Path of Freedom [Vimuttimagga]

The Five Methods 313the sign in the adoption knowledge of the Path, is the singless emancipation.The absence of hankering is unhankered emancipation. The absence ofattachment is void emancipation. And again, these three emancipationsfulfil different Paths through penetration; and they fulfil one Path throughattainment.Q. How do these fulfil different Paths through penetration? A. Throughimpermanence-penetration, the signless emancipation is fulfilled. Throughill-penetration, the unhankered emancipation is fulfilled. Through notself-penetration,void emancipation is fulfilled.Q. How is the signless emancipation fulfilled through impermanencepenetration?A. Attention to impermanence destroys the formations, andemancipates the mind in many ways. Thus faith and the other four facultiesare got. And the knowledge of the thus-isness of the sign makes manifestthe impermanence of all compounded things, arouses fear of the sign of theformations and, through proceeding in the signless, surpasses the sign throughthe emancipation that is without sign: and the release from the aggregatestakes place. Thus the signless emancipation is fulfilled through impermanencepenetration.Q. How is the unhankered emancipation fulfilled through ill-penetration?A. Attention to ill develops fear towards the formations and emancipatesthe mind in many ways. Thus concentration and the four other facultiesare got. And the knowledge of the thus-isness of birth makes manifest the illof all compounded things, arouses fear towards birth, gains the knowledgeof birth and, proceeding in the birthless, surpasses birth through the emancipationthat is without hankering; and the release from the aggregates takesplace. Thus the unhankered emancipation is fulfilled through ill-penetration.Q. How is the void emancipation fulfilled through not-self-penetration?A. Attention to Not-self makes manifest the voidness of the formations andstirs up aversion for them. Thus wisdom and the four other faculties aregot. And the knowledge of the thus-isness of the faculties and of birth makemanifest the not-self of all compounded things. Liberating itself from thesign and birth, the mind, proceeding along the signless, the birthless, goesbeyond to breaking-up and Nibbdna, through the emancipation that is void;and the release from the aggregates takes place. Thus through not-selfpenetration,the void emancipation is fulfilled. Thus do these three emancipationsfulfil different Paths through penetration.Anattanupassand hi suhnatd nama, suhhatavipassandya maggo sunnato, sunnatamaggassaphalath suhnatam. Aniccanupassand animitta nama, animittanupassandya maggo animitto.Idam pana namath Abhidhammapariyayena labbhati; Suttantapariyayena na labbhati.Tatha hi "Gotrabhiindnam animittarh nibbdnam drammanam katvd animitta-namakarhhutvd say am dgamaniyatthane thatvd maggassa namam deti" 7/ vadanti. Tena maggoanimitto 7/ vutto. Maggdgamanena phalam animittan 7/ yujjati yeva. Dukkhdnupassandsarikhdresu panidhim sukkhdpetva dgatatta appanihitd nama. Appanihitavipassandyamaggo appanihito, appanihitamaggassa phalam appanihitan *ti evam vipassand attanonamam maggassa deti, maggo phalassa 'ti idam dgamanato namam nama. Evam sankhdrupekkhdvimokkhavisesam niyameti 'ti—Pts.-a. Ill, 551).