Andrew Holecek: Perception Is Creation: Discovering Emptiness

In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Andrew and Tami Simon discuss his latest book, including the traditional three-step approach to the practice of illusory form, seeing the world in a more authentic way and connecting to what’s real, uncovering the roots of human suffering, the intersection of neuroscience and the world’s wisdom traditions, and much more. Subscribe to Sounds True for more: bit.ly/2EAugMf
Dreams of Light: The Profound Daytime Practice of Lucid Dreaming by Andrew Holecek:
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Andrew Holecek is an author and spiritual teacher whose longtime study of Buddhism blends ancient wisdom with contemporary knowledge and insights. He is renowned for his expertise in lucid dreaming and the Tibetan yogas of sleep and dream. With Sounds True, he has published the books Dream Yoga: Illuminating Your Life Through Lucid Dreaming and the Tibetan Yogas of Sleep and Dreams of Light: The Profound Daytime Practice of Lucid Dreaming.
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[@nandasahadeo7451]

Tami your questions are the most profound!

[@LoreMIpsum-vs6dx]

I want to reiterate how vital this information is. To those of you just having it splashed on you, it might sound like mumbo-jumbo but that is because it is so far outside of our conditioned thinking that we don't even hear it. Don't dismiss this if it bounces off of you. I would encourage you to listen to it repeatedly until you **really** hear what is being said. It is supremely practical and potentially life changing. It is a door. It is information that you are not going to find in very many places, especially articulated in such a helpful way.

[@hnttakata713]

Correct. Will try,

[@jms4406]

I was lucid dreaming alot and had a deceased person ask me for help. Never had or would have believed it in my life, but things occurred in my life after the dream that proved it was something. Definitely something. One confirmation was seeing a Carl's jr in my dream, and I briefly looked at it as I was flying across a river and said wow that's weird must not be in the town I'm from. Then the next year they built one here.

[@sukhmanicambridge]

Great questions from Tami...producing great teachings from Andrew

[@seamlessyorkshiredales]

This is great. Great questions.

[@paulguthenberg364]

Great Share 🙏 How and why this resonates within my Being is that when I was a young man I was gifted with a new Knowing such as the following: To Realize is to Create So in truth I come into this knowing which is being shared from a unique or different path. I have been a painter since 14 years of age. I realized that once the perception of a painting came to me, in truth it had already been created accept for taking the time to do it in a material / tangible form. Much like the knowing that the drawing is already stored within the graphite of the pencil. Lately I have been brought into the new Knowings to me of how perspective tweets your perception and thus once you have learnt a new Knowing you cannot Unknown it. You may choose to ignore, suppress it and so on but it is NOW part of your new Awareness. As in the realization, Awareness and Knowing that at any one moment you may only be experiencing 1 of the 360 degrees of what is actually Being or the Isness of what truly Is. This is understood with more clarity when you apply it to the conception of a wholly new abstract or surrealist painting. Something completely yours, your conception or even better perspective / perception Al interpretation of what and how you know or chose to convey as apposed to a landscape painting. Instead NOW, I Allow myself to fall back behind the experience by giving it Space and in so doing without labeling, judging or comparing all unfolds about your Being in the Here and NOW. This seems to provide no need to react like conditioned ways of before and instead if necessary you naturally shift to responding instead or not. You see, when I go out to do plain air painting on site I may choose any composition within the site in order to convey and share through the creation of such a painting. The one I choose is but only one, whereas there in truth are many. Just as in the personalized style or what I like to call language in executing that painting. Thank you so much for this Sharing 🙏☀️❤️🪶

[@nandasahadeo7451]

Omg this is mind blowing!!

[@nandasahadeo7451]

The light of the mind itself...

[@luciddream6603]

WOW - Such a wonderful teaching! And so amazing that this is EXACTLY what I am experiencing. This is a dream! .... And therefore, who am I? ❤️🙏🌷

[@howdareyou5800]

hey... excuse me... did you know that you are dreaming?

[@MMeyer945]

Love from Copenhagen Denmak 🌈🙏🏻🌻

[@larsstougaard7097]

Love from Copenhagen X 2 😊❤

[@PJ-wt2zo]

such a great conversation. the interviewers questions are great and Andrew knows what he is saying. He is great❣

[@margaritakeane15]

Thanks you so much 🙏🌹

[@terefefeyssa877]

Tammy Simon: If you are serious, you have to interview Rupert Spira

[@ToddSloanIAAN]

I don't understand your explanation but I like listening in.

[@Silvertestrun]

Ty

[@AtypicalPaul]

Great conversation. Love this kind of stuff.

[@nishasankaran]

Wah!💕👏 Great!

[@pureone26]

Tried to listen to Andrew's teachings, but he references a lot the tibetan 'Rinpoches' who have been found guilty of decades of abuse of women and living very non dharma lifestyles. Most of their senior western students also enabled their behavior. I hope american dharma has not become just a male left brain intellectual exercise of selling books and courses, what is dharma if not integrated?

[@fanghuabao1178]

Maybe we should just practise. And see what comes. Abuses will vanish. My point is, not all Americans are like Mr. Trump, for example 😉 At some stage, we have to start working at a microcosmic level: our own being.

[@thesage90]

No such thing as perfect

[@hnttakata713]

Very profound insight. Mahalo. Sell more books and feels as though the left brain is running the show verses a teacher giving the student added insight, and taking all of us along for the ride. Instead of just a few of us. Great teachers communicate to even the simplest loving mind.

[@annettewelz4591]

Thanks for sharing your views. I like being reminded of my personal power especially thru dreaming but I also need to be aware of the abuse of power and the systems that sustain it. 🧘

[@lizafield9002]

I hope we can dream up a world whose life we aren't destroying. My sense is that many people already find the biosphere a vague inconsequential dream & can't be bothered to plant trees, protect habitat or engage politically, because it's just a dream. Zzzzz.

[@PeachesiceT]

👎how meany times do you need to say someone’s name