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Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book

Advice for students doing a long retreat, including guidance on motivation, specific practices, how to successfully complete the retreat and what to do if there are obstacles.

Life Retreat •
Completion of Three Year Retreat •
Continue With Lamrim in Long Retreat •
Gradual Completion Stage •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book

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 •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book

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 •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book

Advice on how to correctly visualize certain deities during one's meditation practice.

Vision of Buddhas •
Improving Visualizations •
Namgyalma Long-life Meditation •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book

Advice on meditation, retreat, and related topics, including advice on chöd, calm abiding, and how to build a retreat house.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Thanks for Medicine Buddha Retreat •
Vajrasattva Practice is So Important •
Vajrasattva Retreat •
Yamantaka Retreat •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Retreat and Life Obstacles •
Life Obstacles •
Need for Harmony in Retreat •
Obstacles in Retreat •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Bliss and Emptiness Meditation •
Meditate on Lam-rim •
Blissful Meditation Experience •
Experience of Bliss •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Successful Shi-nä Practice •
Whether to Practice Shi-nä •
Visualization for Shi-nä Practice •
Object for Shamatha (Calm Abiding) •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Six-Month Calm Abiding Retreat •
Shamatha (Calm Abiding) Retreat •
Practice and Retreat Advice •
Advice for Long Retreat •