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Advices posted during the month of November 2011
Buddhist Practices > Preliminary Practices > Preliminary Practice Advice
A student wrote to Rinpoche to check what practices she should do to purify negative karma and to clear obstacles to her Dharma practice, in order to benefit sentient beings.
Meditation and Retreat Advice > Meditation and Visualization > Meditation Practice
A student wrote to check if his experience of bliss was correct. Rinpoche sent the following reply.
Emptiness > Advice on Emptiness Practice > Emptiness Meditation
A student asked Rinpoche how he could make his life more emotionally stable and happy. The student was abused as a child and he had a self-destructive habit that he was trying to overcome. He felt trapped in his life: he was unable to have mature...
Meditation and Retreat Advice > Calm Abiding Practice > Calm Abiding (Shi-nä) Retreat
Rinpoche gave the following advice to a student regarding lifetime practice and a long retreat.
Buddhist Practices > Daily Practices > Daily Practice Advice
A new student asked Rinpoche for advice on what practice would be most appropriate for him to clear obstacles, and to strengthen his faith and daily practice.
Holy Objects > Advice on Holy Objects > Tsa-tsas
A student advised he was planning to recite 100 million manis. Rinpoche gave the following advice about tsa-tsas and other practices.
Sickness and Health > Healing and Pacifying Illness > Practices for Protection and Healing
A student advised that after eight months of feeling well, he had relapsed due to the presence of many toxins—metals, viruses, bacteria and parasites—in his body. The student felt that there had been some improvement to his health, but there was...
Sickness and Health > Cancer > Various Cancers
Practice advice for a student with nasal cancer.
Buddhist Practices > Daily Practices > Daily Practice Advice
An ex-Kopan monk who had disrobed asked how to make his life most meaningful. He is a Rinpoche from Solu Khumbu.
Buddhist Practices > Daily Practices > Daily Practice Advice
Rinpoche sent the following advice to a student regarding her daily practice.
Buddhist Practices > Daily Practices > How To Do Daily Practice
This letter sent to a student includes instructions on lamrim meditation and other prayers and practices, and advice on how to practice sleeping Dharma.
Buddhist Practices > Advice for New Students > Advice on Practices for Life
A new student requested life practice advice. Rinpoche advised the following.
Buddhist Practices > Preliminary Practices > Preliminary Practice Advice
A student wrote to Rinpoche requesting advice about his preliminary practices and for Rinpoche to be his guru. The student is an active member of the Mexico center. He met Rinpoche in Washington then saw him again at a retreat in Mexico.
Advices posted during the month of October 2011
Sickness and Health > Musculoskeletal Disorders > Arthritis
Rinpoche gave the following advice to a student with severe arthritis.
Sickness and Health > Operations > Practices Before Surgery
A student wrote asking about his father's operation.
Sickness and Health > General Illnesses > Chronic Fatigue
Rinpoche gave the following advice to a nun who had been sick for a long time with an illness similar to chronic fatigue.
Benefiting Animals > Non-harming > Thanksgiving
In 2010, Rinpoche wrote the following letter and sent it to all the Sangha of Sera Je Monastery. Rinpoche asked for this letter to be read out to the Sangha as dedication after they did pujas and prayers. The prayer is for all the turkeys that...
Meditation and Retreat Advice > Retreats > Retreat Advice
Rinpoche advised a student about her direction in life.
Buddhist Practices > General Practice Advice > General Practice Advice from Rinpoche
Rinpoche gave the following advice about motivation in two separate letters to a student.
Buddhist Practices > General Practice Advice > General Practice Advice from Rinpoche
A student wrote to Rinpoche asking for advice about his practice.
Buddhist Practices > General Practice Advice > Practices for Life
Rinpoche gave the following advice to a student about practices to do for his whole life.
Advices posted during the month of September 2011
Sangha (Monks and Nuns) > Advice for Sangha > Dealing with Obstacles
Rinpoche gave the following advice to a monk who was experiencing obstacles.
Sangha (Monks and Nuns) > Advice for Sangha > General Advice for Sangha
Rinpoche made the following comments about scratching your back, while chatting to a nun. He scratched his back with a scratcher, while saying the following.
Family and Relationships > Children > Advice for Children
Rinpoche went shopping and bought a very pretty dress for a six-year-old student, and sent the following handwritten card to her.
Sickness and Health > Addictions and Mental Illness > Acute Mental Illness
A student wrote to Rinpoche about a mental illness that had started about three years ago with imagined violent attacks, where she felt that her skin was being ripped off or her head chopped off. After that she developed emotional instability...
