4.2 The  awakening of transcendent consciousness

What is the meditative practice for allowing the mind’s transcendental nature to unfold?

The previous, intense, phase of exploration and analysis has been completed. Patient, consistent practice in one-pointed meditation has revealed that the meditator cannot be found. The nature of mind has been explored, through direct intuitive experience, and the illusion of individuality has been transcended.

You have learned to distinguish between mind in its active individual state and mind in its still natural state. You have intuited that the two apparently opposite states are simply different forms of the one mind. Now you will learn to direct your efforts towards realising that, mind in its transcendental all-embracing state.

Up to this meditative practice, you have been exploring the nature of this, conditioned existence. Your journey has been relentlessly inwards establishing the forms and characteristics of the deepest and simplest states of mind. From this exercise onwards, you will explore the nature of that, mind in its unconditioned state; or, if you are religiously inclined, you can use these exercises to apprehend the nature and being of God.

The remaining exercises in this chapter will help you to realise that. Through direct intuitive experience, they will teach you that this is that. If you are practising these exercises within the context of a religious model of reality, you will realise that the world is the manifest form of God.

Successful completion of the exercises in this chapter marks a profound turning about in your mind. Irrevocably, your mind will move to a transcendentally based awareness. Simply, clearly and directly, you will experience this in its true nature as that.