Teachings
Advice on how to make life meaningful by integrating Dharma into everyday life.
Advice for prisoners on how to use the situation to develop their mind on the path to enlightenment.
Advice on the merit of offering service, which pleases the guru, purifies our negative karma and brings us closer to enlightenment.
Advice for students doing a retreat on the lamrim, the graduated path to enlightenment. Rinpoche says taming the mind through the lamrim is the best offering and the best way to bring world peace.
Advice for students on various transitions including education, relationships, career choices and other life decisions.
Advice on meditations and other practices which can help anxiety and panic disorder.
Advice on how to utilize obstacles on the path to enlightenment by practicing thought transformation.
Rinpoche discusses the karma of relationships and offers advice and practices for family reconciliation when there has been disharmony and conflict.
Advice on how to overcome attachment by reflecting on the nature of the body, the sufferings of samsara, and the emptiness, or lack of true existence, of the object of attachment.
Advice on various mantras including those specifically for long life, good health, success and for dispelling obstacles.
Advice on the Mahayana practice of transforming our attitude from cherishing oneself to cherishing others who are most precious and kind.
Advice on how to correctly meditate on emptiness (shunyata).
Advice on repaying the kindness of our parents by taking care of them when they are sick or elderly.
Rinpoche thanks translators for their service and dedication and offers advice on various aspects of translation work.
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.