10 Glossary (BTP)

 

Centred in the midst of conditions: the state of mind, achieved through the daily practice of meditation, which marks the start of the process of learning to understand the true nature of reality.

 

Clear setting face to face with reality: the experience of understanding the true nature of reality.

 

Conditions: the ten conditions which interact spontaneously to create each moment.

 

Enlightenment: the progressive states of awareness which, stage by stage, sweep aside ignorance of the nature of reality. Enlightenment culminates in the complete integration of the individual with all of reality.

 

Explicate: referring to aspects of reality which can be understood by the five senses.

 

Implicate: referring to aspects of reality which can only be understood by the sixth sense, or intuition.

 

Implicate technology: 1) The generic name for the underlying structure and practical techniques for expanding awareness, common to all fully-developed, spiritually based models of reality.

2) A practical technique, the correct use of which enables the individual to understand and integrate with the implicate aspects of reality.

 

Implicate Technology: 1) A Western-originated, structured meditative system, incorporating meditative techniques which work in a secular, everyday context.

2) A fully-developed, spiritually based Western model of reality.

 

Karma: 1 ) An inherent, implacable, implicate law of reality.

2) The process whereby reality structures the circumstances of your life, to guide you in understanding your own nature.

3) The law whereby your current thoughts and actions determine your future experience.

 

Meaning of life: 1) The ultimate experience, impossible to convey in words.

2) The understanding which arises when the final stage of enlightenment is realised. Meditation: 1 ) The practical process of stilling the mind.

2) The self-help technique enabling you to reach enlightenment.

3) A practical technique which awakens the sixth sense, or intuition.

 

Model of reality: A structured, coherent description of reality, which uses practical techniques enabling the individual to experience the unity of reality.

 

Personality: the complex of views, opinions, ideas, emotions and attitudes comprising ordinary, everyday awareness. This complex is experienced as real to ordinary, everyday consciousness, relatively real once the first stage of enlightenment has been attained and relatively illusory once the final stage of enlightenment has been realised.

 

Power discipline: 1) A smooth, harmonious action in three steps: Input, Pivot then Act.

2) A mental tool to aid in the process of finding a harmonious and unselfish resolution to any difficult situation.

 

Power structure: 1) A way of describing how power is structured in any situation.

2) A way of understanding who controls, what is controlled, how it is controlled and why.

 

Purpose of life: I ) To understand the meaning of life.

2) The process of attaining enlightenment.

 

Reality: the total of what can be known and experienced. The true nature of reality can only be understood once the final stage of enlightenment has been realised.

 

Sexual energy: 1) The body’s spontaneously generated implicate power source. Sexual energy is squandered in unenlightened sexual activity.

2) The power inherent in the psycho-physiological system which is refined and transmuted, consciously or unconsciously, in advanced meditative activity.