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Showing posts with the label 032. The Flower Ornament Scripture 18. Clarifying Method
  The Flower Ornament Scripture   A Translation of the Avatamsaka Sutra Thomas Cleary BOOK EIGHTEEN   18. Clarifying   Method     THEN THE ENLIGHTENING BEING Vigorous Wisdom said to the enlight­ ening being Truth Wisdom:   "0 Child of Buddha: when great enlighten­ ing beings first arouse the mind to seck all-knowledge, they fulfill such infinite virtues, are replete with great adornments, climb up into the vehicle of omniscience, enter the correct state of enlightening beings, give up all worldly things and attain the transmundane truths of the Buddhas, are taken into the company of all the Buddhas   of   past, present, and future, and will certainly reach the ultimate point of unexcelled enlightenment: how should those enlightening beings prac­ tice the Buddha-teachings so as to cause all the Enlightened Ones joy, enter the abode of all enlightening beings, attain purity of all great actions, ful fill all great vows, obtain the vas...