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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 November 2009
Buddhist Practices > General Practice Advice > Quotations and Sayings
Rinpoche gave the following advice.
Contemporary Issues > Religious Tolerance > Buddhism and Christianity
A student who is a Christian minister wrote asking if she should stop her work so she could focus mostly on Dharma.
Contemporary Issues > Dharma in Daily Life > A Meaningful Life
A student wrote asking what he should focus on to make his life most meaningful.
Path to Enlightenment (lamrim) > Lamrim Study and Practice > Training the Mind in Lamrim
Rinpoche made the following comment on achieving realizations of the lamrim.
Path to Enlightenment (lamrim) > Lamrim Study and Practice > Training the Mind in Lamrim
A student wrote to Rinpoche and he responded with the following advice on essential practices. The student’s card and Rinpoche’s response are below.
Path to Enlightenment (lamrim) > Karma > Understanding Karma
Rinpoche offered the following advice on how karma becomes more powerful from an action when there are many people gathered together.
Buddhist Practices > Vows and Commitments > Broken Vows and Commitments
A student wrote to Rinpoche about some broken commitments and what he could do about them. His letter and Rinpoche’s response are below.
Meditation and Retreat Advice > Calm Abiding Practice > Calm Abiding (Shi-nä) Retreat
Rinpoche gave the following advice to a longtime student who was doing a long retreat. The student’s letter and Rinpoche’s response are below.
Buddhist Practices > General Practice Advice > Practices for Life
A student wrote to Rinpoche asking for advice about practices for the rest of his life, and for career advice as he is seeking stable and fulfilling work. He also requested Rinpoche to accept him as a student. Rinpoche’s response is below.
Buddhist Practices > Practice Problems > Heresy and Negative Thoughts
Rinpoche gave the following advice to a nun who was doing one thousand nyung näs and was concerned at heretical thoughts arising in her mind. She had completed fifty-eight nyung näs.
Sangha (Monks and Nuns) > Ordination Advice > Requesting Ordination
A student wrote to Rinpoche offering many practices to him, which he had completed. He also asked about ordination, where to do retreat, and what to do.
Sickness and Health > Cancer > Practice Advice for Cancer
A student had bone, lung, and brain cancer and wrote to Rinpoche asking what practices he should do.
Buddhist Practices > Purification Practices > Nyung Näs
Rinpoche sent a student the following advice on nyung nä practice.
Buddhist Practices > Purification Practices > Nyung Näs
A nun had completed 65 nyung näs in one year, and was trying to finish 100 to offer to Rinpoche. Rinpoche wrote this letter to her, as her parents had expressed that they wanted their daughter to be close to them.
Buddhist Practices > General Practice Advice > General Practice Advice from Rinpoche
Rinpoche gave the following advice to a student who was ill.
Holy Objects > Advice on Holy Objects > Prayer Flags
Rinpoche sent this message after leaving a Dharma center.
Buddhist Practices > General Practice Advice > General Practice Advice from Rinpoche
A student, who used to be a monk, wrote asking for advice with his practice. He also asked about his work, which was not going well.
Contemporary Issues > Work and Business Problems > Business Crisis and Failure
Rinpoche wrote the following to a student who had many problems with his business and was losing money. The student now owed a lot of money and was desperate. He was already doing the following practices: Sanghata Sutra, prayers to Guru...
Meditation and Retreat Advice > Retreats > Retreat Advice
Rinpoche sent the following advice to a very dedicated student, about to do seven months’ retreat. The student had been working for more than seven years in the FPMT International Office.
Buddhist Practices > General Practice Advice > General Practice Advice from Rinpoche
A longtime student, who had never asked for advice on his practice, decided to ask, after his daughter had done so and had had some incredible results (the practice was related to health and her whole life turned around).
Buddhist Practices > Practicing in Prison > Meditation and Practice in Prison
Rinpoche sent the following letter to a prisoner serving a ten-year sentence for the death of his son. The man fell asleep on the couch and when he woke up found his son dead on his chest. The child may have died from Sudden Infant Death syndrome...
Sickness and Health > Brain and Nervous System > Paralysis and Stroke
Rinpoche gave the following advice on how to help paralysis, including eleven different methods.
Advices posted during the month of October 2009
Working for the Dharma > Service and Support of the Dharma > Generosity and Charitable Projects
A very generous benefactor started a fund with the idea of investing a large sum of money into a business to generate money to continually help run the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana...
Working for the Dharma > Service and Support of the Dharma > Generosity and Charitable Projects
A devoted student asked Rinpoche how she could help with a business that would benefit Rinpoche’s projects.
Working for the Dharma > Service and Support of the Dharma > Rinpoche's Thank-you Cards, Letters and Gifts
Rinpoche sent the following letter to nuns and students at a Dharma center, thanking them for their practice.
