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Summary: The Ligmincha Institute
Review: It gives great pleasure to thank Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche for his teachings. The review on the back cover of this book is so well done and informative that here it is: "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 know 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 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 Buddhist 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. Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, a Lama in the Bon tradition of Tibet, presently resides in Charlottesville, Virginia. He is the founder and director of The Ligmincha Institute; an organization dedicated to the study and practice of the teachings of the Bon tradition. He was born in Amritsar, India, after his parents fled the Chinese invasion of Tibet, and received training from both Buddhist and Bon teachers, attaining the degree of Geshe, the highest academic degree of traditional Tibetan culture. He has been in the United States since 1991 and has taught widely in Europe and America. "A detailed guide to using our night-lives for Awakening; thought-provoking, inspiring, and lucid."---Stephen LaBerge, Ph.D., author of Lucid Dreaming "This explication of the dream and sleep practices becomes a window on the entire teachings of Tibetan Tantra and Dzogchen. I enjoyed this book immensely...powerfully and beautifully presented."---Martin Lowenthal, Ph.D., co-author of Opening the Heart of Compassion
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Summary: Excellent Coverage!
Review: Simply put, there is not a better book out there on Tibetian Dream Yoga, (At least that I have seen). If you are interested in learning, this is the one to get!
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Summary: Makes you think...
Review: Sorry if this sounds like overstatement, but it's really true. Not only is this by FAR the best book on dream yoga, it's the best book on Tibetan Spirituality I've ever read (and I've read MANY). I absolutely gurantee you that if you buy this book you won't be disappointed. This book is totally devoid of the usual vagueness and mind-numbing discussion of texts and philosophies in most books about Tibetan spirituality. Tenzin Wangyal is a really outstanding example of the newest wave of Tibetan teachers in the west--though he is a Tibetan, born and educated in India, he totally understands the west from the inside out. This book is so much more direct and practical than almost all other books on Tibetan subjects that it's almost a jarring surprise (a good surprise). Read it, then compare it to the work of some far more famous yet vague and impractical Tibetan teachers (such as Trungpa, Rinpoche) and you will be amazed. What this book left me thinking was this: what if these two guys (Tenzin Wangyal and Mark Dahlby) wrote five or ten more books this good? As the great Steve Allen once said, "This could be the start of something big." We're talking classic here, folks, and I'm not kidding.
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Summary: Best Book on Tibetan Spirituality Ever
Review: Sorry if this sounds like overstatement, but it's really true. Not only is this by FAR the best book on dream yoga, it's the best book on Tibetan Spirituality I've ever read (and I've read MANY). I absolutely gurantee you that if you buy this book you won't be disappointed. This book is totally devoid of the usual vagueness and mind-numbing discussion of texts and philosophies in most books about Tibetan spirituality. Tenzin Wangyal is a really outstanding example of the newest wave of Tibetan teachers in the west--though he is a Tibetan, born and educated in India, he totally understands the west from the inside out. This book is so much more direct and practical than almost all other books on Tibetan subjects that it's almost a jarring surprise (a good surprise). Read it, then compare it to the work of some far more famous yet vague and impractical Tibetan teachers (such as Trungpa, Rinpoche) and you will be amazed. What this book left me thinking was this: what if these two guys (Tenzin Wangyal and Mark Dahlby) wrote five or ten more books this good? As the great Steve Allen once said, "This could be the start of something big." We're talking classic here, folks, and I'm not kidding.
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Summary: great book
Review: The book talks about general aspects of daily life, relationships with persons and situations and how they affect and condition our atittude towards life. The author gives some simple advice on how to see reality as it really is and not to let anger and hate, that frequently affect ourselves in the stressed world of today, generate. It also describes the practice of dream yoga for the those most interested. The dream Yoga is a very interesting issue and the author also explains the diference of the dream meaning between eastearn and weastern views. I recommend this book for everyone interested in understanding theirselves, in bringuing positiveness, concentration, awareness into their lives and relations. The autor uses a very simple and sincere language and I can tell by his writting he is a very kind and humble beeing. This is not the "101 secrects of whatever book". This is a ver true book which I belive you'll enjoy and consult for several times.
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Summary: The art of Tibetan Dream Yoga
Review: This book delivers what the title says. The practices in this book are moderately sophistocated with the exception of a basic practice given to increase lucid dreaming which was to throughout your day to stop what you're doing and "realize" that this (your physical experience) is all just a dream. I read the same exercise in Osho's "Book of Secrets". Another important point is that one needs to review the day before sleep to help remove or soften any karmic impressions received during the day. With these impressions softened or removed one should be freed from base karmic dreams and have more of the desired type of dreams. I found the most important information contained in the last couple of sections of the book. Tenzin Wangyal elaborates on the end result and aim of the practices which is the constant abidement in rigpa. He writes as one who know this state well and not just one who's read about it.
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Summary: Continuous awareness is the key....
Review: This book inspires me to have more awareness during sleep. The awareness not continuous if we sleep deeply (or long period). Practicing this help me to wake up every 2 hours, hence strengthening my awareness throughout the whole day. Though, I would suggest to practice meditation (mindfulness) along with this practice, as the author suggested. Dream contents, or visualization of objects is not important as to their locations. Ultimately, continuous awareness (non-thinking) is the goal.
Very accurate teachings about karma, mind nature and goals of Buddhism.
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Summary: Makes you think...
Review: What can I say about this book... Well, first off - if you've ever wondered if there is a God, you'll find your answer there. Not only does this book explain the metaphysical aspects of the science which lends to itself great insight and solid explanations on the form of reality but it goes to show how you can put theories into practice. By awakening in your dreams, this book provides proof that another realm of consiousness exists and as you grow in practice with lucidity and all the while attaining greater states of lucidity, you come to realize that there is a whole new world out there. In short - great book. A little bit terrifying at times but good :)
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