7.3 ‘For one hundred days I have practised meditation with full commitment, yet I don’t feel enlightened – why not?’

There are many reasons why this may be your experience. None of them are lasting or very important. The key activity is to continue committed daily practice of the meditation.

If you have genuinely meditated, for a minimum of fifteen minutes daily, for one hundred consecutive days, you will undoubtedly have experienced considerable benefit. You will feel more aware of your strengths and weaknesses, more in touch with the centre of your life and more able to deal with the daily pressures and problems of your life. Your life is enriched but still you do not feel enlightened.

One hundred days is only a guideline, nothing more. A healthy person, fully committed, can attain the first stage of enlightenment in well under one hundred days; a sick person may require longer to develop the whole organism’s natural capacity for enlightenment. What counts above all is the intensity of effort and the degree of seriousness with which you apply yourself to the meditation and the teachings.

It may be that, although you have enriched your life, you have given up any hope of enlightenment for yourself. You have contented yourself with the knowledge that enlightenment can be attained by ordinary, intelligent people. However, for some reason not at all clear to you, your karma seems to be that you will not attain what is accessible to others more fortunate than yourself.

This is a natural feeling and a very good sign. Maintain or even increase your efforts and put all thoughts of enlightenment out of your mind. Focus your thoughts on the meditation and its effects on your life.

The Implicate Technology path to enlightenment entails a gentle, gradual and wholly natural progression along the path of understanding through experience. There is no sudden burst of enlightenment with this method. Simply, one day soon, you will look back and realise that you have been psychologically enlightened for a week or two.