
Teachings
Rinpoche discusses the reasons for giving up alcohol, cigarettes and other addictive substances
Advice on how to help sick and dying people, and how to use the experience to develop renunciation.
The loving, compassionate thought of bodhicitta is the best way to heal HIV/AIDS, cancer or any other disease
Uncontrolled attachment causes many problems, including addiction to alcohol and drugs
Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave this advice on how to think when diagnosed with cancer. When we experience the cancer for the sake of all sentient beings we collect skies of merit and it brings us closer to enlightenment.
Buddhist perspectives on sickness, health and death
An article on the Buddhist approach to battling addiction, written by Dr. Nicholas Ribush for Around magazine in 1979.
Advice on a wide range of illnesses, given to individuals with health problems who have written to Rinpoche for guidance.
- Lyme Disease •
- Mantra For Ebola •
- Request to Build Naga King Statue in Africa •
- Ebola Virus •
- NDM-1 Superbug •
- Tuberculosis •
- Ross River Fever •
- Fatigue and Lyme Disease •
- Ebola Outbreak •
- Bird Flu •
- Practices for Ebola •
- Liver and Thyroid Problems •
- Cured of Hepatitis C •
- Hepatitis C •
- Practices for Hepatitis C •
- Practices for Hepatitis C •
- Advice for Treatment of Hepatitis C •
- Hepatitis C •
- AIDS Advice and Practices •
- Dharma is the Real Medicine •
- Practices for HIV and AIDS •
- HIV and Dharma Practice •
- Practices for HIV •
- Cured of AIDS •
- Creating the Karma to Stop Pain •
- Compassion and Tong-len •
- Severe Arthritis •
- Mantra Eliminating the Harsh Pain of the Three Grounds •
- Pain After Car Accident •
- Tong-len for Pain in Jaw •
- Rejoicing in Pain •
- Pinched Nerve •
- Taking on Others’ Pain •
- Severe Illness •
- Experience the Pain for Others •
- How Sickness Purifies Negative Karma •
- Very Sick Student •
- Offering Service •
- Brain Infection •
- Using Sickness for the Path •
- Tumor in Spine •
- Purifying Sickness •
- How to Think about Sickness •
- Beneficial Practices for the Sick •
- Rejoice in Your Sickness •
- How Fortunate You Are to Have This Sickness •
- Rejoice That You Purified Negative Karma •
- Severe Arthritis •
- Arthritis Pain •
- Severe Arthritis •
- Rheumatoid Arthritis •
- Arthritis •
- Degenerative Scoliosis •
- Severe Back Pain •
- Pain in Legs •
- Experiencing Back Pain as a Result of Past Karma •
- Practices for Neck Pain •
- Chronic Neck Pain •
- Practices for Hip Pain •
- Practices for Weak, Numb Legs •