All of us enter deep dreamless sleep every night. We can try to skip a night or 2, but more
than that and we start to get psychotic.
Spend enough time without dreamless sleep and we would likely die.
That experiment was done with rats.
My argument is that to be healthy we need to be completely
immersed in Source on a regular basis.
That is what we do in deep dreamless sleep; there, we are completely
immersed in Source. Provides a place to
drop the pain and suffering of being human.
Allows hormones and cytokines to regulate our bodies toward homeostasis
and health.
Sleep disorders associated with PTSD, fibromyalgia, restless
leg syndrome, and sleep apnea, results in highly dysfunctional
individuals.
But, in deep dreamless sleep, we have no awareness. The dreams of REM sleep are interesting,
there is a reception of the mind’s play unfolding. Good wisdom within dreams as well. Write them down and look carefully at the
information.
In deep dreamless sleep there is no one to be aware. That is boring.
In meditation we go from the monkey mind, chattering away,
to a slowing of our thoughts, then to a pure witness state no thoughts, only
awareness along with awareness of being aware, and then, perhaps for some of
us, the witness dropping away and there is nothing but empty fullness.
This is pure awareness, immersed in Source, without being
asleep. There is no longer a subject and
an object. There is no longer any self,
only Self.
Within empty fullness there is no one there to be aware, yet
there is awareness. The lights are on, but
nobody is home… in the highest sense.
This is pure consciousness.
The funny thing is that this is our normal baseline state of
being. We are always already Source,
capacity, awareness. Our animal minds
cover it up. Source hiding Itself
away.
So Source hides, and we seek. We might try various practices. It is important to develop concentration and
focus. But, it is even more important to
practice dropping everything that is not pure Source.
One must practice this over and over.
So if this ultimate pure state of consciousness is so
boring, then how do these states allow wisdom to arise?
You can get wisdom from touching Source at any level. Even sitting with the monkey mind gives you important
information. Just being aware that you
have a monkey mind is a fantastic first step!
When the thoughts slow, that really changes you. A groove is deepened in the brain body, which
allows you to access this state more easily.
When disturbing events arise, you can look at them without drowning in reactivity
and emotions. You can have all the
emotions, but you are in control. You
see more clearly what is true.
Within that wisdom you realize how you are not so different
that those you label “other.” You are
aware that the same Source is looking out from behind everyone’s eyes. But, Source is looking through a different
set of lenses in each individual.
I’ll write more about lenses in the future. For now, see my blogs on personalities,
Stranger in a Strange Land, Parts 1-4, to get an idea how different people see
the world through different lenses.
With wisdom you become more aware of suffering, your own suffering and
that of everyone. You realize that there
are not only the big Holocausts that occur, but there are the little every day
holocausts, the child that is hungry, or perhaps just not read to every
night.
Compassion arises.
You gather more people into your family.
You are now higher on the evolutionary scale.
Deep dreamless sleep is boring. Pure awareness is boring. What arises from these states is not
boring.
Seeing clearly, you walk in the world with wisdom,
performing each act with more awareness and compassion.
Perhaps not perfectly, we are still only human. All of us are a work in progress.
Within that wisdom we can also forgive ourselves for our so
human errors.
We can practice compassion for ourselves.
That is where The Second Commandment comes in: Love Everything.
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