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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 January 2018
Buddhist Practices > Tantra and Deity Practice > Deity Practices for Health and Healing
A student wrote that doing Medicine Buddha practice had helped him a lot. He had become vegetarian, had stopped intoxicants and a relative’s cancer had not spread. It had also helped him deal with many difficulties in his life, including...
Meditation and Retreat Advice > Retreats > Retreat Advice
A student asked Rinpoche whether to do retreat or offer service.
Contemporary Issues > Dharma in Daily Life > Attitude to Work
Rinpoche gave this advice about paying government tax and health insurance as an opportunity to practice charity, thus it becomes a cause for happiness and full enlightenment, for oneself and others.
Sickness and Health > General Illnesses > Skin Disorders
Rinpoche wanted to share this advice on how to help severe itching.
Compassion and Bodhicitta > Mind Training (lo-jong) > Tonglen: Taking and Giving
A student wrote that she was sick and asked Rinpoche what to do. Rinpoche gave this advice about the practice of tonglen, taking and giving.
Sickness and Health > Transforming Pain and Illness > Handling Illness
Rinpoche sent this advice about the practice of tonglen (taking and giving) to someone who was injured after a fall. The person had not recovered from the injury, and was still very sick and worried.
Advices posted during the month of December 2017
Working for the Dharma > Advice to Dharma Centers > Working at the Dharma Center
Rinpoche sent this advice about the purpose of working for the center.
Benefiting Animals > Practices to Benefit Animals > Various Practices for Animals
Rinpoche sent this letter to a family he had stayed with. Rinpoche advised how to make this precious human life meaningful and suggested a dedication for the worms and insects which are harmed when growing, picking or offering flowers, and for...
Sickness and Health > Addictions and Mental Illness > Acute Mental Illness
A student wrote about a relative who had suddenly started acting strangely. He had tried to pull up floor boards and was hallucinating. Rinpoche checked for a long time and advise the following.
Sickness and Health > Cancer > Various Cancers
A student wrote about treatment for urethral cancer. Rinpoche read the email and checked, and gave this advice.
Sangha (Monks and Nuns) > Ordination Advice > Ordination Advice
A student asked Rinpoche about becoming a monk. Rinpoche gave this advice about the endless suffering of samsara.
Negative Emotions > Depression > Advice on Depression
A student was experiencing debilitating depression and anxiety and wrote to Rinpoche for advice.
Contemporary Issues > Practices for Success > Buying and Selling Property
Rinpoche advised a student to do these practices before buying a house.
Buddhist Practices > Purification Practices > Nyung Näs
Advice given to a student who had written to Rinpoche about life obstacles and whether to do nyung näs.
Benefiting Animals > Practices to Benefit Animals > How to Benefit Animals
A student wrote to Rinpoche after many gerbils had died unexpectedly. Rinpoche recommended Medicine Buddha and other practices, and advised caring for animals with unconditional love and compassion, not attachment.
Advices posted during the month of November 2017
Family and Relationships > Marriage and Divorce > Separation and Divorce
This advice was given to a student whose husband had left her after many years of marriage because he wanted to be with someone else. Rinpoche typed this letter himself. Lightly edited for readability.
Sangha (Monks and Nuns) > Ordination Advice > Requesting Ordination
Rinpoche gave this advice to a student who wrote about ordination.
Buddhist Practices > Vows and Commitments > Broken Vows and Commitments
A student wrote that he had stopped doing his commitments, but had now started again.
Holy Objects > Making Offerings > Offering Practices
When Rinpoche was at his home in Aptos, California in Oct-Nov 2015, he created a new flower offering card. This was made into a large sign which was placed in the extensive gardens at Rinpoche’s house. Rinpoche has said that anyone can use this...
Working for the Dharma > Advice to Dharma Centers > Practice Advice for Centers
Rinpoche gave this advice to a center director for success and protection of the centers in the area.
Advices posted during the month of October 2017
Sickness and Health > Healing and Pacifying Illness > Eliminating Life Obstacles
A student had life obstacles. Rinpoche checked and advised these practices.
Sickness and Health > Healing and Pacifying Illness > Eliminating Life Obstacles
Rinpoche advised these practices for a student who had life obstacles.
Working for the Dharma > Conflict and Obstacles at the Center > Removing Obstacles at the Center
Rinpoche advised these practices in order to clear obstacles regarding the center property.
Sutras, Mantras and Root Texts > Mantras > Mantra Recitations
Rinpoche sent this advice to a student about the amazing merit of reciting OM MANI PADME HUM, the mantra of Chenrezig [Skt: Avalokiteshvara].
Sickness and Health > Addictions and Mental Illness > Acute Mental Illness
A student wrote that a relative couldn’t sleep at night and felt an energy going up and down her spine. The relative’s mind was unstable, with mood swings and irrational speech.
