Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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For more advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche on a wide range of topics in the form of short talks and letters go to - Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive
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Change Has To Come From The Mind
Lama Tsongkhapa mentioned that all the suffering in the world comes from ignorance; therefore, the root of suffering is not outside. No matter how much scientific knowledge and education worldly people have, they still believe the cause of suffering to be outside; but that's wrong. The cause of suffering is in the mind and that's why it is the mind that has to change. Changing the mind is more important than trying to change what's outside; changing outside never finishes. Change has to come from the mind. It has to come from your mind.
Advice by Topic
Animals | Auspicious Days for Practice | Centers and FPMT Organization
Death | Holy Objects | Natural Disasters
Peace in the World | Practice and Practical Advice | Protection from Harm | Retreat
Sickness | Shugden (Dholgyal) Advice | Sutras - various
Conseils en français (Advice in French)
Animals
- How to Benefit Animals
- Request to stop animal sacrifice in Nepal (Nov 2009)
- Liberating Animals Practice
- Sign 'Please Don't Hunt'
- Turkeys - Help Them on Thanksgiving
For more advice from Rinpoche on this subject in the form of short talks and letters, please go to Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive
Auspicious Days for Practice
- Days of Miracles
- Practices for Lama Tsongkhapa Day
- Practice on Buddha Multiplying Days
- Explanation of Dharma Practice Days
- Losar Resources
Centers and FPMT Organization
- Attitude For Offering Service
- Benefit of Centers
- Benefits of Working for Dharma Centers
- Benefit of Working for the Center - Wow!
- Collect Merit So Easily at the Center
- Dharma Centers - Why Do They Exist
- Dharma is Needed for the Happiness of Sentient Beings
- Dragons at the Doors of Centers
- FPMT Education and Organization
- Gong to Call All Buddhas & Bodhisattvas
Drawing of Gong » - How Fortunate and Happy We Are!
- How to Practice: Advice to a Study Group
This is a condensed advice for each of us on how to practice for our entire lives.
- How to Rejoice about Hardships Borne Working for the Center and Thanks
- Incredible Benefit Offered by FPMT Centers, Projects and Services
- Lama Zopa's Letter to New Center Director and Study Group Coordinator (Nov 5, 2009)
- Need for Organization
- Remembering the Kindness Prayer (Rinpoche would like this prayer used throughout the organization. The prayer should be done following the Prayer that Spontaneously Fulfills All Wishes (Tong nyi nying je ....) at the end of dedication prayers)
Prayers for His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Tibet (for those without Prayer Books) - The Purpose of the Center Building
- The Real Professional
- Sangha are the Heroes
- Service as a Path to Enlightenment
- Successful Service due to Guru Devotion
- Sur Offering
- Why We Need Dharma and Dharma Centers
For more advice from Rinpoche on Centers and the FPMT Organization in the form of short talks and letters, please go to Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive
Death
- Essential Practices for the Time of Death
- How to Make Your Possessions Meaningful
A4 Version
Letter Version - The Liberation Box, Tools for a Fortunate Rebirth
- Methods to Counteract Spirit Harm
- Request Prayers for the Dead
For more advice from Rinpoche on this subject in the form of short talks and letters, please go to Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive - transitions and Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive - health
Holy Objects
- Benefits of Having Many Holy Objects
- Benefits of the Prayer Wheel
- Prayer Wheel card for display
- Essential Mantras for Holy Objects
- Holy Relics
- Mantras for Microfilm
- Why Holy Objects are Precious and Wish-fulfilling
Natural Disasters
- To Control Earthquakes and the Four Elements
- For All Affected by Earthquake and Tsunami
- Practices for Protection from Radiation
- Disasters of the Elements
- How to Stop Rain
- Practices for Burma and China (2008)
For more advice from Rinpoche on this subject in the form of short talks and letters, please go to Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive
Peace in the World
- Support His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Tibet - advice given March 27th 2008
- Recite the Golden Light Sutra for peace in the world - advice given May 7th 2007
- Advice specifically for Iraq and “for people who desire peace for themselves and for others”, given June 28 2004
- For World Peace - advice given after Sept 11th 2001
- Avoid Negative Rejoicing - advice given after Sept 11th 2001
- Practices to Benefit the Whole Country
Practice and Practical Advice
- Attitude to Have After Being Robbed
- Avoid the Ten Non-Virtues
- Bodhisattva Attitude: How to Dedicate Your Life to Others
- Bodhichitta Mindfulness
- Buddhist Marriage Ceremonies
- Chenrezig Mantra and Practice
- Compassion is of the Utmost Need - Ten frame-ready quotes on compassion
- Daily Taking and Giving
- Dharma is Needed for the Happiness of Sentient Beings
- Don't Waste your Perfect Human Rebirth
- Driving - The Wheel of Sharp Weapons of My Negative Karma When Driving
- Eliminating Obstacles (Guru Rinpoche prayer)
- Financial Anxieties - Put in Perspective
- Heart Advice of Achos Rinpoche, with commentary from Rinpoche
- How to be a Real Professional (Excerpt from How to Be a Real Professional)
- Importance of Meditation
- Morality Is the Support and Foundation for All Good Qualities
- Most Important for Success
- New Students and Prisoners
- Ordinary Life Actions - Make Them Meaningful
- Pacifying the Date of Cutting Hair
- Parenting - Advice for parents
- Pilgrimage, How to Go On
- Prayer Book Updates: Essential Buddhist Prayers Volumes 1 & 2 and Retreat Prayer Book Updates
- Real Chöd Practice
- Reasons to Practice Dharma
- In Response to Appreciation after Following Rinpoche's Advice
- Studying and Making Life Dharma
- What Brings the Happiest Life
- What Students Need to Do; 2010
“Within the FPMT organization we are doing well studying the words. Now students need to experience the lam-rim.”
For more advice from Rinpoche on this subject in the form of short talks and letters, please go to Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive
Protection from Harm
- The Liberation Box, Tools for a Fortunate Rebirth
- Namgyalma Card and Amulet
- Samantabhadra Protection
Carte de protection de Samantabhadra en français - Short Consecration Ritual
- Sutra of Golden Light & Vajra Cutter for wearing
- Tashi Tsegpa: to dispel all inauspiciousness
- Vairocana Protection
Retreat
- Benefits of Retreat on Lam-Rim
- Checklist of Practices Rinpoche Recommends for Retreats
- Good and Bad Days for Fire Puja
- Retreat Places - Purpose Of
Sickness
- Bird Flu (Nov 2005)
- Counteract the SARS virus
- Practices to do for Contagious Diseases
- To protect from cancer, swine flu as well as new diseases
- Using Sickness For the Path
Shugden (Dholgyal) Advice
Sutras - various
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