GENERATING THE FIVE EXPERIENCES
In order to help in the generation of the ULTIMATE EXPERIENCES, here we wiil try to assist in the understanding of each phenomenon.
VACUITY
Masters and many texts and a host of chatterers are fond of declaring with manufactured wise and haughty demenour that "Nothing Exists" and they call that Vacuity.
When defining Vacuity, then, it must be made clear that it is NOT that NOTHING EXISTS, but that what appears to our senses and is converted into discriminations, perceptions, cognition and consciousness does not exist as it appears to be, because those appearances are built upon illusory characteristics.
Our senses are rather like part of a mirror. The unknown external phenomena are not the same as the reflection. Nor are they the same as the mirror itself. Our senses are further removed from that reflection as that reflection is transformed once more to be used by the system.
What we believe that we are receiving from the external world depends upon the qualities of the mirror and the manner of transformation. When we say that something is with vacuity it means that really it is devoid of the characteristics, which are illusions.
UNITY
UNITY is the experience of dwelling within VACUITY, generating the replacement by the experience of KNOWING that the nature of that mass of VACUITY is ONE.
Be sure that conceptually you understand that this ONE is not made up of parts, but that rather PARTS may be extracted from the ONE. Declared in another way, be sure that you understand that the ONE is not made up of individual PARTS.
In order to extract that ULTIMATE CONCEPTUALIZATION one must imagine oneself thrust within that state, dwelling there while imagining the SINGULAR experience that that would generate.
IMPERMANENCE
Dwelling within the UNITY of all phenomena one must allow the VACUITY to be observed as continually in a state of change that is constant and rapid. This IMPERMANENCE is then experienced in and of itself.
The peril in this TASK development is in defining the experience conceptually with the mind before actually allowing the true experience of the IMPERMANENCE to be established.
If cognitively, for example, you previously think that the experience will be one of "horror" or anything else, then that must not be carried into the formation of the experience.
CLEAR COMPREHENSION
Here one must thrust oneself into this ever-changing nebulous vacuity that is one and dwelling there, imagine that suddenly from that mass a form without name appears.
Ignore the form itself and concentrate on the experience that something has been thrust out from the mass that is undifferentiated.
Remember that the relevant experience must arise from the thrusting out from the mass, not the innate experience that something has been thrust out or the nature of what may be thrust out.
In order to perhaps explain that moment of Clear Comprehension imagine that you in walking in the countryside dropped a gold coin from your pocket. You detect the loss and begin your search. After a few moment you see it lying in the grass.
What is the first thing that you do?
You stop looking. Even before you recognize it cognitively as the lost coin, your system will stop looking. That "stopping" occurs in an instant. Consciously you are not aware that you have stopped looking in that moment, but you have.
The order has been: lost... search... stop looking... found.
We can compare the Clear Comprehension with the "stop looking" which has no identification as an act until after the coin has been recognized.
Similarly the "thrusting out" takes place before something is recognized as having been thrust out.
Experience that thrusting out from "Unity" or, if you wish, thrusting into "Particularity". How would you experience that mind moment?
THE LIFE FORCE
We all know that we are alive. That is because the AWARENESS of EXTERNAL STIMULI impinge upon the barrier of receptors that form or contact with what we term the outside world.
But in this contemplation we are not concerned with that event, which occurs in the right hemisphere, but with the experience of being alive which can be experienced during ATTENTION.
To be more precise, it is the experience of the PREPARATION TO MOVE which follows the ALERT stage in order to detect what has elicited the ALERT.
The combination of movements which make up this orientation actually generates the COGNITIVE EXPERIENCE of BEING ALIVE.
There are two ways that are suggested for generating a clarity in the reception of the experience of the Life Force:
1. The first, and perhaps the easiest for many, rests upon the contemplation of any particular living organism... a flower, a tree, an ant, a spider, a bird, anything that has life.
You must sit contemplating the Life Force of that chosen target. Attempt to feel the pulsing flow of energy that allows the development of its form, its processes, its growth and development. Try to experience that force.
Now expand that force outwards until it includes every single living thing allowing that expansion to grow and grow and feel yourself included within and as you are included let your particular Identity flow away allowing the experience of the UNIVERSAL LIFE FORCE.
2. This is perhaps the most elegant of the forms of experiencing the Life Force, but it is more difficult, although much more effective as the experience of the TASK.
Dwelling within the experience of Unity the mass which is Vacuity and constantly with the changing as IMPERMANENCE, you imagine the detection of the Life Force which is within that mass.
Now, allowing yourself to dwell within that Force that is Life, you become as one with that UNIVERSAL LIFE FORCE.
That union of your apparent self with the UNIVERSAL LIFE FORCE will generate the experience that you can link to the word LIFE in the TASK.
A description of this ATTENTION process where life is ascertained by the Left Hemisphere can be seen in the following section: