What Underlies Deep Sleep

A woman enquires about what might underlie deep sleep, noting that sometimes in meditation the sense of ‘I am’ disappears completely. Rupert explains how considering deep sleep as a ‘state’ leads to positing something behind it, but if we start with pure consciousness as our primary experience, there are no states. From consciousness’s perspective, there’s only itself – it never ceases being itself to enter states. The apparent states exist only from the mind’s perspective.

From event 21 March - 28 April, 2025 Seven-Day Retreat at Garrison Institute, 21–28 March 2025

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