6.2 These absorptions are simply natural and spontaneous extensions and refinements of the fourth and final stage of enlightenment. It is as though, having scaled your way up a steep cliff, you arrive at the top to discover a vast plateau, and, instead of having to progress inch by inch, you can now explore huge areas with ease. These absorptions simply release knowledge of reality which has lain dormant in your mind; the plateau, the explorer and the act of exploration are, and have always been, an indivisible unity.

A characteristic of the fully realised mind is the experience of separateness and multiplicity as an illusion concealing the underlying unity of reality. The enlightened mind is primarily focused on the unity of reality; in religious terms, the enlightened mind is primarily focused on God. Such intense and simple concentration is the result of the sustained meditative practices mastered on the journey to enlightenment; except for brief periods of meditation to restore temporary disruptions of equanimity, you should have no further need of meditation.

To practise these absorptions, let your mind turn simply and naturally to the subject of each absorption. Allow your intuition to guide you as you explore the structure underpinning conditioned existence. Whatever knowledge comes to you in these absorptions, be clear: the manifest world of nature is simply an externalised and objectified aspect of the universal and all-embracing, original and formless mind of which you are a conscious and microscopic part.