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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 August 2009
Family and Relationships > Having a Baby > Birth Complications
A student who was eight months’ pregnant wrote to Rinpoche for advice because there was a possibility the child could be HIV positive and also there could be complications during the birth.
Family and Relationships > Having a Baby > Birth Complications
A student wrote to Rinpoche asking for advice on a difficult pregnancy and what was predicted to be a difficult birth.
Family and Relationships > Having a Baby > Practices for Pregnancy and Birth
Rinpoche sent the following advice to a student who was asking about her unborn baby. Her letter and his response are below.
Family and Relationships > Having a Baby > Practices for Pregnancy and Birth
Rinpoche gave the following mantra for protecting and keeping a baby healthy, from conception through to birth, and directly after birth.
Family and Relationships > Children > Advice for Children
Rinpoche wrote the following for a magazine, commemorating a place for children at a Dharma center.
Family and Relationships > Children > Advice for Children
Rinpoche wrote the following card to a student who was eight years old.
Family and Relationships > Children > Educating Children
Rinpoche discussed starting Buddhist schools and monasteries in India, with an Indian-born monk serving there. The monk told Rinpoche that another monk attending a course in Bodhgaya had said that there was too much politics in Bodhgaya, and that...
Family and Relationships > Children > Educating Children
Rinpoche met with a nun to discuss the best way to educate children.
Family and Relationships > Children > Educating Children
Rinpoche visited the school run by the FPMT in Bodhgaya for Indian children, and gave this advice to the schoolchildren.
Family and Relationships > Children > Educating Children
Rinpoche had some discussions with a student about a school that was supposed to be run according to Buddhist principles. The student reported that not all the children’s parents were Buddhist, and that the school was trying not to be too overt...
Family and Relationships > Children > Educating Children
An American student asked Rinpoche about working in a school and he gave the following advice on educating children.
Family and Relationships > Children > Teenagers
A seventeen-year-old girl, who grew up in a retreat center in the USA, came to meet Rinpoche. Afterwards, Rinpoche sent her this message.
Family and Relationships > Children > Teenagers
Rinpoche wrote a card for two young girls, aged eighteen and sixteen.
Family and Relationships > Relationship Problems > Advice on Relationship Problems
Rinpoche gave the following advice to a young woman who had met a new man and was considering pursuing a relationship with him. She had expressed concern that the relationship might prove harmful in some way.
Family and Relationships > Relationship Problems > Disharmony in the Family
A very kind benefactor sent a letter asking for advice about a member of his family, who was a little disturbed and very angry.
Family and Relationships > Relationship Problems > Disharmony in the Family
A student said there was some disharmony between her parents and her siblings. She asked Rinpoche’s advice for improving relations, to bring about harmony between them. Her parents were upset, but her brothers and sisters were even more upset...
Family and Relationships > Your Parents > Caring for Sick Parents
A student, who was a nun, moved back home to take care of her mother, who was very elderly and unwell. Rinpoche wrote two cards by hand, and sent this picture to the mother, along with the following advice.
Sickness and Health > Infectious Diseases > Hepatitis
A student wrote to Rinpoche saying how after doing the practices Rinpoche had recommended he had been completely cured of hepatitis C. The student’s letter and Rinpoche’s response are both published below.
Sickness and Health > Infectious Diseases > Hepatitis
A student with Hepatitis C wrote asking for advice on which practices she should do.
Sickness and Health > Infectious Diseases > HIV / AIDS
Rinpoche gave the following advice to student who wrote saying he had HIV and asking what practices he could do to stop the virus.
Sickness and Health > Transforming Pain and Illness > Transforming Pain
Rinpoche sent the following letter to a student in hospital, who was in a lot of pain after a car accident.
Sickness and Health > Transforming Pain and Illness > Handling Illness
Rinpoche sent this message to a nun who normally offered service in his house, when she was sick in bed.
Sickness and Health > Musculoskeletal Disorders > Arthritis
A student with very bad arthritis wrote to Rinpoche asking what practices to do to help his condition.
Sickness and Health > Addictions and Mental Illness > Schizophrenia
A student who was diagnosed with schizophrenia described to Rinpoche the hallucinations and voices she heard. She said the spirits often appeared as Rinpoche himself, or as her family members, and then they tried to fool her. She wrote to...
Sickness and Health > Healing and Pacifying Illness > Eliminating Life Obstacles
Rinpoche gave the following advice to a student who had obstacles to her life.
