Buddhist Teachings By Ven. Robina Courtin

This is such an interesting point, it sounds nice - oh yeah our minds play a role. Rinpoche said one time, and I’m quoting him exactly I promise, it’s very shocking when we hear it, I’ve quoted it a lot, Rinpoche said - “The vast majority of all human beings on the planet have absolutely no idea that their mind plays any role at all in their lives.” Now this sounds almost impossible to believe doesn’t it. I’ll qualify it, we clearly know that our mind plays a big role when it comes to learning mathematics, learning music, and learning carpentry, I always say this point, we know our mind is the main player. If you don’t have the right theories and think the right thoughts, you can never play the piano, you can’t make a cake, and you can’t make a table. So we do know it when it comes to theoretical things, intellectual things, or scientific things. We know the mind has to be trained to perfection. But Rinpoche’s point is when it comes to becoming a happy person or an unhappy person, we have absolutely no idea t

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Why is living in vows is so powerful? In order to get another decent human body, in a condition of a reasonable human life, we need many conditions for that. We are in charge of our life but we’re not used to believing it, we somehow feel that someone out there will take care of us, but Buddhism doesn’t talk like that. It’s up to us. We have to decide what kind of rebirth we want. We have to decide, intention is - I will. To get another decent human mother we need bucket loads of rich intentional non-killing seeds in our mind. So we need to know how to create them. We need to have plenty of those so that when we die peacefully, that one of those seeds can be triggered, and we’ll get another decent human mother, and keep on moving on our spiritual path. We’ve got to go through this inconvenient thing called death, and start again with a little baby body, and off we go again, it’s a drag. But given that we have to do it, let’s navigate it as well as possible. Let’s be in charge of it! Don’t just cross our finge

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Many people all over the world don’t like karma, Buddhists included. It’s seen in a really cliched, hippy kind of way. So serious people don’t like to talk about it. But actually, if we look at the big picture of Buddha’s view of the universe, it’s a coherent world view actually. The thing is, if the law of karma were not relevant to Buddhism, if it were not something valid, the whole of Buddhism would collapse into a heap of complete absurdity.  The whole of Buddhism is rooted in the view of karma, so it’s crucial to understand. Because it’s so fundamentally different from the philosophical materialist view, which of course is the view that prevails in our culture, and the one we think is serious, then we feel sometimes embarrassed to talk about it.  But let’s look at it. The Buddha’s view is fundamentally different from other religious traditions. But often when we hear about karma it sounds exactly the same. Don’t do this and don’t do that, and if you do do this something bad will happen. We don’t ever thi

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