I have been doing the taking and given practice for years. It does help you become more aware. This is refreshing and very helpful. Thank you for explaining it in this light.!!
Am a 71 year old kindergartener to Buddhism. Many years of dabbling and dodging my interest in the Buddha. Amazing that I "bumped" into you on RU-vid! Thank you so much for your teaching. Hopefully it's never too late.
Wow, amazing. Absolutely never too late. I’m 43 and have come to the same realisation, very happy and grateful to be here. Wishing you every goodness :)
Thank you for this incredible talk. It’s revelation to me. I have a background of psychology and yet I feel I’m only now truly learning about the mind and the nature of our existence. Staggeringly intuitive wisdom. Every one of your videos changes me. Thank you with all my heart x
Your Talks have helped me understand many of the negativities I have routinely attached to...and...how to better manage their expulsion from the present moment within my mind...
Thank you Ven Rob! I love the way you deliver the dharma. What does self-compassion look like? I’m starting to notice attachment and lessen my guilt around it. Is this what self-compassion looks like?
Good morning. 😎 I have another question about prayer. It's a good one I promise. Praying for other people as we do, wishing a 'long happy life' to lamas for example or just praying for sick family etc.. What does it mean in a Buddhist context to 'pray for others' considering we are told we cannot affect anyone else's karma? So is prayer for others effective in any direct or indirect way? Thanks. 🙌🙏
We cannot directly change another person’s karma, that’s for sure, but doesn’t mean we can’t help people, support people. You can give a person medicine but they must take the medicine. It’s like that. So asking the buddhas to help others, that’s powerful.
@@RobinaCourtinRU-vid thanks Venerable Robina! I hope to hear you in person some time. I'm anointing you my virtual root guru in the mean-time 🤣🤖🙌 om ah hung vajra guru pema siddhi hung ... (p.s. seeing as you are a trained singer... have you ever heard of the "castrati"? Castrated boys some who grew to over 7 foot tall (because of the hormonal interference but their voices never broke) and had the voices of boys and were trained into choirs and had a very angelic surreal sound.... 🤔 the things people do... anyway take care of yourself ... thanks for your endless help... (beginningless too?! 🤔😮🤣)... 🤷♂️🙌 om ah hung! 💗
Robina, Thank you so much for existing. I have been going to a monastery near me and took the 5 mindfulness trainings and became angry when monks or people weren’t nice to me, which led me to not want to return to practice there. I try my best to be kind and compassionate, and I don’t know how to overcome this doubt. How to be a kind human, but also not attached. I don’t want to give up on the path, but when I hear your words I feel like I’m sick with attachment. How do I progress? How can I work through this as a lay person. I’m sorry for this big question. Thank you 🙏🏼🪷
We’re all human Regina! We all want to only hear nice words and see smiles and we get upset when it doesn’t happen. We need to be brave, to see our minds, to know our wonderful potential. And if you find something useful in the Buddhist teachings, then persevere with it. Trust your own wisdom!
@@RobinaCourtinRU-vid Thank You Robina, your words face me encouragement to keep trying and know it’s quite brave to sit with all thoughts and feelings good and bad 🙏🏼🪷
When we realize that everything changes, it’s just its nature, then we can stop clinging and we will actually enjoy things even more. Clinging brings suffering, not pleasure. It’s a fine line, but it’s possible with much inner awareness. And also realizing - the Buddhist view, of course - that we just move on to another form, then we can see there is no death in the sense of no end.
Janina, there are so many places! Start with a center online: tnlsf.org in Santa Fe, where I’ve been based for a couple of years, has great programming. And then follow your heart from there!
Not an easy one, Andre! On the one hand, it’s our own business what we do with things like this: have them or not have them. But when it comes to their becoming mandatory, it gets difficult. I mean, we mightn’t want a driver’s license but we know we’ll get arrested or whatever; we mightn’t want to pay taxes, but we’ll get into trouble if we don’t. Whatever decision we make, we need to accept the consequences.
@@RobinaCourtinRU-vid dear ven. Robina, i appreciate you taking the time to respond 🙏. I do not know if you are aware or not, but there have been many protests against mandatory vaccination all over the world. 26 states (and counting) in USA are opposed to their federal vaccine mandate. For many individuals including myself, the risk is higher than the benefit, and often acknowledged as such by their personal doctors. For others, it is against their religious belief. And yet for others, it is against their country law/constitutions. However, the mandate makes no exemption for general public. Many have been fired from their jobs because they do not comply, including doctors, nurses, and frontline workers who have risked their lives to help covid patients, and who understand the reality of this disease more than most people do. I am genuinely curious to know about your personal opinion regarding the etchics and morality of this mandate, as a former activist and as a buddhist. I know this is a hot topic, so if you would rather not continue this discussion, I understand. It wont take away from my gratitude for all the wisdom you have shared and all the teachings you have done. May you and all beings be free. 🙏
Of course we should be treated with respect Maria! But we can’t guarantee it, can we? So we need to protect ourselves by become mentally strong, self-sufficient. And that’s possible.
Well, you are implying that the "attachment" a mother thinks of her kid as being a negative, for the mother and the child. But that's not all it can be. It can also be a positive. In point of fact, without it, what is the motivation for even feeding it? If you don't feel that generic connection and the desires to protect it, you won't. And in that case, none of us would be here. And what is your response to "Cogito ergo sum"? Also, I disagree there are only 3 categories of relationships. There's also associate, like a co worker or neighbor. You're not friends necessarily but you are more familiar than with total strangers, but not as familiar as with friends and family. Not only that, you don't mention that relationships can exist for only five minutes, nevermind five years. And I mean something really profound can occur and you retain the event, and them, in your memory. Having that memory, does not by default mean I am attached to it at all. But even if I were, so what? It's MY memory! 😂
You are missing the point about the term attachment Ven. Robina is talking about. Attachment in Buddhism is different from the term attachment we are familiar with. I had to listen to this talk numerous times before I could "hear" what she is saying. Once the light comes on, it makes so much sense. Also, Ven. Robina isn't talking about 3 kinds of relationships. She is talking about what "motivates" our relationships with others: I either like you, don't like you, or I neither like or dislike you.
