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Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice on raising children in the best possible way by teaching them the five basic qualities of kindness, rejoicing, tolerance, contentment and forgiveness.
Topics: Family and Relationships > Parenting > Bringing up Children
- A Good Education and a Meaningful Life •
- Caring for a Child With Special Needs •
- Taking Care of Your Child With Compassion •
- Advice on Educating a Child •
- Teaching a Child the Five Attitudes •
- Your Daughter's Life Has Become Positive •
- Having a Child with Physical Disabilities •
- More Talks on this Topic: Bringing Up Children •
- Guiding Children to a Happy Life •
- Parenthood and How to Benefit Children •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Rinpoche discusses the karma of relationships and offers advice and practices for family reconciliation when there has been disharmony and conflict.
- Practices for Family Conciliation and Purification •
- Difficulties With Son •
- Angry Teenager •
- Disturbed Family Member •
- Disharmony Between Parents and Siblings •
- Daughter Opposes Mother’s New Partner •
- Pacifying a Relative’s Anger and Finding a Retreat Place •
- Parents Don’t Support Buddhism •
- Make Strong Prayers to Medicine Buddha •
- Abusive Partner •
- Advice for a Mother and Son •
- Padmasambhava Technique for Harmony in the Family •
- Father and Son Estranged •
- Family Harmony •
- Advice for Family Harmony •
- Put the Blame on the Self-cherishing Thought •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Golden Light Sutra Center, Darkhan, Mongolia
In this video extract, Rinpoche advises that it is most important for young people to learn Dharma, to learn about the mind. Equally important is practicing the good heart, patience and contentment.
Topics: Family and Relationships > Children > Advice for Children
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Rinpoche encourages loving kindness, the good heart, so that children's lives are meaningful and beneficial for others.
Topics: Family and Relationships > Children > Advice for Children
- Giving Happiness to Others •
- Rejoicing in Practice •
- Gift for a Child •
- Advice for a Young Student •
- How Long to Live •
- Message for a Young Student •
- A Place for Children •
- Thanks for Devotion and Good Heart •
- Message to Maitreya School Children •
- The Cause of Real Happiness •
- Planting the Seeds of Enlightenment •
- The Happiest Life •
- Why the Sky is Blue •
- The Best Way to Be Happy •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice on teaching children the values of loving kindness and compassion so that their lives become meaningful.
Topics: Family and Relationships > Children > Educating Children
- Dedication for Alice Project •
- Starting a Buddhist School in India •
- The Best Education for Children •
- Advice to Schoolchildren in Bodhgaya •
- Teaching Buddhist Principles at School •
- Universal Education •
- Using Education to Benefit Others •
- Dharma Education for Young Children •
- The Most Important Education •
- Teaching Dharma to a Child •
- Dharma Books for School Children •
- Opening the Wisdom Eye •
- Teaching the Good Heart •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice on how to resolve parenting problems by focusing on the good heart, loving kindness and compassion for others.
Topics: Family and Relationships > Parenting > Parenting Problems
- Problems With Children •
- Growing Up Too Fast •
- A Bad Mother? •
- Prayers For Child’s Return •
- Abusive Teenager •
- Suggestions for Child with Behavior Problems •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Advice on how to bring up children and make their lives meaningful.
Topics: Family and Relationships > Parenting
Chapters:
Joyful Parents, Successful Children •
Preface and Acknowledgements •
1. Raising Children With Bodhicitta •
2. Making a Relationship Meaningful •
3. Generating the Good Heart •
4. Teaching the Seven Foundations •
5. Making the Worry Worthwhile •
6. Helping Children Collect Merit •
7. Living an Inner Life •
Appendix 1: The 16 Human Dharmas •
Appendix 2: The 10 Powerful Mantras •
Translations (Joyful Parents, Successful Children) •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Lavaur, France
How to raise children so that their lives are most beneficial.
Topics: Family and Relationships
By Lama Thubten Yeshe in various locations
Answers to questions about marriage and relationships.
Topics: Family and Relationships > Marriage and Divorce
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Topics: Family and Relationships > Marriage and Divorce > Marriage
- Marriage Ceremony •
- How to Conduct a Marriage Ceremony •
- Making Married Life Beneficial •
- More Talks on this Topic: Marriage •
- Working Together to Benefit Others •
- A Real Spiritual Friend •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
- Advice for Separation •
- Relationship Break-Up •
- The Karma of Divorce Depends on Motivation •
- Decision on Whether to Divorce •
- Looking at Divorce in a Positive Way •
- Samsara Never Brought Any Happiness •
- Breaking Up With a Partner •
- Give the Victory to Others •
- Generate Compassion for Ex-Husband •
- Sexual Misconduct or Not? •
- Opening the Door to Peace •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Topics: Family and Relationships > Having a Baby > Abortion
- Purifying the Negative Karma of Abortion •
- Purifying Abortions and Helping Some-one on Death Row •
- Purification Practices after an Abortion •
- Purifying Negative Karma After Abortion •
- Whether to Have an Abortion •
- Purifying Abortion •
- Purifying the Karma of Abortion •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Topics: Family and Relationships > Having a Baby > Birth Complications
- Difficult Birth •
- Complications with Childbirth •
- Prayer for Successful Birth •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
- Wanting a Baby •
- Obstacles to Having a Baby •
- Unborn Baby •
- Protecting Baby •
- Practices for Newborn Baby’s Health •
- Possible Down Syndrome •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
- Whether to Have Children •
- How to Raise a Child •
- Whether or Not to Have a Baby •
- Plan Well Before Having a Child •
- Parents Have a Great Responsibility •
- Not Able to Have Children •
- A Beneficial Life •
- Motivation for Having a Child •
