Dreaming Yourself Awake: Lucid Dreaming and Tibetan Dream Yoga for Insight and Transformation

“All dream yoga is based on the one-pointedness one can maintain on the illusoriness of experience by day.”

The emphasis here is on discovering the process through which we delude ourselves.

If you are reifying, you are dreaming.

Mainstream physics now accepts that the basic components of the material universe have a nebulous, dreamlike quality.

“What we observe is not nature in itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning.”

phenomena exist interdependently—their appearance to our consciousness depends on a multitude of factors rather than on their having an independent reality from their own side,

Emptiness is nothing more than the lack of inherent existence that becomes evident when phenomena are placed under careful analysis.

The practices must bear the intended fruit.

Tibetan Buddhism—Vajrayana especially—incorporates a physiological approach to spiritual attainment. The basis here is the “channels, vital energies, and vital essences.”

all phenomena are co-emergent with the modes of awareness that apprehend them.