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Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book

Advice on raising children in the best possible way by teaching them the five basic qualities of kindness, rejoicing, tolerance, contentment and forgiveness.

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 •
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Advice on the importance of developing compassion, the good heart.

The Benefit of Pure Love and Joy •
Great Compassion for Others •
Great Compassion •
The Good Heart is the Root of Happiness •
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Advice on bodhicitta, the altruistic mind of enlightenment.

Practicing Patience •
Generating Bodhicitta  •
You Have So Much to Rejoice About in This Life •
Effortful Bodhicitta Motivation •
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Advice on karma, including how to create good karma and avoid nonvirtue.

Accepting Karma •
Many Obstacles Due to Karma •
Karma of a Group is More Powerful •
Everything is Produced by Karma •
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Advice on tantric practices, including the generation and completion stages of Highest Yoga Tantra.

Completion Stage Practices •
Request for Initiation •
Visualizing the Guru as Deity During Initiation •
Deity Practice •
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Advice for students who are experiencing difficulties with their Dharma practice.

No Progress in Practice •
Doubts •
Obstacles •
Difficulty with Prostrations •
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Advice on how to follow the Buddhist path and how to bring benefit and happiness to others through Dharma practice.

Practice Advice for a New Student •
Study and Practice Advice for a New Student  •
The Ultimate Goal •
Advice to a New Student •
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Advice and prayers for peace, harmony and happiness in countries experiencing conflict.

Prayer for Peace •
September 11 •
Post-September 11 •
Advice After the US Election •
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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 •
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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. 

Ceasing Shugden •
Advice About Dorje Shugden •
Student Stopped Dolgyal Practice •
Dorje Shugden Practice •
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Advice on powerful mantras with many benefits including healing, purifying negative karma and dispelling obstacles.

The Exalted Zung of Norbu Sangpo •
The Mantra Encompassing the Essence of Kangyur •
The Wisdom Mantra Called the Arya Six Syllables •
Stainless Pinnacle Lotus Mantra •
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Advice on practices to benefit those who have passed away.

Teacher Passed Away •
Medicine Buddha Practice •
Creating Merit For Future Lives •
Death on TV •
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Advice and practices to remove obstacles to success.

Obstacles to Moving House •
Changing Feng Shui •
Removing Obstacles and Collecting Merit •
Removing Obstacles for a Religious Leader  •
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Advice on how to use sickness on the path, especially through the practice of tonglen (taking and giving).

How Sickness Purifies Negative Karma •
Very Sick Student •
Offering Service •
Using Sickness for the Path •
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Advice on pilgrimage to the holy places including Bodhgaya, Rajgir and Nalanda, and practices which can be done at the sacred sites.

Pilgrimage to Bodhgaya, Rajgir and Nalanda •
Advice and Practices for Pilgrimage  •
More Talks on this Topic: Pilgrimage •
Why Bodhgaya Is So Important •

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