Knowledge of past and future may be usefully understood as profound understanding of causes and effects, insight into psychological, social, and other developmental processes over a span of time; this type of knowledge is said to include, however, capacities of recollection and reception that generally remain undeveloped to ordinary people. [I]ntuitive knowledge and direct perception can be awakened and can do what discursive knowledge cannot do[.] (pp. 1527-1528)
Excerpted from "Technical Terminology and Symbolism" in The Flower Ornament Scripture: A Translation of the Avatamsaka Sutra
by Thomas Cleary
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