Dream Yoga

Dream Yoga is the third of the Six Yogas of Nāropa — the practice of becoming conscious within the dream state and using that consciousness to recognize the dreamlike nature of ALL experience, waking included. This is not "lucid dreaming" as a hobby. This is a tantric technology for training in the bardo states you will encounter at death.

The lineage of Dream Yoga passes through Nāropa, Milarepa, and the great dzogchen masters of the Nyingma and Bön traditions. In the Kagyu transmission, it is inseparable from illusory body practice. In Dzogchen, it becomes the direct recognition of rigpa within the dream state.

If you can recognize that you are dreaming while dreaming, you can recognize the bardo states after death. If you can transform dream appearances at will, you understand emptiness. The dream is the training ground for dying well. — Crafted by .