Dreaming Your Way to Higher Consciousness with Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

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Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche is a revered Tibetan teacher who loves to translate complex Eastern principles into terms and images that are accessible to the Western mind. He’ll even explain how you can rid yourself of anger much as you would eliminate a file on your computer using the “select” and “delete” functions. But he also acknowledges that it’s part of a lifelong journey, and offers a range of tools and practices, such as sound, movement, and dreams, to help you gain understanding of your emotions and access the power of your own loving spirit. After all, he says, your loving energy is the vibration that can clear away all clouds, and allow the light of the divine to break through. Rinpoche explains, “We all have love. But when there is no inner fire, it doesn’t ripen. So if there’s some way to generate those inner fires with the sound, with the breathing, with the movement, qualities that exist in you will rapidly ripen. The sun’s heat ripens the flower. The inner heat ripens the inner flower of love.”

Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche is the founder and spiritual director of Ligmincha Institute in Charlottesville, Virginia, a nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing the Bon Buddhist tradition to the Western world. Rinpoche is a beloved teacher throughout the United States, Mexico, and Europe, and a prolific author. His books include The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep (Snow Lion Publications 1998), Healing with Form, Energy, and Light: The Five Elements in Tibetan Shamanism, Tantra, and Dzogchen (Snow Lion Publications 2002), and Tibetan Sound Healing: Seven Guided Practices for Clearing Obstacles, Accessing Positive Qualities, and Uncovering Your Inherent Wisdom (Sounds True 2007). To find out more about the work of Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche go to www.ligmincha.org

Topics Explored in this Dialogue:

• How you can wake up in the morning feeling happy
• What arethe four qualities you can cultivate while you dream
• How you can use sounds to release anger
• Why you can’t spontaneously replace anger with love
• Which sounds come from your stomach, and which ones come from your heart

Host: Michael Toms Interview Date: 5/23/2008