The Flower Ornament Scripture A Translation of the Avatamsaka Sutra Thomas Cleary BOOK TWENTY-NINE 29. The Ten Acceptances THEN THE GREAT ENLIGHTENING BEING Universally Good said to the enlightening beings, "Off-;pring of Buddha, great enlightening beings have ten kinds of acceptance. If you acquire these acceptances, you will manage to arrive at the stage of unhindered acceptance. What are the ten? They are acceptance of the voice of the Teaching; conformative acceptance; acceptance of the nonorigination of all things; acceptance of illusoriness; acceptance of being miragelike; acceptance of being dreamlike; accep tance of being echolike; acceptance of being like a reflection; acceptance of being phantomlike; acceptance of being spacelike. These ten accep tances have been expounded, are being expounded, and will be ex pounded by the buddhas of past, present, and future. "What is grea...
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