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LAMA SURYA DAS

TIBETAN

DREAM YOGA

STUDY GUIDE

Sounds True, Inc., Boulder, CO 80306

in any manner without written permission from the author and

publisher. Published 1999

Printed in the United States of America

TABLE OF CONTENTS

WHAT IS A DREAM? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

How Dreams Can Help Us. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

AWAKENING WITHIN THE DREAM . . . . . . . 4

Lama Surya Das.

Tibetan Dream Yoga: A Complete System for Becoming

Conscious in Your Dreams

ISBN 1-56455-743-X

TIBETAN DREAM YOGA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

The Six Yogas of Tibet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

The Spiritual Benefits of Tibetan Dream Yoga . . . 9

Sleeping and Dreaming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

The Practices of Tibetan Dream Yoga . . . . . . . . . 12

Also by Lama Surya Das:

Books

Awakening the Buddha Within:Eight Steps to Enlightenment. New York:

Broadway Books, 1997.

Awakening to the Sacred: Building a Spiritual Life from Scratch. New

York: Broadway Books, 1999.

With Nyoshul Khenpo Rinpoche. Natural Great Perfection: Vajra Songs and

Dzogchen Teachings. Ithaca, New York: Snow Lion Publications, 1995.

The Snow Lion’s Turquoise Mane: 155 Wisdom Tales from Tibet.

SanFrancisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1992.

Sounds True Audio and Video Tapes

Natural Meditation . Video, 2000.

Natural Perfection. Audio, 1999.

Tibetan Energy Yoga . Video, 1999.

THE LIFELONG PRACTICE OF

TIBETAN DREAM YOGA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

ABOUT THE AUTHOR . . . . . . . . . . . back cover

For more information on Lama Surya Das’ teaching schedule, contact:

Dzogchen Foundation

PO Box 400734

Cambridge, MA 02140

Phone (617) 628-1702

www.dzogchen.org

www.surya.org

For a free catalog of audios, videos, and music, please contact:

Sounds True, PO Box 8010, Boulder, CO 80306-8010.

Phone (800) 333-9185

www.soundstrue.com

WHAT IS A DREAM?

“Tibetan Buddhism considers sleep to be

a form of nourishment, like food, that

restores and refreshes the body. Another

type of nourishment is samadhi, or

meditative concentration. If one

becomes advanced enough in the

practice of meditative concentration,

then this itself sustains or

nourishes the body.”

— His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama

Dreams are a significant part of our life. They are as

real and unreal as life itself. Dreams are extremely

personal – and transpersonal, too. Our dreams are a

reflection of ourselves: in dreams, no matter how

many characters appear, we meet ourselves. Dreams

are mirrors to our soul. They can help us to better

understand ourselves, our world, and the nature of

reality. Dreams introduce us to other dimensions of

experience. Here, time and space are much more

TIBETAN DREAM YOGA

liquid and plastic; they can be shaped and reshaped

almost at will. Dreams hint of other worlds, other

lives. They are a glimpse of our afterlife.

Everyone dreams, although not all dreams are

remembered equally. Fifty-six percent of Americans

have had a lucid dream – that is, a dream in which

one is aware that one is dreaming. Twenty-one percent

say they have a lucid dream once a month or more.

Meditators report vividly clear, self-aware dreams

weekly and even more often.

How Dreams Can Help Us

Great healers have long recognized the power of

dreams to inform and support us. Hippocrates said,

“Dreams are one of the most important ways to

diagnose a patient’s illness.” Sigmund Freud’s

turn-of-the-century work, The Interpretation of

Dreams, marked the beginning of

the era of modern psychology

and psychoanalysis.

Certain dreams can convey

valuable information to the

dreamer. A week before the event,

Abraham Lincoln dreamed that

he would be assassinated. The

emperor Constantine dreamed of

radiant Greek letters spelling the

name of Christ and was converted,

leading to the dramatic conversion

of the entire Byzantine Empire. I, myself, have received

messages, teachings, and blessings through my dreams

from the spiritual masters I have known and loved in

this lifetime.

Some contemporary psychologists consider lucid

dreaming a valuable practice for personal growth.

This model is, however, different from Tibetan

dream yoga. The spiritual practice goes deeper,

helping us work with the great passages of life and

death. Tibetan dream yoga teaches us how to

navigate the groundlessness of moment-to-moment

existence, which typically makes no intellectual

sense. It is at this level that we cut through the

illusory nature of mind and truly experience our

marvelous human existence.

Cultivating our innate ability to wake up within

the dream can:

• Increase clarity and lucidity, both waking and

sleeping

• Help us realize the transparent, dream-like

nature of experience

• Free the mind

• Release energy blockages and accumulated

tension and stress

• Loosen habits and make us more open, attuned,

and flexible

• Unleash and mobilize creativity

— Sigmund Freud

“Dreams are the

royal road to the

subconscious.

Dreams are

the guardian

of sleep.”

TIBETAN DREAM YOGA

• Bring repressions and denials into consciousness

• Clarify and dispel confusion

• Solve problems

• Reveal the process of death and rebirth

• Heal and relax us

• Expose fantasies

• Unlock aspirations and potentials

• Facilitate direct encounters with our

shadow nature

• Provide spiritual blessings, visions,

and guidance

• Help open our innate psychic capacities

• Remove hindrances and obstacles

• Help prepare (rehearse) us for death and

the afterlife

Spiritual life is about awakening from the dream of

unreality. The word buddha itself is from the word

bodhi, “awakeful.” Buddhist wisdom and practice help

us to awaken to who and what we truly are, and to

recognize the difference between the real and the

unreal in our daily life. All of our spiritual practices are

designed to awaken us from the daydream of illusion

and confusion, where we are like sleepwalkers,

semiconsciously muddling our way through life.

Self-knowledge through spiritual awakening helps

us become masters of circumstances and conditions,

rather than victims. This is why the Armenian

spiritual master Georgy Gurdjieff said: “Contemporary

man is born asleep, lives asleep, and dies asleep. And

what knowledge could a sleeping man have? If you

think about it and at the same time remember that

sleep is the chief feature of our being, you will soon

understand that if man wishes to

obtain knowledge, he should first

of all think about how to awaken

himself, that is about how to

change his being.”

South American shamans

call this awakening from the

dream of life “shapeshifting”:

entering into a spiritual journey

with the explicit purpose of

AWAKENING WITHIN

THE DREAM

The seminal Chinese philosopher Chuang Tzu

dreamed he was a butterfly. Upon awakening, he

wondered whether he was a man who had dreamed he

was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming he was a man.

Chuang Tzu’s musings underscore a fundamental

truth: life is like a dream.

“All that we see

is but a dream

within a

dream.”

— Edgar Allen Poe

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