3 Characteristics of the period prior to the psychological stage of enlightenment

3.1 Measuring progress towards the first stage of enlightenment (below contents).

3.2 Act.

3.3 Problems encountered on the spiritual path.

3.4  Coping with uncertainty.

3.5 Centred in the midst of conditions.

3.6 The ten conditions and the associated power structures.

3.7.1 The power discipline:

3.7.2 Input.

3.7.3 Pivot.

3.7.4 Act.

3 Characteristics of the period prior to the psychological stage of enlightenment

3.1 How do you measure your progress along the path towards the psychological stage of enlightenment?

Reality can be understood either as a mechanical, or as an organic, process – an infinite and a unified whole. Everything that happens within reality has meaning. The first and most difficult step along the path to understanding reality through experience is to grow and expand your awareness until it stabilises in the psychological state known as the first stage of enlightenment.

Reality is an organic machine structured to operate in accordance with immutable laws. To understand and experience reality as it is, your actions must be in harmony with the natural laws which govern and inform all that can be experienced. Each one of us is an integral and organic component of reality.

Reality is an infinite process unfolding through time, configured to operate at one setting only. The past is memory, individual or cultural, the future is both potential and fantasy: always and unendingly the process occurs now. As you move towards the psychological stage of enlightenment, through the practice of meditation, progress can be measured by the extent to which you interpret your day-to-day experiences within the context of what is happening now, at this present moment.

Karma is a term used in Eastern implicate technology systems to describe one of the implacable laws of reality. Your karma is the result of the choices you make. In the West, we know karma as the law of cause and effect.

Psychologically, our culture understands this unyielding law as the accumulated weight of experience, preserved within oneself, and shaping one’s choices and experiences The traditional teaching of our deeper psychologies involves a tortuous process of gradually understanding and coming to terms with these deep psychological determinants which shape each individual’s behaviour. The teachings offered here show a well-trodden and faster path to freedom from the accumulated weight of experience which shapes each moment experienced in ordinary states of awareness.

As each of us ages and matures, the weight of our burdens increases. In our highly stressful culture, day-to-day life becomes an increasing struggle. Consistent, committed daily practice of this meditation leads to a profoundly fulfilling release from the sense of burden.

The key to releasing the full benefits of meditation lies in understanding the occurrences of your day-to-day life in terms of these teachings. This is the raw beginning of the fundamental process of learning to live your life in meditation. This meditation is a simple self-help tool available to anyone committed to transforming her or his daily experience of living.

The key to effecting the transformation within oneself is very easy to learn, but very hard to apply. The meditation teaches you to focus your concentration on one simple activity. The key is always to understand each moment of each day in terms of these teachings: always to keep the teachings in mind.

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