Courageous Compassion with Venerable Robina Courtin

The development of compassion and the wish to help others, no matter what, is the point of the path to enlightenment, the end result: the removal of all separateness from others and the spontaneous capacity to benefit others. Why “courageous”? Because genuine compassion encompasses all living beings, including the harmers, the negative ones, not just the innocent victims. But as His Holiness the Dalai Lama says, “Compassion is not enough: we need wisdom.” By first developing our own amazing potential by lessening attachment, anxiety, anger and the other limiting states of mind, it’s then possible to develop such radical compassion.

Ordained since the late 1970s, Ven. Robina has worked full time since then for Lama Thubten Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s FPMT. Over the years she has served as editorial director of Wisdom Publications, editor of Mandala Magazine, executive director of Liberation Prison Project, and as a touring teacher of Buddhism. Her life and work with prisoners have been featured in the documentary films Chasing Buddha and Key to Freedom. For more information, visit https://robinacourtin.com/ Watch the trailer for the documentary about her life here: https://www.chasingbuddhafilm.com/