The Buddha speaks of the “Three Moments” and the path to liberation as a “graduated training”. As well as how they are connected to each other. Graduated training simply means steps, steps toward liberation. The three moments are what lead you to liberation. These stages are illustrated through various comparisons with the Buddha, the lotus flower, the heartwood or the elephant's footprint. You will soon understand the relationship between “The Three Moments” through “graduated training”. First, understanding the three moments means a lot. The three moments are the realization of gratification, danger and escape – into the conditioned world. You must understand the current situation to overcome it. Gratification is the joy and pleasure of experience when we succeed in achieving our desires. (Bodhi, 2005, p. 186) The danger is to view the world as permanent, predictable and satisfying when in reality it is; fleeting, unpredictable and unsatisfying. Escapism is the suppression of urge and loss of self in distractions (Bodhi, 2005, p. 187). Envy can range from the desire to be rich and to be in a higher class to the simple desire to be enlightened. The three moments are also linked to the Four Noble Truths. Gratification deduces the second noble truth of the four noble truths, because happiness and enjoyment stimulate envy, which is the origin of suffering. And the truth of suffering is directly the danger. And the end of all suffering would be escape, which also implies the Noble Eightfold Path, the fourth truth, the path to the end of suffering. (Bodhi, 2005, p. 187) All this means is that everything leads to each other, the progressive stages of realizing the three moments in the conditioned world. The three mothers... in the middle of paper...... – but they really won't matter to you anymore. The questions are not about liberation, they do not change the three aspects of the human condition; how will it change the fact that I am growing old, wasting away, dying. And they will not help to relieve suffering and freedom from it. There is no point dwelling on these issues when they are not relevant to your help. Overall, the Three Moments and graduate training have a very strong interconnection that is now clearly brought to your attention. You must understand gratification, danger and escape in order to escape all of this and move on to the unconditioned world. But not without the help of graduated training and without taking the necessary steps to arrive at and emerge from each understanding. Only then can you take the path to liberation. From knowledge to practice – from the right and banal vision to the right and supramundane vision.