The Venerable Robina Courtin has been A Buddhist nun since the late 70s. She was born in Melbourne, Australia, where she was educated by Catholic nuns, and studied classical singing. In 1976, she met some Tibetan lamas, and received ordination as a monastic eighteen months later, in Kathmandu. She has worked since then with the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition, the worldwide network of the Tibetan Buddhist teachers, Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche. She has also served as editorial director of Wisdom Publications, editor of Mandala magazine, and executive director of Liberation Prison Project, which she founded in 1997 and which helped prisoners with buddhist practices.
Robina's life and work was featured in the documentary film Key to Freedom and the award winning film, Chasing Buddha. Additionally, a recording of her singing prayers and mantras, entitled Devotion, was produced in 2018.
Robina believes in action, in doing things that help one know one’s mind deeply and well, that we need to unpack the mind, to unravel its contents, deconstructing layers of thoughts and feelings, emotions and assumptions, and thereby beginning to reconstruct the cognitive processes at the basis of our emotions. The way to do this is through the, in her own words, brilliant, marvelous, sophisticated psychological techniques that we call meditation.
And of meditation she said, "It is not a relaxation technique, but a training…why? So in our daily life we can see what the hell is going on in this mind of ours. Some people can sit for 30 minutes, very comfortably. They’re just spacing out, feeling good. That ain’t meditation baby.”
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