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Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book

Advice for people who have struggled with drugs or alcohol. Rinpoche says that our life is precious and we should not waste it carelessly.

Giving Up Alcohol •
This Most Precious Human Life •
Practices for Drug Problems •
Breaking Drug Addiction •
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Advice and practices for neurological disorders, paralysis and stroke.

Bell’s Palsy •
Name of the Buddha Eliminating Paralysis and Lightning •
Paralysis and Loss of Hearing •
Mantras for Paralysis, Stroke or to Pacify Harm from Naga Possession  •
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Advice on meditations and other practices which can help anxiety and panic disorder.

Panic Attacks, Paranoia and Confusion •
Severe Stress and Panic Disorder •
Anxiety and Depression •
Panic Attacks and Anxiety •
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Advice on how to use sickness on the path, especially through the practice of tonglen (taking and giving).

How Sickness Purifies Negative Karma •
Very Sick Student •
Offering Service •
Using Sickness for the Path •
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Advice on how to deal with pain by experiencing it for all sentient beings.

Creating the Karma to Stop Pain •
Compassion and Tong-len •
Severe Arthritis •
Mantra Eliminating the Harsh Pain of the Three Grounds •

Khadro-la wrote this message to explain the purpose of a series of ritual practices she initiated in order to pacify and extinguish the COVID-19 pandemic.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book

Advice and practices for infectious diseases, including coronovirus COVID-19, Ebola and HIV/AIDS.

Lyme Disease •
Mantra For Ebola •
Request to Build Naga King Statue in Africa •
Ebola Virus •

This supplication was composed by Khadro-la (Rangjung Neljorma Khadro Namsel Drönme) on March 30, 2020, at the request of friends around the world.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book

Advice on practices which may be beneficial for a range of illnesses and health problems. Please note: the advice is not intended to replace medical treatment. Always contact your health care professional if you have health concerns.

A Healthy Diet •
Aspergers and Anxiety •
Treatment of Gum Disease •
Fire in Chest •
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Advice given to those who practice healing or have been healed.

Connection With Kuan Yin •
Offering Comfort and Help to the Sick •
Healing With Medicine Buddha Practice •
Practice Advice for a Healer/Psychic •
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Advice about lung, a state in which the winds within the body are unbalanced or blocked, thus causing various illnesses.

Lung After Retreat •
Antidote to Lung  •
Severe Lung •
Pujas for Lung •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Bendigo, Australia

Rinpoche discusses the reasons for giving up alcohol, cigarettes and other addictive substances

By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Advice on how to help sick and dying people, and how to use the experience to develop renunciation.

By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Deer Park, Madison USA

The loving, compassionate thought of bodhicitta is the best way to heal HIV/AIDS, cancer or any other disease

By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 1977

Uncontrolled attachment causes many problems, including addiction to alcohol and drugs

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