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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 June 2014
Benefiting Animals > Spare the Insects > Saving Insects' Lives
Rinpoche has advised the following practices when there is an invasion of insects in one's house.
Benefiting Animals > Spare the Insects > Saving Insects' Lives
Rinpoche gave the following advice after seeing many ants on the road.
Contemporary Issues > Dharma in Daily Life > Food and Dharma Practice
A student who was helping with the relic tour wrote to ask Rinpoche for advice about blessing bulk food produced in a factory owned by her family.
Holy Objects > Monasteries and Stupas > Stupas
A student wrote that she had made a small stupa and sent photos to Rinpoche. This was Rinpoche’s response. Scribe: Ven. Holly.
Holy Objects > Advice on Holy Objects > Prayer Wheels
A student asked Rinpoche about putting Yamantaka mantras inside a prayer wheel.
Holy Objects > Advice on Holy Objects > Tsa-tsas
Students wrote offering the merit of making tsa-tsas for Rinpoche’s long life and for the long life of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. The students’ letter is below, followed by Rinpoche’s response.
Contemporary Issues > Students' Letters > Offering Thanks
A student sent this letter to Rinpoche about Dear Lama Zopa and his other books. Rinpoche requested that the letter is kept for rejoicing.
Buddhist Practices > Preliminary Practices > Lamrim Meditation Outline
A student wrote to Rinpoche explaining his daily practice and asking if he should be doing anything different.
Holy Objects > Pilgrimage > Advice on Pilgrimage
A student was going to the pilgrimage sites of Bodhgaya, Rajgir and Nalanda, India. Rinpoche gave this advice on practices to do at these holy places.
Buddhist Practices > Daily Practices > How To Do Daily Practice
A student wrote to Rinpoche explaining his daily practice and asking if he should be doing anything different.
Advices posted during the month of May 2014
Negative Emotions > Depression > Advice on Depression
Rinpoche advised how to use depression on the path to enlightenment.
Advices posted during the month of April 2014
Working for the Dharma > Service and Support of the Dharma > Rinpoche's Thank-you Cards, Letters and Gifts
A student wrote asking for preliminary practices after helping at the center for a long time. Rinpoche sent this message with the practices.
Sickness and Health > Healing and Pacifying Illness > Eliminating Life Obstacles
A student asked Rinpoche if he agreed with her plan to study the Master’s Program. She also asked how to make her life most meaningful.
Sickness and Health > Healing and Pacifying Illness > Healers and Healing
A student wrote to Rinpoche about her strong connection with Kuan Yin [Skt: Avalokiteshvara] and advised that she had healed someone with her hands. She asked Rinpoche what it meant and if he had any advice.
Meditation and Retreat Advice > Retreats > Retreat Advice
A student requested Rinpoche’s blessing for an upcoming three-month Vajrasattva retreat.
Sutras, Mantras and Root Texts > Mantras > Mantra Recitations
A student offered 10,000 short White Tara mantras for Rinpoche’s long life.
Buddhist Practices > General Practice Advice > General Practice Advice from Rinpoche
A student with many obstacles asked Rinpoche about returning to her home country. She had visa-related issues and was unable to find a good job or a husband. Rinpoche gave the following advice.
Path to Enlightenment (lamrim) > Guru Devotion > Obstacles to Guru Devotion
A student wrote to Rinpoche about difficulties with their lama (spiritual teacher) and leaving the group they had been part of.
Contemporary Issues > Religious Tolerance > Other Religions
A student wrote to say she had stopped doing the practices Rinpoche gave her after she became a Christian. She asked to be released from the practices because she felt uncomfortable.
Holy Objects > Monasteries and Stupas > Stupas
A student had completed 1,000 circumambulations of the Boudhanath Stupa, and four of her friends had become vegetarian after she told them about Rinpoche’s previous advice for his quick recovery. This is Rinpoche’s response.
Contemporary Issues > Students' Letters > Offering Thanks
Rinpoche requested that this letter from a student is kept so others can rejoice.
Contemporary Issues > Students' Letters > Offering Thanks
Rinpoche requested that this letter from a student is kept so others can rejoice.
Sickness and Health > General Illnesses > Skin Disorders
A student asked Rinpoche for advice for his mother, who had a large, open wound on her leg. She needed a skin transplant, but the doctors couldn’t operate because the wound was infected. She was a Buddhist practitioner and was doing tonglen...
Advices posted during the month of March 2014
Meditation and Retreat Advice > Retreats > Completion of a Retreat
Rinpoche gave the following advice to a student who had just completed 100,000 Vajrasattva mantras and retreat.
Advices posted during the month of January 2014
Working for the Dharma > Service and Support of the Dharma > Offering Service
Advice for a longtime student, who was a nun and teacher.
