Avatamsaka Sutra's comments

The Avatamsaka Sutra provides a somewhat different definition of these five eyes: “The physical eye sees all forms. The divine eye sees the thoughts of all beings. The prajna eye sees the situations and capabilities of all beings. The dharma eye sees the true appearance of all dharmas. And the buddha eye sees the ten powers of a tathagata.” (57).

The Avatamsaka Sutra says, “Like thinking of cool water when you’re thirsty, like thinking of fine food when you’re hungry, like thinking of a magic pill when you’re sick, or like a hive of bees that depends on honey, we, too, are like this, hoping to taste the sweet dew of the Dharma.” (26)

The Avatamsaka Sutra says, “Passion refers to sansara. No passion refers to nirvana.” T he Sutra in Forty-two Sections says, “Nothing is better than being free from desire and completely free from passion.”

The Avatamsaka Sutra says, “When the shravakas in the Buddha’s audience hear a teaching, it’s as if they were blind or deaf. This is because they are attached to teachings.”

[T]he Avatamsaka Sutra says, “People who do not comprehend their own true nature see no buddha.”

The Avatamsaka Sutra says, “When water clears and the moon appears, the moon doesn’t actually come. When clouds arrive, and the moon disappears, the moon doesn’t go anywhere. When the mind is pure, and we see the buddha, the buddha doesn’t actually come. When the mind is impure, and we don’t see him, the buddha doesn’t go anywhere. It’s all due to the purity or impurity of our minds. The buddha doesn’t come or go at all. The body of thirty-two attributes is simply the tathagata’s apparition body.”