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  • Venerable Robina Courtin leads a short - five minute - meditation on the breath. Venerable Robina gives an introduction to the correct physical posture to adopt followed by a brief, simple meditation aimed at increasing focus, awareness and alertness. Easily something you can do everyday.Introduction to the posture (0:25)Meditation instruction (5:29)The meditation practice - "4 or 5 quality minutes" (6:36)

  • Venerable Robina Courtin is known for her clear teaching, explaining the Buddhist approach to thinking and acting in terms we can understand. Through examples that are relevant to our lives, she presents multiple ways we can put these ideas into practice.Venerable Robina explains the beneficial actions of body, speech and mind we can adopt, and actions to avoid. She gives us ways to create positive new habits benefiting ourselves and those around us, and how to slowly - completely - rid ourselves of harmful, ancient, negative ones.Stolen Time: One Woman's Inspiring Story As An Innocent Condemned To Death, Sunny Jacobs: https://bit.ly/StolenTime_SunnyJacobsQ: I am caregiving for my father and my dog. I feel resentful for the demands that are placed on me. What can I do to keep going? (2:53)On "blessing the speech" practice (15:06) You can view Venerable Robina leading this practice here: • Express Meditation with Ven. Robina C... Q: I just heard it yesterday, that we can listen to the Teachings in 3 ways -- being a full pot so nothing goes in, being a dirty pot -- so all got polluted, or being a licking pot -- so it goes in and then it goes out again. I think on different days I can be any of those really :) (22:31)Q: In the evening I am determined to wake up early and meditate and practice and in the morning I slept again. (25:26)Q: My 21 year old daughter has a strong tendency toward anxiety and will often catastrophise and overthinks the future, causing her a lot of additional stresses. Alongside this, her anxiety extends to social situations as well.Do you have any advice…(31:43)Q: Would it be skilful to try and practise and master two traditions/lineages? I am currently mainly a practitioner of Soto Zen however am also inclined towards esoteric practises such as those in Vajrayana. (38:05)Q: I'm curious about the way 'Western' Buddhists should practice vs 'Eastern' Buddhists. From my reading, it seems Lama Yeshe didn't think westerners need to do all the intense rituals whilst Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaches very intense rituals for everyone (41:50)Q: How to work with my sister who drinks alcohol (and gets drunk) in the house we share together (48:49)Q: What guidance / recommendations do you have for daily practice? Is there essential daily rituals/ practice for a lay person? (57:42)Q: Can purification practice "lessen the load" of previous karmic imprints? (1:00:09)Q: Why does our mind ‘push-back’ so intensely if we get too involved with it? (1:03:21)It doesn't occur to us to consciously say positive thoughts to counteract our negative thought habit (1:10:33)Q: I’m finding it difficult to deal with my internal feelings towards the reactions from others to my illness / disability / , and the loss of friendships etc . I’m finding this hard. What can I do ? Because it causes me to want to withdraw as it takes so much energy -as I struggle just to manage. (1:12:36)Q: Ven Robina, I'm doing a daily Vajrasattva purification practice most evenings with the four Rs. My ability to visualise Vajrasattva over my head is poor. Any ideas on how to build that visualisation skill? (1:22:10)Q: I’m a support person for a man with a degenerative disease. He knows I have a Buddhist practice and we often chat about Buddhism and he asks questions. I’m not a teacher and I don’t want to evangelise so can you give me any ideas about resources I could point him towards or use together when I’m spending time with him? (1:22:35)Q: What to do about the climate change situation? (1:24:58)Q: I am a casual emergency relief teacher. In my capacity as a relief teacher I see many secondary students feeling the burning effects of digital media , because they are so overexposed to it,— ie:- many student’ s stay on their games on their screens during class, They refuse to stop when asked. How can I give them some hope and enthusiasm? (How can I not get depressed!!? ) (1:29:46)

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  • Venerable Robina Courtin is known for her clear teaching, explaining the Buddhist approach to thinking and acting in terms we can understand. Through examples that are relevant to our lives, she presents multiple ways we can put these ideas into practice.Venerable Robina explains the beneficial actions of body, speech and mind we can adopt, and actions to avoid. She gives us ways to create positive new habits benefiting ourselves and those around us, and how to slowly - completely - rid ourselves of harmful, ancient, negative ones.Q: I struggle to give loving kindness & forgiveness to my mum who lives with mental health challenges & anger what practice should I develop? (3:43)Q: Knowing I have not demonstrated compassion in these moments what can I do to reduce my agitation & karmic imprint and forgive myself for not being able to not react (12:46)Venerable Robina leading a short Vajrasattva purification practice: • Venerable Robina Courtin Leads A Shor... Teachings on Vajrasattva and the four opponent powers: • There's no karma that can't be purified! Q: My sister has been listening to your teachings on YouTube not being a Buddhist and being curious what would you suggest she should do to start a Buddhist practice (21:50)Q: How important is meditation in our daily practice, what recommendations do you have for a lay person’s daily practice? (25:18)Q: Can Buddhism be learnt from books? Or should you have a teacher? How do you you find right teacher for you? (28:18)Q: I’m a performer and have been so inspired by Tina Turner- as an artist I always think that Art Practice is also a spiritual pursuit - (even though that may not be in the Sutras!) Tina practiced the mantra Nam Myho Renge Kyo’ from the Ringchen practice. I looked this up but could not find the Lotus Sutra in the fpmt website- but found it on the Rigpa website. However because of my Gelugpa lineage I don’t feel as connected- and a bit guilty looking elsewhere… (29:45)Q: When you go into meditation and you think it is not successful (because there are so many thoughts coming up)... (34:03)The real purpose of mediation is to become more familiar with your mind (48:00)We do need relaxation; however, this meditation is not for relaxation - it is about ALERTNESS! (51:48)Q: [Regret about not spending time on the cushion doing practice - But I do argue with my ego throughout my day] (54:29)Q: Do we have to wait 9 months for Lama Zopa's rebirth? (58:49)Q: Are we at a point where there can be a female reincarnation? (1:01:43)Q: How to maintain enthusiasm when obstacles arise and how to embrace it when the obstacles are gone! (1:03:50)Q: What to do when I'm in the classroom (as the teacher) and there is conflict and confrontation and I have to make a decision in the moment (1:08:31)"the deepest most subtle attachment of all and the hardest to recognise" - Worry about what people think (1:10:15)Q: My brother is a programmer and we were recently talking about AI. He told me that Google is experimenting with storing data on atoms. He tells me he believes they are making headway. If this happens AI will probably develop full consciousness. I thought about King of Prayers, on every atom is a Buddha field. Under these circumstances do you think from a Buddhist perspective that a conscience could enter an AI? It seems like a silly question but people really fear this. (1:12:17)A short meditation on the breath with introduction to the posture (1:16:18)

  • Venerable Robina Courtin is known for her clear teaching, explaining the Buddhist approach to thinking and acting in terms we can understand. Through examples that are relevant to our lives, she presents multiple ways we can put these ideas into practice.Venerable Robina explains the beneficial actions of body, speech and mind we can adopt, and actions to avoid. She gives us ways to create positive new habits benefiting ourselves and those around us, and how to slowly - completely - rid ourselves of harmful, ancient, negative ones.Q: Dealing with Nagas (2:51)Q: Correct approach to Guru devotion, having a "spiritual mentor" (7:01)Q: How do I question and explore respectfully, once I've taken on a spiritual mentor (13:37)Q: How can we maintain compassion and balance when we are interacting with the News [of other people's suffering] without being swamped or overcome by it? (18:16)Q: Ven. Robina, I have an increasing observational awareness of the stupid pointless [internal] chatter that goes on constantly during my day. I can't stop it or silence it, I jump on board and take the ride but I am aware of it. Is that a sign of progress or just ego telling me that I'm developing faster than I actually am? (24:52)Q: How do I present myself in my working life as a person on the Buddhist path? (28:10)Q: What to do if you are the kind of person who takes everything in and it stays in (not someone who is vomiting everything out the mouth!) (36:12)

  • Venerable Robina Courtin is known for her clear teaching, explaining the Buddhist approach to thinking and acting in terms we can understand. Through examples that are relevant to our lives, she presents multiple ways we can put these ideas into practice.Venerable Robina explains the beneficial actions of body, speech and mind we can adopt, and actions to avoid. She gives us ways to create positive new habits benefiting ourselves and those around us, and how to slowly - completely - rid ourselves of harmful, ancient, negative ones.Impermanence (1:49)To practice what? (6:50)The revolutionary shift in the mind (17:00)The unique approach of the Buddha (17:48)Get Wisdom!! (18:28)Causes of suffering: karma and delusions (24:46)The subtlest misconception (27:00)Receiving the cake making initiation (the benefit of a spiritual teacher) (32:00)Choose your guru very carefully, you're going to end up like them (34:37)Q: What about when someone says they are self taught? (36:06)Q: Could you please offer some tips on building and maintaining motivation in the early days of developing a daily meditation practice? (40:27)Q: If the best way to get there is with a teacher … then who taught Bach when he was playing so well at 5 years of age (47:22)Q: I understand intellectually how objects conventionally exist and the emptiness of objects, what I struggle with is to transfer that to situations, for example being criticised at work (49:06)The Ikea "I" (54:22)"One or many" logical argument (56:58)His Holiness Dalai Lama on dependant arising (1:04:14)Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche on the realisation of the emptiness of "I" (1:05:17)Dependant arising and Emptiness is the most delicious way to understand emptiness (on the Heart Sutra) (1:07:32)Emptiness on the "I" (1:09:33)Nihilistic Insanity (1:10:53)Q: Are you saying that the mind was not experiencing fear, but the body was … because the body was trying to survive altho the mind wasn't (1:20:08)How to apply dependant arising and wisdom in the supermarket aisle (1:22:04)Medicine Buddha Mantra (1:27:32)

  • Venerable Robina Courtin discussed ways to apply Buddhist teachings to our everyday lives, to help us in our relationships, our work, our emotional lives, and in interpreting events we see going on in the world.0:00 Everyday Buddhism 5:29 How do we do the job of being a Buddhist?07:35 The way to apply impermanence in daily life10:40 We suffer because we don't have the right view of reality15:35 We have no idea that what goes on in our mind plays any role in our lives18:20 It's our interpretations of the outside world that make us suffer24:24 The First Level of Practice - Control your body and speech27:02 The main energy of attachment is dissatisfaction33:33 "There's nothing wrong with your heart dear, it's just your behaviour!"35:03 Controlling our speech solves 90% of our problems39:59 We create ourselves through our thoughts43:30 Question: Is romantic love just attachment?48:50 Question: Can we say people are attached to their suffering?51:00 Question: Is it being phony to say nothing?55:42 Question: Can you discuss attachment to reputation and the desire to be liked?1:06:05 Question: Can we think of Putin as having a good heart but problematic behaviour?1:11:16 Question: Would you explain the attachment to our and others' gender?1:21:20 Question: Do you have a simple way to introduce Buddhism to children?1:23:18 Final thoughts

  • Venerable Robina Courtin performs the Bodhisattva Vows Ceremony before viewing the video of the Avalokiteshvara Empowerment with His Holiness the Dalai Lama: https://youtu.be/Ti-L1BdhLw4

  • Venerable Robina Courtin teaches about taking the Bodhisattva vows before viewing the YouTube of the Avalokiteshavara Empowerment with His Holiness the Dalai Lama: https://youtu.be/Ti-L1BdhLw4

  • Venerable Robina performs the Refuge Ceremony before viewing the video of the Preliminaries to the Avalokiteshvara Empowerment with His Holiness the Dalai Lama: https://youtu.be/iUWH3PIjZQ8

  • Venerable Robina Courtin teaches about taking refuge in Buddha, Dharma and the Sangha and taking the 5 lay vows before viewing the YouTube of the Avalokiteshavara Empowerment with His Holiness the Dalai Lama:  https://youtu.be/iUWH3PIjZQ8

  • On Christmas Eve 2021, Venerable Robina Courtin gave a free public talk: “Bringing the Dharma to Christmas Dinner”.  

    In the tradition of Lama Yeshe’s Christmas Dharma Teachings, Venerable Robina speaks about how you can make your Christmas beneficial for all sentient beings! 

    The holiday period can bring with it a special sort of festive stress, as many of us juggle social commitments, family dynamics and capitalist expectations to spend, spend, spend!   How to maintain presence of mind amidst these pressures? How to be kind and compassionate to those around us when their views and values differ from our own? And how to have a harmonious gathering with family and friends?  

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    Decide - "I'll be at Christmas for them!" (12:00)  

    Q: What happens if you decide "to be there for them" and then something happens and you lose that motivation? (16:17)  

    Q: If you have sought to create peace with an abuser who isn't aware that they are abusive and they are actively making war - is it wise to impliment an estrangement and how do you know if it is ego or wisdom to do so? (24:02)  

    Q: I find I’m feeling really repugnant towards merry makers when there’s so much devastation in the world (eg. my friend’s parents’ home town in Philippines has been devoted by typhoon in the past few days) and it’s dragging down my husband and kids.  What’s your advice please?   (30:52) 

    Q: Since it is Christmas eve what would be a nice meditation or offering to do to benefit others? (33:54)  

    Q: What to do about forgiveness of yourself when you have been the abuser? (41:39)  

    Forgiveness can be misused (49:20)  

    Q: How can I distance myself from how I feel when I perceive others to be criticising me so I can keep being positive (especially over the holidays) (50:58)  

    Q: Venerable Robina, please let us know your favourite thing to do over Christmas and how do you spend the holidays (52:34)  

    Q: When my daughter comes at Christmas, we can only go about a day without an argument. So instead of looking forward to it, I'm dreading it. How can I prepare? (54:51)  

    Q: I'd like to learn more about the Buddha, can you suggest something I could read or things I could get to learn more? (58:24)  

    The centre Venerable Robina refers to is - Thubten Norbu Ling: a Tibetan Buddhist center in Santa Fe, New Mexico - https://tnlsf.org 

    Q: Will Venerable Robina be going to Kopan or running the Indian Tour or the Lawudo trek in the future? (1:01:03)  

    More about the Lawudo Trek: https://lawudo-trek.org 

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    May anyone who sees, hears, thinks of, remembers or has anything to do with even a moment of these teachings, create the causes for enlightenment within their mindstream.

  • Venerable Robina Courtin continues teaching about the Buddhist approach to developing compassion.  

    WHY ENDLESS COMPASSION? 

    Sometimes it feels like the world’s problems are demanding so much of our attention that our compassion reserves will run dry. How can we develop strong, resilient compassion that allows us to help others?  Venerable Robina says: “You don't harm others even slightly if you love, have compassion, generosity, forgiveness - it's not possible. It’s the delusions that cause us pain and cause us to harm others. So when we deeply understand that, it’s like we’ve got compassion for ourselves. That’s what qualifies us to have compassion for others - and that doesn’t just mean the victims, it means the people who do the harm. This is a really tough level of compassion but we can not have it until we know ourselves, until we know what causes us pain.”  

    Course notes: https://bit.ly/EndlessCompassionNotes 

    Sunny Jacob’s book: https://bit.ly/StolenTime_SunnyJacobs 

    Namgyalma mantra to put on your car, to bless all the beings as you drive: https://shop.fpmt.org/Namgyalma-Mantra-Car-Sticker-PDF_p_3294.html 

    His Holiness Dalai Lama Avalokiteshvara Initiation, May 2020: 

    Day 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUWH3PIjZQ8

    Day 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti-L1BdhLw4 

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    Q: If the Miami building was to fall, is it the karma of the people or the karma of the building? (0:49)  

    Q: Is all the negativity in our minds the result of karma? (3:39)  

    Q: If reincarnation is the only way we exist, why is there more of everything now? (9:06)  

    Q: What is the antidote to attachment? [to being approved of] (12:09)  

    Q: Still grieving, what to do? (16:14)  

    Q: Is reframing our karmic appearances practicing Emptiness, and does practicing Emptiness help us realise Emptiness.. So, is realising Emptiness a process? Can we cultivate Emptiness in the same way we cultivate compassion? (17:25)  

    Q: I have lost everything I have loved in my life and I have lost my health. Can I find peace or a happy place in this horrible time in my life, if yes how? (22:06)  

    Q: What is initiation? (26:59)  

    On taking Refuge (33:44)  

    Refuge commitments and vows (47:04)  

    Q: if you kill a mosquito after taking a vow, is it worse than if you haven’t taken the vow? (57:37)  

    Q: I had to kill the rats in our roof as they were running rampant, destroying stuff. Can we do Vajrasattva practice to repent and also renew my vow again? (1:02:34)  

    Q: After today we just retake the vows every morning 1st thing open our eyes? (1:04:13)  

    Q: So many insects get squished when we drive a car. If we know animals die when we drive a car should we not drive a car? (1:04:49)  

    Q: I would like to take the empowerment. However I am wondering how to reconcile the past faith in God. I am wondering if I can still have the faith in saints and God as well as taking Buddha as my empowerment? (1:11:00)  

    Q: Is there a line between killing due to dislike/disgust as opposed to killing for the wellbeing of other beings? For example, I recently had a flea infestation in my apartment. I’m allergic to flea bites and it was causing my foster cat a lot of distress. I chose not to flea bomb due to toxins that would affect the cat however I used diatomaceous earth which is non-toxic for myself and the cat however kills fleas by dehydration. In this situation what is the best course of action? (1:17:18)

  • Venerable Robina Courtin continues teaching about the Buddhist approach to developing compassion.  

    WHY ENDLESS COMPASSION? 

    Sometimes it feels like the world’s problems are demanding so much of our attention that our compassion reserves will run dry. How can we develop strong, resilient compassion that allows us to help others?  Venerable Robina says: “You don't harm others even slightly if you love, have compassion, generosity, forgiveness - it's not possible. It’s the delusions that cause us pain and cause us to harm others. So when we deeply understand that, it’s like we’ve got compassion for ourselves. That’s what qualifies us to have compassion for others - and that doesn’t just mean the victims, it means the people who do the harm. This is a really tough level of compassion but we can not have it until we know ourselves, until we know what causes us pain.”  

    Course notes: https://bit.ly/EndlessCompassionNotes 

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    What drives *our* actions that harm others? (7:07)  

    It is the very *having* of anger is where the suffering is (10:45)  

    When we can see this within ourselves... (15:00)  

    Anger is a mental breakdown [klesha = affliction = mental illness] (24:24)  

    The Four Noble Truths (28:15)  

    Compassion for ourselves (30:06)  

    Look at "deserving". What does "deserving" have to with anger and attachment? (34:48)  

    What is attachment? (47:35)  

    Q: Can I change my anger into compassion and *then* take action? (56:20)  

    Q: Does "survivor guilt" come from compassion? (57:34)  

    Q: If “junior school” is being ethical and not harming, and “university” is the compassion wing, is “high school?” working on our own minds?  (1:01:48)  

    Q: What is the difference between the anger of the man who kicks his dog and Roger the meditators experience where Rinpoche said "the dirt has to come out" (1:04:15)  

    Q: Apparent randomness of events and karma (1:06:17)  

    Q: All of these things that are happening - good or bad - our job as practitioners is to bring it all into the path?  (1:12:21)  

    Q: Does purification practice like Vajrasattva get rid of the seed of transmute it? (1:14:04)

  • Venerable Robina Courtin continues teaching about the Buddhist approach to developing compassion.  

    WHY ENDLESS COMPASSION? 

    Sometimes it feels like the world’s problems are demanding so much of our attention that our compassion reserves will run dry. How can we develop strong, resilient compassion that allows us to help others?  

    Venerable Robina says: “You don't harm others even slightly if you love, have compassion, generosity, forgiveness - it's not possible. It’s the delusions that cause us pain and cause us to harm others. So when we deeply understand that, it’s like we’ve got compassion for ourselves. That’s what qualifies us to have compassion for others - and that doesn’t just mean the victims, it means the people who do the harm. This is a really tough level of compassion but we can not have it until we know ourselves, until we know what causes us pain.”  

    Course notes: https://bit.ly/EndlessCompassionNotes

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    Even if you're drowning, you might as well stay perky...(6:58)  

    Q: How to recognise authentic compassion, compassion with wisdom? (7:36)  

    Practices to develop compassion (14:55)  

    Q: If removing the dirt from the water (as a metaphor for overcoming delusions) is possible - what is "the water"? (39:15)  

    Q: How to apply equanimity to ourselves? Should we look at our afflictions with equanimity? (46:05)  

    Q: How does talking about others destroy our equanimity? Is it because we can do it with anger. Is there ever a time that talking about others is okay and in line with our equanimity? (53:22)  

    Q: It’s difficult to fathom how one person is able to hold all beings with genuine love. If we forget about a stranger’s headache in 1 minute - does a Bodhisattva keep thinking about it? Can we think about 7.5 billion peoples’ headaches all at once? It seems like too big a job for a single person - how is that level of concern experienced by a Bodhisattva? (1:00:00)  

    Q: I don't understand the suffering of change. (1:03:03)  

    Q: What is the mudra when offering the mandala? (1:09:43)  

    Q: Is it so: that which my mind labels as pleasure is actually a delusion and a kind of poison (1:12:24)  

    Q: Could you please talk more about the connection between the mind and the body? Is this something that we can only experience/ observe through meditation? (1:22:32)

  • In this series of teachings, Venerable Robina Courtin teaches about the Buddhist approach to developing compassion.  

    WHY ENDLESS COMPASSION? 

    Sometimes it feels like the world’s problems are demanding so much of our attention that our compassion reserves will run dry. How can we develop strong, resilient compassion that allows us to help others?  Venerable Robina says: “You don't harm others even slightly if you love, have compassion, generosity, forgiveness - it's not possible. It’s the delusions that cause us pain and cause us to harm others. So when we deeply understand that, it’s like we’ve got compassion for ourselves. That’s what qualifies us to have compassion for others - and that doesn’t just mean the victims, it means the people who do the harm. This is a really tough level of compassion but we can not have it until we know ourselves, until we know what causes us pain.”  

    Course notes: https://bit.ly/EndlessCompassionNotes 

    Links mentioned in video:  

    Lama Yeshe - Mahamudra: https://bit.ly/MahamudraFPMTShop 

    Lama Zopa Rinpoche - How to Face Death Without Fear: https://bit.ly/KLZR_DeathWithoutFear 

    Bronnie Ware - Top 5 Regrets of the Dying: https://bit.ly/Top5RegretsOfTheDying 

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    The nuts and bolts of Buddhist practice (8:24)  

    Why do we get drained when working with others and are seeing their suffering? It's *not* from compassion (15:00)  

    Understanding attachment (19:13)  

    The key to success! (25:11)  

    The bottom line is: (33:06)  

    Compassion is not enough, we need wisdom (35:58)  

    Q: What is the definition of "brain", "mind" and "consciousness"? (45:19)  

    Q: What about attachment to thinking "I'm right. My view is right"? (52:16)  

    Q: How do we practice in the present and still plan for the future? (57:48)  

    Q: Sir David Attenborough has said that we have 18 years left now to turn around what we are doing to wreck this planet we live on ..and then there will be no turning back from the inevitable destruction of all life on this planet and human being will become extinct...I just want to hear ven. Robinas thoughts on this fact (1:00:48)  

    Q: Where is the line between being compassionate and being a doormat? (1:06:19)  

    Q: Maybe when they (some Yoguis) say that we are not the mind they mean that we are not our ego. So how to recognize the Self and the ego? (1:11:18)  

    Q: What is Universal Mind in relation to our personal Mind.  How is it connected? (1:12:40)  

    Q: I have been bullied in the past and at the same time told I am way too nice. So how to get around this?  so we give up attachment to being seen to be 'a good little greek girl'  but be good, help others and kind, say your truth and get on with it, by being brave/courageous and not being attached to being seen as say a 'good little greek girl' - identify my own attachment to being a 'good little greek girl' is this on the right track? (1:15:45)

  • Venerable Robina Courtin continues teaching on Lama Zopa Rinpoche's book, How to Face Death Without Fear (https://bit.ly/KLZR_DeathWithoutFear​).  

    How to Face Death Without Fear is a collection of Rinpoche's teachings on how to think about death and reincarnation, how to help our loved ones at the time of death (including our pets) and how to prepare for our own death.  Venerable Robina edited the collection, and as she explains in the preface: "Because for most of us death is a difficult thing to come to terms with—our loved one’s or our own—working out which practices to do can be daunting. Therefore Rinpoche’s actual advice, the things to do—contained in parts 3, 4, and 5, the heart of the book—have been identified as eighty-seven distinct practices, numbered and structured chronologically to help us know what to do when.”  

    Course notes: https://bit.ly/DeathWithoutFearNotes 

    Links related to video: How to Face Death Without Fear book: https://bit.ly/KLZR_DeathWithoutFear​ 

    Mantras for Animals playlist on Spotify: http://bit.ly/MantrasForAnimals​ 

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  • Venerable Robina Courtin continues teaching on Lama Zopa Rinpoche's book, How to Face Death Without Fear (https://bit.ly/KLZR_DeathWithoutFear​).  

    How to Face Death Without Fear is a collection of Rinpoche's teachings on how to think about death and reincarnation, how to help our loved ones at the time of death (including our pets) and how to prepare for our own death.  Venerable Robina edited the collection, and as she explains in the preface: "Because for most of us death is a difficult thing to come to terms with—our loved one’s or our own—working out which practices to do can be daunting. Therefore Rinpoche’s actual advice, the things to do—contained in parts 3, 4, and 5, the heart of the book—have been identified as eighty-seven distinct practices, numbered and structured chronologically to help us know what to do when.”  

    Course notes: https://bit.ly/DeathWithoutFearNotes 

    Links related to video: How to Face Death Without Fear book: https://bit.ly/KLZR_DeathWithoutFear​ 

    Mantras for Animals playlist on Spotify: http://bit.ly/MantrasForAnimals​ 

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  • Venerable Robina Courtin continues teaching on Lama Zopa Rinpoche's book, How to Face Death Without Fear (https://bit.ly/KLZR_DeathWithoutFear​).  

    How to Face Death Without Fear is a collection of Rinpoche's teachings on how to think about death and reincarnation, how to help our loved ones at the time of death (including our pets) and how to prepare for our own death.  Venerable Robina edited the collection, and as she explains in the preface: "Because for most of us death is a difficult thing to come to terms with—our loved one’s or our own—working out which practices to do can be daunting. Therefore Rinpoche’s actual advice, the things to do—contained in parts 3, 4, and 5, the heart of the book—have been identified as eighty-seven distinct practices, numbered and structured chronologically to help us know what to do when.”  

    Course notes: https://bit.ly/DeathWithoutFearNotes 

    Links related to video: 

    How to Face Death Without Fear book: https://bit.ly/KLZR_DeathWithoutFear​ 

    Mantras for Animals playlist on Spotify: http://bit.ly/MantrasForAnimals​ 

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  • Venerable Robina Courtin continues teaching on Lama Zopa Rinpoche's book, How to Face Death Without Fear (https://bit.ly/KLZR_DeathWithoutFear).

    How to Face Death Without Fear is a collection of Rinpoche's teachings on how to think about death and reincarnation, how to help our loved ones at the time of death (including our pets) and how to prepare for our own death.

    Venerable Robina edited the collection, and as she explains in the preface: "Because for most of us death is a difficult thing to come to terms with—our loved one’s or our own—working out which practices to do can be daunting. Therefore Rinpoche’s actual advice, the things to do—contained in parts 3, 4, and 5, the heart of the book—have been identified as eighty-seven distinct practices, numbered and structured chronologically to help us know what to do when.”

    Links related to video:

    How to Face Death Without Fear book: https://bit.ly/KLZR_DeathWithoutFear

    The Undead, by Dick Teresi: https://bit.ly/TheUndead_Book

    The Tibetan Art of Parenting, by Anne Hubbell Maiden, Edie Farwell: http://bit.ly/TibetanArtOfParentingBook

    Death, Intermediate State, and Rebirth in Tibetan Buddhism

    By Lati Rinpoche and Jeffrey Hopkins: http://bit.ly/DeathIntermediateStateRebirthBook

    Mind of Clear Light : Advice on Living Well and Dying Consciously. His Holiness the Dalai Lama , Edited by  Jeffrey Hopkins: http://bit.ly/MindOfClearLightBook

    Prayer to be reborn in the land of bliss by Lama Tsongkhapa: http://bit.ly/LandOfBlissPrayer

    Mantras for Animals playlist on Spotify: http://bit.ly/MantrasForAnimals

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  • Venerable Robina Courtin teaches on Lama Zopa Rinpoche's book, How to Face Death Without Fear (https://bit.ly/KLZR_DeathWithoutFear​).

    How to Face Death Without Fear is a collection of Rinpoche's teachings on how to think about death and reincarnation, how to help our loved ones at the time of death (including our pets) and how to prepare for our own death.

    Venerable Robina edited the collection, and as she explains in the preface: "Because for most of us death is a difficult thing to come to terms with—our loved one’s or our own—working out which practices to do can be daunting. Therefore Rinpoche’s actual advice, the things to do—contained in parts 3, 4, and 5, the heart of the book—have been identified as eighty-seven distinct practices, numbered and structured chronologically to help us know what to do when.”

    Links related to video:

    How to Face Death Without Fear book: https://bit.ly/KLZR_DeathWithoutFear​

    Heart Spoon prayer by Pabongka Rinpoche: https://www.lamayeshe.com/article/hea...​

    Prayer to be reborn in the land of bliss by Lama Tsongkhapa: http://bit.ly/LandOfBlissPrayer​

    Mantras for Animals playlist on Spotify: http://bit.ly/MantrasForAnimals​

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    Death is not fearful (9:36​)

    The bottom line is to help the person who is dying become peaceful (18:39​)

    Death is definite...Imagine you have a flight at the end of the day (30:20​)

    Wake up call! Heart spoon (46:24​)

    What does it mean to not waste your life? What does it mean to live a good life? The view of karma; self creation (54:00​)

    Q: "You say "dying in a Pure Land  ...   be in bliss." But aa I am on the Bodhisattva path how do you prevent this or return to Samarsa? I want to RETURN and free all sentient beings from samsara and ONLY then can I rest in peace! " (1:00:12​)

    How to create a conducive environment for a dying person (1:11:23​)