Centred in the midst of conditions: the state of mind, attained on realising the first stage of enlightenment, which marks the start of the process of learning to understand the true nature of reality.

 

Clear setting face to face with reality: the fourth and final stage of enlightenment; re-unification with God.

 

Conditions: the ten fundamental forces shaping each moment.

 

Enlightenment: the progressive states of awareness which, stage by stage, sweep aside ignorance of the nature of reality. Enlightenment culminates in the realisation that all of this is an organic unity, and is that alone. The religious mind experiences enlightenment as reunification with God, who alone is.

First stage of enlightenment: realised by attaining detachment from emotional and intellectual conditions.

Second stage of enlightenment: realised through experiencing the mind’s inherent stillness and serenity.

Third stage of enlightenment: realised when the individual mind has been transcended, and perceptible reality is intuitively known to be divine, and only divine.

Fourth stage of enlightenment: realised when the transcendentally awakened mind becomes one with reality.

 

explicate: referring to aspects of reality which can be understood by the five senses.

 

implicate: referring to aspects of reality which can only be understood by the sixth sense, or intuition.

 

implicate technology: 1) The generic name for the underlying structure and practical techniques for expanding awareness, common to all fully developed models of reality.

2) A practical technique, the correct use of which enables the individual to understand and harmonise with the implicate aspects of reality.

 

Implicate Technology : a Western-originated, fully developed model of reality, incorporating meditative techniques which work in a secular, everyday context.

 

Karma: 1 ) An inherent, implacable, implicate law of reality.

2) The process whereby reality structures the circumstances of your life, to guide you towards, onto, then along the path towards enlightenment.

3) The law whereby your current thoughts and actions determine your future experience. 4) God’s will.

 

Meditation: l) The practical process of achieving a still mind, or samadhi.

2) The self-help technique which enables you to reach enlightenment.

3) A practical technique which awakens the sixth sense, or intuition.

 

Model of reality: a structured, coherent description of reality, which uses practical techniques enabling the individual to experience the unity of reality.

 

Natural state: mind, free of the constraints of the ten conditions, clear, serene and blissfully self-aware.

 

One-pointed meditation: a mind which has realised the second stage of enlightenment is capable of concentrating on one object for long enough to intuitively discern its underlying nature.

Personality: the complex of views, opinions, ideas, emotions and attitudes comprising ordinary, everyday awareness. This complex is experienced as real to ordinary consciousness, as relatively real once the first stage of enlightenment has been attained, and as illusory once the final stage of enlightenment has been realised.

 

Power discipline: 1) A smooth, harmonious action in three steps: Input, Pivot then Act.

2) A meditative methodology to aid in the process of finding a harmonious and unselfish resolution to any difficult situation.

 

Reality: the total of what can be known and experienced. In religious terms, reality is the manifest form of God who alone is. The true nature of reality can only be understood once the final stage of enlightenment has been experienced.

 

Samadhi: the state of mind, transcending thought, in which consciousness focuses on the divine source of perceptible reality.

 

Sexual energy: 1) The body’s spontaneously generated implicate power source.

2) The power inherent in the psycho-physiological system which is refined and transformed, consciously or unconsciously, in advanced meditative activity.

 

This: the conditioned form of reality, the manifest form of God.

 

That: the divine source and the true nature of perceptible reality.

 

Transcendence: the process whereby the mind moves from ordinary, everyday awareness of separation, suffering and individuality to an all-embracing awareness of unity, harmony and serenity.

 

Undistracted alertness: 1 ) The essential attribute of the mind capable of holding fast to the divine nature inherent in perceptible reality.

2) The state of samadhi.

 

Unconditioned state: mind in its original state, transcending and embracing all thought and all experience – serene, free and blissfully self-aware.

 

Visions: an autonomous subjective process, produced as a by-product of advanced meditative practices.

 

Yoga: the practical techniques for developing awareness and understanding of the implicate nature of reality.