The Flower Ornament Scripture A Translation of the Avatamsaka Sutra Thomas Cleary BOOK EIGHT 8. The Four Holy Truths THEN THE GREAT ENLIGHTENING BEING Manjushri said to the enlight ening beings, "Children of Buddhas, the holy truth of suffering, in this world Endurance, is sometimes called wrongdoing, or oppression, or change, or clinging to objects , or accumulation, or thorns stabbing, or dependence on the senses, or deceit, or the place of cancer, or ignorant action. "The holy truth of the (cause of) the accumulation of suffering, in this world Endurance, may be called bondage, or disintegration, or attachment to goods, or false consciousness, or pursuit and involvement, or conviction, or the web, or fancified conceptualizing, or following, or awry faculties . "The holy truth of the extinction of suffering, in this world Endurance, ...
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