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Dream Yoga
#7561998 - 10/26/07 07:23 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Ive begun trying out a few Tibetan dream yoga techniques, with flawless success. Ive been able to seemingly have nothing but lucid dreams every night since, which is really surprising to me because my experience before with lucid dreaming, and astral projection have been sporadic at best.
Anyway I really suggest looking into it for anyone who is interested, and I was wondering If anyone had any interesting techniques or story's about it.
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Do have any techniques you could share, or recommendations for websites or books with information? This sounds like something I would be interested, but I had never even heard of the concept of Tibetan dream yoga.
-------------------- “Strengthened by contemplation and study, I will not fear my passions like a coward. My body I will give to pleasures, to diversions that I’ve dreamed of, to the most daring erotic desires, to the lustful impulses of my blood, without any fear at all, for whenever I will— and I will have the will, strengthened as I’ll be with contemplation and study— at the crucial moments I’ll recover my spirit as was before: ascetic.”
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Re: Dream Yoga [Re: Lion]
#7562011 - 10/26/07 07:30 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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It was in the back of some old book by Lama Surya Das, Im at work now, but Ill try and look it up.
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Lion
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Awesome. I've read some of Das's stuff, not much though. And I have his CD collaboration w/ Stephen Halpern, "Chants to Awaken the Buddhist Heart". It's really peaceful.
-------------------- “Strengthened by contemplation and study, I will not fear my passions like a coward. My body I will give to pleasures, to diversions that I’ve dreamed of, to the most daring erotic desires, to the lustful impulses of my blood, without any fear at all, for whenever I will— and I will have the will, strengthened as I’ll be with contemplation and study— at the crucial moments I’ll recover my spirit as was before: ascetic.”
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blewmeanie




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Here it is I bought it as an introduction to Buddhism for my grandmother for Christmas, and ended up reading it myself. It has very little on dream yoga, but it was my introduction.
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blewmeanie




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hmmmm I really expected more from this any way, I found this. It had some interesting ideas on it. What I was really interested in was little personal tricks that anyone may have developed for themselves. I know I have quite a few little techniques for meditation that Ive picked up through trial and error over the past 10 years or so, and I assumed everyone else did the same for themselves.
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Re: Dream Yoga [Re: Lion]
#7563688 - 10/26/07 03:11 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Look for the book "The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep" by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche. It's an interesting and informative read. 
Oh, Here is half of it...
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I would definitely like to get involved in dream yoga. Can you describe the effects you have experenced?
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Re: Dream Yoga [Re: MOTH]
#7572244 - 10/29/07 08:31 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Various weird dreams that I had some level of control over. Ive always had lucid dreams, but they only happened sporadicly. In one of them I was in a tall building with allot of differently sized stairs just talking to people. For some reason, I kept asking everyone who I was, and who they were.....It seemed important at the time. I didn't make it to the astral plane, other than shooting upwards into what I could only describe as absolute Illumination(as in brightness, not spirituality). I'm still working on it, Ive been taking aderal lately and thats seems to be getting in the way.(Although oddly enough it hasn't seemed to effect my meditation at all)
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