Action Endowed with Liberative Art — Summary and Analysis

1. Recap of the Path into Practice
The way of learning — faith made abundant, investigation deepened, teaching practiced, practice embodied, and precepts received — culminates in liberative art: the skillful, artful action that makes liberation effective. The spiritual genius does not rest with hearing or theorizing; she turns what was learned into living skill.

2. Threefold Action as the Universal Support
Just as the earth supports forests, beings, mountains, and rivers, so do the three types of action — physical, verbal, and mental — serve as the universal support for every great virtue: generosity, ethical discipline, meditative power, wisdom, and the accessories of awakening. These actions are not incidental: they are the ground from which all the fruits of the path arise.

3. Liberative Art Is Originative and Enduring
Liberative art is originative: from it flow the virtues that bring beings to freedom. The wise declare that skilful action generates the very roots of awakening. The enterprising spiritual children of the victor persevere in these actions across great ordeals and aeons; no worldly hardship finally overcomes the moral, verbal, and mental activity of one who practices with artful resolve.

4. Beware of Subtle Poison: Actions of Lesser Vehicles
Just as one protects the body from poison, weapons, lightning, and enemies, so must the spiritual genius guard her actions against the tendencies that lead toward lesser, self-centered vehicles. Actions motivated toward narrow aims sever the very roots of the universal commitment: they blunt future virtues, destroy previously grown merit, and pull the practitioner toward inferior aims. Vigilance is needed: avoid anything that functions like poison to the universal path.

5. Purification through Non-Apprehension
When the threefold discrimination — agent, object, and action — is no longer apprehended as separate, the liberative art has fulfilled its purificatory work. In that integration the spiritual genius’s deeds become perfectly pure, inexhaustible, and transcendent. Action continues, but there is no grasping at doer, deed, or done-to; activity itself becomes the luminous functioning of wisdom and compassion.

Key Insight (bold and central):
Train the body, speech, and mind as instruments of liberative art; guard them from the subtle poisons that pull toward self-concern; and practice until the very sense of agent, action, and object dissolves — then action itself is the unobstructed radiance of awakening.