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Advices posted during the month of October 2005
Rinpoche wrote the following letter to a woman who had been ordained some years after her daughter had become a nun.
Rinpoche gave the following commentary on shaving one's hair as an ordained person.
Rinpoche gave the following advice to a newly ordained nun living in India, who had written to Rinpoche asking about practice. She had formerly been a student of a Hindu teacher, but had left and become a student of Rinpoche.
Rinpoche gave the following advice to a newly ordained nun, who had asked where she should go to practice.
Rinpoche gave the following advice to a newly ordained monk, living in India.
A student wrote to Rinpoche saying that he had been a monk for 21 years but there had been many interferences in his life. Rinpoche replied as follows.
A student wrote to Rinpoche about his anger and its impact on other people. Rinpoche wrote the following letter to him.
An old student who was directing a new Dharma center received a timely phone call from Rinpoche one morning. She said, “I had become angry the previous evening, and was thinking about my anger, how happy I would be if I could never be angry again...
Rinpoche made the following comments to a young student, regarding attachment and making her life beneficial.
George Farley, an Australian who is in the computer business, was attending a course led by Rinpoche held in Australia, in Anglesea, outside Melbourne, many, many years ago. At this time, Rinpoche called him into his room and gave him a banana....
During a month-long introductory course for new students at Kopan Monastery in Nepal, Rinpoche offered the following guidelines for dealing with desire.
Rinpoche gave the following advice to a student who asked what to do as he was feeling tired and depressed, with low self-esteem and feeling not good enough.
Rinpoche gave the following advice to a young girl who wrote to him saying she was depressed and felt her life did not have much meaning.
A student came to see Rinpoche at Vajrapani Buddhist Center in California, with depression problems. She had not seen a psychiatrist. Rinpoche asked the student whether she was depressed regularly, every month or according to some cycle. She...
Rinpoche wrote this letter to a person who had suffered from a low-grade depression for a long time.
Rinpoche spoke with a student who explained that difficulties with depression and mental illness ran in her family.
Rinpoche heard that an old student, who had been battling depression intermittently for some time, had recently lapsed into a severe depression. Rinpoche wrote him the following letter, unsolicited.
Rinpoche gave the following advice to a benefactor who was receiving a lot of criticism publicly, to the point where he was contemplating suing for libel.
Rinpoche gave the following advice to an airline stewardess who was receiving a lot of criticism and harm.
Rinpoche gave the following advice for situations where one’s ego gets bruised.
A woman in Delhi, whose name was often in the press, had received criticism that she felt was unfair. She was extremely upset about this adverse press coverage, and came to ask for advice.
Rinpoche heard that a student in Hong Kong wanted to commit suicide. He sent her the following message, and later, she abandoned her idea.
A student brought a friend who had contemplated suicide while depressed to see Rinpoche. Rinpoche gave some advice directly at the time, and the next day sent the following additional suggestions in a letter:
A student's car had broken down on a busy highway in California. She sat stalled in the fast lane as cars speeded past her. Overwhelmed by fear of death, she managed to recite aloud the six-session guru yoga and Tara’s mantra, and held a...
A student from Hong Kong had been very ill with kidney problems. She often found herself frightened at night-time and unable to sleep. She had dreamt three times that she had been fired from her job, that she was vomiting, and that there were...