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Seventh, cultivating merit to compensate for faults: the factors of the path of the three truths are themselves the bodhisattva's jewel-torch dhāraṇī, the Dharma method of traveling the path to enter the gate of nirvāṇa. When such factors of the path continue from thought to thought, this is cultivating merit to compensate for faults. Formerly one grasped at views, taking them to be nirvāṇa; unmoving in views, one did not cultivate the factors of the path. Even if one were moved from existence to enter nonexistence, like an inchworm, although moved in view, one still could not cultivate the factors of the path. Now one knows that existence and nonexistence are views, and does not grasp them as real; this is called being moved in view without cultivating the factors of the path. If one dismantles and analyzes the various views and practices the factors of the path, this is called being moved in view and cultivating the factors of the path. Moreover, one realizes that views are directly empty, directly provisional, and directly the middle. Since we say 'directly', without moving from views one cultivates the three kinds of factors of the path. This is cultivating merit to compensate for the fault of indulging views.