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Advices posted during the month of October 2005
Contemporary Issues > Natural Disasters > Earthquakes
Rinpoche suggested some practices to be performed to prevent earthquakes in Taiwan. He also recommended specific practices for protection against harm from earthquakes and fires.
Contemporary Issues > Natural Disasters > Earthquakes
After major earthquakes shook Taiwan in 1999, Rinpoche offered the following advice over the course of several weeks to students there, for dealing with floods, etc.
Contemporary Issues > Natural Disasters > Fires
Rinpoche made the following suggestions for helping with the bush fires that were burning out of control in Australia.
Contemporary Issues > Work and Business Problems > Business Crisis and Failure
Rinpoche gave a student the following advice as to how to regard a failure of a business deal.
Contemporary Issues > Work and Business Problems > Business Crisis and Failure
A student in California had a business, but it was completely unsuccessful, and he kept losing money. He sought Rinpoche’s advice as to whether he should keep the business.
Contemporary Issues > Work and Business Problems > Business Crisis and Failure
A businessman wrote asking for Rinpoche’s guidance in dealing with a series of bitter disputes with former partners and employees. He also mentioned that one of his major business ventures had faced repeated obstacles and asked Rinpoche what to...
Contemporary Issues > Work and Business Problems > Business Crisis and Failure
A man in a very difficult financial situation needed to generate more profit from his business otherwise he would lose everything he owned. He asked Rinpoche for advice.
Contemporary Issues > Work and Business Problems > Problems in Dharma Business
A student started a business expressly to raise funds for a large spiritual project, but the business was doing poorly, and had begun to lose large sums of money.
Contemporary Issues > Work and Business Problems > Problems in Dharma Business
A couple started a business to help Rinpoche build a 500-foot Maitreya statue. They lost a large amount of money trying to get the business going. They were not particularly wealthy people, and may have been cheated out of some of the money....
Contemporary Issues > Work and Business Problems > Problems in Dharma Business
Rinpoche gave the following advice to a business that had loaned a lot of money to a Dharma project, and had not yet been repaid. This was causing hardship and bad feeling.
Contemporary Issues > Work and Business Problems > Unemployment
For many years, a student of Rinpoche’s had been unable to get a job, no matter how hard he tried. He asked Rinpoche for advice on what he should do.
Contemporary Issues > Financial Difficulties > Practices for Financial Problems
A couple were experiencing numerous problems in their domestic life and in their finances and asked Rinpoche for advice.
Contemporary Issues > Practices for Success > Practices for Business Success
A businesswoman was experiencing a great deal of financial hardship and asked for advice.
Contemporary Issues > Practices for Success > Practices for Business Success
A student who was encountering many obstacles in her business wrote asking Rinpoche how to create merit for success.
Sickness and Health > Musculoskeletal Disorders > Arthritis
Rinpoche gave the following remedy for arthritis.
Sickness and Health > Addictions and Mental Illness > Bipolar Disorder
A student who had been diagnosed as bipolar stopped taking her medicine and became manic, destructive, and confused in her thinking. After some time, she fell into a serious depression, and then started taking her medicine again. She asked...
Sickness and Health > Addictions and Mental Illness > Schizophrenia
A student wrote to Rinpoche about his wife, who suffered from schizophrenia, sudden mood changes, and other problems. Rinpoche gave the following advice.
Sickness and Health > Healing and Pacifying Illness > Eliminating Life Obstacles
A student had some health problems and had been told that someone had cast black magic on her. She also described feeling very lonely, and thought she might have received some signs of pending death. The woman said she needed to live another year...
Sickness and Health > Healing and Pacifying Illness > Practices for Protection and Healing
A student with a life-threatening illness wrote to Rinpoche asking what he could do.
Sickness and Health > Operations > Deciding Whether to Have Surgery
A student who had broken her back in a car accident wrote to Rinpoche asking for his advice as to whether or not to have an operation. Medical opinion was divided on whether she should have the operation or not.
Sickness and Health > Cancer > Breast Cancer
A student had breast cancer and wrote to Rinpoche asking which practices she should do. Rinpoche commented that most of the following suggestions could be applied to anyone who had cancer.
Sickness and Health > Brain and Nervous System > Brain Disorders
A student wrote to Rinpoche saying a brain scan showed changes in the white tissue in her brain. The radiologist could not explain what had caused them. The student was unsure whether to pursue Western medicine for the condition and wrote to...
Sickness and Health > Brain and Nervous System > Insomnia / Sleep Disorders
A student had a big problem with not being able to sleep. She had tried conventional medicine and natural healing, without success. She asked Rinpoche for advice.
Sickness and Health > Brain and Nervous System > Paralysis and Stroke
Rinpoche sent this advice on the prevention of strokes.
Sickness and Health > General Illnesses > Urogenital and Menstrual Conditions
A nun had problems with excessive uterine bleeding and wrote to Rinpoche for advice. The bleeding stopped after she took the pill that Rinpoche sent her and did the meditation he recommended.
