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

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.
HYBRID | IN-PERSON | ONLINE
$25.00 USD
Select your ticket type below. Please note: In-person events are held at Tibet House NYC – 22 West 15th Street, New York, NY 10011, unless noted otherwise.
Recordings Notice:Our hybrid and online events are usually recorded (unless noted otherwise). Event recordings are emailed to all registered participants, regardless of attendance, within 1–3 business days after the event. In-person attendees will also receive access to the online links and recordings.

Co-hosted with the Shantideva Center

Wednesday, November 25

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:

BE YOUR OWN THERAPIST

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 marvellous potential for clarity, contentment, love and the other qualities that Buddha says are innate within us.

 

PRESENTER 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.