Buddha with 1000 Hands

Buddha with 1000 Hands, from the
China Disabled Peoples Performance Art Troupe,
is an astonishingly beautiful dance video, featuring
hearing-impaired artists, which I have been posting
and sharing for nearly four years at my various sites.

One commentator wrote:

“This is a representation of the
Boddhisatva Avaloketishvara,
the embodiment of compassion.

The thousand arms represent the
infinite compassion of the Buddha.
This in turn represents the female,
empathic part of the psyche.

Avaloketishvara’s male counterpart
is Manjushri, the embodiment of wisdom.”

When I first posted it at Twitter last year,
Susie Collins, a disabled lady and the editor
of TheCanaryReport, was so greatly moved
and inspired by the video that she made the
following excellent post:

Giving new meaning to the term disabled.

I urge everyone to read Susie’s post and pass
it on to anyone suffering, or just needing inspiration.

Well done Susie! And well done to the amazing
deaf dancers of the brilliant Chinese Troupe!

Divine compassion brings us all together and
unites and inspires us in so many mysterious
ways. May this glorious dance video and its
1000 hands be a shining example to us all, and
may humanity always be blessed by the mighty
Buddha’s great compassion and wisdom.

Philip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE-jPFqvUTo

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