2.6 How do you live your life in such a way that you receive the priceless gift of samadhi?

Reality is a process structured to purge you of your ignorance, accumulated through time, of the nature of this. Reality is a process structured to purge you of your ignorance, accumulated through time, of the nature of that. You can only understand that this is that through the experience of samadhi.

Samadhi only occurs in a mind adequately prepared for the experience. This Implicate Technology teaching of the clear setting face to face with reality prepares you in a twofold manner. Firstly, by teaching you how to live a life in harmony with the moral purpose of reality, and secondly by teaching you yogic techniques which you can use in your everyday environment.

To live a life in harmony with the flow of reality you need a context which adequately describes and supports life as you live it. Other implicate technology systems [see glossary for the distinction between implicate technology and Implicate Technology] normally provide this through a culturally accepted moral code. This Implicate Technology teaching provides the context you need in terms of a description of the role of the individual in the process that is reality.

Our Western cultures place great importance on the rights and needs of the individual. Our governments talk freely of these rights but the reality varies according to the political needs and pressures of the moment. As taught in The beginner’s guide to enlightenment, each one of us learns to deal with the world through the limits of our personality, insofar as the prevailing conditions will allow.

It is in accordance with the flow of reality, the nature of this, that the individual is treated as having such importance. Each one of us is a unique and essential source of experiencing this as it unfolds through time. To treat others with consideration for their needs and respect for their rights is to act in such a way as to incur positive karmic consequences; failure to help someone when it is within your gift, or to push aside the rights of another, invariably incurs negative karmic consequences.

It is in accordance with the flow of reality, the manifest nature of that, that the sense of ‘I’, the awareness of specific individuality, should be understood as being merely relative and so illusory. In the final analysis of the mind trained in the advanced meditative techniques taught in this book, the sense of ‘I’ is part of the illusion binding the mind to unenlightened behaviour. All individuality is merely an illusion appearing in the midst of conditions – the simple and absolute truth, insofar as it can be conveyed in words, is that we are all that alone, and nothing else.

At this stage in your travels along the path towards realisation of the final stage of enlightenment, having realised the psychological stage of enlightenment and not yet having spontaneously started samadhi, you need to learn how to act as an enlightened person. That is to say, to assist you in your inner development, you need a framework to guide and accustom you to enlightened forms of behaviour. It will be exactly as with the practices to raise the sexual energy described in chapter 5 of The beginner’s guide to enlightenment: at first, compliance with these practices will be an act of determination and possibly imagination only; as your determination and practice improve, your inner experience will prepare you for the spontaneous beginning of samadhi.