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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 June 2021
Buddhist Practices > General Practice Advice > Dorje Shugden
A student who had been ordained in the New Kadampa Tradition was unsure about his ordination and wanted to take ordination again. The student also asked Rinpoche to be their guru. Rinpoche sent this letter advising how to correctly follow the...
Buddhist Practices > Tantra and Deity Practice > Tantra
A student asked about the qualifications needed to engage in the Highest Yoga Tantra practices of transcendental wisdom and great bliss. The student said afflictions and self-grasping often arose and they weren’t sure whether their mind was...
Holy Objects > Relics > Blessings of the Relics
Rinpoche gave this advice on how to think about the Heruka relic from Mount Kailash. This relic is often used to give blessings when someone is about to die.
Contemporary Issues > Dharma in Daily Life > Dharma and Worldly Activities
A center asked Rinpoche about logging in order to earn money. Rinpoche sent this letter.
Sickness and Health > General Illnesses > Various Illnesses
A student who had lupus and severely degenerating muscles asked Rinpoche what could be done to help the condition. Rinpoche checked extensively and gave this advice.
Working for the Dharma > Service and Support of the Dharma > Offering Service
This message was sent to someone who was arranging a lama’s teaching event at a center.
Sickness and Health > Healing and Pacifying Illness > Practices for Pacifying Sickness
A nun’s mouth cancer was cured after reciting a mantra Rinpoche had advised. Rinpoche asked for this success to be recorded in the Online Advice Book.
Advices posted during the month of May 2021
Compassion and Bodhicitta > Developing Compassion > Compassion
Rinpoche sent this letter to a student who had rescued baby possums and cared for them after their mother was killed on the road. Rinpoche thanked the student and related the stories of Asanga and the wounded dog, and Getsul Tsimbulwa and the...
Compassion and Bodhicitta > Bodhicitta > Advice on Developing Bodhicitta
A student wrote that their favorite practice was bodhicitta and the Eight Verses of Thought Transformation. Rinpoche sent this advice.
Sickness and Health > Brain and Nervous System > Multiple Sclerosis
A student with multiple sclerosis (MS) asked Rinpoche what to do.
Sickness and Health > General Illnesses > Children's Illnesses
A student wrote about her teenage son who was experiencing negative thoughts, disturbed sleep, anxiety and depression. The family was working with a psychologist and psychiatrist, but the boy’s condition was deteriorating.
Contemporary Issues > Practices for Success > Overcoming Obstacles
A student was experiencing many problems with relationships and said that people had been abusive, dishonest and manipulative. There were also problems with employment and involvement in accidents. The student asked Rinpoche for advice about...
Death and Transitions > Practices for the Deceased > Prayers and Practices for the Deceased
After her husband’s death and cremation, a student had planned to bury his ashes in the garden. Rinpoche advised it was important to first consecrate the ashes by doing jangwa, a purification ritual to benefit the deceased. Rinpoche also...
Sickness and Health > Healing and Pacifying Illness > Practices for Pacifying Sickness
A student with some serious diseases requested practice advice. Rinpoche sent this letter.
Death and Transitions > Practices for the Deceased > Prayers and Practices for the Deceased
A student wrote with a query about doing sur offering practice for someone who had passed away. The student asked if the practice needed to continue every day once it was started. Rinpoche gave this advice.
Sickness and Health > Addictions and Mental Illness > Acute Mental Illness
A student wrote that they had OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder) and requested advice.
Sickness and Health > Cancer > Breast Cancer
A student wrote that her breast cancer had returned after a long remission. Rinpoche recommended several practices and gave extensive advice on how to utilize the cancer on the path to enlightenment.
Advices posted during the month of April 2021
Working for the Dharma > Conflict and Obstacles at the Center > Conflict With Others
Lama Zopa Rinpoche sent this advice to a Dharma center which was having difficulties with the decisions and conduct of one of the people working at the center. This advice is excerpted from a long letter which you can ...
Buddhist Practices > Tantra and Deity Practice > Various Deity Practices
Rinpoche gave this advice about the three Dharma protectors, Mahakala, Kalarupa and Vaishravana, to students of the FPMT affiliates in Mexico. Recorded at Kopan Monastery, Nepal, in March 2021.
Buddhist Practices > Protection from Spirit Harm > Protection from Black Magic
A student had encountered many obstacles for several years, due to a relationship ending, unemployment and many other difficulties.
Working for the Dharma > Advice to Dharma Centers > Practice Advice for Centers
Rinpoche advised students at a Dharma center to do the following practices for harmony and success.
Sangha (Monks and Nuns) > Advice for Sangha > Sangha Communities
A Sangha community had started doing prayers together every day. Rinpoche was very happy to hear they were doing this as a group and sent this card.
Contemporary Issues > Financial Difficulties > Money Difficulties, Recession and Debt
A student wrote that they couldn’t make money and were unable to escape poverty. Rinpoche advised the student to recite the Heart Sutra and to make charity with a pure heart, helping others as much as possible.
Death and Transitions > Impermanence and Death > Impermanence and Death
Rinpoche sent this letter to a student’s father, whose wife had just passed away.
Sickness and Health > Musculoskeletal Disorders > Back, Leg and Joint Conditions
A student wrote that she had sustained injuries from several falls. The first time she bruised or fractured a rib, then she fell again and hurt her back, and then she slipped and dislocated her knee. Rinpoche gave this advice.
