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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 May 2025
Sutras, Mantras and Root Texts > Mantras > Mantra Recitations
In this letter, Rinpoche advised that reciting OM MANI PADME HUM is unbelievably powerful and if we recite the mantra with bodhicitta we collect more than skies of merit.
Sickness and Health > General Illnesses > Chronic Fatigue
A student with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome was suffering from extreme physical and mental exhaustion, muscle aches and brain fog. The student requested prayers or practices to clear the karma so they could regain their health and have more energy to...
Buddhist Practices > Protection from Spirit Harm > Protection from Spirit Harm
A student wrote that they had started hearing voices and asked Rinpoche if they were experiencing spirit harm.
Sickness and Health > Brain and Nervous System > Neurological Disorders
A student wrote that her son, who was two and a half years old, had begun to show signs of autism (ASD), with repetitive behaviors, confused speech, a lack of emotional response and social withdrawal.
Buddhist Practices > Protection from Spirit Harm > Protection from Spirit Harm
Rinpoche gave this advice for someone who was continually getting marks and welts appearing all over their body.
Compassion and Bodhicitta > Mind Training (lo-jong) > Transforming Problems
Rinpoche sent this long letter to a student with many problems, including having broken bones due to a fall. The student also confessed to feeling angry with the guru and other people. Rinpoche advised how to transform problems and mentioned...
Benefiting Animals > Practices to Benefit Animals > Animal Health Care and Healing
A horse which Rinpoche had rescued became very sick a year later, with a skin infection on its leg and neck. The student asked what puja could be done for the horse.
Sickness and Health > Cancer > Various Cancers
A student was dying with lung cancer, and her friends at the local Dharma center asked Rinpoche what could be done for her. She was critically ill and this advice was sent only a few days before she passed away.
Negative Emotions > Depression > Feeling Suicidal
This advice was given to a student who wrote that her daughter had been struggling with addiction and depression for years and was now feeling suicidal. The daughter’s physical health was also deteriorating, and she was in constant pain. She had...
Sickness and Health > Brain and Nervous System > Neurological Disorders
This advice was given to student who had a disorder affecting the head and neck which caused continual movement at the back of their head.
Advices posted during the month of April 2025
Sickness and Health > Addictions and Mental Illness > Anxiety and Panic Disorder
Rinpoche explained the extensive kindness of sentient beings in this long letter sent to a student who had struggled with panic disorder, fear and anxiety for thirty-five years. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, the student’s fear and anxiety had...
Sickness and Health > Healing and Pacifying Illness > Eliminating Life Obstacles
A student wrote that they had life obstacles and asked Rinpoche what they should do.
Sickness and Health > Healing and Pacifying Illness > Eliminating Life Obstacles
Rinpoche advised these practices for a student with many health problems.
Sangha (Monks and Nuns) > Advice for Sangha > Sangha Communities
This advice was given to a center which was planning to build a nunnery in the future.
Sickness and Health > Cancer > Various Cancers
A student with acute myeloid leukemia asked Rinpoche what practices they should do.
Sickness and Health > Brain and Nervous System > Paralysis and Stroke
A student wrote that their health had deteriorated over the past six years after a small stroke and third-degree chemical burns. They had frequent migraines, pain and exhaustion, but doctors were unsure of the cause or treatment. The student...
Sickness and Health > General Illnesses > Various Illnesses
A student’s daughter had been experiencing vertigo and dizziness for several years, but doctors could not find the cause. Rinpoche offered this advice.
Working for the Dharma > Conflict and Obstacles at the Center > Removing Obstacles at the Center
Rinpoche gave this advice to a study group on practices to remove obstacles.
Sickness and Health > Infectious Diseases > Various Infections
This advice was given to a geshe who had contracted COVID-19 in Singapore. Rinpoche said getting COVID is more precious than skies of wish-granting jewels, because we can use it to destroy the self-cherishing thought.
Buddhist Practices > Purification Practices > Practices to Purify Negative Karma
A student wrote that they were having many problems after doing a Vajrasattva retreat. Rinpoche advised this was a sign that their past negative karma had been purified and they would have happiness in the future. Daily lamrim meditation practice...
Advices posted during the month of March 2025
Working for the Dharma > Service and Support of the Dharma > Rinpoche's Thank-you Cards, Letters and Gifts
Rinpoche sent this letter to a student in China, thanking him for a thangka and describing recent events in Bodhgaya at that time. Rinpoche also asked about some texts he was looking for and advised he would sponsor pujas for the student’s father...
Compassion and Bodhicitta > Bodhicitta > Advice on Developing Bodhicitta
During the 2018 European Regional Meeting, Rinpoche advised the importance of setting a bodhicitta motivation so that every action becomes Dharma, the cause for enlightenment.
Sickness and Health > Healing and Pacifying Illness > Practices for Pacifying Sickness
A student had received advice on extra practices for their health, but was concerned they couldn’t manage to do them all. Rinpoche sent this update.
Buddhist Practices > General Practice Advice > Practices for Life
Rinpoche advised lamrim study and practice, along with several preliminaries, including tsa tsas, for a student who had retired.
Path to Enlightenment (lamrim) > Guru Devotion > The Guru/Disciple Relationship
This advice about how to see the guru as a buddha was given to a student who had recently met Rinpoche at Kopan.
