What happens during deep sleep experienced in discourse?
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"In deep sleep, you can either escape, resist, or enter the sacred hush of tandra, where thoughts cease yet awareness remains, allowing the essence of truth to penetrate your being."
According to Osho, “deep sleep” in discourse has three roots: escapist dozing, habitual mind-resistance, or tandra—a yogic, sleep-like hush where thoughts stop yet hearing stays clear. In tandra you stand on the threshold, receive a rest deeper than sleep, and the words sink beneath memory. If it’s escapism, stop coming; if habit, persist; if tandra, relax and allow it.
Sometimes that “sleep” is just avoidance or habit, but sometimes it’s a calm in-between state where your mind rests, you still hear, and the talk sinks in deeper than memory.
Why this matters practically
- Helps you tell avoidance from genuine meditative receptivity.
- Guides your action: stop, persist, or relax, depending on the state.
- Encourages trust that true tandra integrates the teaching even without later recall.
- Guides your action: stop, persist, or relax, depending on the state.
- Encourages trust that true tandra integrates the teaching even without later recall.
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