Thoughts before jumping out of bed: Instead of just asking why we sleep, how about wondering why we wake up? Why make the effort to crawl out of bed? What makes it worth the trouble? Why wake up more and more, until we are fully awakened? Because we can’t sleep forever anyway, because...

One of the most deluded kind of meditators are those who imagine they were in deep peace, when they were really in deep sleep, who imagine they have experienced non-self mindfully, when their consciousness was simply switched off while...