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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 •
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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 •
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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 •
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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.

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 •
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Advice on the importance of developing compassion, the good heart.

The Benefit of Pure Love and Joy •
Great Compassion for Others •
Great Compassion •
The Good Heart is the Root of Happiness •
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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 •
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Advice on karma, including how to create good karma and avoid nonvirtue.

Accepting Karma •
Many Obstacles Due to Karma •
Karma of a Group is More Powerful •
Everything is Produced by Karma •
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Advice on tantric practices, including the generation and completion stages of Highest Yoga Tantra.

Completion Stage Practices •
Request for Initiation •
Visualizing the Guru as Deity During Initiation •
Deity Practice •
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Advice for students who are experiencing difficulties with their Dharma practice.

No Progress in Practice •
Doubts •
Obstacles •
Difficulty with Prostrations •
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Advice on how to follow the Buddhist path and how to bring benefit and happiness to others through Dharma practice.

Practice Advice for a New Student •
Study and Practice Advice for a New Student  •
The Ultimate Goal •
Advice to a New Student •
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Advice and prayers for peace, harmony and happiness in countries experiencing conflict.

Prayer for Peace •
September 11 •
Post-September 11 •
Advice After the US Election •
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Advice on meditations and mantras for healing and purifying sickness, spirit harm, negative karma and obstacles to a long life.

Vision of Tara •
Medicine Buddha Puja •
White Tara and Chenrezig Simhanada Practices •
Benefits of Medicine Buddha Practice •
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Advice given to students on the practice of Shugden (Tib: Dolgyal). This practice is strongly discouraged by His Holiness the Dalai Lama  and Lama Zopa Rinpoche. 

Ceasing Shugden •
Advice About Dorje Shugden •
Student Stopped Dolgyal Practice •
Dorje Shugden Practice •
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Advice on powerful mantras with many benefits including healing, purifying negative karma and dispelling obstacles.

The Exalted Zung of Norbu Sangpo •
The Mantra Encompassing the Essence of Kangyur •
The Wisdom Mantra Called the Arya Six Syllables •
Stainless Pinnacle Lotus Mantra •
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Advice on practices to benefit those who have passed away.

Teacher Passed Away •
Medicine Buddha Practice •
Creating Merit For Future Lives •
Death on TV •

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