The Flower Ornament Scripture A Translation of the Avatamsaka Sutra Thomas Cleary BOOK THIRTY-SIX 36. The Practice of Universal Good AT THAT TIME the great enlightening being Universal Good also said to the great congregation of enlightening beings, "Offspring of Buddha, what has been expounded up till now is just a brief exposition of a little bit of the realm of buddhas, adapted so as to be appropriate to the fac ulties and capacities of sentient beings. Why? The buddhas emerge in the world because sentient beings are ignorant and do what is bad, they con ceive of self and possessions, they cling to the body, they are deluded and confused, they discriminate on the basis of false views and are always in bondage, following the flow of birth and death away from the path of enlightenment. "I do not see anything tha...
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