ten stages of security ［十住］ ( jū-jū): The ten stages from the eleventh through the twentieth of the fifty-two stages of bodhisattva practice. Described in the Jeweled Necklace Sutra, they are (1) arousing the aspiration for Buddhahood, (2) contemplating the non-substantiality of things, (3) performing all possible good deeds, (4) clearly understanding that, because phenomena exist only in relationship to other phenomena, they have no permanent and unchangeable substance of their own, (5) applying all good deeds as a means to developing one’s perception of the non-substantiality of things, (6) perfecting the wisdom to perceive the non-substantiality of things, (7) never retrogressing from the realization of the truth of the non-substantiality of things, (8) never harboring false views or losing the aspiration for enlightenment, (9) deeply understanding the Buddha’s teachings to the point where one is assured of attaining Buddhahood in the future, and (10) obtaining the wisdom to perceive that, because all things are without substance, there is nothing that is actually born or dies.