There are
Three Gateways to Enlightenment!
It is the 3 contemplations that produce the three gateways to Awakening!
These three gateways to liberation lead to the only outlet from the world:
Seeing mainly impermanence leads the firm one to
the signless liberation:
Seeing of all constructions as impermanent, limited in space, circumscribed
in time, and liable to destruction makes mind enter into the signless state.
When such disciple, with great determination, attends to all phenomena as
impermanent, transient & vanishing, then he acquires the signless
liberation!
Considering
mainly suffering leads the calm one to the desireless liberation:
Regarding of all constructions as an ultimately painful misery
thus seeing all
phenomena as a terror, stirring up and torturing any being, makes the mind
enter into the desireless state. When one who has great tranquillity regards
all formations as great suffering, then he acquires the desireless
liberation!
Meditating mainly on no-self leads the intelligent
one to the void liberation:
Comprehending all things, constructions, phenomena and states as alien and
remote, ownerless, selfless, egoless, impersonal, and neither-I-me-nor-mine,
makes mind enter into the void empty state. When one who has great wisdom
comprehends all phenomena as no-self, then he acquires the void liberation!
These three gateways to liberation lead to the only exit from this world:
Enlightenment! This is therefore Knowledge and Vision of the Noble Way!
Ps II 48+58, Vism 658
More
on these 3 gateways
to Mental Liberation (Vimokkha):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/u_v/vimokkha.htm
The Enlightenment reached is in all 3 cases
the very same!
