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Title: Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep by Tenzin Wangyal, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, Mark Dahlby ISBN: 1-55939-101-4 Publisher: Snow Lion Pubns Pub. Date: July, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.92 (13 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Ligmincha Institute
Comment: It gives great pleasure to thank Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche for his teachings.
The review on the back cover of this book is so well done and informative that here it is:
"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 for 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 know 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 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.
"A detailed guide to using our night-lives for Awakening; thought-provoking, inspiring, and lucid."---Stephen LaBerge, Ph.D., author of Lucid Dreaming
"This explication of the dream and sleep practices becomes a window on the entire teachings of Tibetan Tantra and Dzogchen. I enjoyed this book immensely...powerfully and beautifully presented."---Martin Lowenthal, Ph.D., co-author of Opening the Heart of Compassion
Rating: 5
Summary: Remarkably well-written and informative.
Comment: Even for a seasoned lucid dreamer like myself, this book was highly useful in offering traditional Tibetan practices for lucid dream induction, as well as various suggestions for activities to attempt within a fully lucid dream. However, what is most amazing about this book is its instructions for abiding as the pure, empty Awareness (rigpa) that is our true Self. As a Zen Buddhist, I am quite familiar with maintaining this "mirror-mind," but I usually cannot maintain it for very long, and I've never held it past the dream stage, into deep dreamless sleep. The practices in this book are helping me to change all that. Maintaining meditation practice during sleep--literally 24 hours a day--accelerates things profoundly. When the gross, manifest world of spacetime has dissolved into the subtle realm of souls and dreaming, and when even that realm has dissolved into Emptiness, your truest self shines forth clearly as the one and only Mind behind all illusory manifestation. Truly, the awareness within you that is right now reading these words is the Buddha. Your true nature is absolutely vast, silent, empty, blissful, and timeless Consciousness as Such--the source and substance of all that seems to exist. When you become identified with this Consciousness, your true Self, and not merely with the deluded, individual mind (or ego), you find yourself in a state of constant consciousness--never blinking, never fading, 24 hours a day--remaining completely "awake" even during dreaming and deep sleep. You'll have discovered your true Home--the Home you've never left, the Home you couldn't possibly leave, but a Home that you refused to admit you were in while you suffered for lifetimes in this silly dream.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent overview of subject.
Comment: I was surprised, having found most tibetan spiritual literature to be horribly wordy and dry, but when it's good, it's great. And this book is great. I think it helps if you have some background - like the six yogas of Naropa. But maybe that's not necessary. Certainly worth your time and money if you have any interest in the subject.
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Title: Healing With Form, Energy and Light: The Five Elements in Tibetan Shamanism, Tantra, and Dzogchen by Tenzin Wangyal, Mark Dahlby, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche ISBN: 1559391766 Publisher: Snow Lion Pubns Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming by PHD Stephen Laberge ISBN: 034537410X Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 13 November, 1991 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Wonders of the Natural Mind, New Edition by Tenzin Wangyal, Andrew Lukianowicz, H.H. Dalai Lama, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, H H the Dalai Lama ISBN: 1559391421 Publisher: Snow Lion Pubns Pub. Date: 15 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Lucid Dreams in 30 Days : The Creative Sleep Program by Keith Harary, Pamela Weintraub ISBN: 0312199880 Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin Pub. Date: 15 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Conscious Dreaming : A Spiritual Path for Everyday Life by Robert Moss ISBN: 051788710X Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 07 May, 1996 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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