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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 January 2006
Sangha (Monks and Nuns) > Practice Advice for Sangha > Sangha Practice Advice
Rinpoche gave the following as general practice advice to a group of nuns.
Sickness and Health > Cancer > Breast Cancer
A woman with recurring breast cancer wrote to Rinpoche asking for advice.
Sangha (Monks and Nuns) > Practice Advice for Sangha > Practices for Newly Ordained Sangha
A number of nuns asked for Rinpoche’s advice about what kind of training there should be after they were first ordained.
Sickness and Health > Cancer > Practice Advice for Cancer
A student who had cancer asked Rinpoche for advice.
Sickness and Health > Musculoskeletal Disorders > Arthritis
Rinpoche gave the following advice to someone suffering from rheumatoid arthritis.
Sickness and Health > Digestive System > Stomach, Liver and Digestive Problems
A student who suffered from chronic ulcers wrote to Rinpoche asking for advice as to which practices to do.
Advices posted during the month of December 2005
Buddhist Practices > Practicing in Prison > Advice for Prisoners
Rinpoche sent the following letter to the American celebrity, Martha Stewart, when she was in prison.
Contemporary Issues > Court Cases and Legal Action > Legal Proceedings
A student, who is a nurse, wrote to Rinpoche saying she was being sued by a woman who alleged that her child had developed health problems after a vaccination the student had given the child. The student said she was innocent but was very afraid...
Advices posted during the month of November 2005
Family and Relationships > Having a Baby > The Purpose of Having a Baby
A student wrote asking what she could do in order to meet a husband and have children.
Family and Relationships > Relationship Problems > Advice on Relationship Problems
Rinpoche gave the following advice to a student who was experiencing difficulties with her husband. Although Rinpoche generally counsels married couples to keep trying, in this case he advised her that it would be more beneficial for them to...
Family and Relationships > Relationship Problems > Advice on Relationship Problems
A student’s husband had said he would give her some money, which she planned to use to support Dharma projects, especially people doing retreat. Later, her husband reneged on the agreement, and withheld the money.
Family and Relationships > Your Parents > Benefiting Your Parents
A nun sought advice on how to behave with her parents. They were unbelievably kind to her and she felt overwhelmed by them. She went to visit them from time to time and tried to make them happy. She was also helping at a Dharma center, as well as...
Family and Relationships > Your Parents > Benefiting Your Parents
A student was concerned about how to present the Dharma to her parents, and how to benefit them through the Dharma, and sought Rinpoche’s advice. They were in fairly good health, but were advanced in years. This student was specifically asking...
Contemporary Issues > Work and Business Problems > Business Crisis and Failure
A letter from Lama Zopa to a student.
Contemporary Issues > Work and Business Problems > Business Crisis and Failure
A Hong Kong businessman had been very well-to-do, but now no matter what he did, he lost money.
Contemporary Issues > Work and Business Problems > Problems in Dharma Business
While driving from Singapore to Malaysia, a student and benefactor asked about the experience he’d had that after he became a benefactor, sponsoring charitable spiritual activities, his business declined.
Contemporary Issues > Work and Business Problems > Removing Business Obstacles
A student was experiencing business difficulties.
Contemporary Issues > Court Cases and Legal Action > Legal Proceedings
A feng shui expert was being sued over advice she had given.
Contemporary Issues > Court Cases and Legal Action > Legal Proceedings
A student sought Rinpoche’s advice on two lawsuits she was pursuing. In one case, she had invested a large amount of money with a Japanese firm. A person managing the investment produced false documents indicating that the money had been invested...
Contemporary Issues > Work and Business Problems > Difficulties at Work
Rinpoche heard that one of his Spanish students was experiencing some difficulties in life. This is the letter he wrote her.
Contemporary Issues > Financial Difficulties > Money Difficulties, Recession and Debt
A Chinese student from Singapore married a very wealthy man who had 50 wives. He owned a large Indonesian company that produced cigarettes, but she tried to use the money to help poor, sick people. She went to the hospital quite often to...
Contemporary Issues > Financial Difficulties > Money Difficulties, Recession and Debt
A wealthy woman from Singapore wrote to tell Rinpoche about another woman who had come to see her, saying she planned to commit suicide so that her son would receive his inheritance. The woman from Singapore sought Rinpoche’s advice on how to...
Contemporary Issues > Financial Difficulties > Money Difficulties, Recession and Debt
A student asked how to proceed in a situation where a person was unable to pay back money she had lent her. She was seeking a return of the loan at this time in order to be able to fund a three-year retreat that she was planning to do.
Sickness and Health > Infectious Diseases > Hepatitis
Rinpoche gave the following advice to a student who had Hepatitis C and was unsure whether to embark on a new course of treatment.
Sickness and Health > Transforming Pain and Illness > Transforming Pain
A student related to Rinpoche the experience of another student who had gone to have a routine biopsy shortly after reading Rinpoche’s book Ultimate Healing...
