even a deformed tree desires to provide shade, and a blemished flower aspires to reveal its fragrance, love is our mutual language, if you have love in your heart, then you are willing to extend your helping hands a thousand times, if you have love in your heart, there will be a thousand helping hands to help you in your time of need
avalokitesvara bodhisattva, better known as guan yin, vows to alleviate the suffering of all living persons, guan yin embodies the buddhist concept of one thousand eyes to see the suffering in the world and one thousand hands to reach out and help, the one thousand eyes and hands belong to numerous like minded people active in helping the less fortunate, buddhism regards the bodhisattva as a person who already has a considerable degree of enlightenment and seeks to use their wisdom to help other human beings to become liberated themselves, in this understanding of the word the bodhisattva is an already wise person who uses skillful means to lead others to see the benefits of virtue and the cultivation of wisdom, a bodhisattva is the one who has determination to free sentient beings from samsara with the cycle of death, rebirth and suffering, the china disabled peoples performance art troupe is comprised of such persons, twenty-one children have endured countless sessions to perfect a portrait of the sacred guan yin, but these dancers had an additional challenge, all of them are deaf, above is chinese choreographer zhang jigang's interpretation of the thousand-arm bodhisattva