Dear Lama Zopa: Radical Solutions for Transforming Problems Into Happiness

By Thubten Zopa

Book Overview

Unconventional wisdom, affirmation, and advice from one of Tibetan Buddhism's most influential living teachers. Lama Zopa Rinpoche is a master at explaining Buddhism's radical but effective methods for transforming suffering into happiness, which have been practiced and taught by Tibetans for a thousand years. It's a challenging way to think - how can it be that the things that cause us pain are actually blessings? In Dear Lama Zopa , Rinpoche applies that challenge to our everyday, real-life problems - from the littlest to the biggest. Every year he receives thousands of letters from people around the world asking for advice - on coping with everything from addiction, grief, and depression, to war, terrorism, and death. In his detailed and deeply caring responses to these letters, reproduced here, Rinpoche shows again and again that the best method for solving our problems is to radically change the way we perceive them; that by emphasizing their inner causes we can even change the resulting outer circumstances. Even people familiar with notions like karma and reincarnation, which imply that we are the creators of our own experiences, may find the advice difficult. Yet uncountable thousands of people of all backgrounds have put Rinpoche's loving guidance into practice - and have seen real and positive change in their lives. Now, with Dear Lama Zopa , you can see for yourself...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0861712897
• ISBN13: 9780861712892
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Wisdom Publications
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Practical Everyday Advice

Lama Zopa Rinpoche's book is a compilation of correspondence and it reads like a Q & A. The letters have obviously been edited to the key questions for the most part so it's a quick and easy read with very useful daily advice. How to cope with sickness, how to prepare for death, how to death with challenges of all sorts. There are also scans of drawings that Rinpoche sent with his replies. Highly recommended.

Practical Advice for Everyday Problems

This book is a collection of Lama Zopa Rinpoche's responses to some of the thousands of letters he receives asking for advice on how to deal with common problems such as dealing with sickness and death, raising children and coping with anger. While his advice is heavy on the practical side, the Lama also references mantra and meditative practices that are explained in the appendix. The inclusion of this information made this book a valuable tool in addressing my own issues. At times, the Lama's advice is quite humorous and this book is a joy to read.

Cultivating Compassion

This book is wonderful. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is a Bodhisattva-in-training. Lama Zopa Rinpoche clearly shows us how to view our daily lives through the lens of compassion. Everything we encounter in life is a teaching on Bodhichitta. Thank you, Lama Zopa Rinpoche, for your boundless compassion. Debra Page