Becoming Your Own Therapist - A talk with Ven. Robina Courtin

We spend our lives being seduced by the outside world, believing completely that happiness and suffering come from “out there.” But if we look into our hearts we can see that this is not true, that the more we hold on to people and things and experiences, the more dissatisfied and lonely we become.

Happiness and suffering come from the way we perceive and interpret things, not the things themselves. At the heart of it, according to Buddhism, is the instinctive clinging to a limited sense of self, which causes us to respond with attachment, anger and the rest.

By becoming deeply familiar with the workings of our own minds and hearts through meditation and purification practices – truly, being our own therapist – we can slowly loosen the grip of ego-grasping and begin to open up our marvelous potential for clarity, contentment, love and the other qualities that Buddha says are innate within us.

Cost: A requested donation of $20 to be offered to Ven Robina’s Bodhichitta Trust,which supports the work of her lamas Lama Thubten Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche. No one turned away for lack of funds!

Host: Kate Macdonald, (949) 204-9870 or kate@coraltreeinhomecare.com

About Ven. RobinaAustralian ex-Catholic, ex-political activist, ex-radical feminist, and former body guard for the Dalai Lama, Robina Courtin has been a Buddhist nun since 1978. Teaching Buddhist psychology and philosophy around the world, she shatters the stereotype of a Buddhist nun, her intense and direct style leaving an indelible impression on everyone she meets.

Robina draws on experiences from her own crazy, chaotic life, and has touched countless lives with her extraordinary energy, fiery compassion and dynamic no-nonsense style.

“My main wish is to communicate with human hearts,” Robina says. “For people to realize, ‘I’ve got some human qualities, and I can change; that I’m not defined by my negativity.’”

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