causing undo stress and anxiety often leading to the need for professional assistance. Might the source of such suffering also be that certain LOA teachings are vastly over-simplifying our complex spiritual nature and personality? Stating in The Living Word that her teachings are there for all those believing they "don't measure up", Kuan Yin wants people to know that spirituality can reap tremendous rewards transforming all levels of one's existence.

In transcribing the Kuan Yin material I recognized certain former Elder teachings such as Kuan Yin’s assertion of “the great mix of karma and free will”. This testament, however, is accompanied by an important caveat, that karma does not possess the iron grip on our lives many would suppose. We are not meant to suffer, nor are we are destined to endure endless entrapping, "made-up” realities. Rather, resolving whatever limiting beliefs one might possess, one is to then focus upon the expansive possibilities, one's greater free will:

Showing us the Crown of Creation, Kuan Yin professes that we are here not only to experience the wonder and beauty of being alive but to also learn from her and from those spiritual speakers who preceded her. Desiring that we fully experience our humanity by marveling at and participating in all the sights, sounds and smells this earth has to offer, Kuan Yin stresses that one's earthly incarnation is an opportunity for the divine.

Accompanying Kuan Yin during each new session was an array of items and environments intended to demonstrate her canons. Once, coming with a thousand arms, holding traditional spiritual items, (for example, a candle, incense, a peace symbol, etc.) she quickly explained:

“You might find it helpful to read about the many tools I hold in my hands. I can tell you they are often metaphors for human qualities and also are used to balance one’s life.

In offering her many and varied spiritual tools, Kuan Yin provides ways for us to heal beliefs stifling our potential for love and joy. Cautioning that spiritual tools are very individualistic, she explains that we need not feel compelled to utilize spiritual tools designated for other cultures and historical times.

Instead, she recommends seeking out tools and interactive strategies most applicable to one’s present season of life. By skillfully identifying the driving force (intention, beliefs, and emotions) and prevailing circumstances (karma) influencing one’s present situation, one can effectively prioritize and customize their individualistic spiritual needs and strategies.

In several of the chapters, I was transfixed by the beauty and complexity of Kuan Yin's wardrobe. In one remarkable passage I contemplated the folds traversing Kuan Yin's regal robes. In a flash of divine inspiration, I suddenly fathomed this cosmic enigma: The folds represent one's spiritual mosaic of multifaceted realities. I came to comprehend that the entirety of Kuan Yin’s wardrobe held a deep significance, integral to the ancient messages harbored within each of her parables. Utilizing extravagantly fanciful environments, unnatural distortions or fantastic combinations of elements: her upaya-kaushalya demonstrates that there are only moments upon moments to be lived.

This truth is further illustrated by her appearance as known archetypes: the playful and joyous young woman, the nurturing mother and the wizened crone. In this way she shows how (as our Authentic Selves) we are genderless and ageless.

Through her many transformations, Kuan Yin demonstrates how we each have the ability to “think ourselves there”: that we choose each new and unique reality. Whether instantaneously (as in dreams) or in sequence (as in waking reality), one manifests reality from intention, thoughts and emotions. That humans can experience a sequential life in a multi-dimensional universe is, indeed, the anomaly of voyaging the earthly plane. Kuan Yin can guide us to our own spiritual truth. No longer a captive of ego’s stifling encasement, one becomes the limitless vistas of his or her soul.

Integral to this process, one must necessarily develop focus. It is required for identifying the shape and breadth of one’s thought and emotional formations. We need to be the "watcher" to our personal drama so that we can identify key beliefs. Similar to separating wheat from the chaff, one should take only that which is helpful. In waking mode, one is continually inundated by a barrage of sensory input. Perhaps unaware one is living the consequences of certain beliefs, intentions and emotions, it is perhaps more in the privacy and immediacy of one’s dreams where one perceives the constant play between mind and manifestation.

Stating: “You have lived all your lives…there exist only seasons of life”, Kuan Yin is referring to experiences constructed from one’s beliefs and free will; that they continue on as parallel, open-ended dramas. Any instigation of Kuan Yin's LOA teachings should therefore use one's positive focus to choose the most beneficial path to the most optimal reality: what Kuan Yin terms one's "path of liberation".

Examples of how thoughts and emotions create unique and indelible residues, Kuan Yin’s metamorphisms spontaneously billow forth: evolutions emanating from the original thought or emotional imprint. Whereas love and compassion beget liberation: stagnant, limiting energy creates closed systems preventing us from being free. Those emanating love and compassion help to assuage suffering while those individuals intent upon the control and limitation of others are themselves imprisoned by that same circle of doom. Yet, within the cycles of nature there are times of forgiveness and renewal. The Divine One’s shape shifting reminds us of our own divinity, our potential for limitless love and forgiveness.

An essential cornerstone of the deity’s canons is that a realistic life allows for the higher self to pluck divinity from one’s everyday life drama. The embodiment of her universal principles, Kuan Yin declares there exists only eternity, knowledge and bliss and that we, as humans, are constantly dealing with seen and unseen forces:

Throughout the manuscript goddess, Kuan Yin, spoke of collective (soul) agreements, spiritual contracts comprised of specific mindsets, creating personal as well as global realities: "You are riding the karmic wave and the wind can shift. Everyone must take what they see and deal with that which is unseen." Kuan Yin wants us to also understand that we have greater control over our reality than we might believe. Placing nurturing and motherly love at the foundation of her teachings, Kuan Yin decrees, “Loving kindness is the most potent energy of all.”

Dedicating this book to “all the people who feel left behind", Kuan Yin wants her readers to know that spirituality is liberating and that even a moment of meditation is potent. Further, she emphasizes that loving others and praying for their well-being is “the most incredible thing a person can do": that what you wish for others returns to you.