{"id":1658,"date":"2021-01-08T18:32:15","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T18:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cominghometodivinelove.com\/?p=1658"},"modified":"2021-01-08T18:32:16","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T18:32:16","slug":"why-is-samadhi-equated-to-deep-sleep-i-am-aware-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cominghometodivinelove.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/08\/why-is-samadhi-equated-to-deep-sleep-i-am-aware-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is samadhi equated to deep sleep? I am aware of&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hi V, <br>Why is samadhi equated to deep sleep? I am aware of the silent stillness as the background to my sittings but I am very much awake and active.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hi Embee,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To be aware of the silent stillness and to become the silent stillness are two very different stages of the path. This is a function of continued surrender and grace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once there is a transition, the experience can be akin to deep sleep. However, its not a blank. There is a full aware wakefullness accompanied by a very subtle bliss and total rest. The doership increasingly disappears when not in meditation. We go from mindfulness to being totally mindless&#8230;. in a good way&#8230; in flow. And therefore the mind cannot conceptualise it&#8230;. as it is not present here. But it doesnt need to&#8230; it is not the one that brings about this state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The I Am in the I Am That falls away. It is seen that there is only That.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi V, Why is samadhi equated to deep sleep? I am aware of the silent stillness as the background to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cominghometodivinelove.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cominghometodivinelove.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cominghometodivinelove.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cominghometodivinelove.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cominghometodivinelove.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1658"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cominghometodivinelove.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1661,"href":"https:\/\/cominghometodivinelove.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658\/revisions\/1661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cominghometodivinelove.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cominghometodivinelove.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cominghometodivinelove.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}