Translator: Maria K.
Reviewer: Rhonda Jacobs Namaste. (Audience) Namaste. Hello. So ... I am trying to talk about
Tibetan dreams and lucid dreams. So in our tradition actually,
I am a Tibetan lama and I grew up in India at the Refugee Way. Then during my life,
I studied the Tibetan Bon tradition. Bon is the indigenous culture
and indigenous tradition of Tibet before Buddhism came into Tibet
from India during the 7th century. Before the 7th century
all Tibet is the Bon tradition and I am the follower
of the Bon tradition. So in the Bon tradition we have,
one is the Sutra teaching, and one is the Tantric teaching,
and one is the Great Dzogchen teaching, and this dream we are mostly
about from the Tantric teaching, and it is also related
with the Great [Perfection], which is the Dzogchen study. Dream is about coming
from your own experience that come from the past life
or in the present life. Most of the dream is divided
into the karmic dream and one is the wisdom dream. So karmic dream always we know that every single day
we are having something every night, while you are sleeping,
you are having a dream, those are the karmic dreams. And wisdom dream is
that sometimes in the daytime, even [if you are not sleeping],
and you will feel something that you are not in the real life,
but you are falling kind of dreaming that you are totally
into a different place, and you have such a feeling
and such an experience that is beyond the present
of your own experienced life. So those are actually
also made from yourself. We very much believe
those are the wisdom dreams. Not necessary that dreams
must come into the dreams that you have in your sleep
in our tradition. Dreams can be while you are alive,
while you are not asleep, and also in the sleeping time. So most of the lucid dream
is while you are dreaming about life, without any sleep, also in the sleep, that in the dream, you will see
so many different people. You will travel into the nice places, you're also having a different
kind of experience that you may feel
that I have done in the past time, or I've done, or I met
this person sometime, but you never remember, and you have no idea
where you met those people and where you'd done these things. Those are the lucid dreams, and at the moment when you are feeling, you are totally traveling
into your journey of what it is that are you are feeling. And most of those are coming
not from the karmic, it is coming from your own wisdom,
and what is the wisdom? Mostly we talk about it is
your own consciousness, and your own experience
of the five elements into your body:
fire, air, earth and all the space. Those, when they're
turning into your body, sometimes fire can be in touch
with your consciousness. Sometimes wind will be stronger
with the consciousness. Sometimes earth will be stronger
with the consciousness. Each element, when they are strongly connected
with your consciousness, then you are feeling
a different kind of dream. So especially on the lucid dreams,
those five consciousnesses, when they are strong
with that consciousness, then sometimes you have
your own experience, very strong awareness, and it is beyond your own
"principle mind," we call it. It's the principal mind,
which is always - it is running, running. That running mind is what normally
we call the principle mind, but sometimes it's very busy. Most of the time, that mind is so busy
and is always running, in the teaching, in the textbook,
especially in the Dzogchen teaching, we call that monkey mind. So it is always running. But, how can we get a little training
to that mind to be stable? And that way, lucid dream
in the Tantric system, is the best way to control
or make your mind a little bit stable. So from the lucid dream,
how can you get into the lucid dream? So we already talked about
the five elements and consciousness. Within that - so you just
sometimes in our teaching, we have Ra, La, Sha and Sa. Four words. Before you go bed,
or you want to do meditation, just reset your body in the position
of meditation or relaxing, just relax on the nice sofa,
and try to find out your mind. Within that, you're trying
to find out the mind, maybe once you're looking
into your mind, within a minute, you may feel something different
than your own busy mind. That is the sense
of what we call in Dzogchen, self-liberation, or sometimes
we call the Buddha, or sometimes we say Buddhahood. Buddhahood is nothing outside. We are not looking for outside,
we are always training our mind, the mind is within us,
mind is the Buddhahood, mind is our mentor, mind is our teacher. Unless we don't train our mind,
we will never get into Buddhahood. If we train our mind, then mind will be
out of the monkey ... "exercise," then the mind is very stable. Once our mind is very stable, then you have a little sense of how
you can train it into the lucid mind. Once mind is stable,
little stay, little stay, so you check in within yourself, if mind is out of my body
or mind is still with me. So if once you have a little feeling
that mind is really now with me, then you can look into your own experience
of behind from your five elements, they will increase
into your body, into your life. Within that experience,
when you look into it, then you will feel
so many different experiences, maybe 100 years back. Or maybe just last life. We also believe that you
are reincarnating, reincarnating. Once you've gone from this life,
you will be never going any other place. You will be again back
somewhere into the six realms. Maybe in the animals, maybe in the humans,
somewhere you will be reborn. So that kind of experience you will come. That is one of the experience. The main point here is how we can -
our real daily life experience - mix into, combine into the lucid dreams. That is the main point. We have always separation of our dream
and our own reality experience. In our tradition, lucid dreams,
or dreams, or our real experience, always trying to combine,
and it is the path, it is the journey of how we can get
into our peace mind. So that's Ra, La, Sha, Sa can help you how to bring your own mind within you, then that can increase
your lucid dreams into your real life. That is our very short system
about lucid dreams and how to get into the lucid dreams,
and once you have a lucid dream, then you will feel such a difference
from the karmic dream. Karmic dream is always -
it is the negative side. But lucid dream is always from wisdom,
and lucid dream can bring you more peace, more happiness into your life. If you are more time
with your lucid dream, lucid dream is the wisdom,
lucid dream is like a medicine, that always brings you
more happiness, more joy, that can release in you all the stress. So we are Buddhists and Bon, we are trying to release
our stress and fears, and lucid dreams is the one point of how
to release and how to gain your wisdom. That is what I want to share with you. And thank you so much for everyone coming. (Applause)
