Osho : It will take a little time to move into sleep with awareness because you are not even aware when you are awake. You move, in fact, in your waking also as if you are deep asleep, a somnambulist, a sleepwalker not very awake really. Just because the eyes are open don’t think that you are awake. Awakening means that whatsoever you are doing or whatsoever is happening moment to moment, you are doing it in full mindfulness. Even if I raise my hand to make a gesture to you, I am making it in full consciousness. It can be made in a robot-like way, mechanical; you are not aware of what is happening in the hand. In fact, you have not moved it at all; it has moved on its own, it is unconscious. That’s why it is so difficult to penetrate your own sleep.
But if one tries... The first effort to be made is: while you are awake
be more awake, because from there the effort has to be started. Walking
on the street, walk mindfully, as if you are doing something very
important. It is very significant. Each step should be taken in full
awareness. If you can do that, only then you can enter into sleep. Right
now you have a very faint awareness. The moment your conscious mind
goes off, that faint awareness disappears like a small ripple. It has
no energy; it is very, very faint, just a flicker, just a zero-voltage
phenomenon. You have to bring more energy to it, so much energy that
when the conscious mind goes off, awareness continues on its own – and
you fall asleep with awareness. This can happen if you do other
activities with awareness – walking, eating, sleeping, taking your bath.
The whole day, whatsoever you are doing, it becomes just an excuse for the inner training of mindfulness. So the activity becomes secondary; awareness through that activity becomes primary.
When by the night you drop all activity and you go to sleep, that awareness continues. Even while you are falling asleep the awareness becomes a watcher that, yes, the body is falling asleep.
By and by, the body is relaxing.
Not that you verbalize, you simply watch.
By and by, thoughts are disappearing.
You watch the gaps.
By and by, the world is very, very distant.
You are moving into the basement of your being, the unconscious.
If you can fall down asleep with awareness, only then the continuity will be there in the night. That is what Patanjali means, ”Meditate on the knowledge that sleep brings.”
The whole day, whatsoever you are doing, it becomes just an excuse for the inner training of mindfulness. So the activity becomes secondary; awareness through that activity becomes primary.
When by the night you drop all activity and you go to sleep, that awareness continues. Even while you are falling asleep the awareness becomes a watcher that, yes, the body is falling asleep.
By and by, the body is relaxing.
Not that you verbalize, you simply watch.
By and by, thoughts are disappearing.
You watch the gaps.
By and by, the world is very, very distant.
You are moving into the basement of your being, the unconscious.
If you can fall down asleep with awareness, only then the continuity will be there in the night. That is what Patanjali means, ”Meditate on the knowledge that sleep brings.”
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