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[begottaum]

If untold buddha-lands are reduced to atoms, In one atom are untold lands, And as in one, So in each. The atoms to which these buddha-lands are reduced in an instant are unspeakable, And so are the atoms of continuous reduction moment to moment Going on for untold eons; These atoms contain lands unspeakably many, And the atoms in these lands are even harder to tell of

Cleary. The Flower Ornament Scripture A Translation of the Avatamsaka Sutra, 1993, page 891-92

[avatamsaka]

The mahasattva bodhisattva Samantabhadra said, "Great bodhisattvas have ten kinds of extraordinary thought. What are they? They think of all roots of goodness as their own roots of goodness. They think of all roots of goodness as seeds of enlightenment. They think of all sentient beings as vessels of enlightenment. They think of all vows as their own vows. They think of all truths as emancipation. They think of all practices as their own practices. They think of all things as teachings of the Buddha. They think of all modes of language as the path of verbal expression. They think of all buddhas as benevolent parents. They think of all buddhas as one. These are the ten: if great bodhisattvas rest on these principles, they will attain unexcelled skillful thought."

Avatamsaka Sutra - 1026

Note on the image: Samantabhadra Bodhisattva.

[the-dewdrop-read-deep]

"The Hawk, the Swoop, and the Hare are One" - Gary Snyder on Radical Social Change

"There is nothing in human nature or the requirements of human social organization that requires a society to be contradictory, repressive, productive of violent and frustrated personalities." - Gary Snyder

There is nothing necessarily natural or inevitable, argues Gary Snyder, about repression, violence and frustrated personalities, and the more we are able to practice and connect with our deeper natures, the more apparent this becomes. Snyder’s vision for a more enlightened society stems from his conviction that the ‘joyous and voluntary poverty of Buddhism’ is an anathema to the mountains of junk…

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[davidakira]

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