Kids at KWPC land!
Dear Rinpoche, We brought a group of kids to KWPC land today. They are 18 kids and 12 adults. Most of them are first time and they were very...
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Dear Rinpoche, We brought a group of kids to KWPC land today. They are 18 kids and 12 adults. Most of them are first time and they were very...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Tan Sri has 3 children and the shocking news is his only son is a monk!
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Ajahn Siripanno (Ajahn Siripanno gives an enthralling Dhamma talk on the timeless teachings of Ajahn Chah. The talk was given at the Ajahn Chah Remembrance Day...
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Our mother is the one person that has shown us pure kindness from the day we are conceived. She cares, feed and go through many difficulties and challenges just...
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Kindness is the way to clarity. Clarity leads to calmness. Calmness opens the door to wisdom. Wisdom transforms our habits. Our habits transform into eventual attainments. Attainments allow us...
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Our hardworking group of Li Kim, Sharon, Ms Han and Wendy Loh are at the Hong Kong Filmart (March 19-22). They are going there to promote TSEM PARANORMAL...
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I received this email recently and thought of sharing it with all of you because it is very inspiring. Do take a look at the pictures and leave your...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) (译文请往下阅读) November 9, 2010 Turkey Swamp was a large park with huge lake around 3 hours bicycle ride from my childhood home in New Jersey. If you went by car it’s around 45 mins or more. One of my relatives took me there once and I loved it as a kid. I asked my childhood frie...
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Dear friends, As you know I went on a Dharma picnic a few weeks back with students. During our break I looked at Paris and was inspired to tell...
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I had just completed giving *Gabriel an Amityus initiation in the hospital in his room. He has been in a coma. After finishing, I left his room and in...
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Kechara has a study group called KSJC in the southern most city of Malaysia in Johor Bahru. The group there who are my students started their own...
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A few months ago, one of my close student's father had a medical condition that was quite life threatening. Sharon, a loving mother, daughter and one of my loyal...
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When I am healthy, I can do more Dharma to serve others. By cutting down on meat, we will also be able to save many animals from being slaughtered...
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Kechara Soup Kitchen was first registered as an NGO in the year 2006. At that time, KSK really was running small scale, with only 20 packets of food distributed...
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A few students of mine gave me some letters and gifts that is very meaningful and sincere. I thought I'll put it up in my blog to share it...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) The scenery here appears to resemble one of the Buddha's True Land paradises, with its tall towers and graceful pavilions...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) The Beishan Grottoes are part of a series of rock carvings found in the Dazu County located on steep hillsides in the Chongqing Municipality in China....
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Dato Ruby Khong have been one of my closest students for almost 18 years now. She is a very strong woman, dedicated and kind... she never gives excuses, works...
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Last Monday, Dato’ Ruby, JP, Adrian, Bonita, Kwok Wai, Pastor Loh Seng Piow, Monlam, Susan, Wee Liang and I drove ½ hr away from KL to Kuala Kubu Baru...
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Dear friends, I went up to the mountains with 19 of my students to enjoy a picnic, dharma talk and puja in the mountains today March 11, 2012....
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Several months back, I painted a Dzambala for my long time student Girlie Ooi as a special gift for all her hard work and devotion towards...
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I first met Winnie Lim last year when she requested for a divination. This was over a year ago, and ever since then she has been attending Kechara House's...
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Dear Rinpoche, Below are the questions and answers for the 4th blog chat quiz! What an amazing win for Ethan Hoo! He won the 2nd quiz and he won...
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At the end of last year, I blogged about a hunting service that was specifically catered to women who had a passion for hunting. Women, who usually brought along...
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I’m not talking about that old cliche that everyone must love their mother. Some mothers are real bitches, so I’d forgive those people if they didn’t feel they could...
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Dear blog friends, For the longest time since I was a young child, I always visualized, imagined and wished I lived in a large cave in the mountains. This...
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We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. Speak or act with a pure mind And happiness...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear everyone, I have loved beautiful art both spiritual and secular since I was very young. I really like Tibetan Buddhist iconography. It is so meaningful...
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Dear friends, Without discipline when growing up, as adults we give up easy. Find responsibility foreign. Take advantage of others and generally find it hard to bring plans...
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Apr 27, 2011 Many years ago I conceived the idea of Dharma Houses, where Dharma students can live together, share and support one another in their practice and Dharma...
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The best thing we can do for others is when we see so much suffering and feel compassion for them and want to do something is: Be an excellent...
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We always pray for long life. When we get longer life, then we have more samsaric activities to engage in. We always pray for more money. When...
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Dear Rinpoche, Tonight’s quiz was undeniably tough!! But we all had fun for sure. I am very very happy for Jean Mei for winning the precious VY statue! We...
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012 Today I had to accomplish something that has been pending for a few years as there were many obstacles until now. I am not going...
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I was associated with another centre which I pulled out of 12 years ago. When I left them, they said I would never make it. I would flop..hehe..I didn’t...
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Dear everyone, This was our second chat quiz on my blog and Ethan Hoo was the big winner!!!! Congratulations. It is fun… Tsem Rinpoche Dear Rinpoche, What...
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I was observing everyone on my blog chat space and I thought why don’t I make it a learning experience. So I decided to ask questions then and there...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Vajrayogini in the Gelug Tradition It is said that Vajrayogini was Je Tsonkhapa’s (1357 – 1419 C.E.) innermost yidam. There is no evidence for this...
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Pastor Loh Seng Piow and Justin looked like they stayed up the whole night with no sleep in this picture… in fact they did. They were working with me...
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Dear Rinpoche, Thank you for this video. I enjoyed it very very much. This one is definitely better in video, not audio! I find these teachings to be extremely...
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Ok get ready and DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME OR ANYWHERE EVER….would you allow this? Would you feel safe? Would you not be worried…could you let this go...
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My tastes totally vary and I have a very wide field of interest. I like creative, edgy, not run of the mill, abnormal, arty, expressive, open and accepting forms...
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One deliverable from Xi Jinping’s trip to America seems to be a new deal to allow more U.S. films — at least 3-D ones — to be distributed in...
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The sounds of nature are very relaxing when you need to unwind. What I usually do after blogging or a long day is to play one of these videos...
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Never make promises then you break them with your spouse. It is the best way to destroy something good. ~Tsem Rinpoche The best way to love someone...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear Serious Spiritual Aspirants, For those of you in Dharma who wishes to move ahead and eventually practice the higher teachings (Tantra and Vajra Yogini, Yamantaka,...
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I read your blog every day and rejoice that you may leave Malaysia. Don’t go to the USA, though–it is full of lamas already. Come to my country, Sierra...
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I am very happy for this blog post…do take a read. I like anything that creates harmony and understanding. Every year, the United Peace Federation (in Kuala Lumpur)...
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By Lylah M. Alphonse, Senior Editor, Yahoo! Shine | Pets Are pets really safe when they fly?More pets died on Delta flights last year than on any other airline,...
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Dear friends, I wanted to share this special space created with you… I’ve been wanting to do this for a while and finally did… I have a open area...
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Dear friends, There are ways we can have a good relationship with our spouse and partners. The methods are not hard. How ‘hard’ it is to implement is dependent...
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All types of people in a dharma centre. Some come for luck and improvement of their personal situatiions and it stops there. Others come because they see the fallacious...
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Today (11/02/12) Khong Jean Ai officially “swore in” as a full-fledged Liaison! Khong Jean Ai first joined Kechara in 2009...
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Dear friends, Last week I went with a small group to visit some mountains and a waterfall around 1.5 hours drive from Kuala Lumpur. I love outdoors and nature....
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Dear everyone, Vincent Cheng posted the following on my chat on the blog… Wow… some people like Vincent really post with great substance, honesty, meaning..and self realizations… I wanted...
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Dear all, Japan is a country I have long admired since I was a child. I was able to visit Japan a few years...
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The first time I saw this I was in my ladrang in Nepal. I laughed so hard I had stomach aches. It is so funny. I love the little...
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H.H. Kyabje Zong Rinpoche Explains Dorje Shugden Initiation and Benefits (With English Subtitles)
Dear everyone... This is a good condensed talk I gave on Guru Yoga of Tsongkapa. This is the one you should share with others when they are interested in a not too lengthy explanation. It is the perfect practice for everyone who wants simplicity yet effective blessings. You can share this with more people, it will be good.
~ Tsem Rinpoche
Powerful Dorje Shugden's mantras
Tsem Rinpoche on National TV's Wesak Day Documentary
'The Promise' book launch featured on NTV7 Primetime
"If you say you don't have money to help a animal shelter, why then do you have money to buy meat?"
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"Eating animals is not our God-given right, but being kind to them is."
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"What makes us good humans is not how we abuse animals, but how much we allow them to live and be happy freely."
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"We need another and wiser and perhaps a more mythical concept of animals.... We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complex than ours they moved finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth."
~ Henry Beston, The Outermost House
"Not eating animals is only unnatural when we are not used to it."
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"We may encounter defeat, but we must not be defeated."
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"What you are today, is the choice you made yesterday."
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"You think you can choose your life? What an ego trip!"
~ Lama Yeshe
"If TODAY you are dissatisfied, you must make the changes to create different results for TOMORROW."
~ Tsem Rinpoche
“Meditating on Dorje Shugden while reciting his mantra will open the gateways to higher dimensions, blessings and protection.”
~ Tsem Rinpoche
“If one does the recitation of the Lama Tsongkhapa guru yoga prayer for even one month using one of the visualizations for great or clear or quick wisdom, one will definitely see development of that wisdom. It is proved by experience. There is no doubt that by doing the Lama Tsongkhapa guru yoga practice one can meet Lama Tsongkhapa’s teachings from life to life. And furthermore, it gives one the opportunity to be born in the pure realm of Lama Tsongkhapa, Tushita, whenever death happens.”
~ Pabongkha Rinpoche
"I was 18 years old in 1983. That was a very special year as I met His Holiness Kyabje Zong Rinpoche and received innumerable precious teachings and empowerments from Him at Thubten Dhargye Ling Centre in Los Angeles, California. It was the best time of my life. A time that seems so magical and surreal to me. Kyabje Zong Rinpoche is Heruka Buddha and I met Heruka."
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"If being me offends you, maybe I'm not the problem."
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"Never abandon your spiritual teacher no matter how many inner obstacles you need to overcome."
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"Actions to force something to be permanent makes all the karmas arise."
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"The dharma is not easy to listen to… because some people take it as criticism. But Dharma should not be just feel good only for the moment but for deeper contemplations."
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"Whether we do work and suffer but for others or we do work and suffer for ourselves, either way we have to suffer. That is the nature of samsara. So let us suffer for others and then suffering has meaning."
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"Those who really want the dharma to grow within themselves and to grow for others should never fear hard work, timing, difficulties, struggles, disappointments because it is for a good cause. Working for Dharma is not a prison or work, but it is purely spiritual practice. It is purely collection of merit and purification. Actually not doing dharma work is the real prison."
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"His Holiness Zong Rinpoche stressed the need to continue to practice even when we come up against obstacles, and that we should continually review our progress. He stated that a happy, luxurious life was like a good dream, and that obstacles and difficulties were like a bad dream. We should give them no significance, but simply carry on working towards real, everlasting happiness."
~ Ngala ’ö-Dzin Tridral
"Things in samsara always go wrong. That's its nature. Don't be surprised."
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"Knowledge never quenches the thirst, only application."
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"I pity men who occupy themselves exclusively with the transitory in things and lose themselves in the study of what is perishable, since we are here for this very end-that we may make the perishable imperishable, which we can do only after we have learned how to approach both."
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Money amplifies negative characteristics and that can cause problems. To walk away from that was actually very easy. I didn't even consider it."
~ Angeline Francis Khoo
"I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud."
~ Carl Jung
"There is a devil there is no doubt, but is he trying to get into us or trying to get out?"
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"If you love someone, show it by being honest, respectful & honorable with them."
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."
~ Henry David Thoreau
"If I can just be the way I am & you the way you are & we accept each other, world peace is near."
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"I am Asian, you are some other beautiful color. Together we make diversity so beautiful."
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"It's amazing how some people have never met me or know who I am, but based on a few things they read here & there & rumours, they have formulated a new personality for me & all the things I've never done they passionately speak about....I find it funny and entertaining now. I guess we can't spend our lives fighting rumours...we just have to work hard & then rumours get proven wrong on it's own as a by product. No point explaining repeatedly. Just do our work & show results!!"
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"There's a difference between patience and laziness. Patience comes from respect while laziness from disrespect of others."
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"Although outwardly we have so much, we have so many conveniences, inwardly we have become more unhappy, so, acquisition is not the secret to happiness. The more we get, the more we have, the more unhappy we become."
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"Before we experience any pain, we already had a fixed view of how things should be. When the experience we encounter contradicts our views, then the pain arises. The pain arises due to our fixed views not so much the experience itself. So the secret is changing the views. Re-educating ourselves on our views."
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"You know since very young, for better or worse, I always did the things that others told me not to do. I wasn't really good at following the rules. Even now with how I share Dharma and my practice, I just do it the way I think it should be done but I do it sincerely. Not what others tell me what I can and can't do."
~ Tsem Rinpoche
"Love me or hate me, both are in my favor... If you love me, I'll always be in your heart... If you hate me, I'll always be in your mind."
~ William Shakespeare
"One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous or honest."
~ Maya Angelou
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Your H.E Tulku Rinpoche, It is very sad to note how you have been brought up. Although, you had a very difficult time during your childhood days, you were able ... Read More All this while I was looking for a teacher to follow and a master to learn from. I must say that Tsem Rinpoche’s teaching and approaches to propagate the Dhamma ... Read More Thank you Rinpoche. Your teachings always increase my Guru devotion. People may think and say bad things about some of my Gurus, but your example shows me rumors/gossip have no ... Read More
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