Quotes from Tibetan Buddhist masters:
When you start to dream, the dream begins as a thought, like one you would have in the daytime. But you’re asleep, so the thought intensifies and becomes something like talk or gossip, and then the gossip intensifies or solidifies into images, and then you really think that you’re seeing people, seeing places, going places, and so on. And that is how it works with conventional appearances as well.
– Thrangu Rinpoche
At first when you pass into the dream state and images arise, you may not remember where they came from. Your awareness, however, will naturally develop until you will be able to see that you are dreaming. When you watch very carefully, you will be able to see the whole creation and evolution of the dream. … With continuing practice, we see less and less difference between the waking and the dream state.
– Tarthang Tulku
The essence of [Buddhism] can be reduced to a single point: The mind is the source of all experience, and by changing the direction of the mind, we can change the quality of everything we experience. When you transform your mind, everything you experience is transformed. … There are truly no limits to the creativity of your mind.
…
To the extent that you can acknowledge the true power of your mind, you can begin to exercise more control over your experience.
…
If our perceptions really are mental constructs conditioned by past experiences and present expectations, then what we focus on and how we focus become important factors in determining our experience. And the more deeply we believe something is true, the more likely it will become true in terms of our experience.
…
What happens when you begin to recognize your experiences as your own projections? What happens when you begin to lose your fear of the people around you and conditions you used to dread? Well, from one point of view – nothing. From another point of view – everything.
…
From a Buddhist perspective, the description of reality provided by quantum mechanics offers a degree of freedom to which most people are not accustomed, and that may at first seem strange and even a little frightening. … It is a state that literally includes all possibilities, beyond space and time.
…
While doing so may open up possibilities we might never before have imagined, it’s still hard to give up the familiar habit of being a victim.
– Mingyur Rinpoche
Much of Tibetan Buddhism comes not from the historical Buddha, but from “Celestial Buddhas” via dreams. It should be evaluated based on whether it works. Similarly, the following is about a teaching that came via a Dream Jesus. Ridiculous as though that may sound, I find it tremendously insightful and accurate.
The Course’s assertion is that everything stems from the mind. The mind’s thinking provides the basis for everything that it experiences. Whichever way the mind chooses to look at reality, it will find itself surrounded by and experiencing a “reality” that is the precise mirror of that. The mind’s fundamental belief-system first manifests as inner feelings, emotions, interpretations and perceptions; and then manifests as the “outer” reality in which the mind seems to live.
…
Our healing, then, must be a healing of the mind, a healing of our fundamental perspective on reality. This is what the miracle does. It comes in a moment, a holy instant, when we decide to temporarily suspend our habitual perspective on things. As we momentarily loosen our grip on the ego, our minds are allowed to shift into a new way of seeing things. And since our thinking is the foundation for our entire experience, as our thinking shifts, so does everything else. Our whole experience of life is allowed to brighten from the bottom up, making this kind of healing more deeply liberating than being healed of even the most insidious and destructive physical disease.