The Inclusion of All Good Practices

All wholesome practices can be understood as belonging to three modes:
distracted, concentrated, and mixed.

The distracted mode contains generosity and morality.
These two transcendences do not rely on deep meditative absorption;
they can be practiced in ordinary, active states of mind.
Their power lies in intention, clarity, and discipline, not in stillness.

The concentrated mode contains contemplation and wisdom.
These arise from stability, collectedness, and inner unification.
They require the mind to be steady, inwardly gathered, and capable of nonconceptual seeing.

The mixed mode contains tolerance and effort.
Both of these can be practiced while the mind is settled or unsettled,
in stillness or in movement.
Tolerance appears both in deep calm and in turbulent conditions.
Effort arises both in meditative absorption and in active engagement with the world.

In this way, all six transcendences fit within three great categories of practice,
each category holding two transcendences,
and together they complete the whole field of virtue.