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Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice on repaying the kindness of our parents by taking care of them when they are sick or elderly.
- Repaying the Kindness of One’s Father •
- Caring for Mother •
- Caring for One’s Mother •
- Health and Business Problems •
- Caring for Elderly Mother •
- Taking Care of Sick Mother •
- Rinpoche's Online Advice Book: Benefits of Caring for Our Parents •
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This advice was given to students who asked Rinpoche whether they should have children or not. Rinpoche emphasizes the importance of having a good motivation and planning well so that the child can bring benefit and happiness to others.
- 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 •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Rinpoche thanks translators for their service and dedication and offers advice on various aspects of translation work.
- Merit of Translating Dharma •
- Thanking Translators •
- Translation of a Text •
- A Billion, Zillion Thanks •
- Motivation for Translating Dharma •
- The Only Solution Is Dharma •
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Advice on the Mahayana practice of transforming our attitude from cherishing oneself to cherishing others who are most precious and kind.
- Experiencing Problems for Others •
- The Kindness of All Sentient Beings •
- My Feet Belong to Sentient Beings •
- How to Respond to Dishonesty •
- Offering Service to Others, Who Are Most Precious and Kind •
- Everything Comes from the Mind •
- Think How Kind They Are •
- There Is Nothing That Belongs to You •
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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 •
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Advice on various practices and mantras for animals, including those which are sick and dying.
- How to Benefit Animals •
- Building an Animal Sanctuary •
- Compassion Brings Us Closer to Enlightenment •
- Advice About Caring for Dogs •
- Take Care of Animals with Compassion •
- Practices to Benefit a Cat •
- How to Help Animals Harmed by Gardening •
- How to Help Cows and All Sentient Beings •
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Advice on the importance of developing compassion, the good heart.
Topics: Compassion and Bodhicitta > Developing Compassion > Compassion
- The Benefit of Pure Love and Joy •
- Great Compassion for Others •
- Great Compassion •
- The Good Heart is the Root of Happiness •
- Essential Advice •
- Why Compassion is Important •
- Results of Compassion •
- The Quick Path to Enlightenment •
- Compassion is the Basis of Achieving Enlightenment •
- The Advantages of Cherishing Others •
- The Quickest Way to Achieve Enlightenment •
- Every Sentient Being Is Most Precious •
- Follow Great Compassion •
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Advice on bodhicitta, the altruistic mind of enlightenment.
- Practicing Patience •
- Generating Bodhicitta •
- You Have So Much to Rejoice About in This Life •
- Effortful Bodhicitta Motivation •
- Motivation is Most Important •
- Live Your Life With Bodhicitta •
- The Ultimate Good Heart •
- Living With Bodhicitta •
- Pray to Benefit Others •
- Ultimate Advice for Success •
- The Most Important Thing Is Bodhicitta •
- Motivation for Tara Prayer •
- What Makes Our Life Most Meaningful •
- When Others Harm Us •
- Living Your Life for Others •
- Remember the Kindness of Sentient Beings •
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Advice on how to purify negative karma in relation to the guru, given to students confessing mistakes.
- Regretting Anger Toward Rinpoche •
- Confession of Anger •
- Confessing Mistakes •
- Confessing Negative Thoughts •
- Heavy Karma of Criticizing the Guru •
- Mitukpa Mantra and Being Vegetarian •
- Not Following the Guru’s Advice •
- Degeneration of Guru Devotion •
- Impatient and Upset at the Teachings •
- Confession of Anger and Worry About Cognitive Decline •
- Criticizing the Guru and Causing Problems at the Dharma Center •
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Advice on karma, including how to create good karma and avoid nonvirtue.
Topics: Path to Enlightenment (lam-rim) > Karma > Understanding Karma
- Accepting Karma •
- Many Obstacles Due to Karma •
- Karma of a Group is More Powerful •
- Everything is Produced by Karma •
- Result of Past Karma •
- Karma and Its Results •
- Good Karma of Caring For Animals •
- Think of the Kindness of Sentient Beings •
- The Karma of Harming Others •
- Treat Others Peacefully, Be a Good Example to the World •
- It Is Best to Live in Morality •
- The Power of Dharma Practice •
- Happiness Comes from Cherishing Others •
- The Merit Will Run Out •
- The Truth Will Win •
- Dharma Practice Is So Important •
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Advice on tantric practices, including the generation and completion stages of Highest Yoga Tantra.
Topics: Buddhist Practices > Tantra and Deity Practice > Tantra
- Completion Stage Practices •
- Request for Initiation •
- Visualizing the Guru as Deity During Initiation •
- Deity Practice •
- Generating as a Deity •
- Self-Initiation and Mahamudra Meditation •
- Highest Yoga Tantra Practice •
- Personal Deity for Tantric Practice •
- Five Buddha Types •
- Request to Practice Six Yogas of Naropa •
- Highest Yoga Tantra Practice •
- How to Achieve Enlightenment Quickly •
- Six-Session Guru Yoga •
- Method and Wisdom in Highest Yoga Tantra Practice •
- Generation and Completion Stage Practices •
- How to Quickly Achieve Full Enlightenment •
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Advice and methods for purifying past nonvirtuous actions.
- How Vajrasattva Practice Purifies Negative Karma •
- Purifying Negative Karma •
- Mantras for Purifying Negativities •
- Practices for Purification •
- Tsa-tsas for Purification and Merit •
- Benefits of Vajrasattva Practice •
- Diamond Cutter Sutra and Prostrations •
- Purification Practices, Water Bowls and Tong-len •
- Purifying Sexual Misconduct •
- Stupa Tsa-tsas for Purification •
- Mitukpa and Prostrations •
- How to Purify Sexual Misconduct •
- More Talks on this Topic: Practices to Purify Negative Karma •
- Purifying the Karma of Killing Many Fish •
- Motivation for Vajrasattva Recitations •
- Why Vajrasattva Practice Is So Important •
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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 •
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In this collection of advice for those practicing in prison, Rinpoche explains how to use the situation in prison to develop the mind.
- Meditation in Prisons •
- Prison is an Opportunity to Practice •
- Son Passed Away •
- Using Time in Prison to Practice Dharma •
- Chenrezig Practice in Prison •
- How to Achieve Real Happiness •
- The Self-cherishing Thought Is the Real Enemy •
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Advice for students who are experiencing difficulties with their Dharma practice.
- No Progress in Practice •
- Doubts •
- Obstacles •
- Difficulty with Prostrations •
- Not Enough Merit to Practice Tantra •
- Cutting Distractions to Practice •
- Difficult Retreat •
- Faults in Practice •
- Needing Money for Retreat •
- Purifying Obstacles to Dharma Practice •
- Outer and Inner Obstacles to Dharma Practice •
- Purifying Obstacles to Dharma Practice •
- There’s Not Much Time Left •
- Crushed by Depression and Loss of Faith in Dharma •
