4.3.1.1 What is the nature of the present moment?

The preliminary Implicate Technology meditation on the nature of time is taught in chapter 5 of Beyond the personality: the beginner’s guide to enlightenment. That meditation was designed to stabilise the awareness of a psychologically enlightened person in the understanding that reality occurs now, and only now. Be sure you understand that earlier meditation before starting on the meditation in this section.

One last word of advice before you begin the meditation: you are now in a mature phase of meditation. The heat of mental activity, creating the obscuring condensation on the window of perception, is diminishing along with the obscuring condensation. Remain calm as you begin to understand and experience clearly the nature of reality.

Do not fear as you intuitively experience the boundaries of space and time, life and death, crumble away. All that you will experience is the wonder and truth of your own nature. Nothing can happen to you that you are unable to deal with.

The past thought is no longer in existence. To the transcendentally awakened mind, enquiry into the nature of time and enquiry into the nature of existence are inseparable. This is because to exist is to be conditioned by time. Mind in its original and eternal state, that, transcends and embraces existence.

The structure and functioning of mind in its unenlightened state is a conditioned and limited form of mind in its natural and enlightened state. The processes of the conditioned mind are a faint and limited echo of mind in its serene and unconditioned state. By meditating one-pointedly on the nature of the mind’s processes whilst simultaneously witnessing the meditation with the transcendentally awakened mind direct intuitive experience of the nature of reality will unfold.

Only the present moment is in existence. Your previous thoughts have had their moments of existence and now no longer exist, except in memory. In the same way, the past thoughts of that, the previous configurations of the ten conditions which we experience as this, are no longer in existence.

The future thought, being not yet born, has not come into existence. The integrated, unified and purposefully evolving thought process of that unfolds conditioned existence, now. What will be is inherent in what is. The potential of this is realised as this is developed,  by the thought process of that, towards conscious re-integration with that.

The present thought unfolds spontaneously and uncontrollably.

The meditative exercises in chapter 3 of this book taught you that it is impossible to stop or control the thought process, except for limited periods. The aim of this Western meditative system is to achieve detachment from the attractions and distractions of the thought process. As you are discovering day by day, the yogically trained mind witnesses with serene detachment the spontaneous coming in to existence of each thought.

You are now able serenely to witness a thought on one level of your being and at the same time spontaneously experience it on another level. In the same way, that witnesses this with clarity wisdom and delight in what is, and that experiences this simultaneously from your viewpoint, and her viewpoint, and his viewpoint, and my viewpoint. This evolves moment by moment, thought by thought, spontaneously and uncontrollably, according to the inherent implicate laws of conditioned existence.

Be clear: nothing exists independently of mind in its unconditioned state. No part of this exists independently from any other part. All of this has no existence in and of itself; it is that alone which gives this existence.

In chapter 5 of the first book in this Implicate Technology meditative system, you learned that to split time into past, present and future is unreal – they are each contained in the present moment. The meditation in this section teaches you that the present moment alone exists: moment by moment, this comes into existence and evolves through time. When you understand this intuitively, then you are ready to realise the illusory nature of birth, death and time.