Towards Effortless Activity

 The advanced guide to

enlightenment 

by

The Implicate Technology Centre

The Implicate Technology Centre

London.

 

Preface

 

This is the second of two books which together provide a systematic and coherent system of meditation leading to the final stage of enlightenment. This book completes the direct and practical Western meditative system begun in Beyond the personality: the beginner’s guide to enlightenment. Together, these two books teach ordinary people how to become enlightened without surrendering the intellect or renouncing everyday life.

 

In the West, we have available to us an abundance of spiritual teachings. Virtually none of those teachings contains effective and practical instruction on how to attain enlightenment, or unity with God. You can dedicate many years to the study and practice of such teachings, gaining much by way of intellectual knowledge and little by way of direct experience of the truths sought.

 

If you have invested your time, your energy and even your money in pursuing spiritual experience along those other paths, you may feel that you are qualified to start with the advanced meditative practices taught in this book. This is unlikely to produce satisfactory results. If you have genuinely made spiritual progress through another teaching, then you should be able to make very rapid progress through the basic meditation taught in Beyond the personality: the beginner’s guide to enlightenment.

 

The Implicate Technology Centre

Synopsis

 

Preface (Above)

 

I Introduction to the Implicate Technology model of reality

1.1 Practice of the basic meditation taught in Beyond the personality: the beginner’s guide to enlightenment.

1.2 Place your faith and your trust in these teachings.

1.3 The stages leading from ignorance of the nature of reality to enlightenment, through direct intuitive experience.

1.4 This and that.

1.5 The illusion of individuality and separation.

1.6 The experience of enlightenment.

1.7 How do ‘I’ become enlightened?

1.8 To seek objective proof is to miss the point of enlightenment.

1.9 Remembrance of past lives as subjective proof.

1.10 Visions as an internal, autonomous form of self-tuition.

 

2 The path to samadhi

2.1 Ignoring your spiritual self-progress means birth, ageing, suffering and death – repeated endlessly.

2.2 Samadhi.

2.3 The link between your own thought process and karma.

2.4 Proceeding from the transpersonal meditations taught in chapter 5 of The beginner’s guide to enlightenment.

2.5 Summary of what you will learn, stage by stage, from this book.

2.6 The need to live in harmony with reality.

2.7 The key distinction between the enlightened and the unenlightened person.

2.8 Freedom from attachment to stimuli.

2.9 The evolutionary purpose of Karma.

2.10 The evolutionary development of Western models of reality.

2.11 The paramount importance of forgiveness.

2.12 Embrace and then detach from the stimuli of everyday life

 

3 The path to a still mind

 

3.1 Illusion and ignorance are washed away through detachment from stimuli.

3.2 Preparing for advanced meditative practices.

3.3 Moving on from the beginner’s meditation.

3.4 The way to transcend the thought process.

3.5 First exercise: inhibiting thoughts.

3.6 Second exercise: detachment from the flow of thoughts.

3.7 Third exercise: tensing and relaxing the mind.

3.8.1 Fourth exercise: transcending the thought process:

3.8.2 become aware of your inherent power source

3.8.3 maintain undistracted alertness through unwavering determination

3.8.4 be aware of what is happening now

3.8.5 boredom in samadhi

3.8.6 adjust to living with undistracted awareness.

3.9 Fifth exercise: maintaining samadhi in the midst of conditions.

3.10 Sixth exercise: becoming indifferent to the thought process.

3.11 The second stage of enlightenment.

 

4 The path to the realisation of that             

4.1.1 The illusory nature of individual experience.

4.1.2 One- pointed meditation.

4.1.3 The observer, the thing observed and the act of observation are inseparable.

4.1.4 How to meditate in a one-pointed manner.

4.2.1 The movement to a transcendentally based awareness.

4.2.2.1 The illusory nature of all mental activity:

4.2.2.2 establish a detached awareness

4.2.2.3 transcending relative experience.

4.3       Direct experience of the absolute.

4.3.1.1 Transcendental analysis of time.

4.3.1.2 The illusory nature of birth, death and time.

4.3.2    The unity of mind and matter.

4.3.3    The unity of all things.

4.4       The third stage of enlightenment.

 

5 The path to the final stage of enlightenment

5.1 Summary of the steps to the final stage of enlightenment.

5.2 This is a mental product of that.

5.3 This is that.

5.4 The unity of all things.

5.5 The end of the far journey.

5.6 Effortless activity.

 

6 The four formless adsorptions

6.1 Exploring the enlightened state.

6.2 Transcending the illusion of separateness and difference.

6.3 That is infinite extension through infinite space.

6.4 That is infinitely conscious.

6.5 This is mere appearance, inherently dream-like and unreal.

6.6 Knowing this and that, go as karma bids.

 

7 Synopsis of the Appendices

 

7.1  Appendix 1: How to recognise a fully developed model of reality

7.1.1 The sources of Implicate Technology.

7.1.2 The four generic paths to enlightenment.

7.1.3 The need for a politics of transcendence.

7.1.4 Primary characteristics of the four generic paths.

7.1.5 Characteristics of a fully developed model of reality.

7.1.6 Limitations of contemporary mainstream Christianity.

7.1.7 Implicate Technology used within a Christian context.

7.1.8 Re-vitalising Jesus’s original teachings.

7.1.9 Implicate Technology acts as a catalyst.

 

7.2 Appendix 2: The world-healing process

7.2.1 Our suffering world can be healed.

7.2.2 You have the power to exert a healing influence on AIDS.

7.2.3 You can positively influence the attitudes which allow terrorism to flourish.

7.2.4 You can help reduce the profound disharmony which threatens us with nuclear holocaust

7.2.5 You can heal the negative karma which threatens to erupt as race war.

7.2.6 Advancing in meditation, it becomes clear that your true material needs are modest.

7.2.7 How to prepare for practising the meditation.

7.2.8 The world-healing meditation.

 

7.3 Appendix 3: A secular analogue to the ten sefirot

7.3.1 A model of reality in terms of the ten conditions.

7.3.2 Meditation and the model of reality.

 

8 Bibliography

 

9 Glossary