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Advices posted during the month of August 2009
Sickness and Health > Brain and Nervous System > Epilepsy
A student wrote asking for advice about her son's epilepsy. The illness started when he was 16 and became very serious when he was 18. He became very depressed and was forced to stop his college education. Now 20 years old, his condition had...
Sickness and Health > Brain and Nervous System > Epilepsy
A student wrote to Rinpoche asking for advice about her daughter, who has epilepsy. Her letter and Rinpoche’s reply are reproduced below.
Sickness and Health > Brain and Nervous System > Epilepsy
Rinpoche sent the following advice to a student who had epilepsy because of a tumor in his brain. He had had no seizures in ten years, but the seizures had just started again.
Sickness and Health > Brain and Nervous System > Headaches and Stress
A director of a center felt he was having many obstacles. He wrote to Rinpoche saying he had not been feeling well for a few days, with headaches and feeling a lot of stress and mental agitation. Another lama had confirmed he had many obstacles...
Sickness and Health > Brain and Nervous System > Multiple Sclerosis
Rinpoche wrote the following to a student who had problems with her spine and MS. Her letter and Rinpoche’s response are below.
Sickness and Health > Brain and Nervous System > Multiple Sclerosis
A student had multiple sclerosis and other problems and found it very hard to be around people at all. She had written to Rinpoche previously for advice. Rinpoche sent the following additional advice to her.
Sickness and Health > Brain and Nervous System > Neurological Disorders
A student who had motor neuron disease wrote asking for advice.
Sickness and Health > Cardiovascular and Respiratory > Cardiovascular Disease
Rinpoche gave the following advice to a Tibetan monk, whose father was in hospital for heart pains. It was believed his father had also been poisoned.
Sickness and Health > Cardiovascular and Respiratory > Cardiovascular Disease
Rinpoche gave the following advice to two students whose mother was quite ill with heart disease.
Sickness and Health > General Illnesses > Various Illnesses
Rinpoche gave the following advice on what to do if you have parasites and have to take medication to kill them.
Sickness and Health > General Illnesses > Various Illnesses
A student who was very, very sick wrote to Rinpoche asking for advice. His letter and Rinpoche’s response are below.
Sickness and Health > General Illnesses > Children's Illnesses
A student wrote to Rinpoche explaining that her one-year-old child was not growing normally. Her letter and his response are below.
Sickness and Health > General Illnesses > Chronic Fatigue
A nun had chronic fatigue, auto-immune disease, Sjogren syndrome, drowsiness, and foggy-headedness. Rinpoche sent the following advice.
Sickness and Health > General Illnesses > Chronic Fatigue
A student who was in retreat for one and a half years had become very ill with serious chronic fatigue. She left the retreat feeling exhausted, sick and finding it hard to do anything. Rinpoche sent her this advice.
Sickness and Health > General Illnesses > Urogenital and Menstrual Conditions
A student wrote to Rinpoche regarding heavy bleeding during her periods and asked for advice.
Path to Enlightenment (lamrim) > Guru Devotion > Advice on Guru Devotion
A nun was depressed, feeling separate from her guru. Here is the letter Rinpoche wrote her.
Path to Enlightenment (lamrim) > Guru Devotion > Advice on Guru Devotion
Rinpoche explained the motivation for going to restaurants and to do shopping.
Path to Enlightenment (lamrim) > Guru Devotion > Offering Service to the Guru
Rinpoche sent a handwritten card to two attendants of one of his gurus, who they had served for many years.
Buddhist Practices > Preliminary Practices > Mandala Offerings
Rinpoche sent the following reply to a student’s letter regarding mandala offerings.
Buddhist Practices > Preliminary Practices > Prostrations
A student was doing prostrations at the Bodhgaya stupa, as Rinpoche had instructed, however, she had to stop at 66,000 due to problems with her liver, back and shoulder. She asked Rinpoche for advice about what was best for her health, for her...
Path to Enlightenment (lamrim) > Karma > Understanding Karma
Rinpoche made the following remarks about karma.
Meditation and Retreat Advice > Meditation and Visualization > Meditation Practice
Rinpoche received a letter from a student who was very sensitive to meditation. When she meditated she felt pressure and vibrations in her body, as if something was crawling on her skin, especially her face and arms. She often felt sick...
Death and Transitions > Impermanence and Death > Impermanence and Death
Rinpoche made the following comments on how to make the best use of our life.
Death and Transitions > Impermanence and Death > Impermanence and Death
A student had been teaching two meditation techniques that he had combined, Guru Shakyamuni Buddha visualization and the eight-stage death evolution meditation. He pointed out that in the system of highest yoga tantra, the visualization and...
Meditation and Retreat Advice > Calm Abiding Practice > Calm Abiding (Shi-nä) Practice
Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche about actualizing shinä.
