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Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Rinpoche discusses the karma of relationships and offers advice and practices for family reconciliation when there has been disharmony and conflict.
- Practices for Family Conciliation and Purification •
- Difficulties With Son •
- Angry Teenager •
- Disturbed Family Member •
- Disharmony Between Parents and Siblings •
- Daughter Opposes Mother’s New Partner •
- Pacifying a Relative’s Anger and Finding a Retreat Place •
- Parents Don’t Support Buddhism •
- Make Strong Prayers to Medicine Buddha •
- Abusive Partner •
- Advice for a Mother and Son •
- Padmasambhava Technique for Harmony in the Family •
- Father and Son Estranged •
- Family Harmony •
- Advice for Family Harmony •
- Put the Blame on the Self-cherishing Thought •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Rinpoche encourages loving kindness, the good heart, so that children's lives are meaningful and beneficial for others.
Topics: Family and Relationships > Children > Advice for Children
- Giving Happiness to Others •
- Rejoicing in Practice •
- Gift for a Child •
- Advice for a Young Student •
- How Long to Live •
- Message for a Young Student •
- A Place for Children •
- Thanks for Devotion and Good Heart •
- Message to Maitreya School Children •
- The Cause of Real Happiness •
- Planting the Seeds of Enlightenment •
- The Happiest Life •
- Why the Sky is Blue •
- The Best Way to Be Happy •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice on teaching children the values of loving kindness and compassion so that their lives become meaningful.
Topics: Family and Relationships > Children > Educating Children
- Dedication for Alice Project •
- Starting a Buddhist School in India •
- The Best Education for Children •
- Advice to Schoolchildren in Bodhgaya •
- Teaching Buddhist Principles at School •
- Universal Education •
- Using Education to Benefit Others •
- Dharma Education for Young Children •
- The Most Important Education •
- Teaching Dharma to a Child •
- Dharma Books for School Children •
- Opening the Wisdom Eye •
- Teaching the Good Heart •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice on how to resolve parenting problems by focusing on the good heart, loving kindness and compassion for others.
Topics: Family and Relationships > Parenting > Parenting Problems
- Problems With Children •
- Growing Up Too Fast •
- A Bad Mother? •
- Prayers For Child’s Return •
- Abusive Teenager •
- Suggestions for Child with Behavior Problems •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice on many aspects of our family and personal relationships, including having a baby, raising children, caring for elderly parents, and getting married or divorced.
Topics: Family and Relationships
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Topics: Family and Relationships > Marriage and Divorce > Marriage
- Marriage Ceremony •
- How to Conduct a Marriage Ceremony •
- Making Married Life Beneficial •
- More Talks on this Topic: Marriage •
- Working Together to Benefit Others •
- A Real Spiritual Friend •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
- Advice for Separation •
- Relationship Break-Up •
- The Karma of Divorce Depends on Motivation •
- Decision on Whether to Divorce •
- Looking at Divorce in a Positive Way •
- Samsara Never Brought Any Happiness •
- Breaking Up With a Partner •
- Give the Victory to Others •
- Generate Compassion for Ex-Husband •
- Sexual Misconduct or Not? •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Topics: Family and Relationships > Having a Baby > Abortion
- Purifying the Negative Karma of Abortion •
- Purifying Abortions and Helping Some-one on Death Row •
- Purification Practices after an Abortion •
- Purifying Negative Karma After Abortion •
- Whether to Have an Abortion •
- Purifying Abortion •
- Purifying the Karma of Abortion •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Topics: Family and Relationships > Having a Baby > Birth Complications
- Difficult Birth •
- Complications with Childbirth •
- Prayer for Successful Birth •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
- Wanting a Baby •
- Obstacles to Having a Baby •
- Unborn Baby •
- Protecting Baby •
- Practices for Newborn Baby’s Health •
- Possible Down Syndrome •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
- Whether to Have Children •
- How to Raise a Child •
- Whether or Not to Have a Baby •
- Plan Well Before Having a Child •
- Parents Have a Great Responsibility •
- Not Able to Have Children •
- A Beneficial Life •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Topics: Family and Relationships > Children > Practices for Children
- A Prayer for Children •
- A Daily Practice for Children •
- How to Control Children So You Can Guide Them •
- Making Children’s Lives Meaningful •
- Violence in Schools •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Topics: Family and Relationships > Children > Teenagers
- Practice Advice for a Teeenager •
- Live Your Life with Bodhicitta •
- Sutra Recitation for Violent Teenager •
- The Wisdom of Dharma •
- Benefits of Daily Practice •
- The Buddha Manifests in Ordinary Form •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Topics: Family and Relationships > Parenting > Bringing up Children
- 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 •
- Teaching a Child the Five Attitudes •
- Your Daughter's Life Has Become Positive •
- Having a Child with Physical Disabilities •
- More Talks on this Topic: Bringing Up Children •
- Guiding Children to a Happy Life •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
- Purifying Negative Karma and Seeking a New Relationship •
- Patience is the Real Dharma •
- New Boyfriend •
- Relationship and Health Obstacles •
- A Difficult Marriage •
- Husband Withholding Money •
- Dealing with Husband's Abuse •
- Purifying the Karma of Relationship Problems •
- An Abusive Relationship •
- Marriage Difficulties •
- Regretting a Past Relationship and Feeling Angry •
- How Problems Purify Past Negative Karma •
- Controlled by Another Person •
