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As soon as we wake up from deep sleep,

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the existence of a ready-made world including

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our own bodies, confronts

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us. To

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examine it closely we

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utilize our sense organs straight

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away, one

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by one, relying

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on their superficial evidence without

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a thought. But

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all the while the

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existence of a positive something is

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experienced without a break, beyond

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the shadow of a doubt. This

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on closer analysis is

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found to be that changeless subjective

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I principle or

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consciousness itself. There

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is no ignorance in deep

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sleep. The

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absence of any objective

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perception, thought

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or feeling, which

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is wrongly called nothingness, is

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the true nature of real

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unconditioned happiness. Nervous

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alone is the positive experience in

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deep sleep, and

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the sense of nothingness is

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a relative inference when

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out of it. Thus,

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there is in fact no

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ignorance in deep sleep. The

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ignorance of truth is

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the knowledge of objects, gross

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or subtle. To

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know any object means

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not to know the truth. From

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the knowledge of an object, if

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the object part is discarded, what

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remains is pure knowledge alone, which

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is the essence and the background of

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all objects as

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well as of myself. The

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knowledge of any one object may

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also be said to be the

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ignorance of all other objects. In

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that sense, the knowledge

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of truth and happiness in

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deep sleep can

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also be said to be the ignorance

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of all objects. Thus

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happiness alone is the experience

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in deep sleep. Deep

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sleep is the touchstone

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of one's real nature. The

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ignorance of all objects in deep sleep

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means really the positive knowledge of

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the self which

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shines as happiness there. Consequently

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the ignorance of the ordinary

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person in deep sleep is

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really the knowledge of their own self. The

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experience in deep sleep, if

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properly understood, is

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only one. And

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that is our own self, which

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is happiness and

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peace. Thank

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you.