Guest guest Posted May 4, 2006 Report Share Posted May 4, 2006 On May 3, 2006, at 6:07 PM, Durga wrote: > Deep Sleep. I just shine without obstruction, > and I love that. I do not get bored with that. > > Think of it like this, as the lazy man's samadhi. > When you go to sleep at night, and you have a > nice wonderful bed, with your down pillows and > comforters, and just how you like it. When you > crawl in, snuggle up, pull the covers up, and > blot out everything. The world, gone. Perception of > physical body, gone. Sense perception, gone… > And you can't wait for that to happen. > > Look at what you are getting rid of experientially. > The world, body, sense perception, thoughts in the mind, > thinking, feeling, gone. Not only that, even the 'I' > thought which says, " I am going to sleep. I am doing this. > I am doing that. " You don't even want, or need, or think > about keeping that ahamkara, (that 'I' thought), active. > The thought that is saying, " Oh, isn't this wonderful. > I'm just having the greatest deep sleep right now. " > No, you don't even want that. > > It is fine with you for that to go also. Talk about > getting rid of distraction. Look at what you are > withdrawing from with all love and pleasure. You prepare > for it. Just to be with yourself without the > experience of anything else. > > This is actually extremely profound. And in the > morning when the alarm goes off! You click it > off for five minutes, and then what do you do? You sink > back in and dwell in that with great pleasure. > 'Samadhi.' > > What does that say about your own nature? Talk about > 'para prema aspada,' (the locus of supreme love). > You need that refreshment every night to just be > with the ananda, the fullness of yourself, even though > your mind just goes into a kind of ignorant, unmanifest > condition, even though that's true. It's not an awake mind. > It's not a meditative mind. It's a resolved mind. Resolved > into its own kind of material. In that condition, it is > not really contributing anything. It's not creating any > problems. Totally ignorance, (not partial ignorance) total > ignorance, as in deep sleep, is bliss. > > That's because your nature, your being, is in fact the ananda, > the fullness or the love that you seek. P: I like what you wrote here. When that is appercevided, when that intimation downs, then the final stretch is underfoot, and the weary runner turns very pale, looses air, and become ghostly, and transparent. Only the momentum of the race keeps on moving. Few get to the point, where the urge for constant eternal awareness is seem as a curse. Awareness to be a blessing needs to be intermittent, although eternally recurrent in a completely impersonal way. A way, which always starts anew, fresh, and unencumbered by memories. Pete > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 4, 2006 Report Share Posted May 4, 2006 In a message dated 5/4/2006 8:37:09 AM Pacific Daylight Time, Nisargadatta writes: " Pete S " pedsie5 Thu May 4, 2006 6:26am(PDT) Re: [NonDualPhil] Some ideas on Deep Sleep On May 3, 2006, at 6:07 PM, Durga wrote: > Deep Sleep. I just shine without obstruction, > and I love that. I do not get bored with that. > > Think of it like this, as the lazy man's samadhi. > When you go to sleep at night, and you have a > nice wonderful bed, with your down pillows and > comforters, and just how you like it. When you > crawl in, snuggle up, pull the covers up, and > blot out everything. The world, gone. Perception of > physical body, gone. Sense perception, gone… > And you can't wait for that to happen. > > Look at what you are getting rid of experientially. > The world, body, sense perception, thoughts in the mind, > thinking, feeling, gone. Not only that, even the 'I' > thought which says, " I am going to sleep. I am doing this. > I am doing that. " You don't even want, or need, or think > about keeping that ahamkara, (that 'I' thought), active. > The thought that is saying, " Oh, isn't this wonderful. > I'm just having the greatest deep sleep right now. " > No, you don't even want that. > > It is fine with you for that to go also. Talk about > getting rid of distraction. Look at what you are > withdrawing from with all love and pleasure. You prepare > for it. Just to be with yourself without the > experience of anything else. > > This is actually extremely profound. And in the > morning when the alarm goes off! You click it > off for five minutes, and then what do you do? You sink > back in and dwell in that with great pleasure. > 'Samadhi.' > > What does that say about your own nature? Talk about > 'para prema aspada,' (the locus of supreme love). > You need that refreshment every night to just be > with the ananda, the fullness of yourself, even though > your mind just goes into a kind of ignorant, unmanifest > condition, even though that's true. It's not an awake mind. > It's not a meditative mind. It's a resolved mind. Resolved > into its own kind of material. In that condition, it is > not really contributing anything. It's not creating any > problems. Totally ignorance, (not partial ignorance) total > ignorance, as in deep sleep, is bliss. > > That's because your nature, your being, is in fact the ananda, > the fullness or the love that you seek. P: I like what you wrote here. When that is appercevided, when that intimation downs, then the final stretch is underfoot, and the weary runner turns very pale, looses air, and become ghostly, and transparent. Only the momentum of the race keeps on moving. Few get to the point, where the urge for constant eternal awareness is seem as a curse. Awareness to be a blessing needs to be intermittent, although eternally recurrent in a completely impersonal way. A way, which always starts anew, fresh, and unencumbered by memories. Pete Deep sleep is not the experience of bliss, but rather oblivion. What that says about " your own nature " is simply that it prefers oblivion over life. Phil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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