Eight points of the culminating training

Eight points on the culminating training — among the seventy points of the Abhisamayalankara, eight points on the culminating training, the fifth of the eight topics:

The four culminating trainings of ordinary beings:

1. warmth, indicated by signs
2. summit, indicated by progress
3. acceptance, which is indicated by stability in which the twofold welfare is not forsaken
4. supreme attribute, indicated by the complete abiding of the mind

The three culminating trainings of noble beings:

5. the culminating application of the path of seeing
6. the culminating application of the path of cultivation
7. the culminating application of the unimpeded

And:

8. the mistaken practice to be avoided.

Sources

• Brunnhölzl, Karl (2011), Gone Beyond: The Prajnaparamita Sutras, The Ornament of Clear Realization, and Its Commentaries in the Tibetan Kagyu Tradition, Volume One, Snow Lion 
• Seventy Points of Abhisamayālaṃkāra, Lotsawa House