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 The advanced guide to

enlightenment 

by

The Implicate Technology Centre

The Implicate Technology Centre

London.

 

Preface

 

This is the second of two books which together provide a systematic and coherent system of meditation leading to the final stage of enlightenment. This book completes the direct and practical Western meditative system begun in Beyond the personality: the beginner’s guide to enlightenment. Together, these two books teach ordinary people how to become enlightened without surrendering the intellect or renouncing everyday life.

 

In the West, we have available to us an abundance of spiritual teachings. Virtually none of those teachings contains effective and practical instruction on how to attain enlightenment, or unity with God. You can dedicate many years to the study and practice of such teachings, gaining much by way of intellectual knowledge and little by way of direct experience of the truths sought.

 

If you have invested your time, your energy and even your money in pursuing spiritual experience along those other paths, you may feel that you are qualified to start with the advanced meditative practices taught in this book. This is unlikely to produce satisfactory results. If you have genuinely made spiritual progress through another teaching, then you should be able to make very rapid progress through the basic meditation taught in Beyond the personality: the beginner’s guide to enlightenment.

 

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Preface (Above)

 

I Introduction to the Implicate Technology model of reality

1.1 Practice of the basic meditation taught in Beyond the personality: the beginner’s guide to enlightenment.

1.2 Place your faith and your trust in these teachings.

1.3 The stages leading from ignorance of the nature of reality to enlightenment, through direct intuitive experience.

1.4 This and that.

1.5 The illusion of individuality and separation.

1.6 The experience of enlightenment.

1.7 How do ‘I’ become enlightened?

1.8 To seek objective proof is to miss the point of enlightenment.

1.9 Remembrance of past lives as subjective proof.

1.10 Visions as an internal, autonomous form of self-tuition.

 

2 The path to samadhi

2.1 Ignoring your spiritual self-progress means birth, ageing, suffering and death – repeated endlessly.

2.2 Samadhi.

2.3 The link between your own thought process and karma.

2.4 Proceeding from the transpersonal meditations taught in chapter 5 of The beginner’s guide to enlightenment.

2.5 Summary of what you will learn, stage by stage, from this book.

2.6 The need to live in harmony with reality.

2.7 The key distinction between the enlightened and the unenlightened person.

2.8 Freedom from attachment to stimuli.

2.9 The evolutionary purpose of Karma.

2.10 The evolutionary development of Western models of reality.

2.11 The paramount importance of forgiveness.

2.12 Embrace and then detach from the stimuli of everyday life

 

3 The path to a still mind

 

3.1 Illusion and ignorance are washed away through detachment from stimuli.

3.2 Preparing for advanced meditative practices.

3.3 Moving on from the beginner’s meditation.

3.4 The way to transcend the thought process.

3.5 First exercise: inhibiting thoughts.

3.6 Second exercise: detachment from the flow of thoughts.

3.7 Third exercise: tensing and relaxing the mind.

3.8.1 Fourth exercise: transcending the thought process:

3.8.2 become aware of your inherent power source

3.8.3 maintain undistracted alertness through unwavering determination

3.8.4 be aware of what is happening now

3.8.5 boredom in samadhi

3.8.6 adjust to living with undistracted awareness.

3.9 Fifth exercise: maintaining samadhi in the midst of conditions.

3.10 Sixth exercise: becoming indifferent to the thought process.

3.11 The second stage of enlightenment.

 

4 The path to the realisation of that             

4.1.1 The illusory nature of individual experience.

4.1.2 One- pointed meditation.

4.1.3 The observer, the thing observed and the act of observation are inseparable.

4.1.4 How to meditate in a one-pointed manner.

4.2.1 The movement to a transcendentally based awareness.

4.2.2.1 The illusory nature of all mental activity:

4.2.2.2 establish a detached awareness

4.2.2.3 transcending relative experience.

4.3       Direct experience of the absolute.

4.3.1.1 Transcendental analysis of time.

4.3.1.2 The illusory nature of birth, death and time.

4.3.2    The unity of mind and matter.

4.3.3    The unity of all things.

4.4       The third stage of enlightenment.

 

5 The path to the final stage of enlightenment

5.1 Summary of the steps to the final stage of enlightenment.

5.2 This is a mental product of that.

5.3 This is that.

5.4 The unity of all things.

5.5 The end of the far journey.

5.6 Effortless activity.

 

6 The four formless adsorptions

6.1 Exploring the enlightened state.

6.2 Transcending the illusion of separateness and difference.

6.3 That is infinite extension through infinite space.

6.4 That is infinitely conscious.

6.5 This is mere appearance, inherently dream-like and unreal.

6.6 Knowing this and that, go as karma bids.

 

7 Synopsis of the Appendices

 

7.1  Appendix 1: How to recognise a fully developed model of reality

7.1.1 The sources of Implicate Technology.

7.1.2 The four generic paths to enlightenment.

7.1.3 The need for a politics of transcendence.

7.1.4 Primary characteristics of the four generic paths.

7.1.5 Characteristics of a fully developed model of reality.

7.1.6 Limitations of contemporary mainstream Christianity.

7.1.7 Implicate Technology used within a Christian context.

7.1.8 Re-vitalising Jesus’s original teachings.

7.1.9 Implicate Technology acts as a catalyst.

 

7.2 Appendix 2: The world-healing process

7.2.1 Our suffering world can be healed.

7.2.2 You have the power to exert a healing influence on AIDS.

7.2.3 You can positively influence the attitudes which allow terrorism to flourish.

7.2.4 You can help reduce the profound disharmony which threatens us with nuclear holocaust

7.2.5 You can heal the negative karma which threatens to erupt as race war.

7.2.6 Advancing in meditation, it becomes clear that your true material needs are modest.

7.2.7 How to prepare for practising the meditation.

7.2.8 The world-healing meditation.

 

7.3 Appendix 3: A secular analogue to the ten sefirot

7.3.1 A model of reality in terms of the ten conditions.

7.3.2 Meditation and the model of reality.

 

8 Bibliography

 

9 Glossary

 

T I Introduction to the Implicate Technology model of reality

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I Introduction to the Implicate Technology model of reality

There is only one reality. Reality is one. This secular teaching, and all religions, can be understood as models of the one reality, relevant to particular cultures over particular time periods.

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1.1 Practice of the basic meditation taught in Beyond the personality: the beginner’s guide to enlightenment.

1.2 Place your faith and your trust in these teachings.

1.3 The stages leading from ignorance of the nature of reality to enlightenment, through direct intuitive experience.

1.4 This and that.

1.5 The illusion of individuality and separation.

1.6 The experience of enlightenment.

1.7 How do ‘I’ become enlightened?

1.8 To seek objective proof is to miss the point of enlightenment.

1.9 Remembrance of past lives as subjective proof.

1.10 Visions as an internal, autonomous form of self-tuition.

 

 

 

 

T 2. The path to samadhi

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2 The path to samadhi

2.1 Ignoring your spiritual self-progress means birth, ageing, suffering and death – repeated endlessly.

2.2 Samadhi.

2.3 The link between your own thought process and karma.

2.4 Proceeding from the transpersonal meditations taught in chapter 5 of The beginner’s guide to enlightenment.

2.5 Summary of what you will learn, stage by stage, from this book.

2.6 The need to live in harmony with reality.

2.7 The key distinction between the enlightened and the unenlightened person.

2.8 Freedom from attachment to stimuli.

2.9 The evolutionary purpose of Karma.

2.10 The evolutionary development of Western models of reality.

2.11 The paramount importance of forgiveness.

2.12 Embrace and then detach from the stimuli of everyday life

2. The path to samadhi

 

2.0 There are ten conditions, not nine, ten conditions, not eleven. Every situation which you experience consists of a particular configuration of the ten conditions – karma; space and time; physical, emotional and intellectual limiting factors; moral and social constraints, and political and economic pressures. The goal of Implicate Technology, as of all fully developed models of reality, is to guide you to realisation through direct experience of the pure and original state of mind transcending all conditions.

 

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3 The path to a still mind

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3 The path to a still mind

3.1 Illusion and ignorance are washed away through detachment from stimuli.

3.2 Preparing for advanced meditative practices.

3.3 Moving on from the beginner’s meditation.

3.4 The way to transcend the thought process.

3.5 First exercise: inhibiting thoughts.

3.6 Second exercise: detachment from the flow of thoughts.

3.7 Third exercise: tensing and relaxing the mind.

3.8.1 Fourth exercise: transcending the thought process:

3.8.2 become aware of your inherent power source

3.8.3 maintain undistracted alertness through unwavering determination

3.8.4 be aware of what is happening now

3.8.5 boredom in samadhi

3.8.6 adjust to living with undistracted awareness.

3.9 Fifth exercise: maintaining samadhi in the midst of conditions.

3.10 Sixth exercise: becoming indifferent to the thought process.

3.11 The second stage of enlightenment.

 

3 The path to a still mind

3.0 Mind in its unconditioned state is devoid of form or qualities – that is pure being, witnessing this as it unfolds. That in its conditioned state, individualized and absorbed in this, is engaged in ceaseless activity as a result of endless stimuli. Release from the bondage of conditioned existence comes through gaining detachment from stimuli.

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T 4 The path to the realisation of “THAT”

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4 The path to the realisation of that

4.1.1 The illusory nature of individual experience.

4.1.2 One- pointed meditation.

4.1.3 The observer, the thing observed and the act of observation are inseparable.

4.1.4 How to meditate in a one-pointed manner.

4.2.1 The movement to a transcendentally based awareness.

4.2.2.1 The illusory nature of all mental activity:

4.2.2.2 establish a detached awareness

4.2.2.3 transcending relative experience.

4.3       Direct experience of the absolute.

4.3.1.1 Transcendental analysis of time.

4.3.1.2 The illusory nature of birth, death and time.

4.3.2    The unity of mind and matter.

4.3.3    The unity of all things.

4.4       The third stage of enlightenment.

4 The path to the realisation of that   

4.0 This is that, and only that. This is the constantly unfolding, illusorily objective thought process of the one, universal, all-embracing mind. By structured meditation on the nature of this, using the ever simpler perceptions of the mind in its still and natural state, you come at last to understand that this is that.

 

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T 5 The path to the final stage of enlightenment

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5 The path to the final stage of enlightenment

5.1 Summary of the steps to the final stage of enlightenment.

5.2 This is a mental product of that.

5.3 This is that.

5.4 The unity of all things.

5.5 The end of the far journey.

5.6 Effortless activity.

 

5 The path to the final stage of enlightenment

 

5.0 That manifests itself as this. The illusorily separate components of this have existed in ignorance of their true nature, lifetime after lifetime, remaining attracted and deluded by desire for experience of this. Purged at last of ignorance of the nature of reality, the transcendentally awakened mind becomes fully conscious of the inherent and absolute unity of this and that, through the process of transcendental yoga.

 

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T 6 The four formless adsorptions

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6 The four formless adsorptions

6.1 Exploring the enlightened state.

6.2 Transcending the illusion of separateness and difference.

6.3 That is infinite extension through infinite space.

6.4 That is infinitely conscious.

6.5 This is mere appearance, inherently dream-like and unreal.

6.6 Knowing this and that, go as karma bids.

6 The four formless adsorptions

 

6.0 Embark upon the four formless absorptions, knowing with the unshakeable certainty of direct experience that this is that. Become aware of the principles of construction of conditioned existence whilst living your ordinary everyday life. Without the need for daily meditation, explore and know the manifest form of mind in its original, pure and unmanifest nature.

 

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T 7.1 Appendix 1: How to recognise a fully developed model of reality

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7.1  Appendix 1: How to recognise a fully developed model of reality

7.1.1 The sources of Implicate Technology.

7.1.2 The four generic paths to enlightenment.

7.1.3 The need for a politics of transcendence.

7.1.4 Primary characteristics of the four generic paths.

7.1.5 Characteristics of a fully developed model of reality.

7.1.6 Limitations of contemporary mainstream Christianity.

7.1.7 Implicate Technology used within a Christian context.

7.1.8 Re-vitalising Jesus’s original teachings.

7.1.9 Implicate Technology acts as a catalyst.

 

7.1 Appendix 1: How to recognise a fully developed model of reality

 

7.1.0 When a new model of reality with the inherent potential to be widely accepted evolves in any culture, it is the result of preparatory activities of karma across many generations of incarnations. To those who are most prepared, neither the coming of the model nor its content is unexpected, only its form of expression is unanticipated; to those who are ill-prepared, to those whose who are immersed in attachment to conditioned existence, the appearance of a new model of reality is as if from nowhere. As the adherents of a new model of reality grow in number, and so in influence, there is a tendency for them to conflict with the adherents of the prevailing model of reality.

 

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T 7.2 Appendix 2: The world -healing process

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7.2 Appendix 2: The world-healing process

7.2.1 Our suffering world can be healed.

7.2.2 You have the power to exert a healing influence on AIDS.

7.2.3 You can positively influence the attitudes which allow terrorism to flourish.

7.2.4 You can help reduce the profound disharmony which threatens us with nuclear holocaust

7.2.5 You can heal the negative karma which threatens to erupt as race war.

7.2.6 Advancing in meditation, it becomes clear that your true material needs are modest.

7.2.7 How to prepare for practising the meditation.

7.2.8 The world-healing meditation.

7.2 Appendix 2: The world -healing process

7.2.0 Empty and powerful, aware of the illusory and non-existent nature of individual life, the enlightened person knows that reality will unfold regardless of individual volition. Dedicated to helping others find release from the relative illusion that suffering is real, through experiencing the freedom of the absolute and the consequent realisation of the ultimate non-existence of suffering, the enlightened person is endlessly committed to a healing course of action. Faced with the ceaseless uncertainties of relative existence, the enlightened person renounces personal control over events and instead relies on meditation-enhanced healing practices to influence the surrounding environment in an impersonal, disinterested and harmonious way.

 

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T 7.3 Appendix 3: A secular analogue to the ten sefirot

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7.3 Appendix 3: A secular analogue to the ten sefirot

7.3.1 A model of reality in terms of the ten conditions.

7.3.2 Meditation and the model of reality.

 

7.3.0 Introduction

 

This appendix presents a system of modelling reality and of interacting with that model through meditation, which is similar to the Kabbalistic system of the ten sefirot [Hoffman, Edward; The Way of Splendour: Jewish Mysticism and Modern Psychology; Boulder, Shambhala, 1981, pages 53-54]. The modelling technique is based on the meditation system contained in this teach-yourself book, and in Beyond the personality: the beginner’s guide to enlightenment. These two books together provide a unified, coherent and integrated system of meditation, which leads the meditator step by step from ordinary awareness, with all its stress and anxiety, to the peace and serenity of enlightenment.

 

T 8 Bibliography (TEA)

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8.1 The first stage of enlightenment

 

The Implicate Technology Centre; Beyond the personality: the beginner’s guide to enlightenment; London, The Implicate Technology Centre, 1987.

Wilhelm, Richard and Jung, G. G.; The Secret of the Golden Flower; London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1962.

 

8.2 Channeling the body’s inherent implicate energy system

 

Chia, Mantak; Awaken Healing Energy Through the Tao; New York, Aurora Press, 1983.

Chia, Mantak; Taoist Secrets of Love: Cultivating Male Sexual Energy; New York, Aurora Press, 1984

 

8.3 The second, third and fourth stages of enlightenment

 

Evans-Wentz, W. Y.; Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines; Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1967.

Nanamoli, Bhikkhu; The Life of the Buddha: According to the Pali Canon; Kandy, Buddhist Publication Society, 1978.

Shearer, Alexander; Effortless Being: the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali; London, Wildwood House, 1982. ~ ~

 

8.4 The experience of enlightenment

 

Godman, David; Be As You Are: the Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi; London, Arkana, 1985.

 

Sri Ramanasramam; Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi; Tiruvannamalai, T. N. Venkataraman, 1984.

 

Radhakrishnan, S.; The Bhagavadgita; London, George Allen and Unwin Ltd. 1970.

 

8.5 The world-healing meditation

 

Gyatso, Thubten; Medicine Buddha Sadhana; London, Wisdom Publications, 1982.


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Centred in the midst of conditions: the state of mind, attained on realising the first stage of enlightenment, which marks the start of the process of learning to understand the true nature of reality.

 

Clear setting face to face with reality: the fourth and final stage of enlightenment; re-unification with God.

 

Conditions: the ten fundamental forces shaping each moment.

 

Enlightenment: the progressive states of awareness which, stage by stage, sweep aside ignorance of the nature of reality. Enlightenment culminates in the realisation that all of this is an organic unity, and is that alone. The religious mind experiences enlightenment as reunification with God, who alone is.

First stage of enlightenment: realised by attaining detachment from emotional and intellectual conditions.

Second stage of enlightenment: realised through experiencing the mind’s inherent stillness and serenity.

Third stage of enlightenment: realised when the individual mind has been transcended, and perceptible reality is intuitively known to be divine, and only divine.

Fourth stage of enlightenment: realised when the transcendentally awakened mind becomes one with 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 models of reality.

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

 

Implicate Technology : a Western-originated, fully developed model of reality, incorporating meditative techniques which work in a secular, everyday context.

 

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

2) The process whereby reality structures the circumstances of your life, to guide you towards, onto, then along the path towards enlightenment.

3) The law whereby your current thoughts and actions determine your future experience. 4) God’s will.

 

Meditation: l) The practical process of achieving a still mind, or samadhi.

2) The self-help technique which enables 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.

 

Natural state: mind, free of the constraints of the ten conditions, clear, serene and blissfully self-aware.

 

One-pointed meditation: a mind which has realised the second stage of enlightenment is capable of concentrating on one object for long enough to intuitively discern its underlying nature.

Personality: the complex of views, opinions, ideas, emotions and attitudes comprising ordinary, everyday awareness. This complex is experienced as real to ordinary consciousness, as relatively real once the first stage of enlightenment has been attained, and as 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 meditative methodology to aid in the process of finding a harmonious and unselfish resolution to any difficult situation.

 

Reality: the total of what can be known and experienced. In religious terms, reality is the manifest form of God who alone is. The true nature of reality can only be understood once the final stage of enlightenment has been experienced.

 

Samadhi: the state of mind, transcending thought, in which consciousness focuses on the divine source of perceptible reality.

 

Sexual energy: 1) The body’s spontaneously generated implicate power source.

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

 

This: the conditioned form of reality, the manifest form of God.

 

That: the divine source and the true nature of perceptible reality.

 

Transcendence: the process whereby the mind moves from ordinary, everyday awareness of separation, suffering and individuality to an all-embracing awareness of unity, harmony and serenity.

 

Undistracted alertness: 1 ) The essential attribute of the mind capable of holding fast to the divine nature inherent in perceptible reality.

2) The state of samadhi.

 

Unconditioned state: mind in its original state, transcending and embracing all thought and all experience – serene, free and blissfully self-aware.

 

Visions: an autonomous subjective process, produced as a by-product of advanced meditative practices.

 

Yoga: the practical techniques for developing awareness and understanding of the implicate nature of reality.