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. Impermanence (1:49) To practice what? (6:50) The revolutionary shift in the mind (17:00) The unique approach of the Buddha (17:48) Get Wisdom!! (18:28) Causes of suffering: karma and delusions (24:46) The subtlest misconception (27:00) Receiving the cake making initiation (the benefit of a spiritual teacher) (32:00) Choose your guru very carefully, you're going to end up like them (34:37) Q: What about when someone says they are self taught? (36:06) Q: Could you please offer some tips on building and maintaining motivation in the early days of developing a daily meditation practice? (40:27) Q: If the best way to get there is with a teacher … then who taught Bach when he was playing so well at 5 years of age (47:22) Q: I understand intellectually how objects conventionally exist and the emptiness of objects, what I struggle with is to transfer that to situations, for example being criticised at work (49:06) The Ikea "I" (54:22) "One or many" logical argument (56:58) His Holiness Dalai Lama on dependant arising (1:04:14) Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche on the realisation of the emptiness of "I" (1:05:17) Dependant arising and Emptiness is the most delicious way to understand emptiness (on the Heart Sutra) (1:07:32) Emptiness on the "I" (1:09:33) Nihilistic Insanity (1:10:53) Q: Are you saying that the mind was not experiencing fear, but the body was … because the body was trying to survive altho the mind wasn't (1:20:08) How to apply dependant arising and wisdom in the supermarket aisle (1:22:04) Medicine Buddha Mantra (1:27:32)