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Advices posted during the month of October 2005
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.
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.
