Guest guest Posted August 10, 1999 Report Share Posted August 10, 1999 At 09:08 PM 8/9/99 , Jan Barendrecht wrote: The assumption that deep sleep is the same for practitioners >and non-practitioners is wrong. Unless the non-practitioners of dream yoga are practitioners of advaita vedanta perhaps?, which teaches the continuity of Being through all three states. >With some experimentation, it >is possible to find out that in deep sleep, mentation is >inhibited but it is possible to wake up from deep sleep >(mentation remaining inhibited), look around and almost >immediately return to deep sleep again. On waking up at the >sound of the alarm, the event of starting to wake up from deep >sleep and looking around can be recalled from memory but >often, not the return to deep sleep. So for a non-practitioner >of dream yoga, deep sleep is a kind of non-being and for a >practitioner, deep sleep is the experience of inhibition of >mentation (including dreaming). Although I've never heard of an Advaita Vedanta sadhana recommended for sleep or dreaming, the teaching (and often how deep sleep comes to be thought of in the waking state and experienced) is that deep sleep is another state experienced by the Self. Being is unbroken and continuous, but without objects of consciousness. Similar to inhibition of mentation. --Greg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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