6.1 What are the four formless absorptions?

Conditioned existence is the manifest form of God. This is mind’s original, formless and untainted nature locked in the relatively illusory and dream-like process of evolving back to conscious realisation of its original, formless and untainted nature. This in its entirety is the name of God, which no individual mind can encompass.

One by one, practice of these four absorptions peels away dependence on form, to reveal, to the enlightened understanding, direct intuitive experience of the formless and absolute nature of reality. Through increasingly subtle perceptions of the nature of the form and underlying structure of the process of conditioned existence, the true nature of the merely objective processes of reality becomes known. The reality of the apparently objective framework in which we live, the world of nature, is explored through these absorptions and traced to its formless roots in the absolute subjectivity of mind in its unconditioned form.