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Advices posted during the month of October 2005
Buddhist Practices > Protection from Spirit Harm > Protection from Black Magic
A student was told that her world would be destroyed by someone she had known for a long time, who had skill in black magic. She wrote to Rinpoche asking for advice.
Buddhist Practices > Protection from Spirit Harm > Protection from Spirit Harm
A new student was very sick. She had no energy at all and could hardly do anything. She met Rinpoche, whom she told she had been doing Heart Sutra recitation before she fell ill. Rinpoche made the following suggestions. After she did...
Contemporary Issues > Dharma in Daily Life > Understanding the Suffering of Samsara
Rinpoche gave the following advice to a student who had trouble seeing everything as suffering.
Contemporary Issues > Dharma in Daily Life > Dharma and Worldly Activities
Rinpoche gave the following advice on how to make talking on the telephone more useful.
Contemporary Issues > Dharma in Daily Life > Dharma and Worldly Activities
A student asked Rinpoche to check regarding which car to buy. One of the cars was one to two years older than the other. The older car had 11,000 more miles on the clock, but it had only had one owner, and had been very well looked after. The...
Holy Objects > Advice on Holy Objects > Prayer Wheels
Rinpoche wrote the following to a new student, who works in Wal-Mart, and is memorizing the Diamond Cutter Sutra, as Rinpoche had advised her to do. Rinpoche offered his own prayer wheel to her so she could use it while working at the...
Holy Objects > Relics > Benefits of Relic Tour
Rinpoche gave the following advice to a nun, who had a very bad leg and had difficulty walking, regarding making offerings to holy objects. Rinpoche had put many holy objects in the house where she was staying.
Holy Objects > Relics > Blessings of the Relics
A student wrote to Rinpoche after seeing an exhibition of Buddhist relics that was touring many cities. She said the following: “I had a mind moving experience. As a result, I have a feeling of pure love and compassion. I feel as if all thoughts...
Holy Objects > Maitreya Project > Thanks for Prayers and Donations
Rinpoche sent the following message thanking all the Dharma centers for making prayers to benefit one of his projects: the Maitreya Project.
Working for the Dharma > Advice to Dharma Centers > Working at the Dharma Center
Rinpoche offered the following advice concerning which texts to study at new Dharma groups. He also commented which text would be more beneficial for this particular group to study out of a lamrim text, a lo-jong text, or Shantideva’s ...
Working for the Dharma > Service and Support of the Dharma > Offering Service
Rinpoche wrote the following letter to the two caretakers of Land of Calm Abiding, the mountain retreat center in California.
Working for the Dharma > Teaching Dharma > Teaching Dharma
Rinpoche offered the following suggestions to a Western student, who was teaching Buddhism to beginners.
Sangha (Monks and Nuns) > Advice for Sangha > Dealing With Negative Emotions
A young nun was suffering from depression and loneliness. She was in retreat and all she could do was cry. Even though she knew she had a positive situation and future, still she was very depressed.
Sangha (Monks and Nuns) > Advice for Sangha > Dealing With Negative Emotions
Rinpoche gave the following advice to a young western monk who was studying at a monastery in India.
Sangha (Monks and Nuns) > Advice for Sangha > Dress Code and Conduct
Lama Zopa Rinpoche and some students were sitting in a restaurant and a waiter remarked that he liked Rinpoche’s robes very much. He asked where he could get some and Rinpoche replied that he could get them in Nepal or India. The waiter replied...
Sangha (Monks and Nuns) > Practice Advice for Sangha > Practices for Newly Ordained Sangha
Rinpoche gave the following advice to a newly ordained nun living in India, who had written to Rinpoche asking about practice. She had formerly been a student of a Hindu teacher, but had left and become a student of Rinpoche.
Sangha (Monks and Nuns) > Practice Advice for Sangha > Practices for Newly Ordained Sangha
Rinpoche gave the following advice to a newly ordained nun, who had asked where she should go to practice.
Sangha (Monks and Nuns) > Practice Advice for Sangha > Practices for Newly Ordained Sangha
Rinpoche gave the following advice to a newly ordained monk, living in India.
Negative Emotions > Delusions > Desire and Attachment
Rinpoche made the following comments to a young student, regarding attachment and making her life beneficial.
Negative Emotions > Delusions > Desire and Attachment
During a month-long introductory course for new students at Kopan Monastery in Nepal, Rinpoche offered the following guidelines for dealing with desire.
Negative Emotions > Depression > Advice on Depression
Rinpoche wrote this letter to a person who had suffered from a low-grade depression for a long time.
Negative Emotions > Various Emotions > Handling Criticism
Rinpoche gave the following advice for situations where one’s ego gets bruised.
Family and Relationships > Marriage and Divorce > Marriage
A family in Singapore asked Rinpoche to intervene to do something for their daughter so that she would be married quickly. They were rushing, and said their daughter would not be settled in life until she was married. Here Rinpoche relates his...
Family and Relationships > Having a Baby > Abortion
Rinpoche gave the following advice to a woman who wanted to perform purification practices after having had an abortion.
Family and Relationships > Having a Baby > The Purpose of Having a Baby
Rinpoche gave the following advice to a married couple. The wife had become pregnant by somebody else.
