May our karmic creditors be free of suffering
and rebirth in Sukhavati.
oan gia trái chủ- karmic creditors
“Vairocana Buddha’s light,
~ GUO TU (MLS)~
(Cam Tu MLS)
--
Note: FLOWER STORE WORLD is the name of the fifth chapter in the Avatamsaka
sutra.
“Vairocana Buddha’s light,
Lord of Flower Store World wealthy,
Shines even in the
darkest places
Avatamsaka enlightened me”
~ GUO TU (MLS)~
National Master CH'ING LIANG, bringing up another example to
act as an analogy for AVATAMSAKA SUTRA,
goes on to say, examine its profound purport
/If you investigate this mysterious and wonderful sutra, and
examine its mysterious and wonderful purport, and then look into other sutras/
If, after having read the Flower Adornment Sutra, you then
go on to read other sutras, or recite them, it is like a sunrise glorious in
the sky/
It resembles the time when the sun, upon first arising,
makes the light of the stars all disappear, thereby dimming multitudes of
luminaries' splendor/
The "multitudes of luminaries" are all the other
stars and the moon, the "splendor," that is, the light of which the
sun absorbs, to the point of virtually extinguishing them--since it makes all
their light disappear.
Even though in the evening there are so many stars and the
moon is so bright, they are still not as bright as the sun.
---THE AVATAMSAKA SUTRA
IS LIKE THE LIGHT OF THE SUN, WHICH DIMS THE LIGHT OF ALL THE STARS AND THE
MOON, COVERING THEM UP SO THAT THEY ARE NO MORE.
---THAT IS TO SAY, WITHIN THE FLOWER ADORNMENT SUTRA ARE
EXHAUSTIVELY DISCUSSED ALL OF THE PRINCIPLES FOUND IN ALL THE OTHER SUTRAS, AND
SO IT IS DESCRIBED AS DIMMING ALL THEIR SPLENDOR, ALL THEIR LIGHT.
It is also like Sumeru which spreads across the seas/
Mount Sumeru is "Wonderfully High" Mountain,
which, in the midst of seas of fragrant water, spreads out across the seas,
lowering retinues of peaks' high altitudes/
None of the other mountains is as high as Mount Sumeru.
They seem to fall away when compared to its height, so it is
said they are "lowered".
NOW, THE AVATAMSAKA
SUTRA IS HIGHER THAN ANY OTHER SUTRA, IN THE SAME WAY THAT MOUNT SUMERU,
KING OF MOUNTAINS, IS HIGHER THAN ANY OTHER MOUNTAIN, AND SO IT SAYS,
"Like Sumeru,
which spreads across the seas, lowering retinues of peaks' high
altitudes."
--
Mount Sumeru extends 42,000 yojanas above the surface of the
seas and 42,000 yojanas below the surface as well. (A yojana is an Indian
standard of measure.
A small yojana equals 40 miles, a middle yojana equals 60
miles, and a great yojana equals 80 miles.)
Mount Sumeru is shaped like" a triangle and half way up
its sides is the Heaven of the Four Kings.
The Trayastrimsha Heaven is located on the peak of Mount
Sumeru. Mt. Sumeru is in the middle of the world surrounded by seven fragrant
seas.
The waters of each of
these seas surrounds the "Wonderfully High" Mountain. The four great
continents are located in those seas.
--
One set of the four continents, one Mount Sumeru, and one
sun and moon make up one world.
A thousand worlds makes a small thousand world.
A thousand small-thousand worlds makes one middle-thousand
world.
A thousand
middle-thousand worlds makes one great thousand world.
Because of the progression of small, middle, and large, it
is called a three thousand great-thousand world system.
---
THE SUBTLE AND
ESOTERIC PRINCIPLES OF THE FLOWER ADORNMENT SUTRA ARE AS LOFTY AS MOUNT SUMERU.
OTHER SUTRAS ARE LIKE THE LESSER PEAKS, WHICH CANNOT COMPARE
TO MOUNT SUMERU IN HEIGHT.
* THEREFORE, THE FLOWER ADORNMENT SUTRA IS RIGHTLY KNOWN AS
THE KING AMONG SUTRAS.
=Venerable master Hsuan Hua=
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