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Advices posted during the month of March 2017
Buddhist Practices > General Practice Advice > Practices for Life
Rinpoche advised a student to do the following practices to make her life most beneficial for sentient beings.
Working for the Dharma > Advice to Dharma Centers > FPMT Service
A letter from Lama Zopa Rinpoche for the FPMT Annual Review 2016.
Buddhist Practices > Purification Practices > Nyung Näs
A student asked Rinpoche about doing 108 nyung näs. The nyung nä is a two-day retreat that involves fasting, prostrations and silence.
Advices posted during the month of February 2017
Contemporary Issues > Politics and Conflict > Advice and Practices for Various Countries
Due to a recent humanitarian crisis in Nigeria, millions of people have been displaced and are in need of food aid. Many children are acutely malnourished and at risk of starvation. Rinpoche checked on the best way to help.
Working for the Dharma > Service and Support of the Dharma > Rinpoche's Thank-you Cards, Letters and Gifts
Rinpoche wrote this card to a student who had recently helped build a stupa at a Dharma center.
Path to Enlightenment (lamrim) > Guru Devotion > The Benefits of Guru Devotion
Rinpoche wrote this card with quotations to a student who had helped extensively at a Dharma center.
Sickness and Health > Cardiovascular and Respiratory > Cardiovascular Disease
A student with a serious heart condition asked Rinpoche for advice. A medical checkup had shown that the student’s heart was enlarged and the aorta valve was not functioning well, resulting in high blood pressure and some misfires.
Sickness and Health > Cancer > Breast Cancer
A student with breast cancer asked about taking specific medicine and what she could do for the cancer.
Sickness and Health > Healing and Pacifying Illness > Practices for Protection and Healing
Advice for a student who had asked how to prevent a hereditary disorder from arising in her children.
Holy Objects > Advice on Holy Objects > Statues
Rinpoche wrote this letter to an international Buddhist organization regarding construction of a monastery in Garsha, Lahaul district, India. This would ensure the future care of a precious self-emanating Chenrezig statue located there.
Compassion and Bodhicitta > Bodhicitta > Advice on Developing Bodhicitta
Rinpoche sent this letter to a student about the benefits of practicing Dharma with bodhicitta, the mind of enlightenment.
Sickness and Health > Cancer > Various Cancers
This advice was given to longtime student who had bone marrow cancer.
Buddhist Practices > Advice for New Students > Advice on Practices for Life
A new student who had just attended a Kopan meditation course in Nepal asked Rinpoche for life practices.
Advices posted during the month of January 2017
Compassion and Bodhicitta > Developing Compassion > Compassion
This advice was for a student who had cancer and was being cared for by a relative. The carer was even cleaning up the patient’s kaka (faeces) and pipi (urine). Typed by Rinpoche, with corrections by Ven. Holly. Lightly edited...
Benefiting Animals > Practices to Benefit Animals > Various Practices for Animals
Rinpoche advised how to purify the negative karma of a dead insect by reciting mantras and blowing on the insect.
Buddhist Practices > Daily Practices > Daily Practice Advice
Advice on the shortcomings of the self-cherishing thought and the benefits of cherishing others. Rinpoche gave this advice to one student and said it is applicable to anyone.
Holy Objects > Making Offerings > Offering Practices
Rinpoche wrote this letter to students in Mongolia who make extensive water bowl offerings every day.
Working for the Dharma > Advice to Dharma Centers > Practice Advice for Centers
Advice on prayers and practices to bless tea produced for sale at a Dharma center.
Family and Relationships > Children > Teenagers
This advice was given to a teenager about the benefits of reading The Method to Transform a Suffering Life into Happiness (Including Enlightenment) each morning.
Compassion and Bodhicitta > Mind Training (lo-jong) > Transforming Problems
Rinpoche gave this advice to a student who asked about doing the preliminary practice of offering water bowls.
Benefiting Animals > Practices to Benefit Animals > Animal Health Care and Healing
Rinpoche heard about an organization in Bhutan that has rescued more than 1,000 stray dogs. Rinpoche wished to offer six months of food for the dogs, however, the local FPMT center raised most of the money and Rinpoche offered the remainder....
Working for the Dharma > Service and Support of the Dharma > Offering Service
A student asked if there was something more that they could do, other than helping the center. Rinpoche gave this advice.
Working for the Dharma > Service and Support of the Dharma > Offering Service
A student served as secretary to an FPMT center for many years. Rinpoche sent his thanks.
Path to Enlightenment (lamrim) > Lamrim Study and Practice > Training the Mind in Lamrim
Rinpoche gave this advice to a monk who asked whether it was beneficial to go to Myanmar to meditate for three months.
Advices posted during the month of December 2016
Working for the Dharma > Service and Support of the Dharma > Rinpoche's Thank-you Cards, Letters and Gifts
Rinpoche made some peanut butter and erma mixture and offered it to one of his neighbors. This was a hand-written card. Erma (Zanthoxylum alatum) is a spice, like red peppercorn, that grows in the Himalayas and is found in Solu...
