Overview of Session
DATE: Saturday 7th March 2026
TIME: 10:00 – 4:00pm
LOCATION: In Person and On Zoom
LEVEL: For all
DONATIONS: We recommend £30 donation. Your donation helps us to keep the centre running and to host inspirational teachers like Venerable Robina. We make a donation on your behalf to Venerable Robina for her teachings and travel.
Please make your donation on booking or as soon as possible afterwards using Ven Robina as a reference. We never turn anyone away for financial reasons, please see registration form for more details on donations.
We are delighted to welcome back Venerable Robina Courtin to Jamyang Leeds. We are truly fortunate that she is able to come and teach at the centre every year and share her wisdom. We absolutely love having her with us. Whether you have been to Venerable Robina’s teachings before or not, this is unmissable.
Whether you are able to come to the centre in person or plan to join us online, please register as soon as possible using the registration button above.
Ven. Robina shares a bit about her life
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.
Love or Attachment?
To Buddha, attachment is effectively the main source of our suffering in day-to-day life. A big surprise! We usually confuse it with love, which is necessarily altruistic. It’s the source of our own happiness and the capacity to help others.
Buddha’s view of the mind describes two distinct categories of states of mind: the deluded, disturbing ones – such as attachment, anger, depression and the rest – and the virtuous, spacious ones – such as love, compassion, patience, and so on.
Attachment is necessarily I-based: dissatisfaction, neediness, expectation, manipulating others to get what I want. Love, however, is other-based: open, kind, clear, the wish that others be happy. “I could tell you about attachment for one whole year,” Lama Yeshe said. “But you won’t begin to understand it until you go deeply into your own mind.”
How do we distinguish them? That’s the key to practice. Through meditation, becoming our own therapists, as Lama says, we can learn to unpack and unravel our emotions and lessen attachment and the other delusions and grow love, compassion and the rest — for our own sake and the sake of others.
SCHEDULE:
10:00 – 11:30 | Session 1
11:30 – 11:45 | Tea Break
11:45 – 13:00 | Session 2
13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch Break – in the Happy Yak Café
14:00 – 15:00 | Session 3
15:00 – 15:15 | Tea Break
15:15 – 16:00 | Closing Reflections & Dedications
Getting to the centre
It’s great to help the environment where we can. Whilst there is unlimited off street parking near the centre, please do consider coming by public transport or car sharing. Leeds railway station is about 1.2 miles away and takes just under 30 minutes to walk. There are fairly frequent buses from the city centre too. If you would like to offer a lift or would appreciate one, please say so on the registration form and we will do our best to put you in touch with each other. Click here for our Location on google maps.
The nearest hotel is Premier Inn at Elland Road Leeds, which is near the football ground. There is also a Premier Inn on Whitehall Road which is near the rail station.