Venerable Robina will unpack what it means to “stay steady.” We are usually worried about what will happen or what won’t happen. A thousand times a day tiny things happen to bother us. Attachment energy is unleashed, anxiety arises, and we usually go to someone else to help us feel better. Ven. Robina will discuss methods, simple and profound, to become our own mother, friend, and therapist. A Q&A session is promised. 

The main source of suffering in this life is attachment. The vast majority of all humans on the planet have absolutely no idea that what goes on in their mind plays any role at all in their lives - when it comes to happiness and suffering. Buddha has found from his own experience that we can our mind utterly of the neuroses. If you can change the outside, please change it, but what if you can’t then what? Change your mind! When there is no fear, there is no suffering. We can mould our mind into any shape we like. We have to notice the thoughts before they become emotional, then we can argue with them, then we can stay steady in the face of problems.

Questions about - being influenced by others views, the recipe for enlightenment, how to identify a delusion, what does 'servants of the mind' mean, and what is the antidote for angry thoughts? Tse Chen Ling, San Francisco, 15th April 2025.

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