Guanyin Is The Patron Of Sailors

Chinese Carved Ivory Figure Guanyin 

In China, she is called Kuan Shih Yin (her full name). Kuan means “to inquire” or “to look deeply into.” Shih means “the world of people” or “generations,” and Yin means “cries.”  

Thus, Kuan Yin is “the one who regards, looks on, or hears the sounds and the cries of the world.”  In Japan she is called Kwannon, and in Tibet and Mongolia, she is called Tara or the White Goddess.

In China, Avalokitesvara bodhisattva is known as Kuanyin (translating as ”he who hears the sound of the world”) or Guanyin (meaning the ”Perceiver of Sounds”). 

She is the patron of sailors. It is known that Her compassion towards all living beings exceeds that of all the other Bodhisattvas combined. 

She is portrayed in numerous forms with each one demonstrating a unique aspect of Her mercy and compassion. However, in the present day, She is usually depicted as a beautiful, white-robed woman.

http://www.mindbodybloom.com/consciousness/great-compassion-mantra-da-bei-zhou-kuan-yin/
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I remember my mother told me she and my father wanted a boy (I have 3 sisters), and in tradition if you wanted a boy, you would offer Kuan Yin flowers and make a wish, and it will come true. My mom told me before she I was born, she had a dream where she saw Kuan Yin giving her a baby boy. (me)

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Gold is very useful, but if it is covered by rubbish it is useless. This is why this clairvoyant person tells someone where it is and tells him to remove the rubbish and use the golds. 

In the same way the Buddhas tell us about the rubbish of all our instability. They see beings who have the wish-fulfilling gem in their hands, but it is being wasted. Beings are suffering, but they have the tool to eliminate the suffering without knowing it. 

That night I had a dream. I saw a vast ocean. A beautiful lotus flower emerged from it, and on the lotus flower sat Kuan-Yin, with a devout and serene face. She came closer to me and smiled. In the sky behind her shone a bright cloud, and on it stood a gold-armored god holding a weapon. Later I learned that his name is Veda Guardian and that he is the guardian of Kuan-Yin. He thundered out: `Lian Shen, the Buddha has commanded me to give you the name of your shrine: Tzu-hui-lei-chung Temple. Remember, remember`. Then both Kuan-Yin and Veda disappeared and I woke up, recalling what had occurred. I looked at the Kuan-Yin I had bought earlier that day. To my surprise, the Kuan-Yin in the dream looked just like it. I got out of bed and respectfully bowed to the Kuan-Yin statue three times. As I bowed I smelled incense, then felt my spirit master`s presence.


This is why the Buddhas teach the dharma. We remain stuck in problems and difficulties and don't have the power to realize out own goal. 

we might think there is nothing we can do about it, but since we have the knowledge of how it-is and meanness, we have what is necessary to remove the defilements.  

The Buddha came to tell us if we practice, using what we have, we can reach enlightenment.

Maya Angelou has written, “When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.” This statement sums up the Six of Pentacles tarot card

Imagine a man so poor that he doesn't have any food or clothes living in a house built over a great treasure, If the man doesn't know about the treasure, he will continue to suffer in poverty because the treasure doesn't need to acquire new qualities because it has always been there. 

We do not see the Buddha essence in our mind so we endure all the sufferings of samsara caused by the defilements. 

The parallel is the treasure doesn't tell the man "I am here" even though it is very close by. Similarly all beings have the precious treasure of the dharmakaya locked in their mind. 

But continue to have the sufferings of deprivation. Therefore the great sages. the Buddhas, come into our world to help us find this nature.

http://buddhism.lib.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-BH/bh117501.htm