I myself read this book with great interest and recommend it to my own students. In the current edition, Rinpoche, who has had clear abilities in dream practices since his youth, expands his initial commentary on the 'practice of the night' with more specific explanations drawn from an intimate and detailed Dzogchen manuscript he has been writing for many years.
Dream Yoga is not just about awakening in the dream state, but also bringing it together with our non-dream awareness as well. Home Explore. My Cart. Advanced Search. Dream Yoga and the Practice of Natural Light. Add to Cart.
Look inside. Dream Yoga. The habitual tendencies towards ignorance accrued over countless lifetimes are powerful. How many of us see the signs of age in the mirror and have little in the way of dream awareness to show for it. It is likely that you, like myself, were unconscious in your dreams for most of the three years you have spent sleeping in the past decade.
Progress in the practices of dream yoga and the Dzogchen practice of natural light will allow us to realize a form of enlightenment during the death process as we practice lucidity and awareness during the moments of sleep. Conversely, continued ignorance within the states of sleep and dreaming will ensure only continued rebirth within one of the realms of samsara.
Even a few experiences of lucidity or, more ideally, seizing upon the lucid Dream State as an opportunity to practice meditation may lead to great opportunity. Alternatively, those who fail to recognize the illusory nature of the hallucinatory visions are apparently blown by karmically induced waves of desire and fear until they are reborn in one of the forms within cyclic existence. One should be heartened by the advanced practices described within the dream yoga book as well as the inspirational dreams to be included on the web pages.
Although progress may not always be swift, it is essential that all of us look carefully at our capacity and move forward. This may entail making an effort to remember a dream for the first time, or if more advanced, transforming dreams. There are greater and greater gifts available to those who take up the practice of dream work at any level. Within my practice as a psychologist, I have had the opportunity to travel and conduct workshops in Dream Yoga over the years.
These workshops have assisted others to develop lucidity in dreams and understand the spiritual context. The work also promotes relative goals often associated with Western psychotherapy such as understanding the unconscious and integrating that, which is disowned.
Occasionally when requested I have had to decline transmitting the practice of natural light. The book has also inspired many to receive Dzogchen transmission directly from a master Lama. The Buddha taught that every being possesses the capacity to recognize Rigpa. Our obscurations cloud this awareness that, according to one metaphor, continuously shines like the sun hidden by clouds.
With practice, Rigpa may be accessed at any moment, even within the various stages of sleep and dreaming. It is never destroyed. There are myriad metaphors used to explain our lack of relationship with Rigpa. One of my favorites is a story about a poor peasant who had nothing and continuously bemoaned his fate. Due to his extreme poverty, he was forced to use a stone for a pillow.
The irony of the story is that the stone he used for his pillow was a diamond. Here this diamond represents Rigpa. I offer a more personal anecdote on the subject. Some years ago, I had seized an opportunity to conduct a retreat so as to interrupt my busy routine and focus on the inner life.
Contrary to expectations, the dark retreat affords a secure and tranquil environment to practice meditation without any external light.
The dark retreat, by virtue of reducing distractions to a minimum, provides a natural opportunity to practice dream yoga and the practice of natural light. Early on during what would be a twenty-two-day retreat in the dark, I had a dream.
In it I was standing on a beach near the shoreline.
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