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Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book

Advice on how to eliminate anger by practicing patience and thus contributing to world peace. 

Angry With Organization •
Harsh Words •
Eliminating Anger •
Contribution to World Peace •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book

Advice on how to resolve conflict with fellow students at the Dharma center by remembering their kindness and developing a tolerant and compassionate attitude.

Having the Attitude to Help •
Complaints about Director •
Advice for Dealing with Difficult People •
Conflicts with Fellow Students •
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Letters and cards thanking benefactors and students who have offered service to the Dharma in many different roles.

Thanks for Volunteering •
Thanks for Service and Advice about Pure Land •
Welcome to Enlightenment •
Thanks for Long Life Practices •
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Rinpoche encourages loving kindness, the good heart, so that children's lives are meaningful and beneficial for others.

Giving Happiness to Others •
Rejoicing in Practice •
Gift for a Child •
Advice for a Young Student •
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Advice on the study and practice of lamrim, the path to enlightenment.

Dedicate Oneself to the Lam-rim •
A Letter to Students at Kopan •
Reading Lam-rim Books •
Lam-rim is the Main Thing •
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Advice on how to deal with pain by experiencing it for all sentient beings.

Creating the Karma to Stop Pain •
Compassion and Tong-len •
Severe Arthritis •
Mantra Eliminating the Harsh Pain of the Three Grounds •
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Advice and practices to purify negative karma created by previous actions.

The Karma of Killing •
Fatal Car Accident  •
Killing One's Parents •
Purifying Negative Karma •
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Practice advice and instructions for students doing various types of retreat, including preliminaries, lamrim and deity practice.

Retreat Place •
Destroying Delusion •
Advice for Seven-Month Retreat •
Six-Month Retreat •
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Advice for those who have offered service as center director and are retiring from that role.

Thanks to Outgoing Director •
Departing Center Director •
Thanks For Service as Director •
On Retiring •
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Advice on how to care for others who are very ill and approaching death, with essential advice and practices for the moment of death.

Working With the Dying •
Close to Death •
Imminent Death •
When Someone Is Dying •
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Advice on the Diamond Cutter Sutra, a Mahayana sutra which helps us to actualize wisdom and bodhicitta quickly, along with other realizations.

Benefits of Reciting the Diamond Cutter Sutra •
The Diamond Sutra •
Sutra Recitation for Sick Nuns •
Diamond Cutter Sutra in Retreat •
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Advice for people who are contemplating suicide. Rinpoche explains how to use depression on the path to enlightenment, by changing our focus from self to others.

Suicidal Thoughts, Depression, PTSD and Self-harm •
Tired and Thinking About Death •
Thoughts of Suicide •
Wanting to Commit Suicide •
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Advice and practices for students experiencing problems due to a business downturn and related financial crisis.

Business in Financial Crisis •
Business Losing Money •
Business Losing Money •
Trusting Advice Given by a Lama •
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Advice on teaching children the values of loving kindness and compassion so that their lives become meaningful.

Dedication for Alice Project •
Starting a Buddhist School in India •
The Best Education for Children •
Advice to Schoolchildren in Bodhgaya •
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Advice on the qualities of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, who is a living Compassion Buddha with perfect wisdom and compassion for every sentient being.

The Supreme Qualities of His Holiness the Dalai Lama •
Message to a Center Hosting His Holiness the Dalai Lama •
Pleasing His Holiness the Dalai Lama •
His Holiness the Dalai Lama Benefits Sentient Beings Limitlessly •

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