…great or big ferry boat on which we all ride. This is the figure of avalokiteshvara, who in the far east is called Quan Yin or Quan an. This is the archetypal bodhisattva, the one whose being sattva is illumination, but who has not departed from the…

…manner so to say. This is the great bodhisattva whose image we see throughout the far east in this lovely figure of Quan Yin looking down in mercy on the world that principle of mercy, karuna, which leaves us in the world addressing ourselves to others…