The Tibetan Yogas Of Dream And Sleep Quotes

“When in the body of a donkey, enjoy the taste of grass.”
― Tenzin Wangyal, The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep

“We pass through elementary school, high school, and maybe college, and in one sense every diploma is an award for developing a more sophisticated ignorance. Education reinforces the habit of seeing the world through a certain lens. We”
― Tenzin Wangyal, The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep

“We do not ignore the use of the meaning in dreaming. But it is good to recognize that there is also dreaming in meaning.”
― Tenzin Wangyal, The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep

“When we cease to exist, the world we make dissolves, not the world that
other people inhabit. Our perception and the way we view everything ceases
with us. If we dissolve our conceptual mind, the underlying purity manifests
spontaneously. When we know directly that there is no inherent existence either
in our self or the world, then whatever arises in experience has no power over
us. When the lion mistakes his reflection in the water for something real, he is
startled and snarls; when he understands the illusory nature of the reflection, he
does not react with fear. Lacking true understanding, we react to the illusory
projections of our own mind with grasping and aversion and create karma.
When we know the true empty nature, we are free.”
― Tenzin Wangyal, The Tibetan Yogas Of Dream And Sleep

“We also know life passes quickly and death is certain, yet in our
busy lives we find it difficult to practice as much as we wish we could. Perhaps
we meditate for an hour or two each day, but that leaves the other twenty-two
hours in which to be distracted and tossed about on the waves of samsara. But
there is always time for sleep; the third of our lives we spend sleeping can be
used for practice.”
― Tenzin Wangyal, The Tibetan Yogas Of Dream And Sleep

“Although some Western psychologies believe that the dreamer should not control the dream, according to Tibetan teachings this is a wrong view. It is better for the lucid and aware dreamer to control the dream than for the dreamer to be dreamed. The same is true with thoughts: it is better for the thinker to control the thoughts than for the thoughts to control the thinker.”
― Tenzin Wangyal, The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep

“Every diploma is an award for developing a more sophisticated ignorance.”
― Tenzin Wangyal, The Tibetan Yogas Of Dream And Sleep

“When we think of an experience as “only a dream” it is less “real” to us. It loses power over us—power that it only had because we gave it power—and can no longer disturb us and drive us into negative emotional states.”
― Tenzin Wangyal, The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep

“Dreams arise from the same karmic traces that govern our waking experiences. If we axe too distracted to penetrate the fantasies and delusions of the moving mind during the day, we will most likely be bound by the same limitations in dream.”
― Tenzin Wangyal, The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep

“differently. Some grasp more and some less. The more grasping there is—the more reacting from karmic conditioning—the more we are controlled by experiences we encounter. With enough flexibility, we are not driven by karma. A mirror does not choose what to reflect; everything is welcome to come and go in its pure nature. The mirror, in this sense, is flexible, and it is so because it neither grasps nor pushes away. It does not try to hold on to one reflection and refuse to allow another. We lack this flexibility because we do not understand that whatever appears in awareness is only the reflection of our own mind. In lucid dreams, we practice transforming whatever is encountered. There is no boundary to experience that cannot be broken in dream; we can do whatever occurs to us to do. As we break habitual limitations of experience, the mind becomes increasingly supple and”
― Tenzin Wangyal, The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep

“There are cultural differences regarding emotion. For example, fear and sadness are not often mentioned in the teachings, yet most of samsara is tinged with both. And the concept of self-hatred is alien to Tibetans, who do not have words to describe it. When I went to Finland, many people talked to me about depression; this was in sharp contrast to Italy, where I had just been and where people seem to talk about depression very little. The climate, religion, traditions, and spiritual belief systems condition us and affect our experience. But the underlying mechanism of how we are stuck—the grasping and aversion, the projection, and the dualistic interaction with what we project—is the same every where. This is what is negative in emotional experience.”
― Tenzin Wangyal, The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep

“We spend most of our waking time in the dreams of the moving mind”
― Tenzin Wangyal, The Tibetan Yogas Of Dream And Sleep

“The dream is a projection of our own mind. It is not different from the mind, just as a ray of sunlight is not different from the light of the sun in the sky. Not knowing this, we engage the dream as if it were real, like a lion snarling at the face it sees reflected in water. In a dream, the sky is our mind, the mountain is our mind; the flowers, the chocolate that we eat, the other people, all our own mine reflected back at us.”
― Tènzin Wangyal Rinpoché, The Tibetan Yogas Of Dream And Sleep

“Because karmic traces are the roots of dreams, when they are entirely exhausted only the pure light of awareness remains: no movie, no story, no dreamer and no dream, only the luminous fundamental nature that is absolute reality. This is why enlightenment is the end of dreams and is known as “awakening.”
― Tenzin Wangyal, The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep

“When we think of an experience as “only a dream” it is less “real” to us. It loses power over us—power that it only had because we gave it power—and can no longer disturb us and drive us into negative emotional states. Instead, we begin to encounter all experience with greater calm and increased clarity, and even with greater appreciation”
― Tenzin Wangyal, The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep

“Conversely, when we continually bring awareness to the immediate moment of experience, this capacity will soon be found in dream.”
― Tenzin Wangyal, The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep

“Our attachments can lead to war, but they also manifest as helpful technologies and different arts that are of great benefit to the world.”
― Tènzin Wangyal Rinpoché, The Tibetan Yogas Of Dream And Sleep

“memories, feelings, sense perceptions, or thoughts”
― Tenzin Wangyal, The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep