I recently converted to meditation to relieve some of my stress. My job is fast-paced and I work long hours. By the time I get home from the rat race, I am exhausted and irritable. I started meditating after dinner each night and I have been feeling much better. In fact, my family is not afraid of approaching me any longer. My only problem is this; while I am meditating, my mind wanders off to some deep places and odd things occur. It's as if I am in a half-sleep half-awake state and my imagina

Mother of Mercy Kuan Yin, known as the Mother of Mercy in the East has been worshipped by Buddhists all around the world. She is the greatest of bodhisattvas and embodies the totality of compassion for humankind. She is the deity of compassion. In Buddhism gods are transient higher beings who are still subject to reincarnation, they are not absolute power deities or creators, as in the western use of the term God. Kwan Yin is a rebirth of the bodhisattva Avolikiteshvara, a monk who was reborn i