An excerpt from a teaching called How to Pray by Being by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo
Sometimes when we dream, we know that we’re supposed to change something in the dream. If we learn how to work in our dream state, through practices like dream yoga, we can actually wake up during the dream or hold the line between waking and dreaming and know exactly where we are.
There are many things that can be accomplished in dreams. That’s because the dream state is a bardo that’s not much different from our waking state. If we can train ourselves to wake up from a dream, why is it that we can’t train ourselves to wake up from our dualistic reality? The reason is that we have experienced dreaming and something else—waking—so we can wake ourselves from a dream. We know where we are going. But we can’t wake ourselves up from this dream of our life because we don’t know what to awaken to. Yet it’s a dream just the same.
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“But we can’t wake ourselves up from this dream of our life because we don’t know what to awaken to. Yet it’s a dream just the same.”
Perhaps you could comment on “what to awaken to” – what is it we awaken to?
Many thanks,
Joyce
Hello Joyce,
Thanks so much for your great question! Jetsunma responded via Twitter. That response is posted here: https://www.tibetanbuddhistaltar.org/2011/01/waking-from-the-dream/
Holly
OM MANI PEDME HUNG !!!