The Flower Ornament Scripture A Translation of the Avatamsaka Sutra Thomas Cleary BOOK TEN 10. An Enlightening Being Asks for Clarification By the power of perceiver and perceived All kinds of things are born; They soon pass away, not staying, Dying out instant to instant. 301 Then Manjushri asked Chief of the Precious, "All sentient beings equally have four gross physical elements, with no self and nothing pertaining to self-how come there is the experience of pain and pleasure, beauty and ugliness, internal and external goodness, little sensation and much sensation? Why do some experience consequences in the present, and some in the future? And all this while there is no good or bad in the realm of reality." Chief of the Precious answered in verse: According to what deeds arc done Do their resulting consequences come to be; Yet the doer has no existence: This is t...
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