Venerable Robina Courtin leads a short - five minute - meditation on the breath. Venerable Robina gives an introduction to the correct physical posture to adopt followed by a brief, simple meditation aimed at increasing focus, awareness and alertness. Easily something you can do everyday. Introduction to the posture (0:25) Meditation instruction (5:29) The meditation practice - "4 or 5 quality minutes" (6:36)

Venerable Robina Courtin is known for her clear teaching, explaining the Buddhist approach to thinking and acting in terms we can understand. Through examples that are relevant to our lives, she presents multiple ways we can put these ideas into practice. Venerable Robina explains the beneficial actions of body, speech and mind we can adopt, and actions to avoid. She gives us ways to create positive new habits benefiting ourselves and those around us, and how to slowly - completely - rid...

Venerable Robina Courtin is known for her clear teaching, explaining the Buddhist approach to thinking and acting in terms we can understand. Through examples that are relevant to our lives, she presents multiple ways we can put these ideas into practice. Venerable Robina explains the beneficial actions of body, speech and mind we can adopt, and actions to avoid. She gives us ways to create positive new habits benefiting ourselves and those around us, and how to slowly - completely - rid...

Venerable Robina Courtin is known for her clear teaching, explaining the Buddhist approach to thinking and acting in terms we can understand. Through examples that are relevant to our lives, she presents multiple ways we can put these ideas into practice. Venerable Robina explains the beneficial actions of body, speech and mind we can adopt, and actions to avoid. She gives us ways to create positive new habits benefiting ourselves and those around us, and how to slowly - completely - rid...

Venerable Robina Courtin is known for her clear teaching, explaining the Buddhist approach to thinking and acting in terms we can understand. Through examples that are relevant to our lives, she presents multiple ways we can put these ideas into practice. Venerable Robina explains the beneficial actions of body, speech and mind we can adopt, and actions to avoid. She gives us ways to create positive new habits benefiting ourselves and those around us, and how to slowly - completely - rid...

Venerable Robina Courtin discussed ways to apply Buddhist teachings to our everyday lives, to help us in our relationships, our work, our emotional lives, and in interpreting events we see going on in the world. 0:00 Everyday Buddhism 5:29 How do we do the job of being a Buddhist? 07:35 The way to apply impermanence in daily life 10:40 We suffer because we don't have the right view of reality 15:35 We have no idea that what goes on in our mind plays any role in our lives 18:20 It's our...

Venerable Robina Courtin performs the Bodhisattva Vows Ceremony before viewing the video of the Avalokiteshvara Empowerment with His Holiness the Dalai Lama: https://youtu.be/Ti-L1BdhLw4

Venerable Robina Courtin teaches about taking the Bodhisattva vows before viewing the YouTube of the Avalokiteshavara Empowerment with His Holiness the Dalai Lama: https://youtu.be/Ti-L1BdhLw4

Venerable Robina performs the Refuge Ceremony before viewing the video of the Preliminaries to the Avalokiteshvara Empowerment with His Holiness the Dalai Lama: https://youtu.be/iUWH3PIjZQ8

Venerable Robina Courtin teaches about taking refuge in Buddha, Dharma and the Sangha and taking the 5 lay vows before viewing the YouTube of the Avalokiteshavara Empowerment with His Holiness the Dalai Lama:  https://youtu.be/iUWH3PIjZQ8

On Christmas Eve 2021, Venerable Robina Courtin gave a free public talk: “Bringing the Dharma to Christmas Dinner”.   In the tradition of Lama Yeshe’s Christmas Dharma Teachings, Venerable Robina speaks about how you can make your Christmas beneficial for all sentient beings!  The holiday period can bring with it a special sort of festive stress, as many of us juggle social commitments, family dynamics and capitalist expectations to spend, spend, spend!   How to maintain presence of mind...

Venerable Robina Courtin continues teaching about the Buddhist approach to developing compassion.   WHY ENDLESS COMPASSION?  Sometimes it feels like the world’s problems are demanding so much of our attention that our compassion reserves will run dry. How can we develop strong, resilient compassion that allows us to help others?  Venerable Robina says: “You don't harm others even slightly if you love, have compassion, generosity, forgiveness - it's not possible. It’s the delusions that...

Venerable Robina Courtin continues teaching about the Buddhist approach to developing compassion.   WHY ENDLESS COMPASSION?  Sometimes it feels like the world’s problems are demanding so much of our attention that our compassion reserves will run dry. How can we develop strong, resilient compassion that allows us to help others?  Venerable Robina says: “You don't harm others even slightly if you love, have compassion, generosity, forgiveness - it's not possible. It’s the delusions that...

Venerable Robina Courtin continues teaching about the Buddhist approach to developing compassion.   WHY ENDLESS COMPASSION?  Sometimes it feels like the world’s problems are demanding so much of our attention that our compassion reserves will run dry. How can we develop strong, resilient compassion that allows us to help others?   Venerable Robina says: “You don't harm others even slightly if you love, have compassion, generosity, forgiveness - it's not possible. It’s the delusions that...

In this series of teachings, Venerable Robina Courtin teaches about the Buddhist approach to developing compassion.   WHY ENDLESS COMPASSION?  Sometimes it feels like the world’s problems are demanding so much of our attention that our compassion reserves will run dry. How can we develop strong, resilient compassion that allows us to help others?  Venerable Robina says: “You don't harm others even slightly if you love, have compassion, generosity, forgiveness - it's not possible. It’s the...

Venerable Robina Courtin continues teaching on Lama Zopa Rinpoche's book, How to Face Death Without Fear (https://bit.ly/KLZR_DeathWithoutFear​).   How to Face Death Without Fear is a collection of Rinpoche's teachings on how to think about death and reincarnation, how to help our loved ones at the time of death (including our pets) and how to prepare for our own death.  Venerable Robina edited the collection, and as she explains in the preface: "Because for most of us death is a difficult...

Venerable Robina Courtin continues teaching on Lama Zopa Rinpoche's book, How to Face Death Without Fear (https://bit.ly/KLZR_DeathWithoutFear​).   How to Face Death Without Fear is a collection of Rinpoche's teachings on how to think about death and reincarnation, how to help our loved ones at the time of death (including our pets) and how to prepare for our own death.  Venerable Robina edited the collection, and as she explains in the preface: "Because for most of us death is a difficult...

Venerable Robina Courtin continues teaching on Lama Zopa Rinpoche's book, How to Face Death Without Fear (https://bit.ly/KLZR_DeathWithoutFear​).   How to Face Death Without Fear is a collection of Rinpoche's teachings on how to think about death and reincarnation, how to help our loved ones at the time of death (including our pets) and how to prepare for our own death.  Venerable Robina edited the collection, and as she explains in the preface: "Because for most of us death is a difficult...

Venerable Robina Courtin continues teaching on Lama Zopa Rinpoche's book, How to Face Death Without Fear (https://bit.ly/KLZR_DeathWithoutFear). How to Face Death Without Fear is a collection of Rinpoche's teachings on how to think about death and reincarnation, how to help our loved ones at the time of death (including our pets) and how to prepare for our own death. Venerable Robina edited the collection, and as she explains in the preface: "Because for most of us death is a difficult...

Venerable Robina Courtin teaches on Lama Zopa Rinpoche's book, How to Face Death Without Fear (https://bit.ly/KLZR_DeathWithoutFear​). How to Face Death Without Fear is a collection of Rinpoche's teachings on how to think about death and reincarnation, how to help our loved ones at the time of death (including our pets) and how to prepare for our own death. Venerable Robina edited the collection, and as she explains in the preface: "Because for most of us death is a difficult thing to come...

Before you walk in to your Christmas breakfast/lunch/dinner/drinks - STOP!   Sit for 7 minutes and 5 seconds.   Fill yourself up with everything you need to make this the Best Christmas Ever for you and all the people you connect with!   Then: walk in with courage and confidence - you've got this!  😄  *** May anyone who sees, hears, thinks of, remembers or has anything to do with even a moment of this meditation create causes for enlightenment within their mindstream.

Christmas Eve public talk from Venerable Robina Courtin: “How to bring the Dharma to Christmas Dinner”! The festive season can often be experienced as stressful and hectic, with increased family and social commitments and the pressure to spend, spend, spend! In this public talk, Venerable Robina discusses ways we can apply a Buddhist perspective to find peace and create harmony amidst the Christmas mayhem. This Christmas Eve talk was inspired by Lama Yeshe’s “Silent Mind, Holy Mind”...

Venerable Robina Courtin (https://www.robinacourtin.com) leads a short (22 minute) Vajrasattva practice including the Four Opponent Powers and the the 100 syllable Vajrasattva Mantra.   You can do this practice at the end of each day just by playing the audio and following the instruction. How good is that?    Begin by taking refuge, play through the audio following the visualisation and instruction and perform your own dedication after the audio ends with "be delighted, totally rejoice!!"....

Venerable Robina Courtin teaches on "Mahamudra: How to Discover Our True Nature.", a book of Lama Yeshe's teachings edited by Venerable Robina. The original teachings by Lama Yeshe were given in Bendigo, Australia in 1981; hosted by Atisha Centre.    Lama Yeshe tells us that mahamudra is “the universal reality of emptiness, of nonduality...with mahamudra meditation there is no doctrine, no theology, no philosophy, no God, no Buddha. Mahamudra is only experience.”...