Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

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Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep
By: Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

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Author: Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
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ISBN: 1559391014 / 9781559391016
Publication Date: 1998

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"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 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 Buddhism 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.

Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, Snow Lion Publications, Paperback, 1998, 219 pages, $19.95

	Contents: The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep
	Preface	11
	Introduction	15
	Receiving the Teachings	17
	PART ONE THE NATURE OF DREAM	21
1	Dream and Reality	23
2	How Experience Arises	24
	Ignorance	24
	Actions and Results: Karma and Karmic Traces	26
	Negative Karma	29
	Positive Karma	29
	Liberating Emotions	30
	Obscurations of Consciousness	31
	Karmic Traces and Dream	32
	The Six Realms of Cyclic Existence	34
	Hell Realm	37
	Hungry Ghost Realm	38
	Animal Realm	38
	Human Realm	39
	Demi-god Realm	39
	God Realm	40
3.	The Energy Body	42
	Channels and Prana	42
	Channels (Tsa)	43
	Prana (Lung)	44
	Karmic Prana	45
	Three Kinds of Karmic Prana	45
	Wisdom Prana	46
	Pranic Activity	46
	Balancing the Prana	46
	Prana and Mind	47
	Chakras	48
	Blind Horse, Lame Rider	49
4.	Summary: How Dreams Arise	52
5.	Images from the Mother Tantra	53
	Teaching Metaphors	56
	PART TWO: KINDS AND USES OF DREAMS	59
1	Three Kinds of Dreams	61
	Samsaric Dreams	61
	Dreams of Clarity	62
	Clear Light Dreams	63
2.	Uses of Dreams	65
	Experience in Dream	65
	Guidance and Guidelines	66
	Divination	68
	Teachings in Dream	70
3.	The Discovery of Chod Practice	72
4.	Two Levels of Practice	76
	PART THREE: THE PRACTICE OF DREAM YOGA	79
1.	Vision, Action, Dream, Death	81
2.	Calm Abiding: Zhine	84
	Forceful Zhine	86
	Natural Zhine	87
	Ultimate Zhine	88
	Obstacles	88
	Agitation	88
	Drowsiness	88
	Laxity	89
3.	The Four Fundamental Practices	90
	One: Changing the Karmic Traces	90
	Two: Removing Graspiing and Aversion	93
	Three: Strengthening Intention	94
	Four: Cultivating Memory and Joyful Effort	95
	Consistency	96
4.	Preparation for the Night	97
	Nine Purifications Breathing	98
	Guru Yoga	99
	The Practice	101
	Protection	102
5.	The Main Practice	104
	Bringing Awareness into the Central Channel	104
	Increasing Clarity	106
	Stremgthening Presence	108
	Developing Fearlessness	110
	Position	111
	Focusing the Mind	112
	The Sequence	115
6.	Lucidity	119
	Developing Flexibility	121
7.	The Obstacles	127
	Delusion	127
	Laxity	128
	Self-distraction	128
	Forgetting	129
	Four Obstacles according to Shardza Rinpoche	129
8.	Controlling and Respecting Dreams	131
9.	Simple Practices	134
	The Waking Mind	134
	Preparing for Night	136
10.	Integration	138
	PART FOUR: SLEEP	141
1.	Sleep and Falling Asleep	143
2.	Three Kinds of Sleep	145
	Sleep of Ignorance	145`
	Samsaric Sleep	145
	Clear Light Sleep	146
3.	Sleep Practice and Dream Practice	148
	PART FIVE: THE PRACTICE OF SLEEP YOGA	151
1.	The Dakini, Salgye Du Dalma	153
2.	Preliminary Practice	157
3.	Sleep Practice	159
	Entering Sleep	160
4.	Tigle	163
5.	Progress	165
6.	Obstacles	167
7.	Supportive Practices	170
	Master	170
	Dakini	170
	Behavior	171
	Prayer	171
	Dissolving	171
	Expanding and Contracting	172
8.	Integration	174
	Integration of Clear Light with the Three Poisons	174
	Integration with the Cycles of Time	177
	External Unification	177
	Internal Unification	179
	Secret Unification	180
	The Three Unifications: Conclusion	181
9.	Continuity	183
	PART SIX: ELABORATIONS	185
1.	Context	187
2.	Mind and Rigpa	188
	Conceptual Mind	188
	Non-dual Awareness: Rigpa	189
	Base Rigpa and Path Rigpa	191
3.	The Base: Kunzhi	192
	Mind and Matter	193
4.	Knowing	194
5.	Recognizing Clarity and Emptiness	197
	Balance	199
	Discrimination	199
6.	Self	200
7.	Paradox of the Essenceless Self	203
	Final Words	205
	Appendix: Outline of Dream Yoga Practices	209
	Glossary	213
	Bibliography	218