According to Mahayana teaching, the three principle paths to liberation are renunciation, bodhi citta and the wisdom of the Shunyata.  These three called the principal, essential paths to liberation.  These are very important, because it contains the essence of the entire teachings of the Lord Buddha. 

RENUNCIATION:  One has to understand that renouncing sensory pleasure doesn't mean throughing nice things away.  Therefore renunciation means less craving; it means being more reasonable instead of putting too much psychological pressure on yourself and acting crazy. 

The important point to know is that we should have less grasping at sense pleasures because most of the time our grassing at and craving desire for worldly pleasure does not give us satisfaction. That is the main point.  It leads to more dissatisfaction and to psychologically crazier reaction.  That is the main point.

The other two paths i.e. Bodhi citta and wisdom of Shunyata will be discussed in the next month issue.

Ref: The essence of Tibetan Buddhism, by Lama Yeshe.

AT SHANTI STUPA, BIHAR, INDIA