Dreaming Yourself Awake: Lucid Dreaming and Tibetan Dream Yoga for Insight and Transformation by Wallace B. Alan & Hodel Brian

Author:Wallace, B. Alan & Hodel, Brian [Wallace, B. Alan]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Published: 2012-05-29T03:00:00+00:00

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The Daytime Practices of Dream Yoga

THE DREAM YOGA TEACHINGS OF PADMASAMBHAVA

Just as one prepares during the day for nighttime lucid dreaming—doing state checks, keeping a dream journal, developing a critical reflective attitude, and so forth—the dream yogi uses daytime dream yoga practices to prepare the ground for nighttime dream yoga. For both styles of practice, if you can become lucid during the waking state and make that a habit, you will much more easily attain lucidity while dreaming. However, as we have seen, the awakening sought in dream yoga—both day and night—embraces a much wider range of experience than does lucid dreaming.

One lineage of classic teachings on dream yoga was brought to Tibet by the eighth-century Indian adept Padmasambhava. A master of all of the practices of the Buddhist “diamond vehicle,” or Vajrayana, many of his teachings were passed down to future generations as terma (Tibetan for “treasure”), placed in the ground, in solid rock, in lakes, and even in the minds of those who later discovered these treasures, who are called tertöns. Padmasambhava’s teachings on dream yoga given here come from just such a terma—a cycle of teachings entitled Natural Liberation, secreted like a time capsule into a boulder and un-earthed by the tertön Karma Lingpa, some six hundred years after Padmasambhava’s time in Tibet. Both the day and night dream yoga teachings found in Natural Liberation presume a degree of mental vividness and stability derived from developed powers of concentration. Therefore, it was Padmasambhava’s opinion that a subtle and serviceable mind, one honed by practicing shamatha, is indispensable for success in the practice of dream yoga.

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