The Light of the World

Radiating nets of countless lights
Illuminating all worlds,
Leadership enters the nature of reality wherever the light shines.

Based on "Ten Practices" in The Flower Ornament Scripture: A Translation of the Avatamsaka Sutra by Thomas Cleary

Walking the Talk

Leaders perfect true speech: they act in accord with what they say, and speak according to what they do.

Based on "Ten Practices" in The Flower Ornament Scripture: A Translation of the Avatamsaka Sutra by Thomas Cleary

Kairos

In order to develop and mature followers according to their mentalities, leaders expound the truth as necessary in accord with their followers' faculties and in accord with the time and situation.

Based on "Clarifying Method" in The Flower Ornament Scripture: A Translation of the Avatamsaka Sutra by Thomas Cleary

The Ten Centers of Leadership

1. The center of initial determination
2. The center of preparing the ground
3. The center of practicing for action
4. The center of noble commencement
5. The center of skill in means
6. The center of correct state of mind
7. The center of nonregression
8. The center of youthful nature
9. The center of educating followers
10. The center of completion

Based on "The Ten Abodes" in The Flower Ornament Scripture: A Translation of the Avatamsaka Sutra by Thomas Cleary

The Tenth Stage -- Cloud of Teaching

Leaders in the tenth stage, Cloud of Teaching, bear, receive, take in, and hold immeasurable revelations, clarifications, and clouds of teachings from other leaders.

Based on "The Ten Stages" in The Flower Ornament Scripture: A Translation of the Avatamsaka Sutra by Thomas Cleary

The Ninth Stage -- Good Mind

With superior subtle intellect,
Leaders search out the mental tangles of those around them;
They search out the various tangles of mind
And comprehend who can be taught, what the end and the beginning are.

They comprehend beginningless afflictions, in their interrelatedness of application,
As well as the continuity of their courses through compulsive propensities,
And in terms of the various differences in process of action,
And the vanishing of effect with extinction of cause.

Also, by specific knowledge of principles, they know the present differentiation of things. By specific knowledge of meanings, they know the past and future differentiation of things.

They also know accurately the weakness, mediocrity, and strength of faculties; their nature as appearances in the rapid disintegration repeated in the net of faculties.

They also know accurately the weakness, mediocrity, and strength of intentions; their nature as appearances in the rapid disintegration repeated in the net of intentions.

They also know accurately the weakness, mediocrity, and strength of dispositions; their nature as appearances in the rapid disintegration repeated in the net of dispositions.

They also know accurately the weakness, mediocrity, and strength of wills; their nature as appearances in the rapid disintegration repeated in the net of wills.

Based on "The Ten Stages" in The Flower Ornament Scripture: A Translation of the Avatamsaka Sutra by Thomas Cleary

The Eighth Stage -- Immovability

Just as the sun and moon, while in the sky,
Appear as reflections in water,
Remaining in the highest knowledge of the unmoving essence of Thusness,
Enlightening beings appear, as reflections, intending to purify the world.

Excerpted from "The Ten Stages" in The Flower Ornament Scripture: A Translation of the Avatamsaka Sutra by Thomas Cleary