Practice Session 1 – Bodhicitta Meditation with Instructions
Course Trailer
Lesson Description
Tina gives a guided meditation for the heart practice of Bodhicitta that begins every meditation.
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Course Lessons
1. Dzogchen and neuroscience
Tina provides an overview of the self-transcending practice of Dzogchen, and how it fits into the four neuroscience categories of meditation.
2. Importance of Dzogchen practice
Tina sets the larger context of practice, by discussing the many aspects that are compelling about Dzogchen meditation and why one would want to undertake this practice.
3. Stages of Buddhist practice
Tina discusses how Dzogchen fits into the overall Buddhist practice path.
4. The View
Tina describes “the view” from the awakened state, as it is pointed to and potentially experienced in Rigpa, the self-transcending stage of the Dzogchen practice.
5. Dzogchen History
Tina gives a history of the Nyingma lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, including several of it’s founding and often colorful figures.
6. Dzogchen Overview
Tina provides an overview of the practice of Dzogchen.
7. Dzogchen Meditation: Building Blocks
Tina details the specific practice building blocks for Dzogchen, and gives brief instructions for each.
8. Building Block 1: The Heart Practice of Bodhicitta
Tina provides teaching and goes into more detail about the first building block of Bodhicitta, the aspiration for awakening, for our own benefit and for the benefit of all beings.
9. Practice Session 1- Bodhicitta Meditation with Instructions
Tina gives a guided meditation for the heart practice of Bodhicitta that begins every meditation.
10. Building Block 2: The Focused Attention practice of Samatha with Support
Tina provides teaching and goes into more detail about the second building block of Samatha, also known as Shamata with Support, which is a meditation for concentration and serenity, cultivating a calm abiding.
11. Practice Session 2 – Samatha Meditation with Instructions
Tina gives a guided meditation for the focused attention practice of Samatha / Shamata with Support.
12. Building Block 3A: The Open Awareness Practice of Vipassana
Tina provides teaching and goes into more detail about the first part of the third building block of Samatha without Support, also known as Vipassana. In the Theravadan lineage, this is similar to what is known as Vipassana Choiceless Awareness.
13. Practice Session 3 – Vipassana Meditation with Instructions
Tina gives a guided meditation for the focused attention practice of Shamatha without Support/Vipashyana.
14. Working with hindrances and defilements
Tina talks about the specifics of working with hindrances and defilements for the Dzogchen practice.
15. Building Block 3B: Non-Doing-Meditation
Tina provides teaching and goes into more detail about the next part of the third building block of Shamata without Support, also known as Vipashyana/Vipassana. Tina has added a step called Non-Doing meditation, which makes it easier and more likely to be able to “realize rigpa” in Building Block four.
16. Practice Session 4 – Non-Doing Meditation with Instructions
Tina gives a guided meditation for the Non-Doing meditation.
17. Building Block 4: Realizing Rigpa
Tina provides teaching and goes into more detail about the fourth building block of Realizing Rigpa, which is the potential to have a “taste” of the non-dual state, which can over time become more accessible and even stable.
18. Practice Session 5 – Bodhicitta, Samatha, Vipassana, Non-Doing and Rigpa Meditations with Instructions
Tina gives a guided meditation for the entire sequence of meditation leading up to and including the possibility of realizing rigpa.
19. Further Potentials of Dzogchen and Rigpa
Tina provides teaching on the stages that are possible after realizing rigpa, that can cultivate and potentially lead to a stable rigpa, a stable realization of non-duality.
Tina Rasmussen
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.
