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Advices posted during the month of September 2009
Rinpoche made the following comments to a student about developing on the path.
Rinpoche made the following comments on how to transform everyday actions into virtue.
Rinpoche made the following comments on the value of the lam-rim.
Rinpoche sent the following handwritten card to an older student.
Rinpoche sent the following advice to a young student who had been offering service for a number of years at a center in India. She was very devoted, but wrote saying her mind had become very hard and dry, and she was unable to have any feeling...
A student had a vision of Kuan Yin, a manifestation of Compassion Buddha. In the vision, Kuan Yin was displaying various mudras or gestures, which the student then reproduced on camera, and sent the videotape to Rinpoche for comment.
Rinpoche sent the following message to a Dharma center that hosts an annual event with His Holiness the Dalai Lama. It was to be published in the center’s magazine.
Rinpoche made the following comments on the benefits of pleasing His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Rinpoche made the following comments regarding the blessings and benefit that His Holiness the Dalai Lama brings to sentient beings.
Rinpoche gave this advice to a student who confessed that he had broken his lay vows.
Rinpoche gave the following methods for avoiding various kinds of obstacles.
Rinpoche sent the following advice to a student who regularly saw spirits and had done for almost 20 years. They didn't harm her but she felt that sometimes they touched her.
Rinpoche sent the following letter to a student who was upset and having some difficulties.
Rinpoche gave the following advice on protections from spirits and how to wear them.
Rinpoche gave the following advice to a student suffering from spirit harm.
Rinpoche asked a student, who was extremely kind and devoted to him, to take on a very important job for him. The person replied that there were two ways of looking at how to do the job—one according to worldly wisdom and one according to...
Rinpoche made the following comments about how to deal with problems when you’re driving.
Rinpoche sent the following advice to a student who had offered him the collected works of Shabkar.
Rinpoche explained why compassion is so important.
Rinpoche wrote the following to a university professor who was testing students after they meditated on compassion. Rinpoche commented on one of his questions about the nature of compassion.
Rinpoche made the following comments about the virtuous results of building a monastery.
Rinpoche said the following after making a donation towards building a new temple.
Rinpoche sent the following letter to a student who helped build many stupas.
Rinpoche gave the following advice to a student who was working on building a new prayer wheel at a center in France.
Rinpoche gave the following advice to a student who was making a prayer wheel.