Birth, Death and Dream Yoga
Weekend events with Ngak´chang Rinpoche
9th - 11th of December 2016 and 16th - 18th of December 2016
Masthuggsterrassen 4B
precis ovanför trappan vid Hemköp masthuggs torget,
hållplats masthuggs torget
Göteborg, Sweden
and the following weekend in Wien
Shambhala Zentrum Wien
Stiftgasse 15-17, 1070
Wien, Austria
Dream Yoga is a valuable method, not only for transforming the ‘sleep state’, but for learning how to approach physical birth or death with a sense of confidence and the possibility of embarking upon a luminous adventure. Ngak’chang Rinpoche will introduce the art of life as the dance of birth and death with the sleeping and waking states. He will teach the Aro gTér cycle of practises which derive from Niguma: the yoga of clear light, the yoga of dream, and the yoga of illusion.
The 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.
Info about Gothenburg event:
1400 sek whole weekend
Fredag 200 sek
Lördag 600 sek
Söndag 600 sek
Reduced fee possible on request.
Fredag 200 sek
Lördag 600 sek
Söndag 600 sek
Reduced fee possible on request.
Contact:
Naljorpa Druk-tsal Pawo
Phone: 0735424799
e-mail: druktsal@gmail.com
Info about Wien event:
As the expected number of participants is quite large we kindly ask you to register as soon as possible.
Naljorpa Druk-tsal Pawo
Phone: 0735424799
e-mail: druktsal@gmail.com
Info about Wien event:
Friday evening: € 30
Weekend: € 150
Reduced fee possible on request.
Contact:
Ngakpa Garwang Dorje
Phone: 0699-10534094
e-mail: Garwang.Dorje@gmail.com
As the expected number of participants is quite large we kindly ask you to register as soon as possible.
All Aro gTer retreats are non-smoking events. Smokers are welcome to attend, but in accordance with Nyingma teaching, and Vajrayana Buddhism in general, we require participants to desist from the smoking of tobacco for the entire duration of the retreat – both on or off the premises where retreats are held. Tobacco in any form should not be brought to the retreat.
Read more about: Dream Yoga
No prior experience of Buddhist teachings are needed. The teaching is in English, and translation is available on request.
