Being your own therapist - Buddhist style

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Being your own therapist - Buddhist style

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Venerable Robina Courtin, acclaimed Australian Tibetan Buddhist nun, has excavated the suffering mind at its greatest depths of despair. Founder of the Liberation Prison Project, she's helped thousands of inmates release themselves from the prison within—their mind—using Buddhist techniques. Venerable Tenzin Palmo was one of the first Westerners to be ordained as a Buddhist nun, spending years undergoing intense meditative practice in an isolated cave in the Himalayan mountains. We can all be our own therapist is their powerful claim.

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Guests

Venerable Robina Courtin
Nun in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition
Founder and Director of the Liberation Prison Project
http://www.liberationprisonproject.org/index2.html

Venerable Tenzin Palmo
Nun in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition
Founder of the Dongyu Gatsal Ling Nunnery, India.
http://www.tenzinpalmo.com/

Further Information

Dr Mindfulness: science and the meditation boom
Broadcast on All in the Mind, ABC Radio National 2007

Chasing Robina
An interview with Venerable Robina Courtin on ABC Radio National's Spirit of Things

Psychology and the Buddha
Broadcast on ABC Radio National's All in the Mind, 2002

Buddhist Information and Education network

Publications

Title: Cave in the Snow: Tenzin Palmo's Quest for Enlightenment
Author: Vicki MacKenzie
Publisher: Bloomsbury, 1999
ISBN-10: 1582340455

Title: The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality
Author: The Dalai Lama
Publisher: Broadway, 2005.
ISBN-10: 076792066X

Title: Buddhism's Four Noble Truths (BBC Online)
URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/buddhism/beliefs/fournobletruths.shtml
Courtesy of the BBC, "leading Western Buddhist teachers each explore the meaning of one of the Four Noble Truths for the contemporary audience".

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