Dream Yoga and the Practice of Natural Light [Paperback]

Namkhai Norbu (Author), Michael Katz (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1992

Secret Tibetan methods for working with dream states.

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Provides a valuable practice to help calm the mind in lucid, dreaming states so that we can truly deepen our awareness. Dream Yoga is not just about awakening in the dream state but also bringing it together with our non-dream awareness as well. (Precious Metal/Wordpress, May 2010 ) --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Snow Lion Publications (June 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1559390077
• ISBN-13: 978-1559390071
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.3 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,289,244 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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96 of 103 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Spectacular introduction to new level of dream experience, September 22, 1998

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This review is from: Dream Yoga and the Practice of Natural Light (Paperback)

What a gift! This book will introuduce you to a whole new level of dream understanding. Rather than seeing dreams as messages from the Psyche, the Dzogchen tradition of Tibet views them as an opportunity to recognize and interact with the foundations of your life. At Play in venue of your existence you can make changes and recognize the source of all that you experience. This is no "how to" silly book about lucid dreaming, but an invitation to have the most profound experience of your dreams availible. This is no patchwork technique to amuse you , but an introduction to a disciplinee that will serve you for eternity. The skills acquired in this book will aid you for this life, after your death, and in many lives to come.

42 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Dream-practice in Tibetan Buddhism, November 22, 2004

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This review is from: Dream Yoga and the Practice of Natural Light (Paperback)

This is a good book, probably the best of those available, on the bardo teachings of "dreaming" and "natural light", within the Dzogchen view of Tibetan Buddhism. The book contains profound instructions for developing clarity within the sleep and dream states.

The relevance of these teachings is that they allow us to practice even while sleeping and dreaming, because these states make up almost one-third of our lives. Moreover, it is said that if a person applies a practice within a dream, the practice is nine times more effective than when it is applied during the waking hours. Dream practice is very important for liberating us from habits.

"When the state of dreaming has dawned,
do not lie in ignorance like a corpse.
Enter the natural sphere of unwavering attentiveness.
Recognize your dreams and transform illusion into luminosity.
Do not sleep like an animal.
Do the practice which mixes sleep and reality."

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Transformation and Liberation through Dream, November 14, 2009

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This review is from: Dream Yoga and the Practice of Natural Light, Revised (Paperback)

Tibetan yoga seeks clarity and continuity of consciousness in waking, sleeping, dreaming, imagination, memory and the thousands of sentient experiences that we call mind from our first to last breath and beyond. Mindfulness, meditation, biofeedback and dream yoga are only techniques to create skill on the path of our larger aim, to be able to enter deep sleep, unconsciousness or death in total and transcendental awareness. Jesus demonstrated the Resurrection Body of Glory, Padmasambhava, Buddha and Tara the Vajrakaya, and Sri Aurobindo the Divine Body.

But the body is consciousness. Even Einstein said "There is no matter; it is all field."

In that spirit, Norbu's book is a complete method for transformation and liberation; other readers only see random gibberish.

Let your own lucid perceptions serve you. Yogic discipline will yield much treasure. Western complacency will unearth corrupt trash.