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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 October 2009
Working for the Dharma > Service and Support of the Dharma > Rinpoche's Thank-you Cards, Letters and Gifts
A student who had helped with a tour of Buddhist relics sent Rinpoche a drawing a child had done during the tour, of Maitreya Buddha. Rinpoche sent the following reply.
Working for the Dharma > Teaching Dharma > Geshes at the Dharma Centers
A Western woman translating for a Tibetan geshe at an FPMT center in Europe wrote to Rinpoche to express concerns about cultural differences between the teacher and herself, both as a Westerner and as a layperson. She commented that the geshe...
Negative Emotions > Various Emotions > Other Emotions
Rinpoche had enrolled a Tibetan girl, who was born to his cousin’s wife, in a nursing school in Dharamsala. She had been studying there, but had failed her exams in the previous term. She was afraid of failing again the following year.
Family and Relationships > Having a Baby > Abortion
A student, who had had an abortion, received the following advice from Rinpoche.
Family and Relationships > Children > Advice for Children
One of Rinpoche’s youngest students is an eight-year-old girl, who has been writing to Rinpoche regularly since she was about four. She sends drawings, cards and letters, always saying she wants to meet Rinpoche. Rinpoche hand-wrote the message...
Contemporary Issues > Work and Business Problems > Business Crisis and Failure
A new meditation group coordinator and student was having problems with her business. The business was not profitable and she was worried her financial backer would withdraw support. She had recited the Sanghata Sutra in her home and...
Contemporary Issues > Court Cases and Legal Action > Practices for Success in Court
Rinpoche sent a student the following advice regarding what practices he could do to help his court case.
Contemporary Issues > Court Cases and Legal Action > Practices for Success in Court
Rinpoche gave the following advice to a student facing a court hearing.
Contemporary Issues > Court Cases and Legal Action > Legal Action Against Dharma Centers
Rinpoche gave the following advice to a center that was being taken to court regarding a situation with a tenant.
Contemporary Issues > Practices for Success > Buying and Selling Property
Rinpoche gave the following advice regarding what a student needed to do to be able to sell some land.
Contemporary Issues > Practices for Success > Buying and Selling Property
A student who wanted to buy land wrote to Rinpoche asking for advice on what he could do to achieve this.
Contemporary Issues > Practices for Success > Practices for Business Success
Rinpoche gave the following advice to a businessman regarding practices to do for success.
Contemporary Issues > Practices for Success > Practices for Business Success
Rinpoche gave the following advice to four students whose shop needed to be more successful.
Contemporary Issues > Practices for Success > Practices for Business Success
A student whose business was not succeeding wrote to Rinpoche asking what to do.
Contemporary Issues > Practices for Success > Practices for Business Success
Rinpoche sent the following advice to a student who needed to have more success in his business in order to receive funding from a bank.
Sickness and Health > Healing and Pacifying Illness > Practices for Protection and Healing
Rinpoche gave the following instructions on how to bless water with the mantra of Dorje Namjom for purification, particularly to help with paralysis.
Sickness and Health > Cancer > Practice Advice for Cancer
Rinpoche sent the following advice to Geshe Jampa Gyatso, the resident teacher at a Dharma center in Italy, a few days before he passed away.
Sickness and Health > Brain and Nervous System > Coma
Rinpoche gave the following advice to a student’s brother, who was in a coma after a brain operation. This advice can apply for anyone who is in a coma.
Benefiting Animals > Spare the Insects > Don't Kill the Insects
Rinpoche made the following comment on why we should not kill mosquitoes.
Benefiting Animals > Spare the Insects > Saving Insects' Lives
Rinpoche gave the following advice on what you can do for insects that you find in your home.
Benefiting Animals > Spare the Insects > Saving Insects' Lives
This conversation with Rinpoche came up in relationship to a Dharma center having many cockroaches.
Benefiting Animals > Non-harming > Practices to Purify Killing Animals
A student wrote explaining how her husband had killed some mice and insects in their house, and asked for advice regarding practices to purify the action of killing.
Benefiting Animals > Non-harming > Thanksgiving
In November 2007, Rinpoche made the following comments about how to benefit the millions of turkeys killed for the Thanksgiving holiday. Two of his attendants and a student also made some comments on the day’s events, and the offerings that are...
Buddhist Practices > Daily Practices > Restarting Daily Practice
A student, an ex-monk, stopped doing all his practices, had children, then wrote after a few years asking for guidance. In that time he had become very disillusioned.
Compassion and Bodhicitta > Mind Training (lo-jong) > Transforming Problems
Rinpoche gave this advice on how to bear hardships with patience, courage and endurance.
