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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 May 2017
Holy Objects > Monasteries and Stupas > Stupas
Rinpoche gave this advice about the power of stupas.
Buddhist Practices > Practice Problems > Problems During One's Practice
A student advised Rinpoche that his partner did not support his Dharma practice and was opposed to Dharma. The student also asked Rinpoche about practices for protection from strange illnesses that came up while practicing Dharma, and requested...
Buddhist Practices > Preliminary Practices > Preliminary Practice Advice
A student asked Rinpoche for life practices and advice on her personal deity [Tib: yidam] for tantric practice.
Buddhist Practices > General Practice Advice > Practices for Life
Advice for a student who had just finished retreat and asked Rinpoche what he should do with his life.
Contemporary Issues > Practices for Success > Prayers and Mantras for Success
This advice was given to a student who requested practices to help with legal and financial difficulties and unemployment.
Advices posted during the month of April 2017
Meditation and Retreat Advice > Retreats > Retreat Advice
A student asked about preliminary practices prior to engaging in retreat. The student had several deity yoga retreat commitments to complete.
Working for the Dharma > Advice to Dharma Centers > Practice Advice for Centers
In this advice given to a Dharma center, Rinpoche explains the essence of the Buddha’s teachings. Rinpoche also advises the benefits of precious mantras that enable us to purify negative karma and collect merit in order to achieve enlightenment...
Contemporary Issues > Practices for Success > Prayers and Mantras for Success
These practices were given to a student who asked Rinpoche what he needed to do for success.
Sangha (Monks and Nuns) > Advice for Sangha > General Advice for Sangha
Advice given to a Sangha person about respecting and cherishing all sentient beings, and in particular, respecting geshes and elder Sangha by offering prostrations and not giving blessings to others in front of them.
Sickness and Health > Cancer > Various Cancers
A student had colon cancer and an operation was scheduled for the following week. The student asked Rinpoche which pujas should be done.
Sickness and Health > Healing and Pacifying Illness > Eliminating Life Obstacles
Advice given to a student who had life obstacles in that year.
Contemporary Issues > Natural Disasters > Various Natural Disasters
Rinpoche gave this advice to a center on what to do when a cyclone was approaching.
Compassion and Bodhicitta > Mind Training (lo-jong) > Tonglen: Taking and Giving
After a serious accident, a student found it difficult to practice and wrote to Rinpoche for advice. The student had a brain injury and was learning how to walk again, how to dress and so forth. Rinpoche recommended tonglen, along with...
Buddhist Practices > Purification Practices > Nyung Näs
Rinpoche gave this advice to a center that was arranging a 108 nyung nä retreat.
Buddhist Practices > General Practice Advice > Practices for Life
A student wrote to Rinpoche to request advice about life practices and future ordination.
Sickness and Health > Cancer > Various Cancers
A student asked what to do for prostate cancer.
Buddhist Practices > Daily Practices > Daily Practice Advice
A student requested guidance in her daily practice. She also asked about tonglen as she had become unwell after doing tonglen practice for sick friends and felt afraid. The student didn’t know what to expect and whether it was normal to get sick...
Advices posted during the month of March 2017
Working for the Dharma > Advice to Dharma Centers > Practice Advice for Centers
Rinpoche gave this advice to a Dharma center about spending money to benefit others.
Buddhist Practices > General Practice Advice > Dorje Shugden
Lama Zopa Rinpoche wrote this letter about the practice of Dolgyal (Dorje Shugden).
Negative Emotions > Depression > Feeling Suicidal
A student asked Rinpoche about a person who was feeling depressed and suicidal because her husband had left her.
Path to Enlightenment (lamrim) > Lamrim Study and Practice > The Path to Enlightenment
Advice for a student doing the FPMT Basic Program, a five-year, twelve-subject course of studies designed by Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
Contemporary Issues > Dharma in Daily Life > Travel and Immigration
A student asked if it was beneficial to go to Tibet. The student also asked whether to explain sur practice to other people.
Holy Objects > Advice on Holy Objects > Prayer Wheels
Advice for a student who had built a prayer wheel and sent Rinpoche a small video of it.
Holy Objects > Monasteries and Stupas > Stupas
Rinpoche sent this letter to a student who was building some prayer wheels that Rinpoche had sponsored. The student was also building some stupas.
Working for the Dharma > Advice to Dharma Centers > Working at the Dharma Center
Rinpoche advised how to act according to Dharma when someone working at the center forgets their practice.
