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Whenever we come across something comfortable, run. Whenever we encounter something pleasant, offer it. Whenever we see something beautiful, appreciate and move on. Whenever we feel cosy, remember it...
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Whenever we come across something comfortable, run. Whenever we encounter something pleasant, offer it. Whenever we see something beautiful, appreciate and move on. Whenever we feel cosy, remember it...
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I am angry because I want to be. I am unhappy because I choose it. I am not in control because I’ve controlled the wrong causes. I am not...
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I just saw this on my facebook and had to post it…you leave your comments and TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK PLEASE. I really want to know. Tsem Rinpoche...
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It’s easy to get caught up with a lot of complicated terminology in books about religion – but somehow we (sadly) forget to realize that what we have for...
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If your angersome, it means you are spoiled. If you want things to be given to you, then you want others to do your work. If you complain without...
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Nicole Lee is the 8 year old daughter of Any Loke and Bean Lee. She’s a very active girl whose parents are themselves active members of Kechara House. She...
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When I visit Singapore, I like to just stop by Shangrila Hotel not far from Orchard Rd, the main shopping street… Grab a cuppa at the coffee house and...
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I have been blogging a lot about animal cruelty lately, and I thought it would be nice to show you the possible human-animal interaction most of us don’t expect...
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There is one opposite Mustafa Centre, Serangoon (Little India). Whenever I visit Singapore, I visit Mustafa’s. You can find almost anything inside and open 24 hours. Can you imagine...
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Around 8 years ago in Singapore (Geylang), I happened across this Monastery by chance…I stopped the taxi and went inside to look…it was under massive renovations…but it had this...
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Since I left home at 16, most holidays I am alone. Every Lunar New Year, ppl go home to their families, and I don’t really have family to go...
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People sometimes wonder how I choose or select individuals to go for these expeditions or spontaneous good works with me from time to time….well it depends on you…If...
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I went to the fish store looking for some small parrot fishes/goldfishes. Then a 22 inch golden Koi caught my eye among many Kois. He is very friendly, he...
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This MMS was sent to me yesterday: Dearest Rinpoche… Fishes have all been released: 300 kg of catfish dedicated to Ladrang – requested by Rinpoche (this is for every...
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It is heartbreaking to see this video. This dog is sad, lost and disorientated. His owner died. Yet he stays nearby laying next to his beloved owner. I sincerely...
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Two videos of my beloved fish pond. The first video is when there was no fish and we thought there was chlorine. The second video is after...
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The video above shows the President of America, Barack Obama, bowing down as he shakes hands with the Japanese Emperor Mr Akihito in Tokyo in 2009. For the US,...
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This is a Japanese monk named Kansho Tagai, also known as Mr. Happiness (or MC Happiness). Kansho Tagai heads a 400-year-old Kyoouji Temple in central Tokyo (Japan) and over...
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One of my students found this and sent it to me…it is of an island that is known to be the most alien-looking place on Earth. Socotra is a...
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When I was younger, I didn’t appreciate nor like Led Zeppelin, but I sure do now… I love Robert Plant’s electrifying tenor voice and octaves… do listen and get...
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Some songs I like to share with you and listen in between whatever you are doing… enjoy… Tsem Rinpoche Fleetwood Mac – The Chain Lyrics: Listen to...
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Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty Stop Dragging My Heart Around Lyrics: Baby you’ll come knocking on my front door Same old line you used to use before I said...
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While spring cleaning through my personal items, the Ladrang staff and I sorted through several cards (greeting cards, birthday cards etc). One of them had a beautiful photo of...
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If you ever see any videos of animals being crushed…they are not isolated incidents. It is all part of a market called Crush Fetish. Crush Fetish is something that...
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See my adorable and much loved cuties playing and playing…running…getting sun and exercise…I love you both so much. Tsem Rinpoche
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(click to enlarge) Kechara Soup Kitchen (KSK) came out on the national papers again! It’s a very well-written and beautiful article on the work that KSK does for...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) My students and friends have been in Kathmandu (Nepal) on a pilgrimage. JP (Head liaison of Tsem Ladrang) is leading a group of 7 people, where...
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I like Aaliyah playing her role as Queen of the Vampires.. .by coincidence the costume, movements, hair, ornaments resembles something that of Vajra Yogini in our tantric description of...
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Below is a video made by Kechara InMotion (KIM) that recorded what went on during my birthday! I didn’t attend it, but (300kg) fish and (204) bird liberation was...
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MPH (Malaya Publishing House) has 18 outlets all over Malaysia and they are one of the biggest bookstores in the country. We have had many associations with them in...
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The head of the dept is Li Kim and she leads by care, generosity, time….although she is not much older than some and younger than some of her crew,...
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Our Liaisons, staff, students, members, volunteers, friends have worked super hard…..and this grand and beautiful new Gompa (prayer hall) with well laid out Admin offices completed. I am so proud of...
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Many years ago, I advised one of my long-time students, Wong Kok Thai (aka Fat Monk), that he should build a Setrap Chapel to help the people in his...
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In 2009, Mr Ngeow started conducting the ‘Simplified Lamrim‘ classes at Kechara House, every alternate Sunday. These classes were held for those who could not commit to attending the...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) About 2 months ago, it was decided by the Kechara Education Committee that they wanted to step up their education classes. They wanted to hold classes...
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Yesterday, I took my students shopping for Chinese New Year! It is customary to wear new clothes on the first day of Chinese New Year as it symbolizes a...
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From the 12th January till the 1st February, Kechara Paradise will be having a roadshow at 1Utama! The KP team has gotten themselves a 300sq metre roadshow space in...
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On Sunday night, Kechara Paradise (KP) had their annual Chinese New Year dinner for their staff of 16! Datuk May Phng and Dato’ Ruby Khong, who were invited as...
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15 year old Wei lives in London and he likes football, loves TV and video games, and isn’t that keen on school…sounds familiar boys? Hehe He naturally doesn’t say...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) VERY HOLY AND SACRED. I was presented with this beautiful Tsa-tsa of Lord Maitreya Buddha a short while back. The clay of this tsa-tsa is...
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A few days ago, a video surfaced of a dog being abused by a man in a small room. The video very quickly circulated on the Internet, especially on...
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Those who follow me/Kechara on Facebook will know that a group of Kecharians have been running a booth at Amcorp Mall’s flea market every Saturday and Sunday. Last Sunday,...
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Dharma centres are so important as dharma is still in it’s fledgeling growth stage now in the world…It is a place where everyone who wishes to join forces with...
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We move ahead a few steps, then we go back a few steps… we find it hard to battle the ‘inner demons’ within ourselves fighting all the time… we...
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I was hanging around on the beach having a great time when this dude named Buddha showed up and said I was suffering. ~ Tsem Rinpoche
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) If it wasn’t for this horribly little annoying phenomena called KARMA, I would just disrobe, go out every weekend, make lots of friends, party, make stadium...
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Everything in Kechara actually came from Kechara Paradise (KP), our Dharma outlets. The first place I started teaching was in Kechara Paradise in SS2, and then from there we...
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Here is a little excerpt from an article on dog-fights. Read it to understand what these animals have to endure. It is not life. “Typically, before their first birthdays,...
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By Agence France-Presse | Updated: 1/20/2011 Malaysian Hindus do bloody penance at festival More than one million Hindu devotees flocked to a Malaysian cave temple Thursday to mark a...
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The photo above was sent to me by Paul Yap (originally taken by Choi Sheem). It shows the lantern and prayer flag display that has been put up...
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See this cute and interesting video of little Tucker playing the piano daily. He himself goes to the piano several times a day on his own accord to play. He...
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On this blog thread, I am going to update it with more pictures and videos of my sweet Mumu who is a very good boy and his new friend Oser the adorable...
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Kechara Paradise’s new location in SS2 recently opened its doors to the public. Kechara Paradise SS2 is our first Dharma store that wa established in the year 2000, a...
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“If you think you are too small to make a difference you have never spent the night with a mosquito.” ~ The Dalai Lama
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Below are photos of gifts from: Julia Tan (Vice-President of Kechara Soup Kitchen) Susan Lim (Liaison and E-communication Manager of Kechara Media and Publications) Han Ling (One of the...
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Below are 3 cards from my students and friends: Girlie Ooi, Dato’ Ruby Khong and Sean Wang. 1. Girlie Ooi Girlie Ooi has just finished her Dzambala retreat....
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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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Rex from San Francisco
Read More Tsem Rinpoche, I love your blogs. you explain everthing so well, not above people to the people. I never in my life would have thought I would see so many ... Read More
Dear Rinpoche,
I received my Tsongkhapa box set in the mail today.
WOW. What a blessing. Truly a great treasure. I feel like I have a very deep connection & ... Read More
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