5.3 How do you set about identifying this as that?

 

Up to this point in your meditations, you have viewed this from a relative perspective, located and rooted in this. Even with the awakening of the transcendent aspects of mind, you have still experienced conditioned existence within the restraining constructs of the ten conditions. Know as a certainty that for the rest of your life you will continue to experience this from a relative viewpoint – after all, like everyone else, you are only an ordinary mortal person.

 

Know also as a certainty that, as a result of successful completion of this meditation, your perspective on this will in addition simultaneously reveal the absolute nature of this. Practice of this meditation marks the shift in your consciousness from abiding only in this, to living in this while knowing and experiencing it as that. Know as a certainty that you will experience this from the absolute viewpoint of that – like everyone else, you are an incarnation of the universal, all-embracing mind; in religious terms, we are all children of the one God.

 

All of this, every part and aspect of the eternal process, arises, occurs and ceases to exist as the thought process of that unfolds. All of this, in its implicate and explicate aspects, has reality only through the workings of the thought process of that. From the absolute perspective of that, this is known and experienced in its true nature; once re-union with God has been attained, the world is known as It is.

 

Understood with the transcendent serenity of mind in its unconditioned state, this in its totality is known as the manifest form of that. That expresses itself, in its fulness, as this. That is formless yet gives shape, meaning and purpose to this.

 

This and that are intertwined, indissolubly and eternally. Conditioned existence cannot be understood in its true nature without experiencing it with the mind in its unconditioned state. God and the world are ever one, united in a loving embrace.

 

This and that are of one nature, two sides of the same coin. That thinks this, manifests this and experiences this, whilst simultaneously transcendentally witnessing the whole process. The thinker and the thought are one and the same.

 

This is that, subject to the constraints of the ten conditions. The joys and horrors of this are the result of the corrective reaction of karma to individual and collective thoughts and actions. Karma shapes the lives and minds of countless components of this across space and time, evolving this as a whole towards recollection of its original nature as that.

 

As a result of meditating one-pointedly on these teachings with a transcendentally awakened mind, the true nature of this becomes clear to you. As you have been taught-throughout this Implicate Technology teaching of the clear setting face to face with reality, this is the manifest form of that. Understood in its true nature, this is that. In your true nature, transcending outer form and difference, you, everybody and everything else are that.

 

Before completing your journey to enlightenment, pause to survey this from the perspective of that. That witnesses this with a profound and serene detachment. Follow the meditations to explore the three-fold nature of transcendental witnessing.

 

This three-fold nature is the expression of the highest, purest and simplest state of consciousness within conditioned existence. To the monotheist, it is the three-fold nature of God; to the Hindu, it is Sat-Chit-Ananda – Being, Consciousness and Bliss; to the Buddhist, it is the first reflex in conditioned existence of mind in its unconditioned state. Within the framework of Implicate Technology, it is the three-fold nature of transcendental witnessing.

 

By this penultimate meditation, you are learning the three-fold nature of your own experience in its purest of conditioned forms. The transcendentally aware mind witnesses this, knowing and experiencing it as that, with clarity, wisdom and delight. Live your ordinary, everyday life knowing the ecstatic bliss of transcendental witnessing, without the need to express your inner experience through outer sign.

 

The person who has realised these highest teachings of Implicate Technology, through direct intuitive experience, has no need to shout aloud the good news. Regardless of outer form, the life of a fully enlightened person is dedicated, with unremitting inner perseverance, to helping all others to attain enlightenment. The primary means of achieving this is action, not words.

 

The enlightened person loves this with a simple, direct and entirely spontaneous humility. You now exist to serve others by helping them along the path to enlightenment. Express your love and compassion for this through direct intuitive Action.

 

The first reflex of that, in conditioned form, is transcendental consciousness witnessing this with clarity, wisdom and delight. Witnessing what is, the fully realised transcendent mind is only one meditative step from realising mind in its unconditioned state. It is a matter of personal preference which of these two ultimate realisations you choose as your final goal.

 

For some, particularly those who are religiously inclined, realisation of mind in its purest conditioned form of transcendental witness is experienced as re-unification with God. For others, particularly those who experience the spiritual path as a search to understand the nature of reality rather than as a search for re-union with God, the goal is not reached until mind in its unconditioned state is realised. Both realisations are the final and absolute stage of enlightenment, experienced and expressed from different viewpoints.

 

That is clarity

 

That, in its purest conditioned form as transcendent witness of this, is an awareness of utter clarity. That is an experience of clarity, untainted and unblemished by any form of desire. That witnesses, but does not participate in, desires of any nature for any object, whether it be tangible or intangible.

 

That simultaneously transcends and witnesses the ten conditions structuring the development of its manifest thought process. That is untouched by fear or desire, untouched by any weakness or limitation. That simply is awareness of what is, untainted by any form of desire.

 

That is wisdom

 

In its first reflex as transcendent witness of this, that is an awareness of pure, clear wisdom. That is aware of the necessity, form and purpose of the ten conditions. That witnesses this clearly, knowing the true meaning of what is experienced.

 

The wisdom of that is an awareness of this in the context of the movement of this towards re-union with that. That is the consciousness that this unfolds in an endless, unified and harmonious movement towards recollecting that it is that. That is the wisdom to witness this, knowing the nature and purpose of what is.

 

That is delight

 

Untainted by desire, aware of the nature and purpose of what is, that witnesses this with delight. The horror, the pain and the suffering of this, the joy, the hope and the happiness of this, are all known in their true nature. Understanding the true, final and absolute nature of everyday life, that witnesses with delight the unfolding of this.

 

All experience is only real relative to the one who experiences. When sought in a yogically disciplined manner, the individual, the one who experiences separateness, cannot be found. In the final analysis of the mind enlightened through practice of yoga, all experience is unreal – it is known to be of the nature of a passing dream.

 

All suffering is only real relative to the one who experiences. Mind in its fully realised transcendent state of unsullied witness knows intuitively the inherent unreality of what is experienced as suffering. That delights in the true nature of what is.

 

Witnessing this with clarity wisdom and delight, the transcendentally awakened mind comes at last to experience the inherent unity of all things.