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Paṭisambhidāmagga Vimokkhakathā (Excerpts)
Posted in Discernment, Meditation, Theravāda
Monks, there are these three deliverances. What three? The
emptiness deliverance, the signless deliverance, and the desireless
deliverance. These, monks, are the three deliverances.
What is the emptiness deliverance?
Here, monks, a monk, gone to the forest or to the root of a tree or
to an empty place, reflects: ‘This is empty of a self or that which
belongs to a self.’ In this way he construes no misinterpretation
[regarding phenomena], therefore it is deliverance through
emptiness. This is the emptiness deliverance.
What is the signless deliverance?
Here, monks, a monk, gone to the forest or to the root of a tree or
to an empty place, reflects: ‘This is empty of a self or that which
belongs to a self.’ In this way he construes no signs [regarding
phenomena], therefore it is deliverance through signlessness. This
is the signless deliverance.
What is the desireless deliverance?
Here, monks, a monk, gone to the forest or to the root of a tree or
to an empty place, reflects: ‘This is empty of a self or that which
belongs to a self.’ In this way he construes no desire [regarding
phenomena], therefore it is deliverance through desirelessness.
This is the desireless deliverance. *
When he gives attention as impermanent his mind emerges from the
sign; his mind enters into the signless. *
Gnosis of contemplation of the signlessness of form… feeling…
recognition… fabrications… consciousness… etc., is signless
deliverance because it liberates from all signs.