
Teachings
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice on how to purify negative karma in relation to the guru, given to students confessing mistakes.
- Regretting Anger Toward Rinpoche •
- Confession of Anger •
- Confessing Mistakes •
- Confessing Negative Thoughts •
- Heavy Karma of Criticizing the Guru •
- Mitukpa Mantra and Being Vegetarian •
- Not Following the Guru’s Advice •
- Degeneration of Guru Devotion •
- Impatient and Upset at the Teachings •
- Confession of Anger and Worry About Cognitive Decline •
- Criticizing the Guru and Causing Problems at the Dharma Center •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice on how to practice guru devotion, including seeing the guru as Buddha, offering service and pleasing the guru.
- Fortunate to Receive Advice from the Guru •
- The Guru Brings You to Enlightenment •
- Pleasing the Guru •
- Offering Thanks to the Guru •
- Initiation From Another Lama •
- Guru Yoga Merit Field •
- Guru Devotion in the Four Tibetan Traditions •
- How to Find a Teacher •
- Dharma Connection With Other Gurus •
- Having Many Gurus •
- Request to be Guru •
- Request to be Guru and Life Practices •
- Not Possible for the Teacher to Give Up •
- Attachment to the Guru •
- Image of a Teacher on Altar •
- How to Follow the Guru Correctly •
- The Merit of Offering to the Guru •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
- Request to Guru •
- Training the Mind in Guru Devotion •
- Taking Teachings from the Lama •
- Guru Devotion and Consultation •
- Guru Displeased •
- Far from Guru •
- Restaurants and Shopping •
- When the Guru Is Ill •
- How to Think When Your Guru Shows Signs of Aging •
- Close to Guru •
- Advice on Guru Practice •
- A Teaching on Guru Devotion •
- A Daily Guru Devotion Meditation •
- More Talks on this Topic: Guru Devotion •
- Remember the Guru’s Kindness •
- The Quickest Path to Enlightenment •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
- The Power of Faith •
- Advice for Students of Geshe Jampa Gyatso •
- Benefit of Attending Initiation •
- Praise of Kirti Tsenshab Rinpoche •
- Qualities of a Guru Who Teaches Tantra •
- Refuge is Most Wise •
- The Absolute and Conventional Guru •
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- Milarepa's Strong and Stable Guru Devotion •
- Successful Service Due to Guru Devotion •
- The Merit of Pleasing the Guru •
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- 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 •
- Offering Service to His Holiness •
- Your Life Has Been Rich in Merit •
- Service to the Guru is the Best Offering •
- Working for the Guru Purifies Eons of Negative Karma •
- The Merit of Pleasing the Guru •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
- Respecting the Guru •
- Angry With the Teacher •
- Living in the Dharma •
- When the Guru Shows the Aspect of Displeasure •
- Seeing the Guru as Buddha •
- Seeing Faults in the Guru •
- Not Giving Up •
- Negative Thoughts About the Guru •
- Obstacles to Guru Devotion •
- The Guru's Behaviour and How One Should Protect the Mind •
- Conflict with Lamas •
- Difficulties with One's Guru •
- Giving Up the Guru •
- Negativity Toward Guru •
- Purifying Negative Karma Connected With Guru •
- Advice on Guru Devotion for Student Having Difficulties •
- More Talks on this Topic: Obstacles to Guru Devotion •
- How to Clear Obstacles to Guru Devotion •
- How to Think About Past Harm •
- Thoughts of Harming the Guru •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
- Offering Service When the Guru Manifests Illness •
- Messages From Hospital After Manifesting a Stroke •
- A Rare Opportunity •
- Rinpoche’s and Lama Lhundrup’s Heath •
- When the Guru Shows the Aspect of Sickness •
- An Incredible Opportunity •
- Thanks for Your Wishes and Prayers •
- A Rare Prayer •