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Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week<br><br>
January 29, 2007 <br><br>
COMPASSION WITH A THOUSAND ARMS<br><br>
One often finds Avalokitesvara [the bodhisattva of compassion] portrayed
as having a thousand arms [and a thousand eyes], and these symbolize his
innumerable activities. He took a vow to save all sentient beings in that
very lifetime....As long as there are more sentient beings and as long as
there is more that needs to be done, his compassion also increases. And
this shows that compassion is something within us. Where there is new
suffering or a new outbreak of violence, that violence contains another
eye, another hand of Avalokitesvara. The two things always go together.
There is always a kind of negative, but there is always a positive which
comes with it. In this particular sense, then, one should not exclude the
negative and work only for the positive, but realize that the negative
contains the positive within itself. Therefore the act of compassion, the
act of Avalokiteshvara, is never ending.<br><br>
From "The Mahasattva Avalokiteshvara," pages 450-451 in THE
COLLECTED WORKS OF CHOGYAM TRUNGPA, Volume One.<br><br>
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