Amazing! When Venerable Robina started singing at the end, I felt as if she was sending out compassion to me! Thanks you and may all of you who read this feel the love also!
Very grateful for this talk. Thanks for posting.The key to happiness is seeing our own neurosis and working gradually and consistently at not giving in to these destructive patterns. This is the only way to purify our karma and not make thing worse for ourselves. Thanks Ven. Robina Courtin.
Thank you so much for the directness and get to the Core of the teaching and cut through all the " human" drama/stories. Mostly importantly, is your dedication and effort to understand how we can be a real Human rather then just be a machine and react automatically/habitually to life happening to us.
I absolutely love Robina. When you think of a buddhist nun, you think 'calm, serene, zen' and shes just pushed that stereotype out the boat! Brilliant wisdom and directness that gets it across. I agree with the whole attachment to reputation, it resonates so well in me as truth and we all get stuck in these patterns. Over the past few years I've been getting better at noticing these neurosis and it really does change you! There's still a long way to go, but it is a promising, exciting journey. The only bit I do question is the intuition part. She says intuition that is also kind should only be acted upon, so the boy who loves to fish shouldn't, because it is harming the fish. What if this boy's main passion in life is fishing? I do person-centred counselling and I believe that to self actualise (be fulfilled in being the most you that you can be) you must be true to who you are and live your passions. Yes it may be killing fish but what if that is his only passion in life and without it he can't be truly fulfilled? But then of course if it was a person's passion to murder people I wouldn't be for that at all. It's a tough one.
+Shannon Clark The problem is you obviously don't think fish has equal rights as a human being. This is the part that is hardest for me to accept about people. Too many of us consider human beings 'above' all the other living creatures when in fact we are NOT. All living creatures on this planet are equals. Too bad we use our brains to hurt others instead of using it to realize we should cherish ALL living creatures - ALL Life on this Planet. Cherish and Protect. How about that becomes the 'boys' passion? I don't think we get these passions just out-of-nowhere. The boy was brought up to believe its ok to hurt (kill) other living creatures so he just doesn't know better...
Yes, equality comes from the fact that every conscious being feels fear and pain and does not want its life taken from it, given this logic every being is equal and every being shares these feelngs
I am so enjoying this, the truth rolls out and hits the body/mind. I question whether women will be able to save the world if we do not understand what is being said here. (Bing, Bang )
You could return to this talk again and again until it sinks in and, as you go about your daily life, perhaps aspects of it may come to the surface when you come across applicable situations?
My understanding is intuition is closer to clairvoyance than instinct. Instinct is self preservation; self oriented. Intuition is a culmination of wisdom and self reflection, and can be helpful in making the next right choice with ease instead of struggle.
The Five Top Regrets of the Dying, says that the number one regret her dying patients express is, "I wish I'd had more courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me."
Raised by a father who could be very vindictive at times and couldn’t tolerate the sight of us, just like his mother couldn’t tolerate the sight of him and rejected him at birth. I learned to navigate a volatile environment where doing something wrong, or saying one wrong word could lead to escalation and devastation. It was very confrontational to realize that unconsciously my programming wanted chaos. Before accusing someone of wronging or rejecting you, I invite you to do somatic inquiry. Check into your body as you may be surprised to uncover deep-seated programming driven by repression that has been shaping your perception all along.
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Amazing! When Venerable Robina started singing at the end, I felt as if she was sending out compassion to me! Thanks you and may all of you who read this feel the love also!
Thank you Venerable Robina
I like Ven. Courtin, she`s one no nonsense bad ass Dharma Teacher, definitely one of my favourites.
Thank you venerable Robina. Your teachings are very clear and direct! Many of us are attached to our reputations.
Very grateful for this talk. Thanks for posting.The key to happiness is seeing our own neurosis and working gradually and consistently at not giving in to these destructive patterns. This is the only way to purify our karma and not make thing worse for ourselves. Thanks Ven. Robina Courtin.
Well said.
Excellent Robina..so true and so hard to admit in ourselves..thank you for sharing..
Thank you so much, Ven.Robina Courtin.
Wonderful, vintage Robina! Can't wait for her next visit to San Francisco!
Thank you so much for the directness and get to the Core of the teaching and cut through all the " human" drama/stories. Mostly importantly, is your dedication and effort to understand how we can be a real Human rather then just be a machine and react automatically/habitually to life happening to us.
yes
Not even fifteen minutes into this and she has ripped the top of my head off.
Wonderful Ven Rob. What a personality. Thank you for all your teachings- we are definitely communicating. Sadhu! Sadhu!
Very useful to consider our attachment to reputation and praise and to do what is beneficial in the long term.
This is incredible; the truth is so profound
Brilliance, pure brilliance
I absolutely love Robina. When you think of a buddhist nun, you think 'calm, serene, zen' and shes just pushed that stereotype out the boat! Brilliant wisdom and directness that gets it across. I agree with the whole attachment to reputation, it resonates so well in me as truth and we all get stuck in these patterns. Over the past few years I've been getting better at noticing these neurosis and it really does change you! There's still a long way to go, but it is a promising, exciting journey. The only bit I do question is the intuition part. She says intuition that is also kind should only be acted upon, so the boy who loves to fish shouldn't, because it is harming the fish. What if this boy's main passion in life is fishing? I do person-centred counselling and I believe that to self actualise (be fulfilled in being the most you that you can be) you must be true to who you are and live your passions. Yes it may be killing fish but what if that is his only passion in life and without it he can't be truly fulfilled? But then of course if it was a person's passion to murder people I wouldn't be for that at all. It's a tough one.
+Shannon Clark The problem is you obviously don't think fish has equal rights as a human being. This is the part that is hardest for me to accept about people. Too many of us consider human beings 'above' all the other living creatures when in fact we are NOT. All living creatures on this planet are equals. Too bad we use our brains to hurt others instead of using it to realize we should cherish ALL living creatures - ALL Life on this Planet. Cherish and Protect.
How about that becomes the 'boys' passion? I don't think we get these passions just out-of-nowhere. The boy was brought up to believe its ok to hurt (kill) other living creatures so he just doesn't know better...
Yes, equality comes from the fact that every conscious being feels fear and pain and does not want its life taken from it, given this logic every being is equal and every being shares these feelngs
Buying my first home was an intuition. It did not feel good. Neither did inviting my daughter to live in it. But it has been good for both of us!
Your good Robina,thank you!!!
Brilliant teacher. Thank you Venerable Robina
My favourite talk
This is probably the most important talk I have ever heard ….
Should be mandatory, I listen to it a few times a year.
Thanks!
Words of Wisdom
Thank You
In answer to her question "Are we communicating?" my answer YES!
The Heart of the Perfection of
Wisdom Sutra
I am so enjoying this, the truth rolls out and hits the body/mind. I question whether women will be able to save the world if we do not understand what is being said here. (Bing, Bang )
Is it easier to be a buddhist at this level when your brain is highly efficient at recalling this information clearly and accurately ?
You could return to this talk again and again until it sinks in and, as you go about your daily life, perhaps aspects of it may come to the surface when you come across applicable situations?
My understanding is intuition is closer to clairvoyance than instinct. Instinct is self preservation; self oriented. Intuition is a culmination of wisdom and self reflection, and can be helpful in making the next right choice with ease instead of struggle.
Thank you 🙏.....
the compassion we have is mixed with attachment yes sacrificing with incredible suffering your right
Sing it Robina Courtin 🙏
Thank you 🙏!
The Five Top Regrets of the Dying, says that the number one regret her dying patients express is, "I wish I'd had more courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me."
Absolutely right...the concept of Mamoni hurts their sons and the women who get involved with them.
10-21/2024🧡 💛Thank you. I’m learning so much from studying Buddhism 🕉️ ❤
really attention has sharpen my mind.
Raised by a father who could be very vindictive at times
and couldn’t tolerate the sight of us, just like his mother couldn’t tolerate the sight of him
and rejected him at birth. I learned to navigate a volatile environment
where doing something wrong, or saying one wrong word
could lead to escalation and devastation.
It was very confrontational to realize that unconsciously my programming wanted chaos.
Before accusing someone of wronging or rejecting you,
I invite you to do somatic inquiry.
Check into your body as you may be surprised to uncover deep-seated programming
driven by repression that has been shaping your perception all along.
I love Robina, but she talks faster than my brain works. Lol 😂
merci
How to maintain active mind always
I need to have my own sense of value
WAndana wandana wandana sadhu sadhu sadhu.
attachement for reputation
It's true, people are needy. Thankfully for me, I give less of a shit these days.
eight wordly dharmas
Fix the sound--- sounds like Robina is in a steel tank -- Robina is too good not to hear every word clearly
Life is meaningless & worthless.I have just ordered Nembutal online
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