Kuan Yin - Not a Goddess

I was researching into Kuan Yin - apparently the moniker Goddess of Mercy - was given to her by Jesuits. Kuan Yin was most certainly not a goddess - she was a Bodhisattva which is to say a human which had escaped reincarnation and was able to enter nirvana - but chose to stay back and help humanity until everyone escaped the scourge of reincarnation.

It occurs to me that actually reincarnation and the whole escaping nirvana thing is a paradox. If everyone was able to avoid reincarnation then the entire planet would be a great place to live in and you wouldn't want to leave it after all. 

The other thing which occurred to me while I was doing the drawing was the debt of gratitude which China owes India. As I was reading the article on Kuan Yin, the idea that in India and China, in Europe and the Middle East, as I am sure if we looked at other spiritual systems, was the similarity between saints all over the world. People who sacrificed their own self interest, who had principals, who never gave up on those even if it meant saying no at great personal cost to themselves. These are the people which we place at the centre of our treasury of humanity - - so how the heck dd we end up here?

How do people end up, instead of calming down and being at peace, villifying and persecuting each other in the name of supreme beings? It is so strange. Perhaps it is because God is silent and does not let us know its thoughts... perhaps that. We are all lost... is the Great Flood actually an archetypal memory of our birth - where the waters break and we are left alone in a broken world, cast even further from Paradise? Is the Flood tapping into that memory, of us feeling a giant upheaval.... I wonder if foetuses dream? Would that be so awesome?

Right... time to get sorted here...