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Advices posted during the month of June 2008
A new student wrote to Rinpoche asking to be ordained as a nun.
Rinpoche sent the following handwritten card to a young student who was asking to become a nun.
A long time student broke up with his wife and family and requested to be a monk. Rinpoche replied to him as follows.
Rinpoche made the following comments about the positive qualities of Sangha.
Rinpoche gave the following advice to a monk.
Rinpoche gave the following commentary on why to be a monk or nun.
A monk wrote to Rinpoche saying he had been called for jury duty and wondering whether he should attend. Rinpoche replied as follows.
A student wrote expressing her wish to start a community so that nuns from the different Tibetan Buddhist traditions could live together. She also discussed opening a Buddhist hospice to care for the dying.
A nun and longtime student had the following questions for Rinpoche. Her questions and his advice are below.
Below is a letter Rinpoche wrote to a monk living in Europe. The advice was written on four postcards, one of which had a picture of hundreds of sunflowers in South Dakota.
Advices posted during the month of May 2008
Rinpoche wrote these two letters, thanking a student who had been the director of a center, and thanking the new director of the center.
Rinpoche sent the following message to a Dharma center on the occasion of its 21st birthday celebration.
A volunteer at an FPMT center wrote saying that he felt he was valued as a worker rather than as a Dharma brother. He felt that there was a lack of support for the volunteers in general. His idea was that the volunteers could undergo a trial...
Rinpoche made the following comments on the need for organizations.
Rinpoche made the following comments about the education program at an FPMT Dharma center, speaking to a nun who was studying there.
Rinpoche sent the following thanks to benefactors of his projects.
A benefactor asked some questions about how much the Maitreya Project statue would cost. Rinpoche gave the following comments on the benefits of the project.
Rinpoche gave the following advice to a student who was a director of the Maitreya Project, on how to approach and bring up the project with potential benefactors. The student had recently had a knee operation.
Advices posted during the month of April 2008
Rinpoche sent the following advice to the director of a Dharma center, on how to practice.
Rinpoche gave the following advice to a student who had been an FPMT center director, but a new director had been appointed.
Rinpoche wrote the following on how important it is to do what pleases His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Rinpoche sent the following message to the staff at the FPMT International Office.
Rinpoche gave the following advice, on the occasion of the opening of a new Dharma center, on the benefits of having centers and temples.
Rinpoche gave the following advice to Dharma centers on what to do when your luck is down.
Rinpoche gave the following advice to a Dharma center regarding buying property, in relation to what practices people can do to improve a situation for buying property, especially for changing the mind of the owner, who may be disinclined to sell...