"The thoughts
that you are conscious of
having during your day
are personal thoughts.
They are about your life,
your work, your family,
your friends,
your past and future,
your desires and fears.
By identifying with your thoughts,
you remain bound
to individual, separate experience.
In meditation,
if you can be a witness to your thoughts,
allowing them to come and go
without identifying with them,
without getting caught up in them,
what eventually happens
is that the thoughts no longer
become personal.
You free yourself
from the identification
with your individual personal self
and enter into
a dream like state.
You can lose all experience
of having a body or name
or place.
You seem to fly
without structure
through visions, dreams
mental experiences
that cannot be understood by the mind.
It is a blissful experience.
To experience yourself
beyond the confines of
your individual thoughts and emotions
is so freeing
it cannot be explained in words.
Blessings,
Kip"