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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 2024
Death and Transitions > Preparing Oneself for Death > Preparing for Death
Rinpoche sent this advice to a longtime student who was having a serious operation. Rinpoche advised the motivation for the death time and explained various practices we can do to prolong our life. Rinpoche said “This advice is to help people. It...
Holy Objects > Making Offerings > Offering Practices
Rinpoche advised these pujas for a student’s mother who was very sick, and explained the benefits of making offerings to Sangha. This advice was handwritten by Rinpoche and lightly edited for ease of reading.
Contemporary Issues > Practices for Success > Buying and Selling Property
A student had been unable to sell their house for a long time and asked Rinpoche for advice.
Path to Enlightenment (lamrim) > Guru Devotion > Confession to the Guru
Rinpoche sent this advice to a student who confessed that she had made a mistake at one of the centers.
Contemporary Issues > Practices for Success > Buying and Selling Property
Two students had been trying to sell their house for many years, so they could move and learn Dharma. They asked Rinpoche about moving, also what to study and whether they should study shamatha.
Advices posted during the month of May 2024
Buddhist Practices > Preliminary Practices > Prostrations
An ordained student asked Rinpoche for life practices. Rinpoche advised that prostrations while reciting the Thirty-five Buddhas’ names is an important practice in Lama Tsongkhapa’s tradition.
Buddhist Practices > General Practice Advice > Practices for Life
A student requested lifetime practices and asked Rinpoche to be their teacher, to help and guide them. The student wrote that after befriending a Buddhist nun, they had rediscovered their interest in Tibetan Buddhism and had connected with books...
Buddhist Practices > Advice for New Students > Advice for New Students
Rinpoche sent this letter and a photo of the Twenty-one Taras to a new student he had recently met.
Contemporary Issues > Court Cases and Legal Action > Legal Proceedings
A student wrote that there had been ongoing disputes within the family business. After years of legal proceedings, disgruntled business partners had launched a major lawsuit and threatened criminal charges. The student asked Rinpoche for advice...
Buddhist Practices > Protection from Spirit Harm > Possessed by Spirits
A student wrote about a young relative who had tried to take their own life several times over the past year. The young person blocked out the self-harm episodes afterwards and didn’t remember much of what had happened. They were on medication...
Sickness and Health > Cancer > Tumors
A student had an inoperable brain tumor and was given a lifespan of three months. Rinpoche met with the student and also gave the following advice.
Sickness and Health > Digestive System > Gallstones
This advice was given to a student who was having acute gallbladder attacks.
Sickness and Health > Cancer > Tumors
A student wrote that their partner had an abdominal tumor which was inoperable. Rinpoche advised these practices.
Buddhist Practices > Daily Practices > Daily Practice Advice
Rinpoche advised a student why we need to pray for the ultimate happiness of buddhahood, not just for temporary happiness and peace. Rinpoche also explained the three types of suffering of samsara.
Working for the Dharma > Service and Support of the Dharma > Rinpoche's Thank-you Cards, Letters and Gifts
Rinpoche wrote this letter to thank a student who arranged the 100 million mani retreat every year at one center.
Advices posted during the month of April 2024
Family and Relationships > Children > Advice for Children
In this letter to a student’s daughter, Rinpoche advises that having a good heart and benefiting others brings success and happiness.
Sickness and Health > Brain and Nervous System > Neurological Disorders
A student wrote that his sister had been suffering from damage to the spinal cord nerves, which happened during the birth of her first child. One leg felt constantly hot and she had also lost sensitivity in that leg.
Death and Transitions > Preparing Oneself for Death > Preparing for Death
Rinpoche gave this advice to a student who had cancer and was close to dying.
Sickness and Health > General Illnesses > Various Illnesses
A student wrote that they had been poisoned by heavy metals and now suffered from hyperactivity, insomnia and involuntary muscle movements, followed by exhaustion.
Sangha (Monks and Nuns) > Ordination Advice > Requesting Ordination
A young man had developed a strong wish to become a monk from the age of fifteen. He had started studying Buddhism as a teenager and had taken refuge. He had some brain damage and a very kind heart.
Sickness and Health > Musculoskeletal Disorders > Arthritis
Rinpoche asked for this treatment for severe arthritis to be posted in the Online Advice Book.
Sickness and Health > Cardiovascular and Respiratory > Cardiovascular Disease
A student wrote to Rinpoche for advice about her husband’s high blood pressure. Rinpoche advised that it would be best for him to do tonglen.
Sickness and Health > Brain and Nervous System > Paralysis and Stroke
Rinpoche sent this mind training advice to a student who was quadriplegic.
Path to Enlightenment (lamrim) > Lamrim Study and Practice > The Path to Enlightenment
After a teaching, Rinpoche dictated this advice about the four seals, the core tenets of Buddhism. Rinpoche asked for this advice to be given to all the students who had attended his talk.
Sickness and Health > Addictions and Mental Illness > Acute Mental Illness
A student with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) wrote that they had continual thoughts about going to hell and ongoing negative thoughts about the guru.
