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Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book

Advice on lam-rim topics, including refuge, karma, and guru devotion.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
  • Request to Guru •
  • Training the Mind in Guru Devotion •
  • Taking Teachings from the Lama •
  • Guru Devotion and Consultation •
  • Guru Displeased •
  • Far from Guru •
  • Restaurants and Shopping •
  • When the Guru Is Ill •
  • How to Think When Your Guru Shows Signs of Aging •
  • Close to Guru •
  • Advice on Guru Practice •
  • A Teaching on Guru Devotion •
  • A Daily Guru Devotion Meditation •
  • More Talks on this Topic: Guru Devotion •
  • Remember the Guru’s Kindness •
  • The Quickest Path to Enlightenment •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
  • The Power of Faith •
  • Advice for Students of Geshe Jampa Gyatso •
  • Benefit of Attending Initiation •
  • Praise of Kirti Tsenshab Rinpoche •
  • Qualities of a Guru Who Teaches Tantra •
  • Refuge is Most Wise •
  • The Absolute and Conventional Guru •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
  • Milarepa's Strong and Stable Guru Devotion •
  • Successful Service Due to Guru Devotion •
  • The Merit of Pleasing the Guru •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
  • The Merit of Study  •
  • The Merit of Working for the Guru •
  • Recitations for Rinpoche’s Health and Long Life •
  • Thanks for Your Service to the Guru •
  • Offering Service to His Holiness •
  • Your Life Has Been Rich in Merit •
  • Service to the Guru is the Best Offering •
  • Working for the Guru Purifies Eons of Negative Karma •
  • The Merit of Pleasing the Guru •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
  • Respecting the Guru •
  • Angry With the Teacher •
  • Living in the Dharma •
  • When the Guru Shows the Aspect of Displeasure •
  • Seeing the Guru as Buddha •
  • Seeing Faults in the Guru •
  • Not Giving Up •
  • Negative Thoughts About the Guru •
  • Obstacles to Guru Devotion •
  • The Guru's Behaviour and How One Should Protect the Mind •
  • Conflict with Lamas •
  • Difficulties with One's Guru •
  • Giving Up the Guru •
  • Negativity Toward Guru •
  • Purifying Negative Karma Connected With Guru •
  • Advice on Guru Devotion for Student Having Difficulties •
  • More Talks on this Topic: Obstacles to Guru Devotion •
  • How to Clear Obstacles to Guru Devotion •
  • How to Think About Past Harm •
  • Thoughts of Harming the Guru •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
  • Offering Service When the Guru Manifests Illness •
  • Messages From Hospital After Manifesting a Stroke •
  • A Rare Opportunity •
  • Rinpoche’s and Lama Lhundrup’s Heath •
  • When the Guru Shows the Aspect of Sickness •
  • An Incredible Opportunity •
  • Thanks for Your Wishes and Prayers •
  • A Rare Prayer •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
  • Habituated in Nonvirtue •
  • Sexual Misconduct •
  • Profiting from Selling Alcohol •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
  • Instructions for Refuge Practice •
  • More Talks on this Topic: Refuge •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
  • Kuan Yin •
  • Praise to the Buddha •
  • Numberless Buddhas and Bodhisattvas Are Always with Us •

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