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.
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