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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 2013
Family and Relationships > Parenting > Bringing up Children
A letter about the qualities to teach a child, sent to a student who was having a baby.
Contemporary Issues > Practices for Success > Practices for Business Success
Rinpoche gave the following advice on creating merit for business success.
Sickness and Health > Cancer > Practice Advice for Cancer
A student with cancer had received chemotherapy and radiation treatment for several years, but the cancer had spread again and was quite serious, so she possibly only had two years left. She requested advice on how to use that time.
Sickness and Health > Brain and Nervous System > Paralysis and Stroke
Rinpoche sent this letter to a student with Bell’s palsy, a form of facial paralysis.
Buddhist Practices > General Practice Advice > General Practice Advice from Rinpoche
While waiting for a flight to Hong Kong at Kuala Lumpur Airport in Malaysia, Rinpoche gave the following advice to Ven. Thubten Dondrub, resident teacher at Buddha House, Australia.
Contemporary Issues > Dharma in Daily Life > A Meaningful Life
A student who had broken up with her boyfriend asked for advice on how to deal with it. She also asked for advice for her mother and for a center (non-FPMT) that didn’t have good energy. Rinpoche wrote the following card.
Meditation and Retreat Advice > Meditation and Visualization > Meditation Practice
A long-time student and center director asked Rinpoche for advice on how to study and practice the Buddhadharma further.
Working for the Dharma > Advice to Dharma Centers > FPMT Service
Rinpoche gave the following advice in the FPMT Annual Review 2009.
Contemporary Issues > Financial Difficulties > Money Difficulties, Recession and Debt
A letter from Rinpoche to a student.
Advices posted during the month of May 2013
Negative Emotions > Depression > Advice on Depression
A student, who was depressed, asked Rinpoche for advice about where she should live.
Family and Relationships > Children > Practices for Children
Rinpoche dictated this prayer and short commentary as a response to a center’s request for a prayer for children to recite at an inter-religious event in Colombia. [Note: the actual prayer is the indented text in italics below.]
Sickness and Health > Brain and Nervous System > Neurological Disorders
A student of Lama Zopa Rinpoche from Texas, United States, lived with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease) and was almost completely paralyzed. In order to write to Rinpoche and formally request Rinpoche to be his teacher, he used a computer that allowed...
Path to Enlightenment (lamrim) > Guru Devotion > Obstacles to Guru Devotion
A student who had served his guru for 15 years told Rinpoche that his teacher was showing the aspect of being displeased. Rinpoche gave the following advice.
Holy Objects > Monasteries and Stupas > Stupas
A student asked Rinpoche about her son, who had life obstacles. Rinpoche gave the following advice.
Path to Enlightenment (lamrim) > Lamrim Study and Practice > Training the Mind in Lamrim
Rinpoche gave the following advice to a new student.
Buddhist Practices > Preliminary Practices > Prostrations
A student asked Rinpoche about doing the refuge and prostration preliminaries in the morning. She also advised that after a callout, students had recited the ...
Buddhist Practices > Purification Practices > Nyung Näs
Rinpoche gave the following advice to a student doing nyung nä practice.
Sickness and Health > Transforming Pain and Illness > Transforming Pain
Ven. Sarah Thresher recalls a telephone conversation she had with Rinpoche in March 2002 about transforming pain by taking on the suffering of others.
Advices posted during the month of April 2013
Death and Transitions > Practices for the Deceased > Prayers and Practices for the Deceased
Rinpoche gave the following advice for the future lives and karma of a benefactor who had passed away.
Contemporary Issues > Financial Difficulties > Money Difficulties, Recession and Debt
A student was experiencing difficulty because her trusted friend was not paying back a large sum of money he had borrowed. The money was hard-earned from her business, and because her friend did not repay the loan, she had to borrow money from a...
Sickness and Health > Wind Imbalance / Lung > Wind Imbalance / Lung
After three months of a calm abiding retreat, a student ended up with lung, as Rinpoche had warned, however, the student said it was not so bad that he had to “roll rocks down the hill to quieten the sheep.” He said he had “some deep...
Meditation and Retreat Advice > Retreats > Long Retreat
Rinpoche sent the following message to a student who had just completed a three year lamrim retreat.
Holy Objects > Advice on Holy Objects > Prayer Wheels
A student was inspired to do Mani wheel practice on a daily basis, with 1,600 MANI mantra repetitions in each session. Kyabje Tenga Rinpoche had previously advised her to do lo-jong (mind training) and tonglen (taking and giving...
Advices posted during the month of January 2013
Buddhist Practices > Purification Practices > Practices to Purify Negative Karma
A Spanish student wrote that after 18 years of contact with the Dharma, he understood that he must purify the heavy karma collected in this life. He requested practices to purify the karma from all his negative actions and asked Rinpoche to...
Buddhist Practices > Advice for New Students > Advice for New Students
A new student advised Rinpoche that she was impressed by his projects, especially children’s education, and she always made dedication after her Vajrasattva and Avalokiteshvara sadhanas to be part of his projects. She requested practice advice....
