at minute 34h44, there’s an excellent explanation of how the mind can afflict the body. (the cause of most self-immune diseases, and others)
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These recordings covering a seven days retreat are a comprehensive teaching of shamata, vipashyana and dzogchen and their relevance to dream yoga.
A must view for buddhist dream yoga practioners.
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Thank you for this
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look what I just found @KhyungMar and @NightHawk999 
a free course on this:
Dreaming of Reality: Sleeping, Dreaming & Dying in Tibetan Buddhism
in the video shared here
Lama Alan Wallace mentions António Damásio (40:04) who lives in the USA but is originally from Portugal 
I am so happy that my mind is generating this… 
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Yesssss! I almost finished the course (half an hour to go still on the audio).
Imo, this is an extremely valuable teaching and dharma gift.
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yes, if you feel inspired and happy to do so, please share some highlights from this course.
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For me, the course is a complete set of teachings starting from Shamata (what else, since this is B.Alan Wallace 
) over to Vipashyana and finally Dzogchen, all with the context of dream yoga practice.
Alan’s point of view is that without Shamata, Dzogchen-practice will be unstable, at best. So, he starts with the classic exercises of Shamata, as he has shared also in other courses and which are described in detail in “The Attention Revolution”.
Dream Yoga / Lucid dreaming will greatly benefit by the skills acquired while practicing Shamata, since we all aim to have stable dreams in which we become lucid.
Dream length is directly affected by the stability of the mind. What the mind gets used to during day practice, it can take into night practice.
With the practice of focusing on the “space of the mind”, one practices further to become aware of subtle mind phenomena (such as dreams) and prepares oneself for the night.
Apart from the usual practices aimed at becoming lucid during the day (dream recall improvement, intention, critical mindset of if one is dreaming, etc.) he continues on to explain the buddhist philosophical views of reality ( Sautrāntika, Cittamatra, etc.) and how these relate to how we experience reality.
It becomes clearer then why dream yoga is such a potent practice in order to ascertain a clear perception of reality, in theory.
He continues to introduce Vipashyana-practice of searching one’s mind, giving a taste of realising the emptiness of one’s dualistic mind.
Finally, he introduces the practice of cutting through to prestine awareness and resting in it, which is Dzogchen.
He explains how from the view of Dzogchen reality is indeed a dream, not just “like a dream”, as it would be for a mind still caught in dualism.
For a buddhist practicioner the course might answer many questions and has given me further insights to practices already known.
For a secular practicioner, it contains many guided meditations helping to induce lucid dreams and making them more vivid and stable.
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Good Karma!
As well as the subtle bodies 
yes, it is!
love this expression.
yes, it is… yesterday I had the privilege of being near semi-wild horses, at sunset. I was crying touched by so much beauty and I said to myself “What a beautiful dream!..”
Fotos here:
thank you for sharing @KhyungMar 
beautiful resume 
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Dreaming of Reality with Lama Alan Wallace – Day 2 Session 1
Thank you for this FULL retreat, I am still on video one, but almost done and loving every minute of it. Deeply grateful for this sacred wisdom
Have you checked out this FREE digital retreat on DY? Alan Wallace is extremely intelligent, and really good at articulating tough concepts to grasp.
@Tbraden
You may like this too, over 20 free vids from the retreat
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Dreaming of Reality with Lama Alan Wallace – Day 2 Session 3
Dreaming of Reality with Lama Alan Wallace – Day 2 Session 4
Dreaming of Reality with Lama Alan Wallace – Day 2 Session 5
Dreaming of Reality with Lama Alan Wallace – Day 3 Session 1
Dreaming of Reality with Lama Alan Wallace – Day 3 Session 2
Dreaming of Reality with Lama Alan Wallace – Day 3 Session 3
Dreaming of Reality with Lama Alan Wallace – Day 3 Session 4
Dreaming of Reality with Lama Alan Wallace – Day 3 Session 5
Dreaming of Reality with Lama Alan Wallace – Day 4 Session 1
Dreaming of Reality with Lama Alan Wallace – Day 4 Session 2
Dreaming of Reality with Lama Alan Wallace – Day 4 Session 3
Dreaming of Reality with Lama Alan Wallace – Day 4 Session 4
Dreaming of Reality with Lama Alan Wallace – Day 4 Session 5
Dreaming of Reality with Lama Alan Wallace – Day 5 Session 1
Dreaming of Reality with Lama Alan Wallace – Day 5 Session 2
Dreaming of Reality with Lama Alan Wallace – Day 5 Session 3
Dreaming of Reality with Lama Alan Wallace – Day 5 Session 4
Dreaming of Reality with Lama Alan Wallace – Day 5 Session 5
Dreaming of Reality with Lama Alan Wallace – Day 6 Session 1
Dreaming of Reality with Lama Alan Wallace – Day 6 Session 2
Dreaming of Reality with Lama Alan Wallace – Day 6 Session 3
Dreaming of Reality with Lama Alan Wallace – Day 6 Session 4
Dreaming of Reality with Lama Alan Wallace – Day 7 Session 1
Dreaming of Reality with Lama Alan Wallace – Day 7 Session 2
Dreaming of Reality with Lama Alan Wallace – Day 7 Session 3
Dreaming of Reality with Lama Alan Wallace – Day 7 Session 4
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