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Advices posted during the month of November 2005
Sickness and Health > Transforming Pain and Illness > Handling Illness
Rinpoche gave the following advice to a man who had been quite ill.
Sickness and Health > Transforming Pain and Illness > Handling Illness
Rinpoche gave the following advice regarding practices for those who are ill.
Negative Emotions > Depression > Advice on Depression
A student had been regularly visiting a man in hospital who was severely depressed. She asked Rinpoche whether she should continue or not, as she thought that it had become hopeless.
Sickness and Health > Addictions and Mental Illness > Addictions: Nicotine
A student in the UK asked Rinpoche for advice on how to stop smoking. She had cut down, but was finding it difficult to quit altogether, as her boyfriend still smoked. Read a summary of this letter in ...
Sickness and Health > Addictions and Mental Illness > Addictions: Nicotine
Rinpoche gave the following advice.
Sickness and Health > Cancer > Breast Cancer
A student in Australia was diagnosed with breast cancer and was asking for practices to perform. This is Rinpoche’s advice.
Sickness and Health > Cancer > Breast Cancer
Rinpoche gave the following advice to a woman who recently found out she had breast cancer and requested prayers from him.
Sickness and Health > Brain and Nervous System > Coma
Rinpoche said the following while watching a television news item about a patient in a coma.
Benefiting Animals > Spare the Insects > Don't Kill the Insects
A student killed 50 small ants on her balcony, and regretted the act immediately afterward. She wrote to Rinpoche to confess what she had done, and to say she planned to take the eight Mahayana precepts* one day for each ant she had killed....
Benefiting Animals > Spare the Insects > Saving Insects' Lives
Rinpoche gave this general advice for when there are ants in your house.
Benefiting Animals > Spare the Insects > Saving Insects' Lives
Rinpoche gave the following advice if you have a lot of ants in your house.
Benefiting Animals > Non-harming > Avoid Killing Animals
Rinpoche gave the following advice about killing animals.
Benefiting Animals > Non-harming > Avoid Killing Animals
Rinpoche suggested the following be printed, along with “No Hunting” signs at several of the more remote FPMT Buddhist centers.
Benefiting Animals > Non-harming > Avoid Killing Animals
A nun asked Rinpoche whether she should stop eating meat, and become a vegetarian.
Benefiting Animals > Non-harming > Practices to Purify Killing Animals
Earlier in his life, a student had worked as a commercial fisherman. The student had the idea to return to all the places he had fished with his father as a boy, and then later as an adult, and throw some Mani, Mitukpa, and Namgyalma mantras into...
Benefiting Animals > Non-harming > Practices to Purify Killing Animals
Rinpoche gave the following advice for people whose daily life and work involves killing animals.
Benefiting Animals > Non-harming > Practices to Purify Killing Animals
A cabin was going to be torn down and rebuilt as a temple, because the existing structure did not conform to municipal code. A nun asked for prayers for the sentient beings that would be killed when that happened. Rinpoche responded as follows....
Meditation and Retreat Advice > Retreats > Retreat Advice
Rinpoche gave the following advice on fire pujas.
Buddhist Practices > Purification Practices > Thirty-five Buddhas Practice
Rinpoche commented on the following benefits from doing prostrations.
Compassion and Bodhicitta > Mind Training (lo-jong) > Transforming Problems
A student went to do a three-year retreat in the USA, but one and a half years into the retreat she came out to be with her father while he was dying. Afterward, she found it hard to go back into retreat, and for other reasons as well, became...
Compassion and Bodhicitta > Mind Training (lo-jong) > Transforming Problems
Rinpoche received a letter from a student asking how to deal with her depression.
Buddhist Practices > General Practice Advice > Dorje Shugden
A student who had very heavy obstacles in his life, and felt like he was being attacked by spirits, had taken it upon himself to force lamas who were performing the protector practice, Dorje Shugden, to stop. Rinpoche sent him the following...
Buddhist Practices > General Practice Advice > Quotations and Sayings
Rinpoche made the following comments on turning experience into Dharma practice.
Holy Objects > Making Offerings > Offering Practices
Rinpoche explained the benefits of offering incense while reciting a particular mantra.
Path to Enlightenment (lamrim) > Karma > Avoiding Negative Karma
A Chinese businessman asked for advice regarding whether it is bad to make money selling wine, caviar, and canned salmon. Rinpoche was concerned about the effect on him of mentioning the result of selling alcohol, which is to be reborn in the...
