Until all beings are enlightened

It's been a long, long time since I wrote on this blog, but I want to pick it up again :-)
My mother sent me the video below. It comes from Plum Village in southern France, where the Vietnamese Monk Thich Nath Hanh resides.



I think the whole video is achingly beautiful, and if am allowed to analyse this beauty, I can attribute that not just to the sound, or the very moving expression of Thich Nath Hanh, with his hand on his heart, but also to some other things.
First, all these people, over there in Plum Village, eat no animal products. Out of compassion. They live there as vegans, which is rare even among spiritual communities, who are (if not omnvirous) mostly vegetarian.

Secondly, there's the subject of the song, which is a "homage to Avalokitesvara" (see the comments). I'm not a scholar or follower of Buddhism, but here is my (limited) understanding of it. Alokitesvara is the Bodhisattva of Compassion. Now, the thing is, I find the concept of a Bodhisattva one of the most beautiful things mankind has come up with. Basically, a Bodhisattva is a an enlightened being, which means that he could leave the incarnated world (Earth and perhaps other worlds) and enter the bliss of Nirvana. A Bodhisattva, however, is not that selfish :-) because (by definition) he has sworn not to do that until all beings are equally ready. So he just hangs around here, among us, "to help all beings to the farther shore", like it says in another Plum Village song.

I don't know the purpose of Existence can be anything else than that. And I don't know if there's anything more beautiful either.