The 3 Stages of Mind in Meditation & How to Transcend Them

"There are 3 stages
of mind in meditation.
The first stage is personal.
The thoughts are about you,
your world, what you've seen,
heard, tasted, felt etc.
It's experience is one of duality.
There is you and everything else.
Conflict and control,
desire and resistance.
Once you lea

to witness your thoughts
instead of identify with them,
you enter into the second stage.
In the second stage,
the thoughts are no longer
about your personal life.
It is here you have dreams, visions,
and even beyond visions
you experience very subtle thoughts,
that are beyond words, sounds or images.
Although you experience this,
you are not bound
by what you experience,
it no longer defines you.
to what you experience.
There is not the solid separation
that was there in the first stage.
In the first stage things happened to you.
In the second stage there is just a happening
that arises in consciousness.
In this stage there is incredible bliss
and with the lovely visions to entertain you,
it is difficult to let go of the bliss
and take the step into the next stage.
By letting go of the thoughts as they arise,
you enter the 3rd stage of mind.
You experience that which
is beyond mind.
That which cannot be defined.
To say you even experience it is not true,
because here,
there is no experiencer
separate from the experience.
There is only pure,
ete
al consciousness.
Blessings,

Kip"