Advice on practices which may be beneficial for a range of illnesses and health problems. Please note: the advice is not intended to replace medical treatment. Always contact your health care professional if you have health concerns.
Advice given to those who practice healing or have been healed.
Advice about lung, a state in which the winds within the body are unbalanced or blocked, thus causing various illnesses.
Rinpoche discusses the reasons for giving up alcohol, cigarettes and other addictive substances
Advice on how to help sick and dying people, and how to use the experience to develop renunciation.
The loving, compassionate thought of bodhicitta is the best way to heal HIV/AIDS, cancer or any other disease
Uncontrolled attachment causes many problems, including addiction to alcohol and drugs
Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave this advice on how to think when diagnosed with cancer. When we experience the cancer for the sake of all sentient beings we collect skies of merit and it brings us closer to enlightenment.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses techniques for cutting through depression in this excerpt from a teaching at the 28th Kopan Course in 1995.
An article on the Buddhist approach to battling addiction, written by Dr. Nicholas Ribush for Around magazine in 1979.
How to use depression to develop compassion and bodhicitta, and ultimately to achieve enlightenment.
Advice on a wide range of illnesses, given to individuals with health problems who have written to Rinpoche for guidance.
