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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 2015
Sickness and Health > Addictions and Mental Illness > Bipolar Disorder
A student was having a major bipolar episode and was in a psychiatric hospital. Rinpoche gave this advice.
Sickness and Health > Healing and Pacifying Illness > Practices for Protection and Healing
A student was in a serious car accident and her neck was broken, along with other injuries. She said that she could have died and many people could not believe she had survived. She wrote that the time of death is uncertain, and asked for advice...
Buddhist Practices > General Practice Advice > Dorje Shugden
A student wrote to advise that he given up Shugden (Dolgyal) practice, and he asked Rinpoche what he should do with his Dolgyal materials. He also had a question about Vajrayogini.
Meditation and Retreat Advice > Retreats > Completion of a Retreat
A student advised that he had recently completed a Medicine Buddha retreat. During the retreat, he took the eight Mahayana precepts, and made extensive offerings and prayers. He wrote that his mind was calm, happy and clear in the retreat, and he...
Advices posted during the month of December 2014
Negative Emotions > Depression > Feeling Suicidal
A student wrote that she was very tired, had no motivation and found the simplest tasks difficult. She was thinking about death and questioning if Dharma worked. Rinpoche checked the situation and advised these practices.
Death and Transitions > Caring for Others at the Time of Death > Practices at the Time of Death
Rinpoche gave the following advice on how to support a senior student, a nun, who was close to death.
Contemporary Issues > Court Cases and Legal Action > Legal Proceedings
Rinpoche gave this advice to a student whose partner was involved in a trial.
Sickness and Health > General Illnesses > Various Illnesses
A student wrote that hypothyroidism and a food addiction had caused her to gain weight. She had to lose weight, but didn’t know how. Rinpoche advised her to stop eating sugar and meat, and also gave advice on tsog offering and purification...
Sutras, Mantras and Root Texts > Mantras > Mantra Recitations
Rinpoche sent this advice, along with two Namgyalma protection amulets to a student.
Buddhist Practices > Preliminary Practices > Prostrations
A student had received life practices from Rinpoche, including prostrations to the Thirty-five Buddhas. After having a knee operation she was not allowed to kneel. She asked if she could recite the buddhas’ names and prostrate with her arms....
Negative Emotions > Depression > Advice on Depression
A student, a nun who had disrobed, wrote to Rinpoche. She had health problems and had become very depressed and isolated. She said she couldn’t study or practice Dharma. Rinpoche gave the following advice.
Buddhist Practices > General Practice Advice > General Practice Advice from Rinpoche
A student wrote to request life advice and to ask if Rinpoche would be his guru.
Path to Enlightenment (lamrim) > Guru Devotion > Offering Service to the Guru
A student finished the FPMT Master’s Program, but she didn’t complete the exam or attend all the classes at the center. When she met Rinpoche previously, she had...
Buddhist Practices > Purification Practices > Nyung Näs
A student had just completed 108 nyung näs. She wrote that the practice had changed the way she thought, and she wished to fully dedicate her life to others. She thanked Rinpoche and the organization, and asked if she could now do 1,000 nyung-nas...
Advices posted during the month of November 2014
Working for the Dharma > Advice to Dharma Centers > Practice Advice for Centers
Rinpoche gave the following advice for success in changing the zoning of a center, after checking to see if there would be any serious problems with this approach.
Working for the Dharma > Advice to Dharma Centers > Working at the Dharma Center
A student asked Rinpoche to be her guru and advised of her volunteer service at the center after meeting the Dharma. An excerpt from the student's letter and Rinpoche's response are below.
Working for the Dharma > Service and Support of the Dharma > Rinpoche's Thank-you Cards, Letters and Gifts
Rinpoche sent this letter to an old student who had served as a director of many centers.
Working for the Dharma > Teaching Dharma > Teaching Dharma
Rinpoche advised that when teaching Dharma, the main emphasis should be on the good heart and benefiting others.
Negative Emotions > Delusions > Desire and Attachment
A student wrote that she had fallen in love with a monk and had physical contact with him. She asked how to purify the negative karma created.
Negative Emotions > Various Emotions > Fears
A student was worried about an upcoming exam. Rinpoche sent the following advice.
Family and Relationships > Parenting > Bringing up Children
A student asked Rinpoche for advice on how to raise her daughter.
Family and Relationships > Relationship Problems > Disharmony in the Family
A student wrote that her son was very angry, selfish and unkind to his girlfriend, and he only contacted her when he wanted money. The student was previously ordained, but had disrobed.
Death and Transitions > Other Transitions > Euthanasia
A vet advised that she was doing animal liberation practices once a week. She was also helping people care for sick animals, so that the animals could die naturally instead of being euthanized. She asked if there was any benefit in taking photos...
Contemporary Issues > Natural Disasters > Fires
Rinpoche checked what could be done to dispel serious bushfires that occurred in Sydney and the Blue Mountains, Australia, in September 2013.
Sickness and Health > Healing and Pacifying Illness > Eliminating Life Obstacles
Rinpoche advised the following practices for a student with life obstacles.
