Monthly Buddhist Teachings | with Venerable Robina Courtin | September
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Monthly Buddhist Teachings | with Venerable Robina Courtin | September

These monthly Buddhist teachings with Ven. Robina Courtin include a 90-minute dharma talk on a variety of subjects, including a question and answer period at the end of the lecture.
$25.00 USD
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Co-hosted with the Shantideva Center

Wednesday, September 9

6:30 - 8:00 PM ET

In-person & Online | $25

These monthly Buddhist teachings with Ven Robina Courtin include a 90-minute dharma talk on a variety of subjects, including a question and answer period at the end of the lecture. This month, the lecture featured is:

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF TANTRA

We all have fears, anxiety, depression and the rest, but the trouble is we over-identify with these aspects of our self, believing that they are who we really are and assuming that we’re stuck with them. But we’re not.

As Lama Yeshe shows us so clearly in his Introduction to Tantra how to instead consciously identify our sense of self in terms of our beauty, courage, compassion and the other marvelous qualities that are at the core of our being – and finally identify with our ultimate nature, that of a buddha: our potential to be utterly free of all delusions and fully developed in wisdom and goodness.

This is the essence of the psychology of tantra. The various buddhas are simply manifestations of these qualities: the buddha of compassion, Chenrezig; the buddha of wisdom, Manjushri, and Tara – in Tibetan, Drolma, the Liberator: the liberator from the fears of samsara – the manifestation of power, courage, action. By meditating on them, identifying with them, we become our own Chenrezig, our own Tara.

 

BIO

Venerable Robina Courtin has worked full-time for Lama Thubten Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s organization, the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition, since her ordination in the late 1970s. Over the years she has served as editorial director of Wisdom Publications, editor of Mandala Magazine, executive director of Liberation Prison Project, and as a touring teacher of Buddhism. Her life and work with prisoners have been featured in the documentary films Chasing Buddha and Key to Freedom. Venerable Robina is known for her straightforward and energetic teaching style, helping people discover the potential of their own minds with clear explanations about Tibetan Buddhism and how to apply it to their lives. Visit her website at http://www.robinacourtin.com.

 

These monthly Buddhist teachings with Ven. Robina Courtin include a 90-minute dharma talk on a variety of subjects, including a question and answer period at the end of the lecture.
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