{"id":1123,"date":"2007-05-22T09:02:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-22T09:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/chatteringmind\/2007\/05\/listening-is-love.html"},"modified":"2007-05-22T09:02:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-22T09:02:00","slug":"listening-is-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/chatteringmind\/2007\/05\/listening-is-love.html","title":{"rendered":"Listening is Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><font face=\"arial\">by <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/seedsforsanctuary.com\/\" target=\"_new\"><font face=\"arial\">Dr. Susan Corso<\/font><\/a><br \/><font face=\"arial\"><br \/>I know <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/blogs\/chatteringmind\/2007\/04\/amazing-dance-of-thousand-hands.html\" target=\"_new\">Amy wrote about<\/a> this gorgeous video last month (Thursday, April 19, 2007), but someone who loves me sent it to me today and I had to add my nickel.<\/p>\n<p><\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xgHmSdpjEIk\" target=\"_new\"><font face=\"arial\">Thousand-Hand Guan Yin<\/font><\/a><font face=\"arial\"> <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xgHmSdpjEIk\"><\/a><font face=\"arial\">is the name of this exquisite record of a brilliant Chinese dance company. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a love letter, an homage, a living sculpture to Kwan Yin, the Mother of Mercy. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve spent many a day crying at her feet\u00e2\u20ac\u201dever since I learned the meaning of her name, which is . . .<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><font size=\"4\">She Who Hears the Cries of the World<\/font><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was taken by some of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xgHmSdpjEIk\" target=\"_new\">comments on YouTube<\/a> about the fact that these gifted dancers are all deaf. To be deaf, and decide to be a dancer! The dancers embody Kwan Yin: her love, her mercy, her compassion, her listening\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand they can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t hear.<\/p>\n<p>William Stringfellow, quoted in the Quaker monthly <em>Friends Journal<\/em>, wrote, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Listening is a primitive act of love.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Hearing not required.<\/font> <\/div>\n<p><object height=\"350\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xgHmSdpjEIk\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xgHmSdpjEIk\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dr. Susan CorsoI know Amy wrote about this gorgeous video last month (Thursday, April 19, 2007), but someone who loves me sent it to me today and I had to add my nickel. Thousand-Hand Guan Yin is the name of this exquisite record of a brilliant Chinese dance company. 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