Dream Sleep Doga

New Dream Yoga Interview with Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche Featured at the Tibet Connection
Beginning Feb. 14, 2009, at 3 p.m. Eastern Time (New York Time), you can go online to listen to a new interview with Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche entitled "Open Mind: Mastering Your Dreams." To hear the interview or download it as a podcast, visit The Tibet Connection, www.thetibetconnection.org >
As a month-long featured speaker on The Tibet Connection, Rinpoche discusses the Tibetan tradition of dream yoga — what it is, and why it's important not just to Tibetans but to all of us.In addition, on Wednesday, Feb. 18, the interview will be featured on 'SPROUTS,' a program aired nationwide by Pacifica Radio. Pacifica is a listener-supported community radio network of commercial-free stations serving their local communities and beyond. Pacifica is KPFA in Berkeley, Calif.; KPFK in Los Angeles; KPFT in Houston; WBAI in New York; WPFW in Washington, D.C.; and more than 100 affiliate stations > The Tibet Connection interview will remain on its Web site indefinitely; one month after its first air date it can be accessed via the "Listen to Past Programs" link on the home page: http://www.thetibetconnection.org/
"Look to your experience in dreams to know how you will fare in death. Look to your experience of sleep to discover whether or not you are truly awake." — Geshe Tenzin Wangyal RinpocheGeshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche was born in Amritsar, India after his parents fled the Chinese invasion of Tibet and received training from both Buddhist and Bon teachers, attaining the geshe degree. He came to the United States in 1991 and has taught all over Europe and America. He is the author of The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep and Healing with Form, Energy and Light: the Five Elements in Tibetan Shamanism, Tantra & Dzogchen, among other books, available for online purchase at Ligmincha Institute's Bookstore and Tibet Shop. Tenzin Rinpoche presently lives in Charlottesville, Va., where he runs the Ligmincha Institute, an organization devoted to the study and practice of the teachings of the Tibetan Bon Buddhist tradition.To read more about dream yoga and access additional dream yoga resources, go to: https://www.ligmincha.org/retreats/dream-yoga.html


April 9
Odani Motohiko

The Maha Pragna Paramita Hrdaya Sutra
Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva
when practicing deeply the Prajna Paramita
perceives that all five skandhas are empty
and is saved from all suffering and distress.

Shariputra,
form does not differ from emptiness,
emptiness does not differ from form.
That which is form is emptiness,
that which is emptiness form.

The same is true of feelings,
perceptions, impulses, consciousness.

Shariputra,
all dharmas are marked with emptiness;
they do not appear or disappear,
are not tainted or pure,
do not increase or decrease.

Therefore, in emptiness no form, no feelings,
perceptions, impulses, consciousness.

No eyes, no ears, no nose, no tongue, no body, no mind;
no color, no sound, no smell, no taste, no touch,
no object of mind;
no realm of eyes
and so forth until no realm of mind consciousness.

No ignorance and also no extinction of it,
and so forth until no old age and death
and also no extinction of them.

No suffering, no origination,
no stopping, no path, no cognition,
also no attainment with nothing to attain.

The Bodhisattva depends on Prajna Paramita
and the mind is no hindrance;
without any hindrance no fears exist.
Far apart from every perverted view one dwells in Nirvana.

In the three worlds
all Buddhas depend on Prajna Paramita
and attain Anuttara Samyak Sambodhi.

Therefore know that Prajna Paramita
is the great transcendent mantra,
is the great bright mantra,
is the utmost mantra,
is the supreme mantra
which is able to relieve all suffering
and is true, not false.
So proclaim the Prajna Paramita mantra,
proclaim the mantra which says:

gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha
gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha
gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha.

A Lovely Swim

Marilyn via adski_kafeteri

I was never more certain of how far away I was from my goal than when I was standing right beside it.


In Greek mythology, Hermione (in greek: Ἑρμιόνη) was the only daughter of Menelaus and Helen. She had three brothers. While her parents were away fighting (and being seduced, in Helen's case), Hermione was being raised by her aunt, Clytemnestra. Prior to the Trojan War, she was betrothed by Menelaus to Orestes, her cousin through Menelaus' brother, Agamemnon. However, on the battlefield during the Trojan War, her father also promised her to Neoptolemus, also known as Pyrrhus, son of Achilles. There is a historical dispute over whether or not such a discrepancy actually occurred, however. Some authors, such as Euripides, describe the dual promise, while others, such as Ovid, do not mention it at all.

Regardless, at the end of the Trojan War, Neoptolemus claimed Hermione as his and took her back to Epirus, his homeland.

Shortly after settling into the domestic life, however, conflict arose between Hermione and Andromache, the concubine he had obtained as a prize after the sack of Troy. Hermione blamed Andromache for her inability to become pregnant, claiming that the concubine was casting spells on her to keep her barren. She asked her father to kill Andromache while Neoptolemus was away at war, but when he chose not to go through with the murder, Hermione fled from Epirus with her cousin Orestes.

Hermione and Orestes were married, and she gave birth to his heir Tisamenus.

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Later myths of the Classical Greeks relate that Athena guided Perseus in his quest to behead Medusa. She instructed Heracles to skin the Nemean Lion by using its own claws to cut through its thick hide. She also helped Heracles to defeat the Stymphalian Birds, and to navigate the underworld so as to capture Cerberos.

For Wagga who hasn't seen Gattaca:


In another late story, it is said that Odysseus' cunning and shrewd nature quickly won Athena's favour. In the realistic epic mode, however, she largely is confined to aiding him only from afar, as by implanting thoughts in his head during his journey home from Troy. It is not until he washes up on the shore of an island where Nausicaa is washing her clothes that Athena arrives personally to provide more tangible assistance. She appears in Nausicaa's dreams to ensure that the princess rescues Odysseus and plays a role in his eventual escort to Ithaca.