Early Sign-Up Gift: A Parcel of Beautiful Ceremony Treasures! Hurry! While supplies last. Once upon a time, a long time ago, people were dying of cold and hunger on Xiqiao Mountain in China. One day, on the 26th day of the first lunar month, when the plum blossoms began to bloom, a very pretty girl came to […]
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Devotions to the Goddess of the Numinous Full Moon Halo with Gwynne Warner
“The Moon is earth’s oldest temple holding the potency of countless prayers since the dawn of time… a bell whose ringing brings you into the field of the Mother, where body and soul can quietly drink.” ~Dana Gerhardt In temples and at home altars around the world, devotees of Kuan Yin worship the Mother of […]
Call My Name: White Robe Kuan Yin’s Protection with Gwynne Warner
“I am the one whose love overcomes you, already with you when you think to call my name”. {Jane Kenyon} Like our ancestors, we live in a world where so many long to be saved from contemporary ordeals “when fear runs high”. White Robed Kuan Yin or Fearless Kuan Yin, lovingly offers us Her “never-wavering […]
Kuan Yin’s Lovingkindness Guided Meditation with Gwynne Warner
“Even as a mother protects with her life her child, her only child, so with a boundless heart should one cherish all living beings: radiating kindness over the entire world spreading upwards to the skies, and downwards to the depths; outwards and unbounded, freed from hatred and ill-will.” {The Sutra on Metta, a Buddhist teaching} […]
Pouring the Gourd of Immortality: Feng Shui Healing Baths with Gwynne Warner
“The human body is composed entirely of essence, energy and spirit. If you do not cherish your essence and dissipate it recklessly, it is like pouring water into a cracked cup. Instead of filling the cup, it will leak away until it is depleted to the last drop. {Lu Tung-pin} From Gwynne: “The Gourd of […]
Temple of the Lotus Pool: Kuan Yin Bathing Ceremony with Gwynne Warner
“lotus flower sleeps enclosed under eye of moon still~she is fragrant” {Unknown} From Gwynne: Spiritual bathing dedicated to Kuan Yin is an ancient and mindful ritual still found to this day in Asian temple baths and hot springs. These baths invite curative healing, physical purification and spiritual devotion. Often the Goddess is enshrined as the […]