2.4 How do you gain freedom from the constraints of conditioned existence, this?

The teachings in this chapter follow on from chapter 5 of The beginner’s guide to enlightenment. That is to say, you are equipped to work with this chapter if you have realised the first or psychological stage of enlightenment. But you will not be equipped to deal with this chapter unless you have made a start on the transpersonal meditations in chapter 5 of that book.

In The beginner’s guide to enlightenment, you were taught, step by practical step, how to develop your understanding through experience. As you developed in your practice of the meditation, your experience unfolded. Your experience was always used as the basis to draw you further along the path.

In this chapter, an apparently different approach will be used. First, you will be taught what may seem to be an entirely theoretical structure. Then you will be taught how to prepare yourself to realise the theory in practice.

This technique is essentially the same as in the preparatory teachings. Before you can have the necessary experiences, you must develop your understanding. The understanding provided by meditating on the meaning of this chapter will prepare your mind for the expansions of consciousness to come.

The aim or goal of this chapter is to guide you towards a way of living which operates in harmony with the inherent implicate laws governing and informing our lives. This way of living does not impose any moral structure or expected pattern of behaviour on you. It is simply a way of living in harmony with the moral purpose inherent in reality.