{"id":313187,"date":"2026-02-16T12:00:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T12:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=313187"},"modified":"2026-02-13T17:52:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T17:52:04","slug":"kuan-yin-she-who-hears-the-cries-and-crises-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2026\/02\/kuan-yin-she-who-hears-the-cries-and-crises-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Kuan Yin: She Who Hears the Cries and Crises of the World"},"content":{"rendered":"

19 February, in countries influenced by Chinese culture, is a day devoted to honoring Kuan Yin, the Goddess of Compassion for the Taoists and a Bodhisattva for the Buddhists, “She who hears the cries of the world and restores harmony.”\u00a0<\/em> A Bodhisattva is one who has reached enlightenment but chooses to be reborn to help others who are suffering.\u00a0 In Chinese culture, on 19 February, offerings of incense are made to Kuan Yin, along with tea for wisdom and fruit for prosperity. She awakens and enlightens. Thus, those who offer gifts obtain blessings and drive away adversities.<\/p>\n

Today, at a time when humanity is increasingly working together to meet ecological challenges and to overcome ideological-led strife, the spirit of Kuan Yin presents us with an important call for a cultural renaissance based on the concept of harmony with visions of a better future.<\/p>\n

First, we must look carefully at the present.\u00a0 As the Taoist philosopher Huai Nan Tsu wrote,<\/p>\n

“The sage responds to everything with an unbiased mind, with a mind free from suppositions.\u00a0 He approaches all events and investigates the laws which govern them.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Kuan Yin\u2019s spirit leads to harmony, which includes tolerance and forgiveness of past pains and conflicts.\u00a0 Kuan Yin embodies the virtues of karuna<\/em> (compassion) and metta<\/em> (loving kindness).\u00a0 In this way, she strengthens the broad currents moving toward gentleness, kindness and inner peace.\u00a0 Kuan Yin, aware of the suffering caused by hateful speech encourages loving speech and deep listening in order to bring joy and happiness to others and relieve them of their suffering.<\/p>\n

Thus, on this 19 February we rededicate ourselves to the spirit of Kuan Yin.\u00a0 We strive to listen to the crises of the world and to find the ways to develop harmony.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a> Ren\u00e9 Wadlow is a member of the <\/em>TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/a>. He <\/em>is President of the Association of World Citizens, an international peace organization with consultative status with ECOSOC, the United Nations organ facilitating international cooperation and problem-solving in economic and social issues<\/em>, and <\/em>editor of <\/em>Transnational Perspectives.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

19 February, in countries influenced by Chinese culture, is a day devoted to honoring Kuan Yin, the Goddess of Compassion for the Taoists and a Bodhisattva for the Buddhists, “She who hears the cries of the world and restores harmony.”\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":244689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[1198,244,1879,3583,3449,1179,1186],"class_list":["post-313187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transcend-members","tag-buddhism","tag-china","tag-compassion","tag-harmonism","tag-kuan-yin","tag-tao-te-ching","tag-taoism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313188,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313187\/revisions\/313188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}