Host Michael Taft talks with meditation instructor and writer Tina Rasmussen about methods to know nondual consciousness and the progress of nondual meditation, together with her personal distinctive comparability between the Formless Realms of early Buddhist meditation and the Boundless Dimensions taught by Hameed Ali (aka Almaas) of the Diamond Strategy.
Tina Rasmussen, Ph.D., started meditating at age 13, and has practiced within the Theravada and Tibetan Buddhist traditions for over 30 years. In 2003, she accomplished a year-long solo retreat, was later ordained as a Buddhist nun and have become the primary Western lady approved to show by famend meditation grasp Pa Auk Sayadaw. Tina has been studied by the Yale Neuroscience Lab, and is the co-author of Training the Jhanas, in addition to a number of books on human potential.
Tina Rasumussen’s web site: luminousmindsangha.com
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Present Notes
00:44 – Intro
03:30 – The core 4 practices of Buddhism that assist us with the present disaster: shamatha, vipassana, coronary heart, and self-transcending practices
06:19 – How Tina teaches shamatha (the Theravada method: anapanasati and brahmaviharas)
09:08 – The distinction between anapanasati and pranayama
11:45 – The similarities and variations between the Theravadan and Tibetan practices
16:18 – How Tina teaches a hybrid set of Theravadan and Tibetan practices on retreat
18:44 – Shamatha is required for stability
20:44 – The completely different flavors of nonduality (unity/vacancy)
24:37 – The Buddhist map of the realms of existence (kind/materials realm: bodily/brahmaviharas; formless/immaterial realms: 1) boundless area; 2) boundless consciousness; 3) no-thingness/void; 4) neither notion nor non-perception; 5) the Deathless/Absolute/Anonymous thriller)
28:53 – How ‘consciousness’ is extra basic than ‘consciousness’
30:55 – Comparability of the formless realms in Buddhism and within the Diamond Strategy (Ridhwan); how completely different religious traditions give attention to completely different formless realms
35:35 – Differing views in Theravada and Vajrayana
37:51 – Integrating boundless love and shamatha practices in Tina’s teachings
43:00 – The non-personal practices of the Japanese traditions and the private practices of the Western traditions
44:08 – The synergy between religious and psychological applied sciences; the ‘inquiry’ apply
46:27 – Tina’s beginning trauma and the significance of trauma work
53:10 – The inquiry method of working with aversion
55:46 – Struggling is elective
58:00 – Outro
