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LAMA SURYA DAS
TIBETAN
DREAM YOGA
STUDY GUIDE
Sounds True, Inc., Boulder, CO 80306
© 2000 Lama Surya Das
All rights reserved. No part of this booklet may be used or reproduced
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
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
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3
“Dreams are the
royal road to the
subconscious.
Dreams are
the guardian
of sleep.”
TIBETAN DREAM YOGA
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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