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 ourselves of harmful, ancient, negative ones. Q: Dealing with Nagas (2:51) Q: Correct approach to Guru devotion, having a "spiritual mentor" (7:01) Q: How do I question and explore respectfully, once I've taken on a spiritual mentor (13:37) Q: How can we maintain compassion and balance when we are interacting with the News [of other people's suffering] without being swamped or overcome by it? (18:16) Q: Ven. Robina, I have an increasing observational awareness of the stupid pointless [internal] chatter that goes on constantly during my day. I can't stop it or silence it, I jump on board and take the ride but I am aware of it. Is that a sign of progress or just ego telling me that I'm developing faster than I actually am? (24:52) Q: How do I present myself in my working life as a person on the Buddhist path? (28:10) Q: What to do if you are the kind of person who takes everything in and it stays in (not someone who is vomiting everything out the mouth!) (36:12)