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Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book

Advice and methods for purifying past nonvirtuous actions.

How Vajrasattva Practice Purifies Negative Karma •
Purifying Negative Karma •
Mantras for Purifying Negativities •
Practices for Purification •
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Advice on how to transform depression and use it on the path to enlightenment.

Advice on Transforming Depression •
So Much to Rejoice In •
Depressed and Unsure Where to Live •
Daughter with Depression •
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Advice on the amazing benefits of building a stupa and circumambulating a stupa, as well as instructions on how to fill a stupa and make it beautiful and inspiring.

Building Stupas to Benefit Sick Dogs •
How to Make the Stupa Beautiful and Inspiring •
Circumambulation of Boudhanath Stupa •
Liberating Animals and Circumambulating Stupas With Them •
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Advice on the importance of Dharma practice and how to actualize the lamrim, the path to enlightenment.

Doubts About Lam-rim •
The Quickest Path to Enlightenment •
Special Qualities of Buddhism •
Lama Tsongkhapa's Teachings •
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Advice on making offerings to the Three Rare Sublime Ones.

Verses to Inspire Offerings •
Offering to the Sangha •
Water Bowls Practice •
How to Generate Merit by Offering Music, Such as Bell, Gong or Conch Shell •
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Advice and practices for neurological disorders, paralysis and stroke.

Bell’s Palsy •
Name of the Buddha Eliminating Paralysis and Lightning •
Paralysis and Loss of Hearing •
Mantras for Paralysis, Stroke or to Pacify Harm from Naga Possession  •
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Advice on how to make the best use of our life, which is very short.

The Cause of Death •
Life is Short •
How to Use an Hourglass for Dharma Practice •
Impermanence and Death Don't Wait •
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Advice on how to help animals and protect them from harm. This topic includes various practices and mantras for animals.

How to Benefit Animals •
Building an Animal Sanctuary •
Compassion Brings Us Closer to Enlightenment •
Advice About Caring for Dogs •
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Advice on how to make life meaningful by integrating Dharma into everyday life.

Real Happiness •
Discovering Dharma •
Making Life Meaningful •
The Most Important Thing is to Practice Dharma •
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Advice for prisoners on how to use the situation to develop their mind on the path to enlightenment.

Being in Prison •
Preliminaries and Other Practices in Prison •
A Nun in Jail •
The Prison is Your Retreat House •
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Advice on the merit of offering service, which pleases the guru, purifies our negative karma and brings us closer to enlightenment.

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 •
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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.

Basic Program and Lam-rim Retreat •
Ten-Day Lam-rim Retreat •
Progress in Retreat •
Lamrim Retreat Advice •
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Advice for students on various transitions including education, relationships, career choices and other life decisions. 

The Best Life Direction •
Continuing With School •
The Benefits of Experiencing Hardship •
Wanting to Be Ordained •
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Advice on how to prepare oneself for death, which can happen at any time. Includes practices for students whose death is imminent.

Premonition of Death •
Death Can Happen Anytime •
Rely on Amitabha •
Death Can Happen at Any Time •
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Advice on meditations and other practices which can help anxiety and panic disorder.

Panic Attacks, Paranoia and Confusion •
Severe Stress and Panic Disorder •
Anxiety and Depression •
Panic Attacks and Anxiety •

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