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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 August 2017
Contemporary Issues > Natural Disasters > Fires
Rinpoche gave the following practices and advice for protection from fires. This advice is also for tornadoes, floods, hurricanes, and any dangers from water, air, earth and fire. The advice is available for...
Negative Emotions > Various Emotions > Other Emotions
A student had low self-esteem and was experiencing many obstacles. Rinpoche gave this advice to the student, who had also requested life practices.
Advices posted during the month of July 2017
Negative Emotions > Depression > Feeling Suicidal
A student had tried to commit suicide several times and was very depressed. She said that she was mistreated as a child by her father and her only real friends were animals. Rinpoche responded with advice about his own family, karma and...
Path to Enlightenment (lamrim) > Guru Devotion > Advice on Guru Devotion
This advice was given in response to requests from students on how best to prolong the life of the guru and how to avoid obstacles that can cause sickness and shorten the guru’s life. The advice was framed and mounted on the wall at Tushita...
Sickness and Health > Brain and Nervous System > Insomnia / Sleep Disorders
A student was having severe nightmares as though someone was pushing down on him. The student’s mother, who lived in the same house, was also having that experience.
Sickness and Health > Cancer > Various Cancers
Rinpoche offered this advice to a student who had a lung nodule, a small mass of tissue in the lung.
Buddhist Practices > Protection from Spirit Harm > Protection from Spirit Harm
A student had spirit harm, which manifested as hearing voices and other auditory hallucinations.
Buddhist Practices > Vows and Commitments > Broken Vows and Commitments
A student wrote that she had stopped her commitment after taking an initiation but was going to do the retreat. She asked if she should take initiation again before the retreat. She was also finding it hard to complete a tsa-tsa ...
Buddhist Practices > Preliminary Practices > Preliminary Practice Advice
A student asked Rinpoche for advice about preliminaries and daily practices for life.
Path to Enlightenment (lamrim) > Lamrim Study and Practice > The Path to Enlightenment
In this practice advice for a new student, Rinpoche explained how to become free from the suffering of samsara.
Sutras, Mantras and Root Texts > Mantras > Mantra Recitations
In this letter, Rinpoche advised the benefits of two important daily practices: recitation of OM MANI PADME HUM and the Medicine Buddha’s mantra and names. Rinpoche said this is general advice for everyone.
Buddhist Practices > Advice for New Students > Advice on Practices for Life
A new student was given this life practice advice by Rinpoche.
Advices posted during the month of June 2017
Working for the Dharma > Service and Support of the Dharma > Fundraising
A center was fundraising for a new place. Rinpoche advised the following pujas and prayers for success.
Holy Objects > Advice on Holy Objects > Statues
Rinpoche wrote this letter to thank a Nepalese shopkeeper for selling buddha statues. Rinpoche explained the unbelievable merit of just seeing a buddha statue, and advised that well-made statues allow devotion to arise more easily.
Sutras, Mantras and Root Texts > Mantras > Mantra Recitations
Rinpoche sent this advice on the benefits of the precious mantra OM MANI PADME HUM, along with a gift of the mantra banner.
Family and Relationships > Relationship Problems > Disharmony in the Family
A student wrote about her son, who had been in a serious accident and was now paralyzed and in a wheelchair. The mother asked Rinpoche how she could help her son, who was very angry.
Meditation and Retreat Advice > Calm Abiding Practice > Calm Abiding (Shi-nä) Practice
A student asked about going to Myanmar to do meditation. Rinpoche advised the student to study lamrim and then focus on calm abiding.
Buddhist Practices > Advice for New Students > Advice for New Students
A couple wrote to Rinpoche about their life plans, retreat, study and practice. This was Rinpoche’s reply.
Sickness and Health > Operations > Practices Before Surgery
Advice given to student who was about to undergo surgery and would be having full anesthesia.
Advices posted during the month of May 2017
Emptiness > Advice on Emptiness Practice > Emptiness Meditation
Rinpoche advised a student how to meditate on emptiness correctly, in order to progress on the path to enlightenment.
Path to Enlightenment (lamrim) > Guru Devotion > The Qualities of the Guru
A student had two questions for Rinpoche after reading The Heart of the Path many times. First question: Is the absolute guru the practitioner’s own fundamental innate mind of clear light, the...
Negative Emotions > Various Emotions > Other Emotions
Rinpoche gave this advice to a student who was unable to forgive another person for a long time and felt they were being used by that person.
Sickness and Health > General Illnesses > Skin Disorders
A student suffered from a disease which caused his skin to necrotize, with many sores appearing.
Sickness and Health > Musculoskeletal Disorders > Back, Leg and Joint Conditions
A cervical herniated disc had caused partial paralysis of a student's left arm and he was in constant pain due to cervicobrachial neuralgia, nerve pain radiating from his neck. The student requested Rinpoche’s advice and recommendations.
Sickness and Health > Cancer > Various Cancers
Following an operation and diagnosis of ovarian cancer, a student asked Rinpoche for some practices.
