When we fall asleep every night we go past the dream stage into deep sleep. It is a practice for meditators to bring forth this state while meditating with an erect spine, wakefully in deep sleep yet fully alert in the present moment. Fully aware and witness everything that is happening within and without.
When we deep sleep, we are unconscious. We simply don’t remember with our fallible minds but we are aware. We are aware of our heart beating and our breathing.
In deep sleep our body rejuvenates, our mind rest in emptiness and comes out fresh, new and invigorated.
In meditation, we love our being. We enjoy the company of oneness, we enjoy our time alone. In stillness, silence and quietness – calmness, centeredness and equanimity is found. We realize that emptiness is form and form is emptiness. No boundaries between deep sleep and wakeful deep sleepness (a state of equanimity) and nothing affects us from this unattached state.
We judge not, attach not and desire not so we won’t suffer in wanting or desiring another. All is good. All is happy. We are fully content with what we have and even what we don’t have as we cannot lose anything for we have it all already. We only have to realize it.
Deep sleep. Deep rest. Deliciously powerful.
