Ten Practices for Liberation of the Higher Knowledge of the Arts

1. Sufficiency of knowledge
2. Diligently seeking good associates
3. Intense vigor
4. Removing obstructing delusions
5. Purity of correct practice
6. Respecting correct teaching
7. Observation of the inherent emptiness of phenomena
8. Destroying false views
9. Practicing the right path
10. Acquisition of true knowledge (p. 1536)

Excerpted from "Technical Terminology and Symbolism" in The Flower Ornament Scripture: A Translation of the Avatamsaka Sutra by Thomas Cleary