"I know several yogis who use dream yoga as way to work on projects, often textual, while they are "sleeping"."
Yeah? Well *I* know a guy who can make balloon animals while tap dancing in a bunny suit. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajradhatu@...> wrote: > > > On Dec 2, 2011, at 11:33 AM, richardatrwilliamsdotus wrote: > > > > > Apparently you only gave a cursory look at Sanderson's > > > > Webpage. He has plenty of material demonstrating Buddhist > > > > textual borrowing from Shaiva tantric texts... > > > > > > Vaj: > > > In fact certain specific togal practices can be found > > > in later shaivite texts, after their bonpo originals... > > > > > What 'originals' would these be, since 'Bon' had no written > > language until the invention of Tibetan in the mid-7th > > century AD. > > > It was only relatively recently that things were written down. It was > an oral tradition until relatively recently. There exist today > numerous texts whose existence is only due to the fact that someone > completely memorized the entire thing. Then when they get expelled > from their country and undergo genocide, their traditions can > survive. It's not unusual for some lamas to memorize many texts. My > Patanjali guru would memorize texts by going over them while he was > asleep. Since dreamtime is much more compressed in time relative to > the waking state is actually a nice side effect of truly expanded > consciousness. I know several yogis who use dream yoga as way to work > on projects, often textual, while they are "sleeping". >
