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Summary: A Good Book? Keep on Dreaming!
Review: A considerable disappointment. A quick look at the encyclopaedia in the local library can tell you more about lucid dreaming, even Tantric dream yogas, than these tapes. Indeed, there may be less than five minutes of useful material in the two cassettes and the rest is mostly this man promoting himself and dropping every New Age buzzword he's been able to get his hands on in the past 30 years. I really do feel [taken advantage of]. Moreover, his breath-taking capacity for mispronouncing words and ungrammatical sentences does not inspire confidence. Look, let the nice Amazon.com people sell you a good book by the Dalai Lama where every page has one or two valuable insights.
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Summary: Terrible
Review: As noted by the other reviewers, these tapes contain *very* little in the way of actual technique. At least 3/4 of the content is rambling about what is supposedly going to be taught, and the author often repeats himself at that. I found very little insight in said rambling, mostly fluffy and silly reiteration of the purpose of the tapes... a purpose which the tapes never fulfill. In fact, these tapes for a long time made me distrust the value of any of the Tibetan dream techniques which have been collected and shared with the 'west'. These tapes could easily make anyone unfamiliar with Tibetan Buddhism think that the entire endeavor is a sham... truly a shame.
I found much more insight and technique in LaBerge's work on lucid dreaming, specifically _Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming_ (highly recommended). Fortunately I recently came upon another text that quite effectively brought together the teachings of *Tibetan* dream yoga: _The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep_ by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche. I strongly recommend this latter text as *infinitely better* than these tapes.
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Summary: Lots of Sizzle, Not Much Steak
Review: Having enjoyed Surya Dass' books and having been intrigued by his personal story (imagine going on a 3-year solo silent retreat, and enjoying it so much you go on another one), I had great expectations for this little pair of cassettes. Alas, those expecations were for nought. Or for not very much. About three quarters of this not-a-book on tape is Dass' personal reflections on dreams and their importance to the spiritual journey. I felt as if he were addressing an unwilling participant who needed convincing. As I was already willing to give it a good try, I found myself wishing he would for crying out loud, please get to the point! Which he does. Finally. On side 2 of the second tape. I now see why this was never released as an actual book: the substance of Surya Dass' "Tibetan Dream Yoga" could fit on one side of one piece of paper. My advice: save your money. There are better ways to learn about dream yoga than this.
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Summary: Highly recommended to students of enlightenment
Review: In Tibetan Buddhism, the dream state is called the "Fourth Time" and is considered to be a malleable realm of existence where the past, present, and future meet and intermingle. It was in this dream state that the first meditation masters of Tibet developed a way to speed their progress, while they were sleeping, through the various stages of enlightenment. In Tibetan Dream Yoga, Lama Surya Das teaches exercises to fully utilize the fabric of our dreams to enhance our journey toward ultimate enlightenment. There are also a wealth of specif yoga dreaming techniques to enhance creativity, overcome fear, and free ourselves from harmful habits embedded in our waking lives. Tibetan Dream Yoga is highly recommended to students of enlightenment in general, and Tibetan Buddhist practices in particular.
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Summary: Authenic teachings to perfect the practice of dream yoga
Review: Lama Surya is my teacher. He is the vehicle for transmission of the highest teachings of Tibet to the west. Surya is fully trained and empowered to transmit what have been known as "the secret teachings of Tibet," to we western people, who are so much in need of liberating teachings. As Surya says, "change your dreams, change your life." He has done it, I am doing it, you can do it, too. Dream yoga is a traditional and esoteric Tibetan practice with which we can transform our ordinary reality into something less limited-- in order to allow us to be of benefit to all beings. It works. It is true! Try it-- you'll like it. Walter Haberer, M.D.
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Summary: Whistle While You Dream
Review: This audio book was okay. There is some helpful information, but I found it rather vague. Also the delivery was full of whistled S's which was very distracting.
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Summary: An Interesting Guide to Lucid Dreaming
Review: Very interesting and informative discussion of lucid dreaming - being conscious during dreams - with a set of exercises based on Tibetan Buddhist practice on how to achieve this state. Lama Surya Das is an inspired teacher both in terms of content (spiritual insight) as well as his teaching method. One can sense his happy open approach to life and teaching in his excellent books. Here one can hear him speak and capture the full extent of that approach and his personality. The material in these two cassettes is well worth the listen. The message of consciousness or awakening is the central message of Buddhism and applies not only to dream states but to what we call our "awake" states. Like the rest of his works, thought provoking message delivered with love and humor.
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Summary: Talk about going to Sleep!
Review: While I have the utmost respect for Lama Surya Das, something went terribly wrong here. The lama talks about what he is going to teach you for the entire first tape and for the first side of the second tape. Finally he gets down to the actual teaching only on the second side of tape two. This is truly too bad. It is very hard to train our minds to get to, and stay on a virtuous point of contemplation and meditation. I respectfully think that the lama wildly strayed from the focal point of his teaching.
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