六妙法門 1.9

1.9

Fourth, as for "contemplation" as the wondrous gate: because the practitioner cultivates contemplation, they are able to give rise to the nine notions, the eight recollections, the ten notions, the eight liberations, the eight masteries, the ten totalities, the nine progressive absorptions, the siṃhavikrīḍita-samādhi, the vyutkrāntaka-samādhi, refining dhyāna, the fourteen minds of transformation, the three knowledges, the six superknowledges, and the eight liberations; attaining the cessation of feeling and perception, they then enter nirvāṇa. That "contemplation" is the wondrous gate—its meaning lies in this.