方便道 The path of expedient means, a term often used flexibly within various path descriptions to indicate a relatively early stage of practice, wherein one is not yet exercising undefiled wisdom. (1) According to some texts, the second of the five paths 五道 which are stages of religious cultivation in Yogācāra (the second stage is more commonly termed "stage of initiation of practices" 加行位). It includes many practices from the prior stage of preparation 資糧道, as well as practices of samādhi and prajñā. It is followed by the Path of Seeing 見道. According to the scheme explained in Wŏnhyo's Doctrine of the Two Hindrances 二障義, the Path of Expedient Means is one of the five sub-paths contained within the Path of Seeing.

如道諦中說。