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Advices posted during the month of November 2011
Sickness and Health > Addictions and Mental Illness > Schizophrenia
Advice for a student’s 16-year-old son, who was a violent, paranoid schizophrenic, and a danger to himself and others.
Sickness and Health > Healing and Pacifying Illness > Practices for Protection and Healing
A sick student wrote to Rinpoche, advising that the doctors and hospitals could not find out what was wrong with her, and any medicine she took did not work. Rinpoche gave the following advice.
Sickness and Health > Brain and Nervous System > Paralysis and Stroke
A student who had been sick for fifteen to twenty years asked for advice about having an operation. He was extremely ill and could possibly become paralyzed. Rinpoche advised the following.
Sickness and Health > General Illnesses > Ear, Nose and Throat
A student wrote to ask Rinpoche for advice about his brother’s loss of hearing, which had become worse. His brother was hearing impaired, with almost no hearing in his right ear and about 60 percent hearing in his left ear, which he augmented...
Sickness and Health > General Illnesses > Skin Disorders
A student wrote to Rinpoche about lumps or masses of fat and connective tissue that grow under her skin. There are about 100 prominent lumps all over her body. The doctors say that they won’t become cancerous and can be removed, but the lumps...
Sickness and Health > Wind Imbalance / Lung > Wind Imbalance / Lung
A student had severe lung for many years. He had read Balanced Mind, Balanced Body, a book about lung by Amy Cayton. His lung...
Buddhist Practices > General Practice Advice > General Practice Advice from Rinpoche
Rinpoche wrote the following letter to a student regarding her practice and other matters, including how he learned to swim and almost drowned as a child.
Buddhist Practices > General Practice Advice > General Practice Advice from Rinpoche
A couple wrote to Rinpoche asking for practice advice. The two students were enrolled in the Master’s Program at Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa, Italy, following advice given by Rinpoche at Osel Ling Center, Spain, in 2005. They would like to start...
Buddhist Practices > Advice for New Students > Advice on Practices for Life
Rinpoche gave the following practice advice to a new, young student at Kopan.
Path to Enlightenment (lamrim) > Guru Devotion > Obstacles to Guru Devotion
Rinpoche gave the following advice to a student who was very hurt by disharmony at a center, and felt that Rinpoche had given up on him.
Buddhist Practices > Vows and Commitments > Broken Vows and Commitments
A student confessed to missing commitments and not doing her practices. She also asked about taking lamdre teachings.
Compassion and Bodhicitta > Developing Compassion > Compassion
Rinpoche gave this advice to a person who was angry a lot; often yelling, getting drunk and even beating people close to him. The letter was sent with photos of Chenrezig, the Four Harmonious Brothers and a massive wave.
Holy Objects > Advice on Holy Objects > Prayer Flags
Rinpoche gave the following advice about raising prayer flags.
Holy Objects > Advice on Holy Objects > Prayer Wheels
When Rinpoche flew from Singapore to the United States in 2011, a very devoted airline stewardess sat on the floor in the aisle asking Rinpoche many questions about the prayer wheel. [Rinpoche always travels with and turns a prayer wheel while on...
Meditation and Retreat Advice > Calm Abiding Practice > Calm Abiding (Shi-nä) Retreat
This letter was sent to a nun who was trying to achieve shamatha in retreat.
Family and Relationships > Having a Baby > Abortion
Several years ago, a student and her partner decided to have an abortion. After the abortion, she drank too much and cheated on her partner, but she deeply regretted these actions and had made a strong determination not to do them again. She had...
Contemporary Issues > Practices for Success > Prayers and Mantras for Success
Rinpoche gave the following advice for a student’s daughter to be successful in her exams.
Sickness and Health > Cancer > Practice Advice for Cancer
Rinpoche checked and gave the following advice to a student who was about to have chemotherapy for cancer.
Meditation and Retreat Advice > Retreats > Retreat Advice
A student asked if he should continue doing Lama Chöpa at the beginning of every session in retreat (four times per day), or if he should just do a more extensive Lama Chöpa with Jorchö once in the morning. Another...
Buddhist Practices > Purification Practices > Practices to Purify Negative Karma
A Japanese student asked Rinpoche what practices to do for purification.
Benefiting Animals > Practices to Benefit Animals > Various Practices for Animals
A student who cared for a colony of stray cats advised Rinpoche that she helped the cats by giving them Dharma names, chanting mantras and blowing on their food and water, chanting the names of the buddhas to them, fastening door mantras over the...
Buddhist Practices > General Practice Advice > General Practice Advice from Rinpoche
Rinpoche sent the following practice advice to a student in Mexico.
Buddhist Practices > General Practice Advice > Practices for Life
A student wrote to Rinpoche requesting advice about his personal deity/yidam and how to proceed with his practice. He also offered prayers for Rinpoche’s long life and advised of a dream about a deity he believed was Lama Tsongkhapa. Rinpoche’s...
Buddhist Practices > General Practice Advice > Practices for Life
Rinpoche gave the following practice advice to a student.
Path to Enlightenment (lamrim) > Lamrim Study and Practice > Training the Mind in Lamrim
Rinpoche sent the following advice to a student on how to generate faith.
