Birth, Death and Dream Yoga

Please book your place through our website https://www.lamrimcentre.org.uk/courses/p/birth-death-and-dream-yoga

Dream-yoga

This session will comprise a transmission into the Dzogchen practice of Dream Yoga (Milam) as well as the practice of 'suspension', along with teachings. These two practices enable us to seamlessly merge our formal sitting meditation practice, with our busy every day working lives, as their only prerequisites are easily met by everyone - the need to sleep, and the need to breathe.

The Aro gTér practices of clear light, lucid dreaming, and illusory wakefulness are techniques for finding self-luminous awareness in every moment of the day and night – whatever our state of consciousness. Both awake and asleep, we lack authentic awareness. During the day, we are distracted by expectations, obligations, and avoidance. In dreams, we lose conceptual consciousness, and in our stupor we are at the mercy of bizarre imaginal events. In deep sleep, we seem to have no awareness at all.

The practice of dream yoga allows access to ‘lucid dreams’ in which we are aware we are dreaming – and are thus able to perform ‘miracles’. Choosing to experience anything we can imagine – dreaming becomes a luminous adventure. The practice of clear light allows us to retain awareness through the process of falling asleep and into the deep sleep without dreams. This practice liberates us from addiction to familiar form and enables us to experience pure awareness without sensory or conceptual content. The practice of illusory wakefulness connects powerfully with dream yoga through sitting meditation in waking consciousness, thus revealing the ‘one taste’ or essential sameness of experience in both waking and sleeping. Together, these practices free us from conceptual limitations of time and space, and allow us to experience the simultaneous continuity and discontinuity of experience.

About the Teacher

Ngakma Shé-zér Khandro has been a Buddhist practitioner for over 30 years studying in the Nyingma tradition. She is an authorised teacher of the Aro gTér lineage, a small family lineage from the Nyingma tradition. She took tantric ordination in 2000 with Ngak’chang Rinpoche and Khandro Dechen, holders of the Aro gTér lineage, having completed the necessary practice, pilgrimage, retreat and study requirements over a seven year period. As a mother of two school age children, Ngakma Shé-zér’s focus is on the practical application of Buddhist practice in everyday working family life and the importance of allowing meditation to bring joy into ones life. She also specialises in the elemental practices of the Nyingma inner tantras and the wrathful practices of the Aro gTér Seng-gé Dongma khyilkhor.

Lunch & Refreshments

We are pleased to provide complimentary refreshments throughout the day and a two course vegetarian lunch included in your booking. Please advise of any dietary requirements on the booking form.

Location

• Teachings will be onsite at Lam Rim Buddhist Centre, Pentwyn Manor, Penrhos, Raglan, Usk, Wales, NP15 2LE - directions here >

• The closest train station is Abergavenny. There are frequent buses from Abergavenny to Raglan. A lift from Raglan may be possible with limited places. Please email lamrimwalesmanagers@gmail.com ahead of time to arrange.

Tickets and Donations

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Saturday 9th November 10 am - 4pm