Surpassed and Surpassing Mahayana path of seeing

Mahayana path of seeing can also be divided into:

Surpassed འདའ་བྱའི་ཐེག་ཆེན་གྱི་མཐོང་ལམ། འདའ་བྱ་མཐོང་ལམ།
i.e. exalted wisdom directly realising the sixteen aspects or non-duality
Surpassing འདའ་བྱེད་ཀྱི་ཐེག་ཆེན་གྱི་མཐོང་ལམ། འདའ་བྱེད་མཐོང་ལམ།
i.e. exalted wisdom directly realising emptiness

ཐེག་ཆེན་གྱི་མཐོང་ལམ་མན་ཆད་དུ་མི་རྟག་སོགས་བཅུ་དྲུག་གོམས་པ་ལྷུར་ལེན་གྱི་ཚུལ་གྱིས་བསྒོམས་ཀྱང་མཐོང་ལམ་ཐོབ་ནས་དེ་ལྟར་མི་སྒོམ་པ།
The difference is in cultivation by means of great effort or not:

Below the Mahayana path of seeing: familiarity with the sixteen aspects is rigorously cultivated, whereas
After having attained the path of seeing: it is not cultivated in that way, i.e. without great effort.

ལམ་དེ་གོམས་པ་ལྷུར་ལེན་གྱི་ཚུལ་གྱིས་སྒོམ་ཞེས་པའི་དོན་ལམ་དེ་འབད་རྩོལ་ཆེན་པོས་སྒོམ་ཞེས་པའི་དོན་ཡིན་ལ།
ལམ་དེ་འབད་རྩོལ་ཆེན་པོས་སྒོམ་ན་ལམ་དེ་བསྒོམ་བྱའི་གཙོ་བོར་བྱས་ནས་སྒོམ་པས་མ་ཁྱབ་པའི་ཕྱིར།
The meaning of rigorously cultivating familiarity with a path is that that path is cultivated with great effort.
If a path is cultivated with great effort is it not pervaded by being cultivated through taking that path as a main object of meditation.

In short:

Before the Mahayana path of seeing: cultivating all three paths is difficult and requires effort, but only emptiness is the main object of meditation.
After having attained the path of seeing: cultivating the Hinayana class of realisations no longer requires effort because that has been surpassed by the attainment of the direct realisation of emptiness (the surpassing).

དེ་གཉིས་ཅིག་ཅར་དུ་སྐྱེ་ཞིང། མངོན་གྱུར་དུ་རིམ་ཅན་དུ་སྐྱེ་བ་ཡིན།
These two (surpassed and surpassing) arise simultaneously but manifestly arise gradually, otherwise:

If they arise simultaneously during uninterrupted path, either:
- Both explicitly: Follows simultaneous direct realisation of the two truths exists for sentient beings.
- Surpassing explicitly, surpassed implicitly: Follows emptiness is an implicative negation because of implicitly conveying positive phenomena, i.e. the sixteen aspects.
If they arise gradually, either:
- Surpassed first, surpassing second: Follows they are a Gradual Abandoner because of first abandoning the acquired afflictive obscurations that are objects of abandonment of the path of seeing followed by the acquired knowledge obscurations that are those.
- Surpassing first, surpassed second: The surpassed exists during that first moment (uninterrupted path) because in the next moment arises the liberated path that has abandoned acquired grasping to the self of persons.

Therefore, both exist during the uninterrupted path; but the surpassed is non-manifest, it only manifests during subsequent attainment.

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