3.2 How do you prepare for the advanced meditative practices?

Begin by understanding that your goal is not merely to attain enlightenment for yourself, but to attain enlightenment so that, by teaching and by your own example, you can help others to attain its unparalleled benefits. We are all illusorily separate parts of an inherently unified whole, and the true value of your own attainment is measured by the assistance you give to others on the path.

Begin by understanding that the goal of this Implicate Technology meditative system, the attainment of the final stage of enlightenment, whether from a secular or a religious point of view, is a state of pure undistracted awareness. It is a state of mind concerned neither with past nor future; it simply witnesses and experiences the present moment. The mind, kept in its natural state of transcending all conditions, neither imagines, nor thinks, nor analyses, nor meditates, nor reflects.

Begin by understanding that everything you will learn about the nature of space, time and reality is already known to you. The process of recollecting lost knowledge, by practice of these meditative disciplines, is simply a matter of no longer forgetting what was once known. You sprang from that, you live now immersed in this, and you are set on the path to realising that you are now that, and have always and only been that.

Begin by understanding that you can meditate in virtually any and all circumstances. You can meditate while seated, walking, eating, making love, working, resting or watching television – the list includes virtually every activity you engage in. The goal is realised when you live in meditation – that is to say, the goal is a state of meditation-enhanced awareness transcending any particular meditative practice.

Begin by selecting a readily available stimulus, which you can use to measure your progress in meditative detachment. The chosen stimulus can be aural or visual, or even tactile if you prefer – your aim is to realise detachment from stimuli through focusing your awareness on one simple, repetitive stimulus. You can use an inexpensive mechanical clock for a simple aural stimulus, or an inexpensive digital clock for a simple visual stimulus, or any other readily available stimulus.