Supplementary Material - The Bardos in Everyday Life
Welcome to the Bardos in Everyday Life: Covid 19 Version support page. On this page, in sequential order (starting at the top with the most recent class) for each of the ten classes, you will find all the quotes, links to articles, references to books, additional material and anything else to assist you in this journey.
Introduction to Dream Yoga
In the video below, Andrew offers a brief introduction to dream yoga. Going deeper, lucid dreaming can develop into dream yoga, and become a spiritual practice. This is not to say that lucid dreaming isn’t spiritual. It can be. But as a practice, and in contrast to dream yoga, lucid dreaming...
The Value of Three-Year Retreat
The three-year retreat at Söpa Chöling is a living experiment, resonant with the fearless spirit of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche who conceived it. The three year retreat was founded and overseen after Trungpa's death by Thrangu Rinpoche in 1990. Söpa Chöling lies nestled on the rugged north Atlantic...
What Got Me Into Dream Yoga?
I'm often asked what got me into dream yoga? For me, the journey into these incredible nighttime practices started nearly forty years ago and I have been exploring them ever since. Some of the most remarkable experiences I’ve ever had occurred in my dreams. In my early twenties one such experience...
Renunciation on the Spiritual Path
What is the role of renunciation on the spiritual path or in Buddhist practice? To most of us, what drove us to spiritual seeking in the first place is some level of realization that our obsession with self fulfillment and worldly pleasures can only give us so much satisfaction. Ego’s game is to...
The Yoga of Sleep
The Yoga of Sleep Andrew wrote an article, "The Yoga of Sleep: The Art and Science of Lucid Dreaming" in Conscious Lifestyle Magazine. We dream at night what we think of during the day. In dream yoga, we want to seed the thoughts to wake up within our dreams. What Is a Lucid Dream? “Lucid dream”...
Dream Yoga Book: Illuminating Your Life Through Lucid Dreaming…
Andrew’s interview with Sounds True about Dream Yoga part 1... ... and part 2. This is the most comprehensive book yet on the nocturnal meditations. Joining science and spirituality, East and West, in a full-spectrum exploration of the night, it explains how lucid dreaming develops into...
What Can You Do in a Lucid Dream?
Once you wake up to the fact that you’re dreaming while still in the dream, people often ask “Now what?” or “What can I do?” There are two levels of answer. The first level I’ll deal with now, and this relates to the question of how much control you can have over your lucid dream. The second...
Is There a Dark Side to Meditation?
The recent article in The Atlantic by Tomas Rocha, “The Dark Knight of the Soul,” brings up a much neglected but very important topic around a dark side to meditation. With hundreds of studies (over 500 a year) coming out showing the benefits of meditation, there are surprisingly few endeavors...
Just When You Think You’re Enlightened
Andrew is a featured guest contributor in Buddhadharma Magazine. In this article, "Just When You Think You're Enlightened" Andrew writes that temporary experiences such as flashes of bliss or clarity can be encouraging moments in your practice, but only if you know how to handle them. If you...
