Andrew Holeček is an author deeply immersed in Buddhist study and practice. Having completed a traditional three-year meditation retreat, he internationally shares his expertise on meditation, dream yoga, and the art of dying. His writing, featured in prominent Buddhist publications, explores transforming spiritual hardship into joy and offers practical advice for preparing for death from the Tibetan Buddhist perspective. Holeček bridges profound spiritual insight with practical approaches to meditation for contemporary life, including lucid dreaming.
We all encounter obstacles on a daily basis—from small inconveniences and nuisances to the really big hardships wreaking havoc with our lives. Sometimes just the small things are enough to set us reeling. Andrew Holecek offers us a progressive path beginning with common, easily understood hardships and moving on to more subtle and challenging ones that commonly arise on our spiritual journeys.
With Dreams of Light, a world-renowned expert in lucid dreaming and Tibetan dream yoga guides us into the tradition's daytime practices Most of us are absolutely certain that we’re awake here and now—it’s a given, right? Yet, according to Tibetan dream yoga, ordinary waking life is in fact a delusion, as illusory as our nightly dreams. In his previous book Dream Yoga, Andrew Holecek guided us into Tibet's nocturnal path of lucid dreaming and other dimensions of sleeping consciousness. Now, with Dreams of Light, he offers us a step-by-step guide to Tibetan dream yoga's daytime practices. Known in Tibet as the "illusory form" practices, these teachings include insights, meditations, and actions to help us realize the dreamlike nature of our lives. Through an in-depth exploration of the tradition, beginners and seasoned practitioners alike will learn everything they need to enter the unexplored realms of our waking states. "If you've struggled to awaken in your dreams," teaches Holecek, "these techniques will often spark spontaneous lucidity during sleep. And if you're already a successful lucid dreamer, they will open you to new depths of experience throughout your day." For those curious about altered states of consciousness, psychedelic therapies, and near-death and out-of-body experiences, Dreams of Light opens a time-honored gateway to kindred—and for many, even more profound—terrains of perception.
A Step-by-Step Guide to Mastering Your Dream Life [16pt Large Print Edition]
Exploring the transformative potential of lucid dreaming, this guide by expert Andrew Holecek provides a comprehensive, step-by-step methodology for mastering the art of conscious dreaming. Readers will learn how to navigate vivid dreamscapes and uncover profound insights that can significantly enhance their waking lives. With practical techniques and engaging insights, the book promises to unlock the mysteries of the dream world and its impact on personal growth.
Lucid dreaming--waking up and becoming fully conscious in your dreams--has intrigued legions of those seeking to explore their vast inner worlds. Yet for many, "getting lucid" for the first time can be elusive. And for those who have, there are few resources that show us how to use this extraordinary state for the greater goal of awakening to all of reality, day or night. With Dream Yoga, Andrew Holecek brings us a practical guide for meditators, seasoned dream travelers wanting to go deeper, and total beginners eager to experience lucidity for the first time.
We all face death, but how many of us are actually ready for it? Whether our own death or that of a loved one comes first, how prepared are we, spiritually or practically? In Preparing to Die, Andrew Holecek presents a wide array of resources to help the reader address this unfinished business. Part One shows how to prepare one's mind and how to help others, before, during, and after death. The author explains how spiritual preparation for death can completely transform our relationship to the end of life, dissolving our fear and helping us to feel open and receptive to letting go in the dying process. Daily meditation practices, the stages of dying and how to work with them, and after-death experiences are all detailed in ways that will be particularly helpful for those with an interest in Tibetan Buddhism and in Tibetan approaches to conscious dying. Part Two addresses the practical issues that surround death. Experts in grief, hospice, the funeral business, and the medical and legal issues of death contribute chapters to prepare the reader for every practical concern, including advance directives, green funerals, the signs of death, warnings about the funeral industry, the stages of grief, and practical care for the dying. Part Three contains heart-advice from twenty of the best-known Tibetan Buddhist masters now teaching in the West.
Lucid dreaming can take us to places we've never been before, and the insights we learn from these dreams can radically transform our waking lives. In this exciting guide, lucid dreaming expert Andrew Holecek offers readers a step-by-step approach for developing and honing the skills necessary to awaken to these dazzling dreamscapes--and the amazing truths to be discovered there.
Reverse Meditation offers boundary-breaking practices to transform meditation from a resource for keeping us comfortable into a path of fully awakened living. With his signature accessibility and depth, Andrew Holecek shares insights into where we get stuck, practices for opening to fearless engagement with life, and much more.