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This book gives detailed instructions for dream yoga, including foundational practices done during the day. In the Tibetan tradition, the ability to dream lucidly is not an end in itself; rather it provides an additional context in which one can engage in advanced and effective practices to achieve liberation.”The physical position during sleep, the position of the mind, one’s breathing, the images and symbols in one’s mind, as well as the exercises are all ways that one can prepare for dream and sleep.All experience, waking and dreaming, has an energetic basis. This vital energy is called lung in Tibetan, but is better known in the West by its Sanskrit name prana. The underlying structure of any experience is a precise combination of various conditions and causes. If we are able to recognize its mental, physical, and energetic dynamics, then we can reproduce those experiences or alter them. This allows us to generate experiences that support spiritual practice and avoid those that are detrimental…. We sleep one-third of our lifetime, an average of 20-25 years. Centuries ago, Tibetan yogis developed spiritual practices that use dream and sleep as a spiritual path. Dream is a meeting place – life meets death, the past and the future blend, the personal meets the impersonal and practitioners of dream yoga can meet spiritual guides and guardians…. The practice of dream yoga is not done only during the night. In it’s complete form it is a practice that spans every moment – waking and sleeping. Foundational practices, done during the day, change the practitioner’s relationship to all experience, developing conscious awareness and realizing the dream-like nature of life. These practices lead to lucidity in dreams. Lucid dreams are then used for higher spiritual practices. Ultimately, the dream practice opens the way to the pure experience of the natural state of mind, the inseparable unity of emptiness and luminosity which is the base of the mind and of all that exists.”For those of you who experience difficult in Adobe Reader do one of two things1) upgrade to professional edition2) use http://anonym.to/?http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.phpThis complements Stephen Laberge’s Lucid Dreaming book/audio quite wellEnjoy