Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors.
About this talk. Ven Robina Courtin offers a sharp, practical teaching on the real meaning of regret — a cornerstone of the four opponent powers in Vajrasattva practice. She distinguishes regret from mere guilt: true regret is a specific ownership of suffering, rooted in a clear-eyed recognition of how karma and delusions drive your repeated harmful patterns. Rather than letting regret remain vague or fleeting, she teaches you to spell it out to yourself — to name explicitly what you did, why it hurt, and how fed up you are with the pattern. She frames this meditative work as genuine self-therapy, worth doing slowly and thoroughly rather than rushing through. Pitched at practitioners already familiar with Vajrasattva initiation and Buddhist psychology.
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File: 04 VP 2011 09 07.mp3
Teacher: Ven Robina Courtin
Collection: y Vajrasattva Practice (Ven Robina Courtin)
Date: 2011-09-07
Recorded at: Buddha House Adelaide
Words: ~214
But here instead, first you are sick of the suffering, and then you realize why you’re suffering. Because of your past karma and your ridiculous delusions. Yet this is real ownership. This is ownership of it. Because you see your stupid habits, they’re breaking your heart, causing you to do these dumb things yet again, and I’m sick of suffering.
This is what this is regret. This is the meaning of regret. So you don’t just say I regret doing this and this. It just it just becomes guilt. You gotta spell it out like this.
You gotta speak to yourself like this. I’m not kidding, you know. This this process of the four opponent powers, you may do it quickly, but do it slowly. It’s real good meditation. It’s genuine being your own therapist.
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