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Advices posted during the month of October 2009
Benefiting Animals > Practices to Benefit Animals > Animal Health Care and Healing
Rinpoche sent the following letter to an organization in Sikkim that runs an animal welfare program that offers vaccinations and anti-rabies shots to many dogs. They had written asking for a blessing of the project and also to have CDs of mantras...
Benefiting Animals > Practices to Benefit Animals > Various Practices for Animals
Rinpoche commented on various ways to bless animals.
Buddhist Practices > Tantra and Deity Practice > Deity Practices for Health and Healing
Rinpoche gave the following advice to a student who said she had stopped doing Tara practice and then had a vision of Tara.
Buddhist Practices > Tantra and Deity Practice > Deity Practices for Health and Healing
Rinpoche gave the following advice on the importance of performing Medicine Buddha puja at a Dharma center.
Buddhist Practices > Tantra and Deity Practice > Tantra
Rinpoche discussed how to generate correctly as the deity.
Buddhist Practices > Tantra and Deity Practice > Various Deity Practices
A student wrote the following about connections with deities. His letter and Rinpoche’s response are printed below.
Buddhist Practices > General Practice Advice > Dorje Shugden
A student wrote to Rinpoche that another student had been practicing Dolgyal but had now stopped. Dolgyal (Skt: Dorje Shugen) is a protector practice, which His Holiness the Dalai Lama has asked people to stop practicing.
Buddhist Practices > General Practice Advice > General Practice Advice from Rinpoche
Rinpoche sent the following note to a student who wanted to make his life more meaningful.
Buddhist Practices > General Practice Advice > Quotations and Sayings
Rinpoche made the following statements, suitable for printing on stickers for cars, windows, etc.
Buddhist Practices > Advice for New Students > Advice for New Students
Rinpoche recommended many practices and also social service in this advice for a new student.
Buddhist Practices > Advice for New Students > Advice for New Students
A student wrote to Rinpoche asking about her recitations of Medicine Buddha and Chenrezig mantras.
Contemporary Issues > Politics and Conflict > Advice and Practices for Various Countries
Rinpoche sent the following letter to the King of Nepal in June, 2002.
Contemporary Issues > Politics and Conflict > Clairvoyance and Managing Conflict
Rinpoche related a conversation he had on education in managing conflict.
Contemporary Issues > Politics and Conflict > Clairvoyance and Managing Conflict
Rinpoche made the following comments about developing clairvoyance, with regards to detecting destructive intentions.
Contemporary Issues > Politics and Conflict > Conflict in the Middle East
Rinpoche gave the following advice to a student who wrote saying he could no longer go to the Dharma center because he felt the other students did not support President Bush going to war in Afghanistan and Iraq while he felt that Bush was...
Contemporary Issues > Politics and Conflict > Prayers for Peace
Rinpoche translated this Prayer for Peace by the great yogi Tang Tong Gyalpo at the time of the terrorist attacks on 11 September, 2001, on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington.
Contemporary Issues > Natural Disasters > Climate Change
Rinpoche made the following comments on the environment and meditation.
Buddhist Practices > Daily Practices > Daily Practice Advice
A student wrote asking advice as to which daily practices to do.
Buddhist Practices > Daily Practices > Daily Practice Advice
A student wrote asking for advice on her practice and Rinpoche sent the following response, advising daily meditation on the lamrim (the graduated path to enlightenment.)
Buddhist Practices > Purification Practices > Thirty-five Buddhas Practice
A student who had memorized the Thirty-five Buddhas practice wrote to Rinpoche.
Buddhist Practices > General Practice Advice > Dorje Shugden
Rinpoche gave the following teaching about the protector practice, Dorje Shugden, (Tib: Dolgyal). First he talked about the importance of compassion and our responsibility for leading all sentient beings to enlightenment. To do that, we need...
Buddhist Practices > Advice for New Students > Advice for New Students
A new student wrote to Rinpoche requesting advice regarding which practices to do.
Buddhist Practices > Advice for New Students > Advice for New Students
A new student met Rinpoche at an initiation and asked for some practice advice. Rinpoche emphasized the importance of lamrim study and meditation in his response.
Buddhist Practices > Advice for New Students > Advice on Practices for Life
Rinpoche sent the following advice to a new student on which practices to do for the rest of her life.
Buddhist Practices > Advice for New Students > Advice on Practices for Life
A new student wrote to Rinpoche requesting practices for life.
