Audio recorded at Tibetan Buddhist Institute, Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors.
About this talk. In this 49-minute teaching from a Chenrezig empowerment, Geshe Jampa Gyaltsen guides practitioners through dream yoga and how to work with dreams during retreat and formal practice. He explains how to distinguish and prioritize different types of dreams across the three phases of sleep: dreams in the first phase, arising from daytime thinking, and those in the second phase, influenced by various beings, should be disregarded; but dreams in the third phase carry spiritual significance and can be trusted as truthful signs. He then details auspicious dream signs to cultivate and recognize: meeting with the lama, encountering images of Buddhas, receiving teachings with monks, and visions such as the sun, moon, fine clothing, washing, milk and yogurt, flying, or riding an elephant. Intended for practitioners preparing for or engaged in formal retreat practice.
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File: 1990-07-28 – 2A – Empowerment – KR.mp3
UUID: a418b12f-6213-48df-8356-2fd8becfcc80
Teacher: Kyabje Rinpoche
Collection: Chenrezig
Date: 1990-07-28
Recorded at: Tibetan Buddhist Institute, Adelaide
Words: ~319
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# Chenrezig Empowerment 2a 1990-07-28 **Collection:** Rinpoche Recordings — Public Talks and Events **Duration:** 49.3 minutes **Words:** 321 **Model:** Deepgram Nova-3 **Corrections applied:** 0 **Transcribed:** 2026-02-27 18:39 — Oh, No. Into three phases of sleep. The first phase, the dreams are affected by the various discursive thinking that that that proceeded during the course of the day. Day. So we…
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# Chenrezig Empowerment 2a 1990-07-28
**Collection:** Rinpoche Recordings — Public Talks and Events
**Duration:** 49.3 minutes
**Words:** 321
**Model:** Deepgram Nova-3
**Corrections applied:** 0
**Transcribed:** 2026-02-27 18:39
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Oh, No. Into three phases of sleep. The first phase, the dreams are affected by the various discursive thinking that that that proceeded during the course of the day. Day. So we don’t pay any attention to those.
The second phase, the middle phase of sleep, is influenced by various human and nonhuman beings. We don’t pay any attention to those dreams. Finally, with respect to the last phase of sleep and in terms of what types of dreams we have, these are these can be made use of and have had some some significant some spiritual significance. The various signs that arise, we can trust in and think that these are indications of some kind of truth. Ideally, each each disciple would recount the dream which they had during this third phase of the night.
And the presiding master would review the dream according to whether it’s degree of auspiciousness, as goodness, or as badness. But we don’t have time for everyone to go into their individual dreams. So we can talk about the general quality of the dreams. What are auspicious signs and what are are nonauspicious signs. Now beginning with auspicious signs, positive signs, which occur in the course of a dream, would be if you were to dream about meeting with the lama that you saw various types of images or photographs of the body, speech, and mind of Buddhas, for example, various.
Whether you you met with monks, having received teachings within the gathering of such monks? So more auspicious signs would be that if you saw the the shining of the sun, the shining of the moon, that that you’re if you had to were wearing exquisite clothing, if you dreamt that you were washing your body, if you have visions of milk, the whiteness of milk and yogurt, if you saw yourself flying in the sky or riding on on an elephant.