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Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book

Advice and practices to remove obstacles to success.

Obstacles to Moving House •
Changing Feng Shui •
Removing Obstacles and Collecting Merit •
Removing Obstacles for a Religious Leader  •
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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 pilgrimage to the holy places including Bodhgaya, Rajgir and Nalanda, and practices which can be done at the sacred sites.

Pilgrimage to Bodhgaya, Rajgir and Nalanda •
Advice and Practices for Pilgrimage  •
More Talks on this Topic: Pilgrimage •
Why Bodhgaya Is So Important •
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Advice on how to eliminate anger by practicing patience and thus contributing to world peace. 

Angry With Organization •
Harsh Words •
Eliminating Anger •
Contribution to World Peace •
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Advice on how to resolve conflict with fellow students at the Dharma center by remembering their kindness and developing a tolerant and compassionate attitude.

Having the Attitude to Help •
Complaints about Director •
Advice for Dealing with Difficult People •
Conflicts with Fellow Students •
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Letters and cards thanking benefactors and students who have offered service to the Dharma in many different roles.

Thanks for Volunteering •
Thanks for Service and Advice about Pure Land •
Welcome to Enlightenment •
Thanks for Long Life Practices •
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Rinpoche encourages loving kindness, the good heart, so that children's lives are meaningful and beneficial for others.

Giving Happiness to Others •
Rejoicing in Practice •
Gift for a Child •
Advice for a Young Student •
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Advice on the study and practice of lamrim, the path to enlightenment.

Dedicate Oneself to the Lam-rim •
A Letter to Students at Kopan •
Reading Lam-rim Books •
Lam-rim is the Main Thing •
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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 •
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Advice and practices to purify negative karma created by previous actions.

The Karma of Killing •
Fatal Car Accident  •
Killing One's Parents •
Purifying Negative Karma •
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Practice advice and instructions for students doing various types of retreat, including preliminaries, lamrim and deity practice.

Retreat Place •
Destroying Delusion •
Advice for Seven-Month Retreat •
Six-Month Retreat •
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Advice for those who have offered service as center director and are retiring from that role.

Thanks to Outgoing Director •
Departing Center Director •
Thanks For Service as Director •
On Retiring •
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Advice on how to care for others who are very ill and approaching death, with essential advice and practices for the moment of death.

Working With the Dying •
Close to Death •
Imminent Death •
When Someone Is Dying •
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Advice on the Diamond Cutter Sutra, a Mahayana sutra which helps us to actualize wisdom and bodhicitta quickly, along with other realizations.

Benefits of Reciting the Diamond Cutter Sutra •
The Diamond Sutra •
Sutra Recitation for Sick Nuns •
Diamond Cutter Sutra in Retreat •
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Advice for people who are contemplating suicide. Rinpoche explains how to use depression on the path to enlightenment, by changing our focus from self to others.

Suicidal Thoughts, Depression, PTSD and Self-harm •
Tired and Thinking About Death •
Thoughts of Suicide •
Wanting to Commit Suicide •

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