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Dreaming of Reality: Sleeping, Dreaming & Dying in Tibetan Buddhism

D3S3 - Three Ways We Are Dreaming

Lama Alan · 98 minutes · recorded January 1, 2019

Total withdrawal, deep into the formless absorptions, or total immersion in the world: Lama Alan Wallace goes through the two strategies and why Gautama found neither was an escape. Then twenty one counted breaths, observation of the somatic field, distinguishing sensations from the feelings we meet them with, and the same attention turned on the space of the mind. The three marks of existence follow as three dreams, one of them a cup of ginger and lemon that could never have made anyone happy.

Death and dying Dreams and sleep Impermanence Sleep and rest

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