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Advice book

Teaching and Practicing Dharma

Student: My mother very much wants me to live with her and take care of her in her old age. Is this more important than doing retreat or teaching?

Practice Advice for Nuns

With regard to your meditation, you can train your mind in the generation stage until you sees all gurus as Buddha and all buddhas as the guru.

Experiencing Bliss in Retreat

My very dear Anila,Thank you very much for your kind letter.If you have good experiences with Vajrasattva it means you have karma with Vajrasattva, also that Vajrasattva is blessing you with these experiences.When you have some bliss then you can mak

Angry With Organization

You can't get angry to sentient beings, from whom you receive every single happiness from beginningless rebirths, present and future liberation from oceans of samsaric suffering, and total cessation of obscurations and complete realization.That is mo

Harsh Words

Your decisions are correct but the problem is the way they are expressed – with harsh words and anger. These are extra and unnecessary; they create problems.

Eliminating Anger

Advice to a person who worked as a driver for a Dharma center and who complained of being very angry with his family.

Contribution to World Peace

Each time you stop being angry, by practicing patience, this becomes your most practical contribution to world peace. 

Practicing Patience

A student wrote to Rinpoche saying that he had been a monk for 21 years but there had been many interferences in his life. Rinpoche replied as follows.