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Sleep

• As you go to bed, if you develop a strong urge to practice dharma, that is a sign of progress.
• Make sleep virtuous. Don’t sleep with thoughts of attachment and aversion.
• Sleep with awareness. Resolve “I will maintain awareness.”
• Sleep no more than 5 hours. Get up for all sentient beings. Give rise to bodhicitta.
• Fall asleep without fixating. Wake up without self-clinging.
• When you are sleepy and tired, Turn the mind.
• Aspire to see the dream state. If you can recognize the dream state, you can recognize the bardo state.
• Aspire to bring remembrance of buddha, dharma, sangha in dream.
• In dream you can visit other continents, multiply offerings, receive teachings, request empowerment, travel to lower realms to rescue beings.
• “Let me get up and do some dharma practice.”
• Be glad to wake up. Remind yourself you still have the opportunity.
• Lama and assembly plays damaru, says ‘Throughout your lives, you have slept in the sleep of ignorance. Now wake up.’