Dream and Sleep Yogas are a little known and rarely taught category of teachings and practices. This cycle of teachings explains the relationship between the states of dream, sleep, waking and full enlightenment.

Dream and Sleep Yoga are very different practices than the modern practice of “lucid dreaming”, and they yield a very different result – liberation or enlightenment. It is often said in the non-dual meditation and yoga traditions that in order for you to attain irreversible realization, you must be fully realized in the dream and sleep states as well as in the waking state. This means to have completely pierced the limitations of the mind of the dreaming and sleeping states, and thereby abide in your true nature.

Applying the practices of dream and sleep yoga feeds your formal seated practice and your state of integration in normal life circumstances, making both of them deeper and more stable. Oddly enough, dream and sleep yogas clarify your waking state in a way that is very difficult to attain without practicing them. Conversely, your practices performed in the waking state should deepen your abilities in the methods of dream and sleep. The clarity and presence developed in dream and sleep yoga empowers your practice of meditation. Therefore, the practices of dream yoga and meditation are two sides of the same coin that reify the results of both practices.

The after-death states are quite dream-like in many ways. The more proficient you are in dream yoga, the more comfort, ease and mastery you will have in your death process when it comes. It would be incomplete to discuss the death & dying Teachings without the view and practice of dream and sleep yoga.

Death is considered to be the most important and pivotal experience in a yogin’s life. At death, it is possible to permanently recognize your True Nature or svasvabhava, and become liberated, even if you were not able to free yourself from samsara during your lifetime.

After receiving the proper knowledge and being instructed in the practices of dream, sleep and death yogas, you will be able to successfully guide yourself through the process of death into full enlightenment or re-birth into an exalted state from which you can more readily attain full realization after some practice in that divine realm.

This technology was transmitted by the Mahāsiddhas, great female and male yogins, who journeyed beyond death and back in order to offer us ordinary beings a way out of the endless cycle of birth – death – and re-birth. This teaching is extraordinarily profound and is said to be the most valuable of all. The beauty of the dying process and the moment of death itself is that it provides a unique “portal” wherein you have a once in a lifetime opportunity to jump beyond your mind and its constant production of limiting karma that obscures your true nature.

The ancient teachings on death and dying give you the tools and understanding to successfully navigate the dying process and the after death states. By applying the death practices in your daily spiritual routine and invoking their effect at the moment of death, you will increase your opportunity to attain full realization in this lifetime. We call it “Spiritual Life Insurance”, everyone should have it.

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