This is one of the most exquisite paragraphs in the literature, IMO ! It summarizes LD practice perfectly!
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AMEN Brother!
I feel like I could read this chapter every day for the rest of my life and still have it deeply resonate in my bones every time I read it!!!
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what I feel deeply inside when reading TWR is the Eternal Now 
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"The emphasis should be on you, the dreamer, more than on the objects of your experience. Keep reminding yourself you are dreaming up your experience: the irritation you feel, the happiness, the fatigue, the anxiety, the plans, the ruminations—all are part of the dream. The tree you appreciate, the people you meet, the places you visit—all part of the dream. You are creating a new habit of mind, new karma. It becomes part of your day to frequently, even if only for a moment, become intensely present and aware, to become lucid, dropping the stories being told in your mind and instead resting in vivid awareness.
When we think of experience as “only a dream,” it loses power over us—power it only had because we gave it power. As we view life differently, we change our reaction to it. We can cut through our reactive conditioning. Our dreaming changes. But it’s not just change in the dreams of the night. We begin to encounter all experience with greater calm and increased clarity. As the practice deepens, life becomes increasingly vivid, and appreciation and joy arise. Situations that were disturbing before are now seen as opportunities to practice. "
-Master Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
Chapter 12
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If I had to pick one chapter, it would be chapter 12 (and the intro to the practice section). But thankfully we don’t have to pick just one :). I have chapter 12 basically memorized. But keep reading it, because … well you all know why :).
Even while I’m working more on LaBergian stuff (MILD) right now, my days are more or less dominated by TWR’s teachings.
When you start to enter that space more and more often – abiding in lucid presence – is when the magic really begins!
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When we say waking life, too, is a dream, it doesn’t mean we can suddenly fly or transform into a lion. Instead, it’s the realization that the entirety of experience takes place in the mind and that how we make meaning of an experience and react to it is due to our conditioning. This is one articulation of the realization that all phenomena are empty, that the apparent self-nature of beings and objects is illusory. There is not an actual “thing” anywhere in waking life—just as in a dream—but only transient appearances arising, changing, and dissolving. We are necessarily present when this realization comes, as it is then true that there is no place else to be. There is no stronger method of bringing consistent lucidity to dream than by abiding continuously in lucid presence during the day.
An important part of this practice is to experience yourself as a dream. Imagine yourself as a dream figure. Imagine your personality and various identities as constructions of mind. Maintain vivid presence, the same lucidity you are trying to cultivate in dreams, while sensing yourself as insubstantial and transient, made of light. This creates a very different relationship with yourself—one that is comfortable, flexible, and expansive."
-Master Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
Chapter 12
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How Dreams Arise
"Ensnared in dualistic vision, the conceptual mind divides the seamless unity of experience into conceptual entities and then relates to these mental projections as if they inherently exist as separate beings and things. This misunderstanding divides experience into self and other, and from the identification with only one aspect of experience-the self-preferences develop. This results in the arising of aversion and desire, which become the basis for both physical and mental actions. These actions (karmas) leave traces, conditioning the mind and resulting in more grasping and aversion, which lead to new karmic traces, and so on. This is the self-perpetuating cycle of karma.
During sleep, the mind is withdrawn from the sensory world. Karmic traces currently stimulated by the secondary causes necessary for their manifestation have a force or energy that is the karmic prana [wind]. Like the horse and rider in the analogy, the mind “rides” the karmic prana to the energetic center in the body related to the activated karmic trace. That is, the consciousness becomes focused in a particular chakra and a particular dimension of experience
In the interplay of mind, energy, and meaning, consciousness illuminates and is affected by the karmic traces. The karmic prana is the energy of the dream, the vital force, while the mind weaves the specific manifestations of the karmic traces- the color, light, emotions, and images- into the narrative that is the dream. This is the process resulting in samsaric dreams."
- -Master Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep: Practices for Awakening
Chapter 4
(page 41)
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In dream and in bardos!
The quality of mind we cultivate in the bardo of life directly influence the quality of our mind in the bardo of dreaming and dying.
May we tend to our minds as gardeners tend to their precious rare jewel plants!
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Amen Sister, Well Said!
Beloved @_Barry said the same thing in a meditation a few weeks ago about keeping a Noble Garden in our minds. It was a Grand Slam wisdom teaching! (Cool synch, I was thinking about him saying this today, and how profound it was, then read your comment saying the same thing).
FYI Gardens LOVE Sunlight 
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Nice shout out to Master Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
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