Two Precious Scroll Narratives of Guanyin and Her ... - Khamkoo

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Goodness, may High Heaven be moved to restore her arms and
eyes, so that she may be as beautiful as before!’’
We can’t continue to be vainly filled with desperation,
Enough said about clouds, as the ocean becomes clear!
Namo Guanshiyin pusa
The Marvelous Splendor emperor personally bowed down,
He kowtowed, and with folded hands pronounced a prayer:
‘‘If indeed she is Our own daughter, may High Heaven
Not betray a person who has shown so much filial piety!
Restore her hands and eyes as they were in earlier days, and
We will abandon Our name and fame and become a monk!’’
He made a hundred bows, and had not yet finished speaking,
When suddenly and without any warning, dark clouds appeared.
Then, a moment later, the clouds cleared and the sun came
out.
In the clear light, sunny and bright, the scene looked like spring.
The immortal was as beautiful as a flower beginning to bloom,
Her brand new face surpassed even her earlier beauty at eighteen.
Meeting again with close relatives, she wept most piteously,
And poured out her deepest feelings to her father and mother:
‘‘All the stars in the sky surround and bow before the polar
star,
In the world below, there’s no river that does not run to the east.
For all eternity, the heaven will be able to cover the earth,
So of course a filial child will always serve both his parents.
Because of the importance of the matter of birth and death,
I abandoned my parents in order to go and cultivate the Truth.
If I had not cut off the affections and abandoned my parents,
For thousands of kalpas I would not have achieved the Way,
That unencumbered and unhindered perfect Universal
Principle—
Forgetting the world and forgetting the Dharma, fully free!’’
At this moment the body of the immortal was like pure glass, showing
her true golden form inside. When the clouds cleared away and
the storm died down, there appeared a blinding blaze of light,
and suddenly the appearance of the immortal was even more beau-