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:
