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Showing posts with the label 022. The Flower Ornament Scripture 8. The Four Holy Truths
  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, ...