Good morning everyone. Today I would like to share a story about Guan Yin Bodhisattva,
Dragon Guan Yin.
All of you including myself, if we search who is Guan Yin on the Internet, and one of the
most popular images will appear is Guan Yin riding on a dragon. So this is Dragon Guan Yin.
Let me share a story back in 1959. There was a huge typhoon attacking Taiwan, middle
part of Taiwan. Because this huge typhoon brings a lot of rainfall, so the entire middle
part of Taiwan has been flooded. There are 20,000 houses being flooded by the rainfall.
Not only that, over 300,000 people they could not even live inside the house because entire
area has been flooded by this typhoon. So they call this is August 7th typhoon, a huge
disaster. On this day, there is one professional photographer he traveled from outside of the
city, and he intentionally took some photos to document what happened in this area. He
used his professional camera filming, taking a picture. In the old day, all the cameras
were not digital ones, so he used the traditional camera taking a picture. Above in the sky, he
noticed several very strange cloud moving around and not having any rainfall at all.
when this cloud traveled to whatever the area, the rain was stopped, flood would immediately
be resolved. So he followed this cloud with his camera and he wanted to discover why this
auspicious cloud was so special. So he traveled with this cloud to a small town in the middle
part of the country. And he noticed there's a one woman dressed in white somehow
hiding inside this cloud, so he took the camera, zoomed in, and tried to capture some photo out of
this cloud. Once he did that and he rushed to a photo printing shop and he told the owner,
"I have been following this very strange cloud for whole day today. Whenever the crowd traveled
to which area, the rainfall would automatically stop and the flooding water would slowly go
away. I found it's very very weird, and I noticed this this special cloud have some
special image. Can you please print those photos and let me check what happened? "
This owner of the shop followed his instruction on printing all the photos, check one by one.
He looked at one of the picture, and he smiled and he passed to this photographer and he
said, "you can look at this picture."
The photographer look at the photo. It's just a piece of cloud in the sky nothing very auspicious.
The owner of the shop said, "if you look closely with your sincerity, you will obviously see
there's a a woman dressed in white, riding on a dragon. This woman may be not familiar
to you, but I am very familiar with her because I'm a devotee of Guan Yin Bodhisattva and
this Guan Yin shown in the cloud is riding on a dragon.
Once this owner told this photographer he was quite surprised and he looked at the picture
closely, "yeah it's true there is a woman dressed in white riding on the dragon". It's
quite similar to what his saw during the day. It's just he couldn't that obviously see that.
Once both of them confirmed and witness, this seen to be Bodhisattva, so they circulated this picture
along this entire flooding area. Some of the citizens of this city, they told them they
exchanged the experience with this owner and the photographer said, "on that day I also found
it's very strange because the flood was flooding my house I climbed up on the top of roof of
my house. I was waiting for help and the rescue because I'm Buddhist since there is no one
else can help me at that time so I sincerely sit down and do my prayers to Guan Yin Bodhisattva.
On that moment when I opened up my eyes after my prayer, I saw there is a magic
cloud appearing above of my roof exactly like the photo you show me now. This is not only
my own imagination. It's true that the Guan Yin appeared above the sky in this area saving
us from this flood and more people also share what they saw in that day. Not only three
of them, many people circulating around they saw the Guan Yin Bodhisattva appearing on the
sky rescuing them from this huge disaster. As I already explained to everyone through
our own devotion, Guan Yin Bodhisattva will appear to us. So this is one of the very famous picture
taking place in 1959, August 7 to 9. But some people say, this picture can be a man-made
one. It's not true. In that year 1959, it's not only one person, two person, three person saw that.
saw that auspicious cloud have the Guan Yin riding a dragon. So I'm sure for some people
who have a strong faith and devoted to Guan Yin
Bodhisattva it's true. Before some people they never
witnessed and they never have this strong devotion to Guan Yin Bodhisattva, they may feel this is just
a man-made story. No matter it's true or man-made story, I think the most important part is we
realize if we sincerely have devotion to Guan Yin
Bodhisattva, have a true connection with her great
compassionate heart, we are connected at time. so I think that's the most important message
we need to carry forward. It's not just looking at the story itself whether it's making
sense or not. With different level of devotion, different level of our purity of our mind,
Guan Yin Bodhisattva will manifest in different level of appearances to provide us a guide
or enhance our faith or believe to Buddha, to Guan Yin Bodhisattva.
So this is a brief story I share with everyone true happened in 1959. Maybe you also have
some of your true experience. If you're willing to email or give us a comment. I will be willing
to also learn more from all of you. With all your devotion and your own requests
of refuge, Guan Yin will appear in front of you definitely. I wish you enjoy my sharing
today and hope in the future you'll continue to join me with this journey of discovering
our inner great compassion with the practice of Guan Yin Bodhisattva. Thank you.