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Showing posts with the label 017. The Flower Ornament Scripture 3. The Meditation of the Enlightening Being Universally Good
  The Flower Ornament Scripture   A Translation of the Avatamsaka Sutra Thomas Cleary BOOK THREE   3. The Meditation of the Enlightening Being Universally Good     THE ENLIGHTENING BEING Universally Good, the great being,   sat   on a lion throne made of a bank of lotus flowers, and, imbued with the psychic power   of   the Enlightened One, entered   into concentration. This concentration is called the immanent body of the illuminator of thusness, which is in all enlightened ones . It enters everywhere into the equal essence of all   enlightened ones, and is capable of   manifesting myriad images in the cosmos, vastly and immensely, without obstruction, equal to space. All the whirling oceans of universes flow along into it; it produces all states of concentration, and can contain all worlds in all directions . The oceans of lights    of knowledge    of    all    the  ...