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Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book

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 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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Advice on how to utilize obstacles on the path to enlightenment by practicing thought transformation.

A Positive Way of Thinking •
Thought Transformation •
Practice Thought Transformation •
Enduring Hardships •
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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 •
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Advice on how to overcome attachment by reflecting on the nature of the body, the sufferings of samsara, and the emptiness, or lack of true existence, of the object of attachment.

Attachment and Ordination •
Disadvantages of Attachment •
The Pain of Attachment •
Attachment to a Good Reputation •
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Advice on various mantras including those specifically for long life, good health, success and for dispelling obstacles.

Namgyalma Protection •
Benefits of Chenrezig Mantra •
White Tara Mantras •
Two Million Manis •
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Advice on the Mahayana practice of transforming our attitude from cherishing oneself to cherishing others who are most precious and kind.

Experiencing Problems for Others •
The Kindness of All Sentient Beings •
My Feet Belong to Sentient Beings •
How to Respond to Dishonesty •
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Advice on how to correctly meditate on emptiness (shunyata).

The Merely Imputed I •
Meditation on Emptiness •
Meditations for Inner Peace •
How to Realize Emptiness •
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Advice on repaying the kindness of our parents by taking care of them when they are sick or elderly.

Repaying the Kindness of One’s Father •
Caring for Mother •
Caring for One’s Mother •
Health and Business Problems •
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Rinpoche thanks translators for their service and dedication and offers advice on various aspects of translation work.

Merit of Translating Dharma •
Thanking Translators •
Translation of a Text •
A Billion, Zillion Thanks •
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This advice was given to students who asked Rinpoche whether they should have children or not. Rinpoche emphasizes the importance of having a good motivation and planning well so that the child can bring benefit and happiness to others.

Whether to Have Children •
How to Raise a Child •
Whether or Not to Have a Baby •
Plan Well Before Having a Child •

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