4.1.4.9 How does mind in its active form become mind in its natural, serene form? There is no absolute distinction or point of demarcation, between mind in its active and mind in its still forms. They are simply gross and subtle forms of the one, all-embracing, unified and transcendent mind, that.

In the previous exercise, you analysed the nature of active mind from the viewpoint of mind in its serene, still and natural state. When you search for the central, real and unshakeable core of individual experience, you discover only mind in its still and impersonal form. Mind in its individual and active form, when sought in a yogically disciplined way, cannot be found.

The observer, mind in its still and impersonal form, and the thing observed, mind in its active individual form, are found through experience to be inseparable. The inseparability of the observer, the thing observed and the act of observing is an irreducible central experience of any advanced meditative practice. This unshakeable truth of reality is knowable only by direct intuitive experience – the intellect, unaided by meditation-enhanced intuition, cannot encompass or explain this fundamental truth.

Be clear: it is not ‘I’ who experiences this. It is that which experiences through the individual sense of ‘I’. It is not ‘I’ who lives, but that which lives us.

By searching diligently and with undistracted awareness, or mindfulness as it is known in Buddhist implicate technology, for who it is who is doing the meditating and searching, you have discovered not the core of your individuality but an impersonal stillness and serenity. The object of meditation has been found to be inseparable from the meditator, who is inseparable from the act of meditation. As a careful inspection of the literature of the East on advanced meditative practices will reveal, regardless of the object of meditation chosen, it is invariably found to merge into an intuitive experience of reality as an inseparable, coherent, integrated and purposeful unity.

Through this realisation of the inseparability of reality, you now understand with direct intuitive experience that all aspects of mind form a meaningful whole. You have also learned that the meditator, when sought, cannot be found. The remainder of this Implicate Technology structured meditative system will bring you to the understanding that these insights reflect fundamental laws describing the underlying implicate structure of reality.

The first of these laws, understandable fully only when the final stage of enlightenment has been realised, is that every aspect of this is an externalised thought product of that. The second of these laws is that all sense of individuality, loneliness and separateness is an illusion suffered by mind in its unenlightened state. Motivated by unbounded love and compassion, the enlightened person works endlessly to bring all others to the release and freedom of enlightenment.