RE: Book Recommendations Requested: Dzogchen, Dream Yoga and Zen

Zen Poetry, modified 27 Days ago at 12/24/24 8:01 AM
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Book Recommendations: Dzogchen, Dream Yoga and Zen

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Self-explanatory title ☺️

Dzogchen: books that distil the practice down in the most thorough way possible
Dream Yoga: currently reading "Dreaming Yourself Awake", but it's targeted at non-magick users and a bit of layness permeates the book (for example, they grossely misexplain what shamatha and samadhi is
Zen: greatly interested in the philosophy and practices!

EDIT: Recommendations ✨

Dream Yoga
Dreaming Yourself Awake (I am actually currently reading this one. Advice on Actual Dream Yoga is a bit shallow)
The Tibetan Yogas Of Dream And Sleep  

Zen
Zig Zag Zen
Three Pillars of Zen
The Way of Zen
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
Zen Mountain Monastery
- Moon In a Dewdrop

Dzogchen
Crystal and the Way of Light and Dzogchen: The Self Perfected State.
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Geoffrey Gatekeeper of the Gateless Gate, modified 28 Days ago at 12/23/24 8:49 AM
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RE: Book Recommendations Requested: Dzogchen, Dream Yoga and Zen

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Dr. Nida seems to be the dream yoga guy that everyone I know interested in the topic talks about, so it could be worth checking out his stuff, but I've never personally gone too much in depth into his work.

Dreaming Yourself Awake - a decent book, fairly western.

The Tibetan Yogas Of Dream And Sleep  - a good version, has a lot of tantric dream practices

A suggestion on a way you could keep an interesting dream journal!
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Geoffrey Gatekeeper of the Gateless Gate, modified 28 Days ago at 12/23/24 8:56 AM
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RE: Book Recommendations Requested: Dzogchen, Dream Yoga and Zen

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For Zen,

Zig Zag Zen

Three Pillars of Zen

The Way of Zen

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

Zen Mountain Monastery

I've also retreated under Angelo and consider him to be a modern western zen master

Janusz is also a very skilled zen teacher (has some Burmese, shinzen, and art influences)
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Chris M, modified 28 Days ago at 12/23/24 8:54 AM
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RE: Book Recommendations Requested: Dzogchen, Dream Yoga and Zen

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The Aro g'Ter lineage has a lot of books available on their website: https://aroterlineage.org/en/books/
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Chris M, modified 28 Days ago at 12/23/24 8:58 AM
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RE: Book Recommendations Requested: Dzogchen, Dream Yoga and Zen

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Anthology of Zen Master Dogen's seminal works of Zen:  https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41464.Moon_in_a_Dewdrop
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Noah D, modified 28 Days ago at 12/23/24 11:29 AM
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RE: Book Recommendations Requested: Dzogchen, Dream Yoga and Zen

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The best open-access dzogchen books are Crystal and the Way of Light and Dzogchen: The Self Perfected State.

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