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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 2006
Sickness and Health > Healing and Pacifying Illness > Healers and Healing
A student wrote to Rinpoche regarding making a bridge between healing and Buddhism, and spreading Buddhism in his country.
Sickness and Health > Healing and Pacifying Illness > Healers and Healing
Rinpoche gave the following advice for healing sessions.
Sickness and Health > Healing and Pacifying Illness > Healers and Healing
A student who is a healer met with Rinpoche and they discussed healing together.
Sickness and Health > Healing and Pacifying Illness > Practices for Pacifying Sickness
Rinpoche gave the following practice, the dharani called The Heart of Arya Vairochana, for protection from harm and sickness.
Working for the Dharma > Teaching Dharma > Geshes at the Dharma Centers
Rinpoche sent the following letter to the resident geshe, Geshe Jampa Gyatso, at Lama Tzong Khapa Institute in Italy. The geshe was leading the seven-year Master's Program in...
Sickness and Health > Transforming Pain and Illness > Handling Illness
A student with a tumor wrote to Rinpoche asking for advice. Their letter and Rinpoche’s response are below.
Sickness and Health > Transforming Pain and Illness > Handling Illness
A very sick student sent a message to Rinpoche saying he was practicing tonglen and reciting malas of Vajrasattva.
Sickness and Health > Transforming Pain and Illness > Transforming Pain
Rinpoche gave the following advice on tonglen while in a café in New York with a geshe and some students. One of the students asked Rinpoche what she could do about the pain she had in her jaw.
Advices posted during the month of October 2006
Contemporary Issues > Dharma in Daily Life > Balancing Dharma Work and Worldly Work
Rinpoche gave the following advice to a center that is surrounded by many trees.
Working for the Dharma > Advice to Dharma Centers > Working at the Dharma Center
Rinpoche gave the following advice to Dharma centers regarding playing sutras aloud in the center.
Working for the Dharma > Advice to Dharma Centers > Working at the Dharma Center
A Dharma center in the UK asked Rinpoche what practices they should do in order to help them acquire a retreat center.
Working for the Dharma > Advice to Dharma Centers > Working at the Dharma Center
Rinpoche gave the following advice to a Dharma center as to which practices students could do in order to develop the center.
Working for the Dharma > Service and Support of the Dharma > Offering Service
Rinpoche wrote the following letter to one of his students who had offered service for many years.
Death and Transitions > Practices for the Deceased > Death of a Loved One
Rinpoche sent the following letter to the family of Steve Irwin, the Australian wildlife expert, on the occasion of his death.
Contemporary Issues > Natural Disasters > Climate Change
Rinpoche wrote the following letter to Al Gore.
Contemporary Issues > Natural Disasters > Climate Change
A student wrote to Rinpoche saying she found his teachings on mind training very helpful. However, she said she felt depressed due to the state of the environment, global warming, etc., and was very worried about her children growing up on this...
Path to Enlightenment (lamrim) > Guru Devotion > Offering Service to the Guru
Rinpoche made the following comments to his attendant regarding hosting His Holiness the Dalai Lama on land owned by the FPMT Maitreya Project in Bodhgaya, during the period that His Holiness was giving the Kalachakra initiation in Bodhgaya.
Holy Objects > Maitreya Project > Thanks for Prayers and Donations
Rinpoche thanked people for making prayers for the Maitreya Project, which involves building a very large statue of Maitreya in India.
Holy Objects > Maitreya Project > Thanks for Prayers and Donations
Rinpoche wrote the following letter to a benefactor (who is a nun) of the Maitreya Statue Project.
Working for the Dharma > Advice to Dharma Centers > Working at the Dharma Center
Rinpoche made the following comments regarding implementing an idea about using the internet to transmit live teachings from one Buddhist center to another, so that the students could receive the teachings given by a resident geshe at the center...
Working for the Dharma > Advice to Dharma Centers > Working at the Dharma Center
Rinpoche gave the following advice to students at a Dharma center.
Working for the Dharma > Service and Support of the Dharma > Fundraising
Rinpoche made the following comments about a group of advanced meditators in an appeal for fundraising.
Working for the Dharma > Service and Support of the Dharma > Offering Service
Rinpoche sent the following card to a couple who give money from a donation box distributed by the FPMT for Rinpoche’s projects, called a Merit Box.
Contemporary Issues > Dharma in Daily Life > Balancing Dharma Work and Worldly Work
Rinpoche gave the following advice to a student who asked how to purify the negative karma of being an accountant, so that she never had to be an accountant in her future lives.
Advices posted during the month of September 2006
Death and Transitions > Caring for Others at the Time of Death > Caring for the Dying
A monk, whose grandmother was dying, wrote to Rinpoche for advice on what he could do for her.
