4.2.2.3 How is the relative, and so illusory, nature of conditioned experience to be transcended?

How are you to break free of the illusion of relative experience? How are you going to experience the absolute? How are you to break through and transcend the conditioned thought processes of your mind?

Begin by realising that you have arrived at the boundary of thought, you have reached the limits of what is thinkable and conceivable. Begin by realising that it is not possible to ascertain the true and absolute nature of everyday experience by thought. Reality can only be known by the clear, simple and direct experience of the transcendentally awakened and trained mind.

Having awaken to the transcendental nature of reality, the mind accepts what occurs, with simple directness. What occurs is accepted as it happens, because it is intuitively known and experienced as the conditioned form of mind in its absolute nature. Life is, as it spontaneously, harmoniously and inconceivably evolves across all of time towards the enlightenment of all of reality.

Be clear: even after you have attained the final stage of enlightenment, you will still be subject to the constraints of conditioned existence, you will still experience thoughts and emotions. The focus of awareness of an enlightened person can descend deep into conditioned existence. Suffering in his final agony, Jesus experienced a transient moment of desolation and despair, crying out: ‘My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?’.

Thoughts cannot embrace the whole of reality. Mind in its transcendental state cannot be grasped or understood by thought. A mind operating at the transcendental level witnesses, embraces and goes beyond, first the individual thought process, and then, as the meditations unfold, all of conditioned existence.

Mind in its transcendental form is a still, thought-free awareness, which witnesses and intuitively understands thoughts as activities conditioning and constraining the direct intuitive experiencing of reality. Thoughts are understood and experienced as potent and attractive within the terms of reference of ‘I’-based consciousness, the ultimately illusory, individual self. When the awareness is located in the transcendental state, one’s own thoughts are observed with detachment, as spontaneous natural occurrences, like wind, snow or thunderstorms.