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 learn
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.
 
There is no personal reaction
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,
eternal consciousness.    


Blessings,    


Kip"


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