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      Buddhist dream yoga

      Does anyone know if there is a difference between Buddhist dream yoga and lucid dreaming? I've ordered some books on the topic, but I'm curious if anyone here knows dream yoga?
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      I do not know much about that, but from what I've read it's not that different. The main difference is the behavior of the student, the goals and his beliefs.

      I'm a happy man because in the end of the month (april 21-24) will be held near my town a Tibetan Buddhist Dream Yoga weekend course. I'll probably attend the event!

      I also like to know if someone bought/read the The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep by Tenzin Wangyai Rinpoche?

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      That retreat sounds wonderful! Please come back and post your experiences here, some of the stuff you learn. I'd so much appreciate it.

      I'll order that book you recommended. Sounds great. Thanks so much.
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      Originally posted by DanaN
      That retreat sounds wonderful! Please come back and post your experiences here, some of the stuff you learn. I'd so much appreciate it.

      I'll order that book you recommended. Sounds great. Thanks so much.
      Be aware that I asked if people did like that book. I did not recommended it because I've never read it. Sorry, know I saw that I wrote it wrong :-(

      Will correct that...

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      One difference between lucid dreaming and dream yoga is the yogis claim to be able to retain consciousness even through slow wave sleep , while lucid dreamers are only proficient during REM sleep. There was a chapter about this in a compilation that I have read called Conscious Mind, Sleeping Brain. The goal of dream yoga was to prepare for death by being able to maintain full awareness even though sleep. The idea was that maybe if they got good enough at this, they would be able to keep conscious while dying 8)! This way they could be able to avoid being reborn. They considered life itself to be a dream.

      There was several experiences that they looked for while performing dream yoga, including flames, smoke and water among other things. These were supposed to be the stages that everybody encountered while dying. At the end, if they were successful, they found a white pure light that was basically nirvana or something.

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