Tag: Mercy Wears Our Faces

• Mercy Wears Our Faces

  

  This bluesy folk song, “Mercy Wears Our Faces,” is a heartfelt, secular exploration of the ancient Buddhist teaching of Avalokitesvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion. Inspired by a passage from the Lotus Sutra, the song strips away the mythic and focuses on the deeply personal. With a lonesome guitar and a soulful voice, the track contemplates…

  William Altig

  September 24, 2025

  Chapter 25, music, The Great Teachings of the Lotus of the True Law

  Avalokitesvara, Blues, Bodhisattva, Buddhism, Compassion, Enlightenment, Folk, Houston music, indie folk, Lotus Sutra, meditative music, Mercy Wears Our Faces, new age, Singer-Songwriter, Skillful Means, Spiritual, spiritual folk