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Tina describes what she means by the terms “embodiment” and “off-the-cushion” and gives a context for doing this type of practice as an extension of our sitting meditation practice.
Tina describes what “body armor” is—the tension patterns in the body that correspond to our personality patterns that take us off our meditation object. She details how important it is to also work with the body armor, as these tension patterns can keep the personality patterns active if the body patterns aren’t addressed.
Tina provides a guided meditation on how to identify and work with body armor and tension patterns while meditating.
Tina gives an overview of the Enneagram as a tool for the spiritual path, and describes how it can be very valuable in understanding and unwinding our patterns.
Tina describes how the Inner Triangle of the Enneagram explains the turn of our consciousness away from the Ground of Being when we are born and develop an ego-self in childhood. She also details how the Inner Triangle corresponds to the three Defilements in Buddhism. In addition, she explains the construction of the ego-self, and how the SuperEgo tries to keep us in the ego-self when we try to break free from patterns in our practice.
Tina details the practice of Inquiry, which enables us to work with our patterns skillfully in our life off-the cushion. She also describes how it is similar but also different from the Vipassana practice.
Tina provides a guided meditation on how to work with all of the prior practice methods on-the-cushion, including the addition of the Enneagram and the Inquiry practice.
Tina details what is can be like, to move more fully into living your Buddha-nature and Enlightenment Drive in a more ongoing way in daily life. She also describes how the Dzogchen practice (as well as Vipassana) can be used to cultivate the ability to stay present and resting in our True Nature while functioning in daily life.
Tina provides a guided meditation for transitioning from on-the-cushion to off-the-cushion in Dzogchen practice and also Vipassana, to cultivate this capacity while functioning in daily life.
Tina describes the potential for our practice to be seamless on and off-the-cushion, living our realization in everyday life and functioning from being throughout the day, which is the ultimate possibility for our full life practice—embodying a stable non-dual realization.
Tina Rasmussen is a meditation teacher who leads retreats and offers spiritual guidance and mentoring to practitioners worldwide. Her mission as a teacher is to foster awakening and its embodiment in worldly life through the application of authentic, rigorous Buddhist and modern practices.
In this course, Tina provides practices and a context for using the many hours a day that we are “off the cushion” to deepen our practice, and truly embody and live our practice in everyday life. Doing this can moves us forward in our journey and the “thinning of the me,” while allowing the transcendent aspect of our practice to be more present in our ongoing experience.
In this course, Tina gives an overview of the “Self-transcending” category of meditation, in particular the Dzogchen practice as it is taught in Tibetan Buddhism. The Self-Transcending practice of Dzogchen uses the other three categories of practice as building blocks, culminating in the possibility of transcending the sense of the ego-self through the Rigpa practice of Dzogchen. The Dzogchen teachings are rarely given, and are extremely hard to find other than in book format, so access to these teachings is a rare opportunity.
In this course, Tina gives an overview of the “Open Monitoring” category of meditation, in particular, the Vipassana practice as it is taught in Theravada and Tibetan Buddhism. Vipassana is also known as Insight Meditation and utilizes our capacity to investigate, to more deeply understand phenomena so that we can develop equanimity in being with things as they are. Investigating our experience can also potentially lead to perceiving phenomena at their ultimate level.
In this course, Meido Roshi discusses various aspects of lay initiation, also known as jukai (“receiving precepts”). After introducing the Three Refuges, Five Lay Precepts, and Four Vows, he then actually conducts the jukai ritual for the viewers. By participating in the course, you therefore have the opportunity to formally enter the Buddhist path.
