This chapter will address the question of what liberation entails from the perspective of the Mahāyāna vehicle. I suggested, earlier, that the later schools of Buddhism are more prepared to accept the ‗this-worldly‘ aspects of enlightenment; in fact, one could even claim that they positively reject the ‗other-worldly‘ interpretation of nirvana.
Indeed, Mahāyāna Buddhism―cuts through‖ all dualistic concepts—including saṃsāra and nirvana, suffering and happiness, mundane and otherworldly—through its doctrine of iversal emptiness. It has been suggested that this―can pave the way for a positive evaluation of earthly realities...and an appreciation of this earthly realm‖ (Habito 2007, 134–135).