Connection With Kuan Yin
A student wrote to Rinpoche about her strong connection with Kuan Yin [Skt: Avalokiteshvara] and advised that she had healed someone with her hands. She asked Rinpoche what it meant and if he had any advice.
My most dear, most kind, most precious, wish-fulfilling Lin,
I am very, very happy that you sent me a letter explaining this. My comment is that you must use this power. Kuan Yin is helping you to have this power, so you must use it. You must heal many people from sickness and cancer like you did your Mum, so your life brings benefit to others. You’re completely OK to do this, so you must do it.
Unless there are some people who don’t have the karma to be healed and you get some feeling or prediction not to do it for that particular person, you must do this healing. The purpose of our life is to benefit the most kind, most precious, most dear, wish-fulfilling sentient beings and free them from the oceans of samsaric suffering and its causes, karma and delusions, and bring them to peerless happiness, full enlightenment.
So please, when I hear someone has cancer, if they can sponsor you, would you mind coming to heal them? That would be so good, that would be fantastic. This is a gift from Kuan Yin to you, because your life is good, you have a good heart and so forth. So it must be in relation to that, to your connection with Kuan Yin.
I would be very happy to receive your letters from time to time, so please write.
With much love and prayer...
PS: Soon I will be going to Nepal to attend the one-month course, and then I will go to India for His Holiness the Dalai Lama's teachings. I will also give teachings and spend some time in India.
Please make your life most meaningful with the thought of bodhicitta day and night.
PPS: Please, as you are blessed by Kuan Yin, with total faith you should try to heal and help others as much as possible, especially the people around you. Also, I will let you know about anybody who you can help. This is the purpose of our life.