4.1.4.2 How do ‘I’ complete the process of realising that the observer, the thing observed and the act of observation are one?

Before proceeding with the remaining exercises in this set, you would do well to pause and take stock of your situation. When this set of exercises is successfully completed, you will have transcended the illusion of individual and separate existence. When you have realised that truth working just with these teachings and your own life as the raw materials, you will have travelled further in the understanding of reality than has been attained by our most advanced late-twentieth century Western science.

It is very easy for your mind to get carried away by exhilaration and excitement – soon your insights into the nature of reality will far transcend anything an explicate, materially-based science can teach. You may be tempted to feel that you are an exceptional person, developing extraordinary insights and abilities. What enjoyment, what power, what recognition you can see in your mind’s eye awaits you.

Simply pay no attention to such stimuli. Through the workings of karma, reality still configures itself to test your capacity for detachment from stimuli. At all times, you must maintain undistracted alertness to ensure that you are not diverted from the path to the final, transcendental stage of enlightenment.

One-pointed meditation requires that you deal simply, clearly and directly with what is in front of you. Throughout your life, Live and Act. Always and only, bring your awareness back to undistracted contemplation of, and undistracted involvement in, the present moment.

Carried out as instructed above, the remaining meditations in this set will gradually reveal to you the true nature of mental activity. By careful contemplation and analysis, you will search for who it is who is doing the contemplating, analysing and searching. When sought with undistracted alertness and unwavering awareness of the mind’s natural stillness, it will be discovered that the seeker cannot be-found.