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Below is a listing of advices in the Online Advice Book. They are sorted and grouped by the date posted on our website, with the most recent additions showing first. You can enter a keyword to search for advices containing that term.
Advices posted during the month of June 2022
Rinpoche explains why we need to develop great compassion in this letter to a student who was helping at a Dharma center. Rinpoche discusses the benefits of cherishing others and includes many quotations in this extensive advice.
This advice was given to a nun who had become very sick and thought she had COVID-19. Rinpoche explains how to utilize unfavorable conditions on the path to enlightenment by doing tonglen practice. The advice is transcribed and edited from...
Rinpoche sent this message via audio after going to the dentist. Rinpoche advised the benefits of reciting the long Chenrezig mantra before the appointment.
This advice was given to a student who was feeling jealous of another person.
A student was having difficulties with her son and asked Rinpoche how she could help him. Rinpoche sent this 16-page letter offering suggestions on how the child can create the cause of happiness and peace by cherishing others and avoiding...
This advice was for a student showing indications of spirit harm.
A student with cervical spine degeneration was going to have an operation. Rinpoche advised these pujas before the operation.
A student diagnosed with stage 2 melanoma was scheduled to have surgery to remove it and to remove some lymph nodes from that side of their body. Rinpoche checked and advised the Naga King mantra and meditation.
Advices posted during the month of May 2022
Rinpoche gave this essential life practice advice to a student. Rinpoche advised daily prayers and practices, as well as lamrim meditation, preliminaries, and deity yoga.
This card was written to a center director who had helped the center grow substantially by organizing many activities and bringing students together again.
Rinpoche advised these practices for a Dharma center that was having legal problems.
A student wrote to Rinpoche requesting advice on what retreat they should do for a year.
Rinpoche sent this letter to a thirteen-year-old who was suicidal and self-harming. The child’s mother was a student of Rinpoche.
Rinpoche gave this advice to a student who was having difficulties with her sister.
Rinpoche composed this letter to the monasteries and nunneries who had sent messages and letters saying they were praying for Kopan Monastery and Khachoe Ghakyil Ling Nunnery in Nepal after they heard about the COVID-19 outbreak there. Rinpoche’s...
An elderly student was finding it increasingly difficult to do their daily commitments due to forgetfulness, lack of focus and difficulties with visualization. Their decline in mental capacity made their practice stressful at times and not joyful...
A student wrote that a friend’s daughter had been suffering from phobias and delusions. Rinpoche advised these practices.
This letter was sent to a student in South America who asked Rinpoche what kind of stupa they should build.
Advices posted during the month of April 2022
Rinpoche sent this long letter with relationship advice to a student. Rinpoche said that the usual motivation for marriage is attachment and we need to have a bodhisattva attitude, free from the self-cherishing thought, so that our actions become...
A student had been practicing Dharma for many years, studying, reading books, going to teachings, reflecting and meditating; however, he was experiencing many obstacles at the Dharma center, at home and at work.
A student wrote to Rinpoche asking what practices they should do. Rinpoche advised the student to read the Arya Sanghata Sutra every day, to practice lamrim and to receive Heruka initiation.
Rinpoche gave this advice to a student who asked about stealing. The student had ordered an item online and did not get charged for shipping. She later paid the company but did not receive thanks from them.
A student had offered her house to Rinpoche, who responded with this advice about the unbelievable merit of making even a small material offering to the guru.
Rinpoche sent this advice to a student who was being accused of different things and criticized publicly.
Rinpoche explains that a wealthy hotelier who appears happy and successful may be just collecting negative karma, while a simple monk who is practicing Dharma purely is creating the cause for happiness up to full enlightenment, even though they...