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Advices posted during the month of October 2005
Sickness and Health > Brain and Nervous System > Insomnia / Sleep Disorders
A student had a big problem with not being able to sleep. She had tried conventional medicine and natural healing, without success. She asked Rinpoche for advice.
Sickness and Health > Brain and Nervous System > Paralysis and Stroke
Rinpoche sent this advice on the prevention of strokes.
Sickness and Health > General Illnesses > Urogenital and Menstrual Conditions
A nun had problems with excessive uterine bleeding and wrote to Rinpoche for advice. The bleeding stopped after she took the pill that Rinpoche sent her and did the meditation he recommended.
Buddhist Practices > Practicing in Prison > Advice for Prisoners
Rinpoche received a letter from a prisoner, who sent a list of all the practices and mantras he had performed. He replied as follows.
Buddhist Practices > Practicing in Prison > Practices for Death Row
Rinpoche recommended the following practices for a prisoner who was on death row, in order to remove obstacles to his life and prevent his upcoming execution.
Sutras, Mantras and Root Texts > Sutras and Sutra Commentaries > Arya Sanghata Sutra
Rinpoche wrote the following letter to a student on the benefits of reciting the Sanghata Sutra.
Sutras, Mantras and Root Texts > Sutras and Sutra Commentaries > Sutra of Golden Light
Rinpoche gave the following advice on the benefits of reciting the Golden Light Sutra.
Buddhist Practices > Purification Practices > Thirty-five Buddhas Practice
This advice was compiled from teachings given by Rinpoche at Istituto Lama Tsongkhapa in Italy, during the Lama Tzong Khapa Guru Yoga Retreat in 2003.
Benefiting Animals > Practices to Benefit Animals > Animal Liberation
Rinpoche gave the following talk to a group of students in Malaysia and Singapore on the benefits of liberating animals.
Benefiting Animals > Practices to Benefit Animals > Various Practices for Animals
Rinpoche had these general suggestions for ways students could best care for their pets.
Buddhist Practices > General Practice Advice > General Practice Advice from Rinpoche
Rinpoche gave the following advice to a student who had lived in a psychiatric hospital for the last fifteen years, was an alcohol and drug addict, and had AIDS. He had written to Rinpoche requesting practices.
Buddhist Practices > General Practice Advice > General Practice Advice from Rinpoche
A student wrote to Rinpoche asking for advice on her practice and where she should study.
Path to Enlightenment (lamrim) > Lamrim Study and Practice > Training the Mind in Lamrim
Transcribed at Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s request from handwritten notes handed to Ven. Holly Ansett with the comment that they might be useful somewhere. Kachoe Dechen Ling, Aptos, CA, April 2005. Edited by Nick Ribush.
Path to Enlightenment (lamrim) > Lamrim Study and Practice > Training the Mind in Lamrim
A new student wrote saying he felt that Buddhism was very familiar to him and wondered if it meant he had practiced in past lives.
Path to Enlightenment (lamrim) > Guru Devotion > Advice on Guru Devotion
Taken from a very small stack of blue Post-it notes with extremely illegible hand writing, some words only having one letter in them, handed by Lama Zopa Rinpoche to Ven. Holly Ansett with the comment that maybe they can be useful somewhere....
Path to Enlightenment (lamrim) > Guru Devotion > The Qualities of the Guru
Rinpoche gave this extensive advice to a student who wrote to him asking about the qualities of a guru who teaches tantra.
Family and Relationships > Relationship Problems > Advice on Relationship Problems
Rinpoche gave the following advice to a student who had been in a relationship and then afterwards had become very negative about it.
Buddhist Practices > General Practice Advice > General Practice Advice from Rinpoche
Rinpoche gave the following advice on making offerings to pretas (hungry ghosts).
Holy Objects > Making Offerings > Offering Practices
Rinpoche gave the following advice on how to make offerings to the guru and Buddha.
Path to Enlightenment (lamrim) > Karma > Purifying Negative Karma
Rinpoche gave the following advice on how to purify negative karma.
Meditation and Retreat Advice > Meditation and Visualization > Visualization
A student was having difficulties with visualization in meditation and could not visualize things as they were or sustain a visualization for very long. Rinpoche gave the following advice regarding improving visualization in meditation.
Buddhist Practices > Tantra and Deity Practice > Tantra
One of Rinpoche’s long-term students (a monk) asked where one should incorporate self-initiation and meditation on mahamudra into one’s daily practice. Rinpoche sent the following advice.
Buddhist Practices > Vows and Commitments > Taking Vows
Rinpoche gave the following advice to a student to explain some of the benefits of taking vows.
Contemporary Issues > Religious Tolerance > Other Religions
Rinpoche gave the following advice to a woman who had been the president of a Native American nation in the Midwest and one of the leaders of many Native Americans. She came to speak with Rinpoche because she had some confusion about certain...
Contemporary Issues > Dharma in Daily Life > Travel and Immigration
Rinpoche gave the following advice regarding leaving a country and possible difficulties that could occur at airports with documents, etc.
