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Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice on how to follow the Buddhist path and how to bring benefit and happiness to others through Dharma practice.
Topics: Buddhist Practices > Advice for New Students
- Practice Advice for a New Student •
- Study and Practice Advice for a New Student •
- The Ultimate Goal •
- Advice to a New Student •
- Beneficial Practices for a New Student •
- New Student Practice Advice •
- The Mahayana Path •
- Tong-len and Tsa-tsa Practice •
- Practicing with Effort •
- Lam-rim and Deity Practice Advice •
- Following the Buddhist Path •
- Think of the Happiness of Others •
- A Simple Daily Practice for a New Student •
- Use Your Life to Benefit Others •
- Lamrim Study and Meditation is Most Important •
- Reciting Mantras •
- The Main Purpose of Your Life •
- First Time at a Kopan Course •
- Beneficial Practices •
- The Best Time to Practice Dharma •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice on meditations and mantras for healing and purifying sickness, spirit harm, negative karma and obstacles to a long life.
- Vision of Tara •
- Medicine Buddha Puja •
- White Tara and Chenrezig Simhanada Practices •
- Benefits of Medicine Buddha Practice •
- White Tara’s Long-life Nectar •
- White Tara Meditation •
- White Tara Practice •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice given to students on the practice of Shugden (Tib: Dolgyal). This practice is strongly discouraged by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
Topics: Buddhist Practices > General Practice Advice > Dorje Shugden
- Ceasing Shugden •
- Advice About Dorje Shugden •
- Student Stopped Dolgyal Practice •
- Dorje Shugden Practice •
- Action Against Lamas •
- Forsaking a Guru •
- More Talks on This Topic: Dorje Shugden •
- Dolgyal Practice •
- Dolgyal Confession •
- Dolgyal and the Guru-Disciple Relationship •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice on tantric practices, including the generation and completion stages of Highest Yoga Tantra.
Topics: Buddhist Practices > Tantra and Deity Practice > Tantra
- Completion Stage Practices •
- Request for Initiation •
- Visualizing the Guru as Deity During Initiation •
- Deity Practice •
- Generating as a Deity •
- Self-Initiation and Mahamudra Meditation •
- Highest Yoga Tantra Practice •
- Personal Deity for Tantric Practice •
- Five Buddha Types •
- Request to Practice Six Yogas of Naropa •
- Highest Yoga Tantra Practice •
- How to Achieve Enlightenment Quickly •
- Six-Session Guru Yoga •
- Method and Wisdom in Highest Yoga Tantra Practice •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice and methods for purifying past non-virtuous actions.
- How Vajrasattva Practice Purifies Negative Karma •
- Purifying Negative Karma •
- Mantras for Purifying Negativities •
- Practices for Purification •
- Tsa-tsas for Purification and Merit •
- Benefits of Vajrasattva Practice •
- Diamond Cutter Sutra and Prostrations •
- Purification Practices, Water Bowls and Tong-len •
- Purifying Sexual Misconduct •
- Stupa Tsa-tsas for Purification •
- Mitukpa and Prostrations •
- How to Purify Sexual Misconduct •
- More Talks on this Topic: Practices to Purify Negative Karma •
- Purifying the Karma of Killing Many Fish •
- Motivation for Vajrasattva Recitations •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
In this collection of advice for those practicing in prison, Rinpoche explains how to use the situation in prison to develop the mind.
- Meditation in Prisons •
- Prison is an Opportunity to Practice •
- Son Passed Away •
- Using Time in Prison to Practice Dharma •
- Chenrezig Practice in Prison •
- How to Achieve Real Happiness •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
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 •
- Letter to Martha Stewart •
- Making Life in Prison Meaningful •
- Request for Practices from Prison •
- Request for Guru •
- Prison Is the Best Opportunity •
- How Fortunate You Are! •
- Let Go of Attachment •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice to students about restoring their daily practice after it has lapsed.
- How to Restart Practices After Stopping •
- Dharma Practice Stopped After Disrobing •
- The Most Important Practice •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice for students who are experiencing difficulties with their Dharma practice.
- No Progress in Practice •
- Doubts •
- Obstacles •
- Difficulty with Prostrations •
- Not Enough Merit to Practice Tantra •
- Cutting Distractions to Practice •
- Difficult Retreat •
- Faults in Practice •
- Needing Money for Retreat •
- Purifying Obstacles to Dharma Practice •
- Outer and Inner Obstacles to Dharma Practice •
- Purifying Obstacles to Dharma Practice •
- There’s Not Much Time Left •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice for students who have broken their vows or stopped their daily practice commitments.
- Confessing Broken Commitments •
- Purifying Broken Commitments •
- Giving Up Lay Vows •
- Problem Doing Commitments •
- Giving Up Commitments •
- Giving Back Commitments •
- Confession of Broken Commitments •
- Broken Lay Vows •
- Unable to Keep Commitments •
- Illness During the Teachings •
- Broken Vows •
- More Talks on this Topic: Broken Vows and Commitments •
- Initiation and Tsa-tsa Commitment •
- The Effect of Broken Commitments •
- Too Busy for Daily Commitments •
- Broken Tantric Commitments •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice on nyung nä, a powerful two-day practice associated with Chenrezig, the Buddha of Compassion.
Topics: Buddhist Practices > Purification Practices > Nyung-näs
- Continue With Nyung-näs and Lam-rim •
- We Can Be Free from Samsara •
- Unable to Complete Nyung-näs •
- Nyung-nä Advice •
- Practices for Purification and Collecting Merit •
- Two Thousand Nyung Näs and Other Life Practices •
- The Benefits of Nyung-näs •
- Thank you for Nyung-näs •
- A Powerful Practice •
- Continue Nyung-näs •
- Nyung-nä Brings Us Closer to Enlightenment •
- Completion of 300 Nyung-näs •
- The Greatest Purification •
- 700 Nyung-näs Seems Good •
- Dispelling Obstacles For Nyung-nä Retreat •
- A Quick Way to Purify Obscurations •
- Animal Liberation and Nyung Näs •
- Drinking During a Nyung Nä •
- Two Thousand Nyung Näs •
- Removing Life Obstacles Prior to Nyung Näs •
- A Billion, Zillion Thanks for Nyung Näs •
- The Real Women’s Liberation •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
- Meditations to Generate Realizations •
- Practice Advice for a University Student •
- Practice Advice •
- Practice Advice •
- Practice Advice •
- Next Steps for a New Student •
- Practice Advice and Where to Study •
- Practice Advice •
- Practice Advice •
- Practice Advice •
- Study Advice •
- Practice Advice •
- Making Life Beneficial •
- Nature •
- Living a Good Life •
- The Special Qualities of Buddhism •
- Dedication of Merit •
- Practice Advice •
- Practice Advice for Benefactors •
- Making Life Meaningful •
- Practice Advice •
- Practice Advice •
- Practice Advice •
- Request for Practices •
- Lama Chöpa and Manjushri Prayer •
- Tradition in Past Life •
- Dharma Practice is Most Important •
- Letter to a Pen Pal •
- Dharma is Needed for the Happiness of Sentient Beings •
- Practice Advice •
- Advice for a Couple •
- Motivation for Dharma Practice •
- Guidelines for Practice •
- Practice Advice •
- Clairvoyance and Practice Advice •
- Practice Advice •
- Practice Advice •
- The Importance of Learning •
- Contemplate the Lam-rim •
- Practice Advice •
- Giving Practices •
- Practice Advice •
- Practice Advice •
- Advice for a Long-term Student •
- Solar Eclipse •
- Speaking in Tongues •
- Dharma is Most Important •
- Just Start the Practice •
- Please Continue to Practice Dharma •
- The Real Meaning of Life •
- An Introduction to Buddhism •
- How to Think When Doing a Puja •
- Advice for Merit Multiplying Days •
- Recitation of “Chanting the Names of Manjushri” •
- Family Dedication •
- Advice to Tame This Crazy Mind •
- Which Practices to Do Next •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
- Daily Practice Advice: Mantra Recitation, Prostrations, Lam-rim •
- Daily Practice Advice: Lam-rim, Guru Yoga, Sleeping Yoga •
- Teachings on How to Do Daily Practice •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
- Advice for a Sincere New Student •
- Lamrim Advice for New Student •
- Meditations for a New Student •
- Guidelines for Dharma Practice •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Topics: Buddhist Practices > Advice for New Students > Heart Advice
- I Thought of You Many Times •
- A New Path in the Dharma •
- Chenrezig Will Always Guide You •
