The Workshop is in the Mind - Teachings with Venerable Robina Courtin

Join us at Manjushri Buddhist Centre for a special in-person gathering with direct teachings by Venerable Robina Courtin, streamed live from New York via Zoom. (Zoom link will not be shared for at-home viewing)

📅 Dates: Sunday 31 August & Sunday 7 September
🕘 Time: 9:00–11:00 AM
📍 Venue: Manjushri Buddhist Centre, 40 Wason St, Milton, NSW, 2538
💲 Tickets: $60 (covers both days)

During these two classes, Venerable Robina will guide us through Buddha’s unique model of the mind and how we can begin the profound work of identifying and removing the misconceptions that keep us bound in suffering.

Please note:

• This is a special in-person gathering. Teachings will be streamed live from New York via Zoom, but the Zoom link will not be shared for at-home viewing.

• Light refreshments and a sharing circle will follow each class.

If you have any questions before the event, please don’t hesitate to reach out: mbcmilton@gmail.com.

We look forward to sharing this special experience with you.

The Workshop is in the Mind

According to Lord Buddha, we all have marvellous potential for clarity, contentment, and love and the rest of the positive human qualities. In fact, he says, these qualities are our natural state, and that the development of them to perfection is the job of a spiritual practitioner.

Our main stumbling block is the deeply held assumption that attachment, anger, depression and the other deluded states of mind - especially marigpa: ignorance, ego-grasping, the root neurosis that fiercely asserts and upholds a made-up self - are innate within us. But the Buddha has found from his own direct experience that they are not at the core of our being and thus can be removed.

Therefore the heart job of a Buddhist is to identify these misconceptions and, crucially, to distinguish them from the virtues.

During our two classes we will investigate Buddha’s model of the mind and learn how to do this difficult but doable job - for our own sake and the sake of others.