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Advice book

The Pain of Attachment

If you are performing the daily actions of your life with two attitudes, you are getting close to enlightenment.

Sexual Pleasure is For a Short Time

A student wrote that she had fallen in love with a monk and had physical contact with him. She asked how to purify the negative karma created.

Simplifying Life

That’s good advice for everybody. Everybody needs to simplify their life. That’s why there are so many problems, because people don’t simplify. It’s the answer to everything. The problem is everybody wants more and better of everything.

How to Avoid Being Driven by One’s Desires

There are different meditations and techniques that one can try. When you come closer to the person or thing that is the object of your desire, you should think that you are coming closer to the lower realm or to the hell realm.

So Much to Rejoice In

My most dear, most kind, most precious wish-fulfilling one,Thank you very much your kind letter. It’s most important that you were a nun for ten years and you tried very hard.

Depressed and Unsure Where to Live

Dear Abbie,A billion, zillion, trillion times, thank you from my heart for your sincere service, gold-leafing and sanding the buddhas. Thank you very, very, very much.If you are depressed, the best place to live is the hells.

Daughter with Depression

My very dear Richard,Your daughter should drink Maratika water a few times a day. She should drink it one time then have a break, then drink more, then have a break.