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**Tauntenue** · 06-12-2012, 01:13 PM

Mara cannot destroy enlightenment, if he could it wouldn't be enlightenment.

If you were doing a Goenka 10 day vipassana course then the idea is not to empty the body of sensations but to fully feel sensations.

Where did you get the idea that Mara will come and harm you in your sleep? I think you are worrying about things you needn't, Mara I think is most probably a personification of our own delusion not a separate being.

It's not uncommon for people on intense meditation to be lucid for periods of sleep so I wouldn't be surprised if the Buddha was much of the time

Long back I had done many Vipassana courses at Igatpuri under Goenka.

IT IS VERY HARD FOR ME TO BELEIVE THAT GUATAM BUDDHA SLEPT AFTER ENLIGHTMENT.

In my view he rested lying down and went in awareness meditation automatically.
The translators have assumed that he slept. They could never visualise no sleep state.

In fact I would rather feel that Guatam Buddha was always in lucid state of sleep as you have explained.
If you take a step further, you can say he was always in awareness even when he was lying down both at day time and night time. His body in old age required rest due to walking.

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Tauntenue Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 512 Senior Member	Mara cannot destroy enlightenment, if he could it wouldn't be enlightenment. If you were doing a Goenka 10 day vipassana course then the idea is not to empty the body of sensations but to fully feel sensations. Where did you get the idea that Mara will come and harm you in your sleep? I think you are worrying about things you needn't, Mara I think is most probably a personification of our own delusion not a separate being. It's not uncommon for people on intense meditation to be lucid for periods of sleep so I wouldn't be surprised if the Buddha was much of the time Long back I had done many Vipassana courses at Igatpuri under Goenka. IT IS VERY HARD FOR ME TO BELEIVE THAT GUATAM BUDDHA SLEPT AFTER ENLIGHTMENT. In my view he rested lying down and went in awareness meditation automatically. The translators have assumed that he slept. They could never visualise no sleep state. In fact I would rather feel that Guatam Buddha was always in lucid state of sleep as you have explained. If you take a step further, you can say he was always in awareness even when he was lying down both at day time and night time. His body in old age required rest due to walking.
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