Meditation, Transformation, and Dream Yoga

Description

Three traditional Nyingma teachings were selected for contemporary Buddhists who want to improve the quality of their practice during the three periods of their day - during meditation, in their active life, and during sleep. Gyatrul Rinpoche, a respected teacher in the USA, expands and explains these texts. Guidelines for calm abiding and insight meditation are presented from the Dzogchen perspective. Practices for bringing the daily experiences of pleasure and pain into the spiritual path are presented in the section on transformation. Finally, the teachings on dream yoga guide the practitioner in the conscious control of the dream state, as well as after death.

Ven. Gyatrul Rinpoche was appointed as spiritual representative for H.H. Dudjom Rinpoche in America in 1976. With His Holiness, he founded the Pacific Region Yeshe Nyingpo centers on the West Coast. During his thirty years of teaching experience in the West, Rinpoche has traveled extensively, touching the hearts of thousands. He is the author of Meditation, Transformation, and Dream Yoga.

"I feel confident that the readers who take this book to heart and apply its meaning will benefit greatly."-Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche, author of Present Fresh Wakefulness "With humor, warmth, and wisdom, Gyatrul Rinpoche opens these vital and much revered texts to a new generation of Buddhist practitioners."-Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, head of Shambhala International and author of Turning the Mind into an Ally "It is an honor to have an opportunity to praise the words of some of Vajrayana Buddhism's greatest teachers. The texts chosen here are so beneficial for practice. Gyatrul Rinpoche has dedicated himself to the propagation of these pure lineages of precious teachings in the West, and Sangye Khandro and B. Alan Wallace are both longtime practitioners, translators, and students of Gyatrul Rinpoche. Many auspicious circumstances have united to bring these wonderful teachings into English."-Lama Choeying Namgyel, The Light of Berotsana Translation Group