1.5 The illusion of individuality and separation

The true nature of reality, this and that in eternal union, is consciousness without content, which nonetheless permits all contents to exist. The direct experience of that, as experienced every day by the enlightened mind, is a formless, still and silent experience, impossible to convey in words and knowable only by direct experience. The direct experience of this, as experienced every day by the enlightened mind, is an unfailing acceptance of what is, devoid of judgement, inhibition or interference.

Your everyday experience of this, of yourself and others as apparently separate and different from each other and all else, is an illusion of the unenlightened mind. Committed practice of the meditation techniques taught in this book will progressively cleanse your mind of its illusory sense of separateness. The experience of enlightenment is like awakening from a dream – the illusion is broken and your true nature, the true nature of all reality, becomes clear and transcends all configurations of the ten conditions.

The underlying nature of everything perceptible to your senses, this, is a formless immanent consciousness devoid of qualities, that. These Implicate Technology meditative disciplines, practised as taught, without arrogant picking and choosing according to individual wish, will gradually free your mind from the conditions constraining its original and true nature. When you have overcome the self-limiting tendencies of your mind, this will be revealed as that.

This is not the creation of that. There is no such duality as ‘perceptible reality’ and ‘the creator of that reality’. To the enlightened mind, this is that.

That is not separate from this. That is simultaneously the source, the substance and the real nature of this. Put simply, you are that: the enlightened mind is aware of this ultimate nature of perceptible reality as direct intuitive experience; the unenlightened mind is not – such awareness is the only real difference between the two.