TIBETAN YOGAS OF DREAM AND SLEEP (edited by Mark Dahlby) (8 b/w photographs)
by Rinpoche, Tenzin Wangyal
ISBN: 1559391014
Publisher: National Book Network
`If we cannot carry our practice into sleep,` Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche writes, `if we
lose ourselves every night, what chance do we have to be aware when death comes?
Look to your experience in dreams to know how you will fare in death. Look to your
experience of sleep to discover whether or not you are truly awake.`
This book gives detailed instructions fox dream yoga, including foundational practices
done during the day. In the Tibetan tradition, the ability to dream lucidly is not
an end in itself, rather it provides an additional context in which one can engage in
advanced and effective practices to achieve liberation.
Dream yoga is followed by sleep yoga, also known as the yoga of clear light. It is a
more advanced practice, similar to the most secret Tibetan practices. The goal is to
remain aware during deep sleep when the gross conceptual mind and the operation
of the senses cease. Most Westerners do not even consider this depth of awareness a
possibility, yet it is well known in Tibetan Buddhist and Bon spiritual traditions.
The result of these practices is greater happiness and freedom in both our waking
and dreaming states. The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep imparts powerful methods
for progressing along the path to liberation.
Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, a lama in the Bon tradition of
Tibet, presently resides in Charlottesville, Virginia. He
is the founder and director of The Ligmincha
Institute, an organization dedicated to the study and
practice of the teachings of the Bon tradition. He was
born in Amritsar, India, after his parents fled the
Chinese invasion of Tibet, and received training from
both Buddhist and Bon teachers, attaining the degree
of Geshe, the highest academic degree of traditional
Tibetan culture. He has been in the United States since
1991 and has taught widely in Europe and America.
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