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Shape Shifting
Within Spiritual Dreams
Chuang Tzu, the influential Chinese philosopher dreamt he
became a butterfly. When he got up, he was unsure whether he
were a human who dreamt of being a butterfly, or he were a
butterfly who dreamt of being a human. Chuang Tzu's
reflections call attention to a basic truth: life is akin to a
dream.
Mystical life is concerned with getting up from a surreal
dream. The term Buddha itself is derived from the term bodhi,
meaning "awakeful." Buddhist insight and practice enables us
to be aware of what and who we actually are, and to make out
the distinction between the genuine and the imaginary in our
everyday life. All the spiritual exercises we perform are
intended to arouse us from the reverie of fantasy and
bewilderment, where we are akin to sleepwalkers,
semiconsciously weaving our course through life.
Self-wisdom through spiritual arousing enables us to turn into
masters of conditions and circumstances, instead of victims.
This is the reason the Armenian spiritual leader George
Gurdjieff stated: "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 spiritualists refer to this arousing from the
reverie of life as "shapeshifting": embarking on a spiritual
trip with the specific intention of change. Shapeshifting and
other sorts of cognizant dream-work can, by means of routine
practice, enable us to experience other spheres of existence,
call on our departed loved ones, and attain spiritual mastery.
Australian natives maintain we all exist in the dream period:
we are akin to dream characters, living our lives past the
mirage of coming into being and expiring.
Tibetan masters refer to this dreamtime as bardo, or middle
level. Bardos are present between the conclusion of one
particular state and the commencement of another, like birth &
death - or perhaps death and rebirth. Moreover, dreaming,
also, is a bardo, indicating the apparently amorphous area
between awakening and being asleep.
Tibetan Buddhism stands out amongst Buddhist schools in
explaining to us how to wake up within a dream and the ways to
exercise spiritually while asleep. This is what Tibetan dream
yoga signifies, and this is the hub of all practices connected
with it. A medieval Tibetan book on practicing lucid dreaming
and dream yoga “The Yoga of the Dream State”, instructs that
we can discover 5 spiritually noteworthy wisdom lessons
through practicing this means of awakening diligently:
* Dreams can be changed through resolve and concentration
* Dreams are unsteady, transient, and illusory - just like
magical illusions, fantasies, hallucinations, and mirages
* Everyday awareness in the daily awakening state are also
imaginary
* All life is present now and disappears the next day, similar
to a dream; there isn’t anything to grasp
* Mindful dream work can show us the way to the realization of
fullness, precise symmetry, and harmony.
For hundreds of years, Tibetan masters have instructed their
students in the ways to employ dream space and dreamtime to
promote spiritual advancement by boosting consciousness in the
dream state. Well, Tibetan Dream Yoga presents you these same
methods for attaining the 5 wisdom lessons and harvesting the
benefits of waking up within a dream. |
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