All spiritual thinking is a conversion of thought to a higher understanding. This is why many of the Hindu and Buddahs are many "gods" on changed into different forms. To start thinking with compassion, we must first convert from the intelligence of life and the self, to humanity as well, both shown as in equal and due respect.
Try JIZO (Jizou, Jizoo) Sanskrit: Ksitigarbha or Ksitegarbha from India and the counterparts of this "Godess\God" who is woman on earth , and man on the other. In the Ksitigarbha Sutra, the Historical Buddha revealed that in past aeons, Ksitigarbha (Jizo) was a Brahman maiden named Sacred Girl, who became a man in physical form.
Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva, known as Kuan Yin to the Japanese and Chinese, and Chenresig to the Tibetans, is the bodhisattva who most embodies compassion. Here is another aspect of same concept.
There is even a Buddah that closely resembles Islam.
Description Of Form
Mañjusri Bodhisattva (Monju) holds in his left hand a *sutra* by which he dispenses wisdom to people, and in his right hand holds a sword for cutting off delusion. He sometimes rides on a lion, which is called the king of a hundred animals, and this expresses how he lives grandly with a powerful and correct wisdom.
Purpose and Vow
There is an old saying that the wisdom of Mañjusri (Monju) lies in putting together three heads, which are better than one. The figure of Mañjusrii (Monju) Bodhisattva is greatly endowed with wisdom, and in his right hand he holds the scriptures that confer that wisdom, while he also holds a sword that can cut off delusion. Bodhisattva refers to a living person who seeks enlightenment. In reality, the Bodhisattva practices Buddhism in society and is a buddha that acts on behalf of the Nyorai in saving people. Mañjusri (Monju) Bodhisattva cuts off the mistaken ideas of the world as well as evil thoughts and actions, corrects the ignorance and delusions of people, dispenses true wisdom, and delivers joy to human society.
Among the four, the most widely venerated throughout Asia is the Goddess of Mercy (Compassion), known as Kannon in Japanese.
Maitreya Bodhisattva is Jishi Bodhisattva, the Bodhisattva of compassion, and this is because he expresses his vow to save all beings in the world with a mind of compassion.
Eastern beliefs have grown with more understand in because buddahs, or just wise ones, lived and taught. The west killed ours. Had Christ lived would western religion have grown in understanding like the east? Buddah's lived to be almost 70 for some, most all had long lives here with their fellow man. Jesus had not time to truly teach much to the West, he was forced by our actions before we humans there got the concept of Humanity and all are one. Not understanding that what we did, or allowed to happen to another person is also happening to us we did not step out of ourselves from fear and show compassion to an innocent man, this cut off the flow of learning and left us only half way understanding the truth.
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* The Word is the Sutra, which symbolism is repeated in the way Muslims view the Koran.