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often of greater value than the information the awakened state. Dreams are an important
conscious mind can provide (21).” The master aid because they are our biggest portal to
guides the student through dream activation the transpersonal world — the world of gods
processes that admit him into the night-school. and archetypes, the realm of the unconscious.
He can access wisdom teachings that he gets Some deep experiences can make new persons
as a download every night, serially. Tenzin out of us; they can change our relationships
Wangyal describes these nightly teachings: with others; they can uproot our belief-system
and set us on a new journey. These rare
“Volumes of teachings have been ‘discovered’ experiences could be dreams. In the dream
this way, including many of the practices that world we have a greater degree of freedom.
Tibetans have been doing for centuries. This is We are not localised in space and time — we
what we call ‘mind treasure’. Imagine entering a can travel to distant pasts, to distant lands,
cave and finding a volume of teachings hidden some of which do not exist in the physical
inside. This is finding in a physical space. Mind world. Time itself does not follow the even-
treasures are found in consciousness rather than paced dictates of Chronos, but dilates and
in the physical world (22).” contracts in a playful Kairos mood. I remember
a numinous dream where I entered the trunk
Tenzin Wangyal recounts that once he saw a of a tree and felt the elemental joy of Nature,
disturbing dream he could not interpret but as though I had reached the bedrock of bliss.
thought it was related to his upcoming trip. I felt enveloped in the wings of a Mother.
Before cancelling his trip, he went back to An unconditional love flowed into me that
sleep. He entered his dream, became lucid, made me cry. Sometimes we wake up with
and went to his master. He presented the dried tears in our eyes. We may not recall the
dream to the master, who interpreted it for dream, but it has left soft butterfly memories
him (23). In another instance, he asked a wise deep in the psyche, that will flutter in us,
old lady to give him advice by consulting perhaps forever.
her own dream. She incubated her dream by
placing an object under her pillow that had References
represented him energetically, his undershirt.
In the morning she gave him instructions as 1. Valli K, Hoss, RJ (eds). Dreams: Understanding
to what to avoid and what to do, as indicated Biology, Psychology and Culture. Santa Barbara,
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had a dream about him and told him to do a
practice related to one of the guardians. Only 2. The Mother. Mother’s Agenda, Vol. 10. Paris:
later, when Tenzin Wangyal was saved by the Institut de Recherches Évolutives; 1979 [English
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realise how he would have died had there not
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Sleep yoga can complement the yoga of our 4. Bulkeley, K. Big Dreams: The Science of Dreaming

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