According to SN/SA suttas, all the nine progressive stages of meditation (i.e. the 4 rūpas, 4 arūpas, and the cessation of perception-and-feeling ‘saññā-vedayita-nirodha’) are the results of mental projection (saṅkhārā).
Only the ‘cessation of desire-hatred-delusion’ is based on true insight of the real world (i.e. ‘right view’):
