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Reading The Flower Adornment Sutra, Book 8

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Book 8 - The Four Holy Truths

Thomas Cleary translation.

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The talk centers on the exploration of "The Four Holy Truths" from Book 8 of the Flower Adornment Sutra, as translated by Thomas Cleary. It delves into the variations in expressing these truths across different conceptual worlds, illustrating the diverse names and perspectives each world possesses to understand suffering, its causes, cessation, and the path to end suffering. This emphasis on adaptability in teaching aims to resonate with different mental dispositions, facilitating the harmonization and pacification of sentient beings.

  • The Flower Adornment Sutra, Book 8, "The Four Holy Truths" (Translation by Thomas Cleary): Central text examined, discussing how varying terminologies in different worlds elucidate the nature of suffering, its causation, cessation, and the path, accommodating mental diversities to foster understanding and pacification.

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Book 8, The Four Holy Truths, Then the great enlightening being Manjushri said to the enlightening beings, children of Buddhas, the holy truth of suffering in this Saha world is sometimes called wrongdoing or oppression or change or clinging to objects or accumulation or thorns stabbing or dependence on the senses or deceit or the place of cancer or ignorant action. The holy truth of the cause of the accumulation of suffering in this Saha world may be called bondage or disintegration or attachment to goods or false consciousness or pursuit and involvement or conviction or the web or fancified conceptualizing or

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following or awry faculties. The holy truth of the extinction of suffering in this Saha world may be called non-contention or freedom from defilement or tranquility and dispassion or signlessness or deathlessness or absence of inherent nature or absence of hindrance or extinction or essential reality or abiding in one's own essence. The holy truth of the path to the extinction of suffering in this Saha world may be called the one vehicle or progress towards serenity or guidance or ultimate freedom from discrimination or equanimity or putting down the burden or having no object of pursuit or following the intent of the

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saint or the practice of sages or ten treasuries. In this world there are four quadrillion such names to express the four holy truths in accord with the mentalities of sentient beings to cause them all to be harmonized and pacified. What in this world is called the holy truth of suffering is in that world secret teaching called the sense of striving and seeking or not being emancipated or the root of bondage or doing what shouldn't be done or contending and struggling in all manner of situations or total lack of power to analyze or being dependent on or extreme pain or hyperactivity or things with form. What is called the holy truth of the accumulation of

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suffering is in that world secret teaching called following birth and death or habitual attachment or burning or continuous revolving or corrupt senses or continuing existences or evil behavior or emotional attachment or the source of illness or categorization. What is called the holy truth of the extinction of suffering is in that world secret teaching also called the ultimate truth or emancipation or praiseworthy or peace or the place good to enter or docility or singleness or faultlessness or freedom from greed or resolution. What is called the holy truth of the path to extinction of suffering is in that world secret teaching also called bold

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generalship or superior action or transcendence or having skill in means or impartial I or detachment from extremes or comprehensive understanding or inclusion or supreme I or contemplating the four truths. In the world secret teaching there are four quadrillion such names to explain the four holy truths to cause sentient beings to be harmonized and pacified according to their mentalities. What is in this Saha world called the holy truth of suffering is in the world abundance also called fear or individual mortality or disgusting or what should be worked on or change or ensnaring enemy or deceptive usurper or hard to work with or false discrimination or possessor

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of power. What is called the holy truth of the accumulation of suffering is in that world abundance called corruption or ignorance or great enemy or sharp blade or taste of destruction or revenge or not one's own thing or bad guidance or increasing darkness or ruining goodness. What is called the holy truth of the extinction of suffering is in that world abundance called great meaning or benefit or goal of goals or infinity or what should be seen or detachment from discrimination or supreme pacification or constant equanimity or worthy of living together or non-fabrication. What is called the holy truth of the path to extinction of suffering is in that

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world abundance called able to burn up or the highest class or certitude or unbreakable or profound techniques or emancipation or not mean or base or mastery or essence of liberation or capable of setting free. In that world abundance there are four quadrillion such names to explain the four holy truths to cause sentient beings to be harmonized and pacified according to their mentalities. What is in this Saha world called the holy truth of suffering is in the world undefiled also called regret or dependency or aggravation or dwelling within walls or one flavor or untruth or living at home or abode of deluded attachment or false views or innumerable. What is called the

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holy truth of the accumulation of suffering is in the world undefiled also called no real thing or only having words or not pure or place of birth or grasping or baseness or increase or heavy burden or producer or roughness. What is called the holy truth of the extinction of suffering is in the world undefiled also called incomparable or thoroughly cleared or removal of defilement or supreme faculties or harmony or independence or extinction of confusion or most excellent or the ultimate or breaking the seal. What is called the holy truth of the path to the extinction of suffering is in that world undefiled called something indestructible or the part of appropriate

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means or the base basis of liberation or reality of basic nature or the blameless or the most pure or the boundary of all existences or maintaining what is received complete or producing the ultimate or pure discernment. In the world undefiled there are four quadrillion such names to explain the four holy truths to cause all beings to be harmonized and pacified according to their mentalities. What is in this Saha world called the holy truth of suffering is in the world rich pleasure also called the place of emotional attachment or root of danger and harm or the sectors of the ocean of existence or made by accumulation or discriminating senses or

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aggravation or origination and destruction or hindrance or base of sword blades or made of sets. What is called the holy truth of the accumulation of suffering is in the world rich pleasure called detestable or names or endless or different sets or not to be loved or able to grab and bite or crude things or emotional attachment or receptacle or stirring. What is called the holy truth of the extinction of suffering is in that world rich pleasure called end of continuation or revelation or no label or nothing to practice or no object of vision or non-doing or extinction or already burnt out or casting off the heavy burden or purged. What is called the

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holy truth of the path to extinction of suffering is in that world rich pleasure called serene action or emancipating action or diligent practice and experience or gone to tranquility or infinite life or comprehensive knowledge or the ultimate path or difficult to practice or reaching the other shore or invincible. In the world rich pleasure there are four quadrillion such names to explain the four holy truths to cause all sentient beings to be harmonized and pacified according to their mentalities. What is in this Saha world called the holy truth of suffering is in the world inclusion also called able to plunder and usurp or not a good friend

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or full of fear or various fancies or the nature of hell or untruth or the burden of covetousness or roots of deep gravity or changing with moods or fundamental vanity. What is called the holy truth of the accumulation of suffering is called in that world inclusion greedy attachment or wrong accomplishment or the evil of excess or nothing that can be explained or nothing that can be apprehended or continuous revolving in circles. What is called the holy truth of the extinction of suffering is in the world inclusion called non-regression or beyond speech or formlessness or enjoyable or stability or supreme wonder

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or freedom from folly or extinction or detachment from evil or escape. What is called the holy truth of the path to extinction of suffering is in the world inclusion called beyond words or non-contention or teaching and guidance or good dedication or great skill or a variety of techniques or space-like or serene action or supreme knowledge or ability to understand truth. In the world inclusion there are four quadrillion such names to explain the four holy truths to cause sentient beings to be harmonized and pacified according to their mentalities. What is in this Saha world called the holy truth of suffering is in the world beneficial also called the heavy burden or instability or like a robber or aging and death

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or made of craving or transmigration or fatigue or bad condition or growth or the sharp blade what is called the holy truth of the accumulation of suffering is in the world beneficial called decay or confusion or regression or powerlessness or loss or opposition or disharmony or doing or grasping or wishing. What is called the holy truth of the extinction of suffering is in the world beneficial also called escape from prison or real truth or freedom from troubles or protection or detachment from ill or docility or the fundamental or abandoning the cause or non-striving or non-continuation. What is called the holy truth of the path to the extinction of

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suffering is in that world beneficial also called arriving at non-existence or the seal of the totality or the treasury of meditation or attainment of light or the non-regressive state or ability to put an end to being or the wide great road or ability to tame or having peace and security or non-routinized faculties. In the world beneficial there are four quadrillion such names to explain the four holy truths to cause sentient beings to be harmonized and pacified according to their mentalities. What is in this Saha world called the holy truth of suffering is in the world rarified also called dangerous desires or place of bondage

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or misguided action or receptivity or shamelessness or rooted in greed or the ever-flowing river or constant disintegration or of the nature of torch fire or full of stress and anxiety. What is called the holy truth of the accumulation of suffering is in that world called broad ground or tendency or distance from wisdom or obstruction or fear or laxity or taking in or attachment or ignorance being master of the house or continuous bonds. What is called the holy truth of the extinction of suffering is in that world also called fulfillment or immortality or selflessness or absence of inherent nature or end of discrimination

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or abode of peace and happiness or infinitude or cutting off transmigration or cutting off compulsive mental activity or non-duality. What is called the holy truth of the path to extinction of suffering is in that world also called great light or ocean of explanation or analyzing meaning or the way of harmony or freedom from attachment or breaking the continuum or the broad highway or the basis of impartiality or pure methods or supreme insight. In that world rarified are four quadrillion such names to explain the four holy truths to cause sentient beings to be harmonized and pacified according to their mentalities.

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What is in this Saha world called the holy truth of suffering is in the world joy called continuous revolving or birth or loss of benefit or habitual attachment or the heavy load or discrimination or inward danger or gathering or wrong abode or of the nature of misery and affliction. What is called the holy truth of the accumulation of suffering is in that world also called the ground or conveniences or wrong timing or untruth or bottomless or possessiveness or departure from morality or afflictions or narrow views or accumulation of defilement. What is called the holy truth of the extinction of suffering is in that world

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called destroying dependency or not indulging or truth or equality or purity or freedom from sickness or undistorted or formless or free or birthless. What is called the holy truth of the path to extinction of suffering is in that world called entering the supreme realm or cutting off accumulation or transcending comparison or vast nature or end of discrimination or the path of spiritual power or multitude of appropriate techniques or practice of right mindfulness or the ever quiet road or embracing liberation. In that world joy there are four quadrillion such names to explain the four holy truths to cause beings to be harmonized and pacified

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according to their mentalities. What is in this Saha world called the holy truth of suffering is in the world door bolt also called decaying form or like a broken vessel or the product of ego or embodiment of various tendencies or numerous routines or the gate of the multitude of ills or inherent pain or that which should be abandoned or flavorlessness or coming and going. What is called the holy truth of the accumulation of suffering is in that world called activity or the poison of anger or conglomeration or sensation or selfishness or mixed poison or empty names or opposition or imitation or astonishment.

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What is called the holy truth of the extinction of suffering is in that world called no accumulation or ungraspable or wonder medicine or incorruptible or non-attachment or immeasurable or vast or the sphere of awakening or freedom from addiction or absence of obstruction. What is called the holy truth of the path to extinction of suffering is in that world called peaceful action or detachment from craving or ultimate reality or entry into truth or the essential ultimate or manifestation of purity or concentration or heading for liberation or salvation or supreme action. In that world door bolt there are four quadrillion such names

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to express the four holy truths to cause sentient beings to be harmonized and pacified according to their mentalities. What is in this Saha world called the holy truth of suffering is in the world shaking sound also called hidden sickness or the mundane or the dwelling place or conceit or the nature of habitual attachment or the torrent or unenjoyable or hypocrisy or the evanescent or difficult to control. What is called the holy truth of the accumulation of suffering is in that world called that which must be controlled or mental tendencies or that which binds or arising in every thought or extending to the future or combination

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or discrimination or the gateway or blown by the wind or concealment. What is called the holy truth of the extinction of suffering is in that world called no reliance or ungraspable or returning or freedom from conflict or small or great or pure or inexhaustible or broad or priceless. What is called the holy truth of the path to extinction of suffering is in that world called analytic observation or ability to destroy the enemy or seal of knowledge or ability to enter the essence or unopposable or limitless meaning or able to enter knowledge or the path of harmony or eternal imperturbability

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or the highest truth. In that world shaking sound there are four quadrillion such names to explain the four holy truths to cause sentient beings to be harmonized and pacified according to their mentalities. Just as in this Saha world there are four quadrillion names to express the four holy truths so in all the worlds to the east hundreds of thousands of billions countlessly innumerably boundlessly incomparably incalculably unspeakably inconceivably immeasurably inexplicably many worlds in each there are an equal number of names to express the four holy truths to cause the sentient beings there to all be harmonized and pacified in accordance with their mentalities and just as this is so of the worlds to the east

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so it is with all the infinite worlds in the ten directions.

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