When you go to sleep do the same thing. Try to find the gap between waking and sleeping just as you are falling asleep. This gap is who you really are. This gap is consciousness, Nirvana. If you search for the gap, you will find it. Continue the search when you get up. Ask Who is awake, who am I? The I arises when you awake, and subsides when you go to sleep. Where does it go? It goes into the gap. As you pass into sleep, the I begins to weaken as I stop thinking. Where does the I go? It goes into the gap. This I is always available to you. This gap is also known as the fourth state of consciousness after the deep sleep, dreaming and waking states. The gap is the fourth state--your reality. Just being aware of this intellectually helps. So you think, I know that there is a gap there but I havent caught it yet. So ask, Who is the I that slept. Who is the I that dreamed? Who is the I that is awake.? Who is the I that is looking for the gap? It is the same I. Ask, From where did it arise? It appears to arise when I wake up, and subside when I go to sleep. Where does it go? It goes into the gap--the space between sleeping and waking. When you go to sleep, say, I think. I think about my day, my problems, what I have to do tomorrow. Who is the I that does all this? As I go to sleep, the I begins to weaken. I stop thinking. Where does the I go? It goes into the gap. Do this in the morning as you get up, and continue this sort of investigation during the day. Who am I? What am I? When you do this process often enough, every day, awareness will come to you. Awareness will open up to you. You will begin to realize that everything you talk about is attached to the I. The I comes first, and everything else comes after that. To be upset requires you to say, I am upset. You just cant say, upset. Everything is attached to the I. Hold on to the I. Dont concentrate on the I, concentrate on consciousness, the source. Follow the I deep into the heart by diving deep within yourself, and for whom is the I? Pause, then ask again and again, pausing each time. Soon you will see that the pauses are the same as the gap between sleeping and awakening. You will become free. From R A - Good for Nothing Man page 4
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