The process of focusing your attention on one thing is concentration.

An uninterrupted stream of single-pointed focus is meditation.

When only the essence of your focus shines forth, as if empty of its own form, this is Cosmic Consciousness.

Moving between concentration, meditation, and Cosmic Consciousness isn’t a linear process.

Master it and the transcendental insight of Cosmic Consciousness will dawn.

The practice of yoga may not be linear, but it does have levels of sorts.

The last three limbs of yoga are likely to take you much deeper than the first five…

But they’re just scratching the surface compared to the transcendent state of constant Cosmic Consciousness.

When an equal amount of time is spent distracted and focused, you’re in the transition to focused attention.

No longer distracted, in an uninterrupted flow of focused attention, you’re making the transition to Cosmic Consciousness.

Your identity begins to disappear. You are in the transition to complete freedom from the ego.

The flowing current of focused attention will wash away every last residue of ego identification.

The flow transforms thought into a state that reveals its essential nature.

From conception to death is constant change, your essential nature stays the same.

You reason there is an aspect of consciousness distinct from this succession of identities.

That is the insight gained from meditating on past, present, and future.

Meditate on the distinction between language, symbols & meaning to understand the cries of all beings.

You can even obtain insight into other people’s minds…

…but even that mental exercise cannot penetrate to their essential nature.

Meditate to become invisible. If light can’t touch your body, no one can see you.