Good morning everyone. Today I would like to share a story about Guan Yin dressed in leaves. The Guan Yin
dressed in leaves is a one of the Tara in 21 Tara family. According to some ancient time document,
it says this Guan Yin only appears in some mountain area, particularly in Tibetan area.
In geography point of view, we know around the Tibetan area there is so many mountains,
and those mountains hardly can be accessed by any human being. People say the Guan Yin dressed
in leaves is there, and a special blessing of this Guan Yin is very sacred. One day, there
is one man, due to the very severe pandemic in his hometown, he wanted to search for a magical medicine
a magical herb from the mountain. So he decided to travel by himself to the mountain near Tibet.
And because he doesn't know which area he should approach, which direction he should go, so he do
a sincere prayer to 21 Tara before his departure asking for Tara to give him a direction.
So he decided to follow the cloud moving direction
So this one cloud showing in green color very strange color so he decided to follow
this green cloud because he wanted to discover whether or not he could find his magical medicine,
This green cloud flying from this mountain and he climbed up to this mountain and he continued
following his cloud he crossed to the second mountain When the night was getting dark, he was not
afraid because he is a sincere Buddhist follower so he continued to do the prayer and the meditation
And on the night he had no trouble being hurt by any animal he safely passed the first night.
On the second day, he woke up in the morning continued to travel follow the direction of this
green cloud to the third mountain. He continued his travel days weeks months until this day
he climbed up to one of the highest mountain in this area. He decided to rest and stop here
When the night was getting dark and he felt that for the past months he continued searching for
these magical medicine nothing could happen so he believed is beyond his ability can search for this
magical medicine. So he decided to do prayer for all the deities he believed in
he do the prayer for 21 Tara and he just hoping he have some type of clue
to help him find his medicine to cure all the sick people in his village.
The night getting dark the weird thing is the night doesn't get
dark above him. so he still clearly can see in this mountain what's around him. So
he walked around continued searching didn't want to give up and he discovered there is a very
auspicious cave in this highest mountain so he decided to approach to this cave.
This cave hardly you can see because around this cave is a five color rainbow and the cloud. It all
doesn't make sense to him during the night time how can you have rainbow how can you have five
different color of a cloud around this cave and that he has strong feeling maybe some kind of
special deity resting inside of this cave. So he decided to access into this cave when he
walked into this cave immediately he bowed first even though he didn't see any deity, any Bodhisattva,
or any Buddha inside. By showing his sincere respect, he was asking for a special blessing power
he could find the medicine so he bow to this cave when he walked into this secret cave
When he bowed, he stood up and he saw this one deity appeared in very gorgeous face and body
and the very strange thing is this Bodhisattva dressed all different type of very auspicious
leaves around the body. The magical thing he noticed was all different type of auspicious leaves
so he continued bow to this unknown deity and he do a prayer he said, "I travel all type of
mountain over past months I continued seeking for this magical medicine my purpose is not want to
make money out of this magical medicine my purpose is I want this magical medicine the herb can cure
benefit those sick people in my hometown. " Once he said this, this Bodhisattva dressed in leaves smiled,
showing a very beautiful feminine face to him and several leaves flying around
and dropped on his hand and he was very curious and he continued saying, "I sincerely bow to
you even though I don't know your name, but I believe you are one of the most powerful deity
can help me fulfill my wishes to benefit all those sick people in my village."
Once he said that, Bodhisattva smiled and said, "I am Guan Yin Bodhisattva dressed in leaves. The leaves
I'm giving you right now not only will benefit those sick people in your village,
if you can passing around and asking people to sincerely do a prayer you all will be
rescued from the pandemic, strange illness, and the unknown name sickness. As Buddha already told all
of us, the illness there are three categories. The first category the illness is curable.
It means if you have good doctor and a good medicine your illness can be cured. The second
illness is incurable because some of the illness is not caused by disease of sickness is caused by
other factors which we say unknown factor consider second category of illness.
The third illness is caused by your bad Karma the Karma of hurting others
so you need to cure your own disease by sincere repentance of your bad Karma. So
the leaves I give to you now will cure you three types of illness if you sincerely practice
your great compassionate heart to all being." Once Bodhisattva say this, she disappeared. But all
different types of auspicious leaves herbs dropped on the ground so these men know this is a true
magical herb delivered by this Bodhisattva. He collected these leaves and bowed to the Bodhisattva
and decided to return back to his hometown so when he returned back to the hometown
he brought back all auspicious herb. The magic thing is no matter how many people he treat and never
run out of this herbal medicine. So he traveled from his hometown to the neighbor, to the next county
to cross entire area to deliver this teaching of great compassion. As we know
the Guan Yin Bodhisattva dressed in leaves manifests in Guan Yin's Bodhisattva's form of body
in Mahayana region. But in Tibet actually Guan Yin dressed in leaves is a one of the 21 Tara deity.
The main purpose of this deity is removal all type of pandemic in any realm of being. It means
not only removal a pandemic in the human realm also can remove the pandemic in animal realm
and even if the pandemic of the insects happens in the farm the Guan Yin Bodhisattva in leaves
can all remove any type of pandemic and any type of unknown incurable diseases doesn't matter the
name is going Bodhisattva or Tara, the essence of this deity all is the same it's helping us
to accomplish our ultimate happiness so by helping others to achieve their happiness,
at the same time we also will attain our ultimate truth of happiness
I hope you enjoy my short sharing today and I hope you will join me in the future. Thank you.