AFTER an eventful early life that started in Melbourne, Ven Robina Courtin was ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist nun in the late 1970s, and has worked since then editing Mandala Magazine, managing Wisdom Publications, directing the Liberation Prison Project including working with prisoners on death row in the US, and as a touring teacher of Buddhism.
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Ven Robina Courtin is a highly sought after speaker who is continuously teaching around the world, and next month she will be in Milton to teach in a full day workshop hosted by the Manjushri Buddhist Centre.
The September 20 workshop on “How to loosen the grip of ego-grasping and develop our innate potential” has been described as a fantastic opportunity for participants to discover their marvellous potential for clarity, contentment, love and the rest of the positive human qualities that are our natural state.
It will focus on learn how to overcome our main stumbling blocks - deeply held assumptions that attachment, anger, depression and fear and the rest are innate within us and therefore impossible to eliminate; and that suffering and happiness come from the outside.
As long as we believe these, Buddha says, we’ll always remain victims.
The workshop will investigate Buddha’s model of the mind, learning how to distinguish between the positive and negative emotions, how to eliminate those that break our hearts, and to develop those that bring happiness to ourselves and others.
By becoming deeply familiar with the workings of our own minds, as well as karma, through meditation and purification practices we can slowly loosen the grip of ego-grasping and develop our innate potential.
The workshop at St Mary Star of the Sea Milton hall runs from 9am to 5pm, with a children’s session from 2.30pm to 3pm.
For bookings contact Alison McKay on mbcmilton@gmail.com or phone 0411 085 971 after 6pm.
As an introduction to this extraordinary teacher’s work, The Manjushri Buddhist Centre is hosting a free movie night, featuring the film ‘Chasing Buddha: the life of a Buddhist nun’ depicting Ven Robina’s life and work with prisoners.
The soup and movie night is being held on Friday, September 5, at the Manjushri Buddhist Centre, 40 Wason Street, Milton, starting 6.30pm.
For bookings contact Alison McKay on mbcmilton@gmail.com or phone 0411 085 971 after 6pm.
