SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT 275: Be brave when things go wrong - Robina Courtin

Thought of the day from Venerable Robina Courtin
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[@Happyom]

You are the example that even we are all getting older but a light like yours is getting brighter and brighter. That gift is wonderful, ven. Robina, thank you for that. May you life long and happy, L🤍VE Stephanie

[@theresepauwels7344]

Thank you Venerable Robina ❤

[@DrebinSlayer]

Thank you so much for this morning message Robina. It brings to mind the Buddhist idea of the middle way. Don’t get too mad or sad. Don’t get too happy or glad either. Take the middle path and you’ll have a sense of balance about yourself. Thank you again. Great morning to fellow viewers as well.

[@AlyciaJohnston]

This is so helpful. Thank you so much Venerable Robina.

[@davidross5526]

Worthy of much much much LOVE!!!

[@bravex9723]

Needed this so much today thank you so much ❤ Namaste 🙏

[@gabyguala]

Thanks a lot❤ as usual very clever and common sense oriented. Blessings to you, Ven Robina.

[@lucindamoreton1405]

Thank you Venerable Robina your advice was invaluable in helping me deal with the untimely death of my mother. 🌈🙏

[@Labeille31]

Each time is like you made the vidéo with the message that I need to hear. Thanks Robina ❤

[@andrewmelia5345]

Thank you, Venerable Robina, reminds of the Tibetan metaphor (which I am paraphrasing, the turtle is slow but gets to its destination while the flea is fast but jumps in random directions.) Like theme of my week was to be concentrated on what is on my plate now as opposed to (my friend J's wise metaphor) being the washed out 35-year-old high school past football player bringing up traumas greatest hits, like they bring up their games which just incapacitates us). Like anxiety and crying over spilled milk (and unhealthy focus on nostalgia) can be too sides of the same coin. To bring it the point of this video, multiple things go wrong on a almost hourly basis every day at work or after work time, and bringing up trauma memories when they been worked through ad nauseum has diminishing returns to the point that I regress into angry and out of control state of minds rather than using Buddhist or other techniques to not cry over split milk and deal bravely with suffering now as opposed to freezing yourself with the suffering that is no longer relevant.
So much easier said than done but your advice though you may not remember me Robina on zoom at the Kurukulla to simply practice is helping me be like do this every day like I do piano everyday so that as in Santideva
s chapter on Diligence or Perserverance, your not overcome with the laziness and defeatism caused by unskillfully getting angry over the past, waxed nostalgia or having a victim complex. That the more I concentrate on what's in front of me, the more choice I have to discern wisely. i thank you for your frank advice to practice more because intellectualizing is just like the flea who will jump from irrelevancy to irrelevancy instead of dealing what what is right here and its been helping me though like Milarepa, if I am sincere to the path, I'll my own trial of towers to build

[@user-dq2ym1nn9k]

Brave birds still fly through thick fog.

[@Jenn_Jukebox]

🙏🕉☸️💝