1 Samuel 26:12 · World English Bible
So David took the spear and the jar of water from Saul’s head; and they went away: and no man saw it, or knew it, nor did any awake; for they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from Yahweh had fallen on them.
A deep sleep had fallen upon them, and so what happened at their very heads they neither saw nor knew. This is not only the sleep of the body.
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EGO & BEING
A deep sleep had fallen upon them, and so what happened at their very heads they neither saw nor knew. This is not only the sleep of the body. Most of a human life is lived in exactly this state, lost in thought, absent from the present, moving through events without ever truly being there for them.
To be unconscious is to be asleep with open eyes. Life comes close enough to touch you and you miss it, because you are somewhere else, inside the endless commentary of the mind. Waking simply means becoming present enough to notice what is actually here, which is the one thing the sleeping never do.
Ego v. Being lens
What has been happening right beside you while you were somewhere else?
A student asked for the whole teaching, and the master said, when you eat, eat, when you walk, walk. The practice is being where your body already is.
Train yourself to know the breath while breathing, the step while stepping. Most of life is missed only because attention was elsewhere.
You have been asleep beside a treasure your whole life. The one who wakes finds it was never far away.
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Ego v. Being