The Flower Ornament Scripture A Translation of the Avatamsaka Sutra Thomas Cleary BOOK SIXTEEN 16. Religious Practice THEN THE GODLING Right Mindfulness said to the enlightening being Truth Wisdom, "In all worlds, enlightening beings, fol lowing the teaching of the Enlightened Ones, dye their clothing and leave home to become mendicants : how can they attain purity of religious practice, and from the state of enlightening reach the path of unexcelled enlightenment?" Truth Wisdom said, "Great enlightening beings, when performing religious practice, should attentively contemplate ten things objectively: the body, physical action, speech, verbal action, mind, mental action, Buddha, the Teaching, the religious community, and the precepts. They should contemplate in this way: Is the body religious practice? And so on, down to : Arc precepts religious practice? If the body were religious practice, then religious practice woul...
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