We all want deep and refreshing rest so that can be productive when rest? Only when up .But when can you may sit with you have stopped all other activities. When you stop moving around, working thinking, talking seeing, hearing, smelling, and testing-when all voluntary activities are arrested –than you get rest or sleep. In sleep, you are left with only in voluntary activities such as breathing, heartbeat, food digestion and blood circulation. Yet this is not total rest. Total rest happens only when the mind settles down.
How to settle this mind? By understanding the aim of life and having a clear focus. What is focus? Being fulfilled in the moment, being centered, looking to highest and remaining in that space of peace, is focus. If there is no peace, there is no focus. Turning this around, and you will realize that if you focus, you attain peace. When you are not happy in the present moment then you desire something. Desire simply means that the present moment is not all right. This causes tension in the mind every desire causes feverishness. In this state, meditation cannot happen. You may sit with your eyes closed, but the desires keep arising, thoughts keep arising, you fool yourself into thinking that you are daydreaming!
Observe from your own experience –if you go to bed with some restlessness, agitation or desire, you will not get deep sleep. Only if you let go of every things will you be able to rest. So why not do the same things, moment to moment? When you want to sit for meditation, let go of everything, feel the world is disappearing or dissolving
The rest in meditation is deeper than the deepest sleep, because in meditation, you transcend all desires it brings such coolness to the mind that it is like servicing or overhauling the entire body-mind that it is like servicing or overhauling the entire body-mind complex.
Meditation is accepting this moment and living every moment totally with depth. Just this understanding, and a few days of continuous practice of meditation, can change the quality of your life.
Your point of view caught my eye and was very interesting. Thanks. I have a question for you.