from The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching Chapter 19: The 3 Doors of Liberation:
- aka Three Meditations of One Mind Three Meditations of One Mind
Also known as Three Inconceivable Meditations, which is one of the practices in Tien Tai Sect in China.
According to Tien Tai, all existence in the universe consists of Three Dogmas (Truths), namely, Void, Unreal and Mean. These three Dogmas are co-existent and interactive, integrated and interrelated. If one can meditate this concept with the whole mind, it is call Three Meditations of One mind, or Inconceivable Profound Meditation.
- 1. meditation of emptiness (sunyata)
- 2. signlessness (animitta): noncognition
- 3. wishlessness (apranihita): freedom from desire; nonattachment
Signlessness (animitta): 'sign' means an appearance or an object of our perception, seems to be a state where one doesn't get hooked by outward signs, by outward appearances, you don't follow the signs, you don't take direction from the sign ...emotionally, no direction-taking when taking action, signs are not 'absolute truth' ...
Also: from OUP: absence of perceptual attributes (http://www.chinabuddhismencyclopedia.com/en/index.php/Animitta) -- perceptual attributes: (http://www.oxfordreference.com/search?
source=%2F10.1093%2Facref%2F9780198605607.001.0001%2Facref-9780198605607&q=perceptual+attributes)
Aimlessness (apranihita - wishlessness): allows for one to enjoy the present conditions, no need to achieve a condition, finagle a condition before enjoying happiness right now. nothing to do, nothing to realize, nothing to aim for?, no program, no agenda, no need to put anything in front of us and run after it.
http://www.chinabuddhismencyclopedia.com/en/index.php/Apranihita
Shunyata: Emptiness - empty of self, because of impermanent nature of phenomenon
Nibanna: extinction of judgments,
