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Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book

Advice and practices for students experiencing problems due to a business downturn and related financial crisis.

Business in Financial Crisis •
Business Losing Money •
Business Losing Money •
Trusting Advice Given by a Lama •
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Advice on teaching children the values of loving kindness and compassion so that their lives become meaningful.

Dedication for Alice Project •
Starting a Buddhist School in India •
The Best Education for Children •
Advice to Schoolchildren in Bodhgaya •
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Advice on the qualities of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, who is a living Compassion Buddha with perfect wisdom and compassion for every sentient being.

The Supreme Qualities of His Holiness the Dalai Lama •
Message to a Center Hosting His Holiness the Dalai Lama •
Pleasing His Holiness the Dalai Lama •
His Holiness the Dalai Lama Benefits Sentient Beings Limitlessly •
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Advice for students planning to build at the Dharma center.

Completion of a Stupa •
Renovations at the Center •
Building a New Gompa After a Fire •
Thank You and Rejoice!  •
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Advice and practices for infectious diseases, including coronovirus COVID-19, Ebola and HIV/AIDS.

Lyme Disease •
Mantra For Ebola •
Request to Build Naga King Statue in Africa •
Ebola Virus •
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Advice and thanks given to students who have offered service and support for Dharma centers and projects in various roles.

Retreat Advice and Thanks for Many Years of Service •
Thanks for Making Dharma Books Available •
Thanks for Offering Service •
Study and Service for Sentient Beings •
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Advice on how to correctly visualize certain deities during one's meditation practice.

Vision of Buddhas •
Improving Visualizations •
Namgyalma Long-life Meditation •
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Advice on practices which may help remove obstacles for those who are unemployed and having difficulties finding work. 

Looking for Work •
Success in Finding a Job •
Obstacles to Finding Work •
Can’t Find a Job •
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Advice about the importance of the Dharma center, which brings benefit to so many sentient beings.

Tenth Anniversary Message •
Thirtieth Birthday Message •
The Importance of the Dharma Center •
Benefits of FPMT Projects •
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Advice on how to create the cause of happiness and success in this life and future lives until enlightenment, by practicing compassion, the good heart.

A Beneficial Life •
Helping Others With a Good Heart •
How to Combat Self-cherishing •
Our Purpose is to Serve Others •
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Advice for center directors on how to resolve conflict with difficult students at the Dharma center by remembering their kindness and having an open heart, tolerance and compassion.

Center Disharmony and Theft •
Difficulties in Dharma Center •
Problems at a Dharma Center •
How to Bring Harmony to the Center •
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Advice on how to care for and respect statues of the Buddha. Rinpoche advises that holy objects such as statues contribute to world peace and help us create believable merit just by seeing them.

Climbing on a Statue •
Hosting the Jade Buddha •
Painting the Buddha’s Eyes •
Benefactor Building a Statue •
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Advice on practices which may be beneficial for a range of illnesses and health problems. Please note: the advice is not intended to replace medical treatment. Always contact your health care professional if you have health concerns.

A Healthy Diet •
Aspergers and Anxiety •
Treatment of Gum Disease •
Fire in Chest •
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Advice to students about restoring their daily practice after it has lapsed.

How to Restart Practices After Stopping •
Dharma Practice Stopped After Disrobing •
The Most Important Practice •
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Advice on how to practice guru devotion, including seeing the guru as Buddha, offering service and pleasing the guru.

Fortunate to Receive Advice from the Guru  •
The Guru Brings You to Enlightenment •
Pleasing the Guru •
Offering Thanks to the Guru •

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