Eighth is dedication characteristic of true Thusness. Practitioners of this dedication attain clear and perfect recollection and get beyond confusion and disturbance. They vow to attain freedom of thought, word, and deed so as to carry out enlightening practices; they vow to develop infinite generosity, to cultivate all enlightening practices, to master all the teachings, to arrive at the realm of universal knowledge, [...] to live in the world unwearied to edify others, and to activate countless liberative techniques of thought and wisdom. (p. 1558)
Excerpted from "Commentary on Book 39 by Li Tongxuan: Translator's Introduction" in The Flower Ornament Scripture: A Translation of the Avatamsaka Sutra
by Thomas Cleary
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