# Sleep

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**Published on:** 2023-02-27
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## Content

Sleep is a natural arrangement that we often don't enjoy. If we sleep eight hours a day, we spend one third of our day and one third of our life in the dark and sweet sleep. But people in the muscles and bones after fatigue, eyelids down, the pillow has its own universe, the matter is as natural as food color, as if it does not need to do. Heroes have "hear the midnight wild chicken dance", said it is fascinating; However, in the Five Dynasties, Chen Xiyi actually hid himself in sleep. It was said that "for a small period of time, he slept for months, for a large period of time, he slept only once." No one suspected that he had a sleep disorder, and it was spread around. Such a large amount of sleep, very human. Our traditional view is probably not to encourage more sleep. A man who sleeps in the daytime has long been condemned by Confucius as unmoulding, making us subtropical dwellers ashamed of our afternoon Siesta, as the Spanish call it. Later Han Dynasty, there was a Bian Xiao Xian, also in order to sleep by his disciples ridicule, "Bian Xiao Xian, belly fat, lazy reading, but want to sleep." The Buddha says to abstain from the Dharma at home, and specifically points out that "indulging in sleep" is one of the obstacles to "improving Boromi". Probably head to sleep, waiting for the sun sun buttocks, its very easy, and lift quilt, jump out of soft warm, at least in the body as a "heaven and earth" shape, its more difficult. In fact, you still need to sleep in moderation. I think sleep deprivation is more harmful. "Sleep is nature's second course", that is, the most sumptuous main course. How much physical and mental exhaustion in a "pretend to be dead" cleansed. Car accidents often happen because the driver is asleep. How could one of the officials in the yamen agency, with his livid face and insolent arrogance, be able to smile like a human being because he was dizzy and had no way to vent his anger because of lack of sleep? As for those at the top, their sleep is more important, a night of insomnia, do not know how many mistakes to cause. Sleep is a natural arrangement that we often don't enjoy. I think Yang Zhen, who is known for his "knowledge of heaven and earth", has no difficulty in sleeping, at least not insomnia, because he is aboveboard. The heart has fear, the heart has obstacles, the heart has to let you in, you have to toss and turn, you are not dead yet. In the words of the Zhuangzi, "The most human being has no dreams", and in the Shurangama Sutra, "Dreams perish, but sleep becomes indispensable for security", both mean that the mind is at peace, and sleep is at ease. Toiling elements, simple life, day in and day out, sunrise, not easy to sleep. I heard that there are many remedies for insomnia, or teach people to calculate numbers, or teach people to describe the outline of the human body in the imagination, its purpose is nothing more than to want people to restrain his delusion of reversal, forget everything, but I do not know how much practical. The more anxious insomnia, the more anxious insomnia, a vicious cycle, had to stare at the big eyes, not aware of the East is white. Shakespeare's Twelfth Night mentions a large bed in a hotel in Ware, England, seven feet six inches high and ten feet nine inches wide, carved so well that it could sleep twelve. It's big enough, but it's not enviable to sleep on a dozen sardines. When it comes to scale, we still want to push the clothes and cultural relics of the country. My home in Peiping is a collection of an old bed, Hangzhou system, bamboo strips for stretching, more than nine feet wide, more than six feet deep, bed frame height of eight feet, three sides of the partition fan, the following bed cabinet, just like a cabin, the most pleasant place is a bed in the shelf board, books, bowl, table lights, four dry four fresh, can be displayed on the work, help me pillow. Foreigners' spring bed, sleep in cotton like heaps, survives winter and summer Yu not when. In addition, the western way of bedding is not comfortable, in which the body is placed between two layers of sheets and the blanket is wrapped on the mattress. It is not comfortable to turn over the shoulders and poke the quilt with legs and toes. One of the eight precepts of Buddhism is "don't sit on a high bed", which is just the opposite of my ideal. I still miss the high bed in my old home. Sleeping posture varies from person to person, and it is not possible and necessary to maintain the posture of "sleeping like a bow" for a long time. Wang Right Army like the east bed tank belly, after all natural and unrestrained. If he bends back like a dead worm, or crawls like a toad, he will do no one's business. In some places in the north, regardless of the cold and heat, people will take off their clothes when they fall asleep, and practice celestial sports under the quilt without harming the weather. Only snoring thunder, the most do not make. Song Zhang Duanyi "GUI Er collection" contains a curious story: "Liu Zhufan to see Yu Shi Kou Dynasty, his disciples to sleep. Liu sat outside his bed and heard the snoring of his nose. Xiong Mei could hear him saying, 'Mr. Kou is happy in his sleep. '" The so-called "Hua Xu tune" to see the story of Chen Xiyi, according to the Fairy Buddha Trace: "Chen kneaded in Huashan, had a visitor to visit, fit to sleep. There is an inhuman beside him. Listen to his voice and write to it with ink. Strange and asked, the person said: 'This Mr. Huaxu modulation chaos spectrum also. '" The country of the Huxus has never been visited, and the Huaxu tone is certainly not appreciated. As far as snoring is concerned, the music tone I can identify is close to the "new sound of jazz", among which there may really be "male beauty to listen to". But it is advisable to sleep without music. Sleep can also be a form of escapism. Those who are tired of living in this world and refuse to retire by themselves can turn around and go to sleep with a high head, or even bend their head with a low head. When their eyes are dark, they can put aside things they don't like and people they don't like for a while, like ostriches, out of sight and out of mind. Ming Chen Jiru "Pearl Ship" recorded: "Xu Guangpu was a phase, happy to discuss things, was envied by Li Min. Light bouton after do not say, every gathering, but sleep only, time signal 'sleep phase'." A prime minister who does not speak at meetings, blind sleep, really know the wise way to protect oneself, than dangerous words are further. This kind of kung fu doesn't seem to have been lost in modern times.

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