Dream yoga

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1. dzogchen108Oct 2022
   If you lucid dream every night you may find Tibetan Dream Yoga interesting. It can be secular or spiritual since it is a Buddhist practice.

   See this book by a well-regarded teacher for more information: https://www.amazon.com/Tibetan-Yogas-Dream-Sleep/dp/15593910...

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2. claylimoJun 2022
   The real work is facing your own fears. How? A lot of work. Meditation can help but you need a good teacher. Find people who are obsessed with and in the pursuit of “obtaining” enlightenment and I found people who know their inner thoughts and feelings at a deep and intimate level. I found people who want to be happy but ultimately need to find what is “getting in the way” of enlightenment. The irony though is that there is nothing in the way of enlightenment and “it” is already there but that’s a separate topic.

   People do and can get to the bottom of what is ultimately is driving them in their own humanity.

   You can go in circles trying different spiritual practices. You can have earth shattering changes with plant medicine too. You can do dream work with dream yoga too (google Andrew holecek). The rabbit hole is long and wide. I would not swear by ayahuascha. All of life is ceremony. It might help in the short term but what you are seeking is an active thing and high effort thing until it becomes effortless. To be curious about your pain, fear and anxiety. Even to see the beauty in them. To have humility. To listen. To surrender it all.

   There is no magic pill though. I’ve tried many things. I’m not the same person. You can change. There is a way out but the way out is not what you might think it is. The way out is the way through.

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3. denton-scratchJul 2021
   Buddha didn't teach rebirth. He didn't teach any metaphysics at all. Karma and rebirth were simply the sea in which The Buddha and his followers were swimming.

   Having said that, it's hard to make sense of a lot of Buddhist teaching without karma and rebirth.

   In the tradition that I followed, they said that experience was momentary (like, atomic); and the moments were separated by 'gaps'. Realisation was to be found in these gaps. In a way, that is like dying after every moment.

   This was a tradition that venerated Padmasambhava, the composer of the Tibetan Book of the Dead; which highlights the opportunities for realisation in the gap between two lives.

   Interestingly, these gaps also contain extreme terror, which you experience without the stabilising influence of a body. The TBOTD describes these terrors in a lot of detail.

   The Dream Yoga is another way of exploring these gaps.

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4. givanJun 2017
   You can find the techniques in his book "The Art of Dreaming"

   https://www.amazon.com/Art-Dreaming-Carlos-Castaneda/dp/0060...

   The first one is to try to see your hands in the dream.

   You can also read about Dream yoga https://www.amazon.com/Dream-Yoga-Illuminating-Through-Dream...

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