1.4 What is the nature of the final stage of enlightenment?

To answer this question it is necessary to develop two reference points, seemingly poles apart and yet in reality an eternal and transcendent unity. To comply with Implicate Technology disciplines, the words used must be part of ordinary life. To function in a fully developed, clearly articulated model of reality, the words must direct your awareness to the two primary aspects of reality whose interaction creates all which we experience.

This refers to the totality of conditioned existence, infinitely varied through time, infinitely extended through space [see The beginner’s guide to enlightenment, chapter 3]. Every thought, every action, every person, every thing, animate or inanimate, is embraced in this. There is no aspect of your life which is not part of this, shaped and influenced by the constantly changing interactions of the ten conditions.

That refers to the natural state of the unconditioned mind. That is devoid of conditioned qualities, devoid of shape or form or feature. None of the ten conditions, which limit and constrain our lives, apply to that.

Practice of the meditation techniques taught in this book will show you, through your own experience, that this and that are an indistinguishable unity. This is simply that subject to the ten conditions. This is the content, the materialised and conditioned thought process of that, the unconditioned and all-embracing universal mind.

Conditioned existence, this, and unconditioned awareness, that, form a perfect and eternal unity- a continuous and unbroken act of transcendental delight. This and that are joined in an eternal, blissful act of union – in the words of other models’ of reality: God and the world are ever one, Siva and Sakti are ever engaged in sexual union, and Samsara and Nirvana are ever two aspects of the one, inexpressible unity. From the unenlightened point of view, this can only, because of ignorance of the real nature of that, be experienced illusorily, as life’s transient joys and sorrows, pains and pleasures.

Of necessity, all fully developed models of the one reality have certain features in common. Hinduism uses Brahman to represent the immanent transcendental reality, Buddhism uses the Void and Implicate Technology uses that. Similarly, each model presents a practical path to perceiving the threefold nature of transcendental reality.

Hinduism presents a path to realising Brahman as Sat-Chit-Ananda, as Being-Consciousness-Bliss. Buddhism presents a path to realising the Void as three dualities comprising a unity: Bliss and the Void, the Clear Light and the Void, Wisdom and the Void. This teaching of Implicate Technology presents a path to realising the nature of that as untainted clarity in perceiving what is, wisdom to accept what is, and delight in what is.

Images of reality used within the context of a fully developed model of reality will control, direct and focus your ever-growing awareness – these images will help you to make sense of this as you struggle to realise that within yourself. These root images form the basis of the Implicate Technology model of reality. These images are simply a form of words to direct your attention to the true nature of what you experience, and simultaneously to help you understand the nature of the fully enlightened mind.