I am scared and don’t want to die

Jul 26, 2010 | Views: 1,477

Animals are sentient beings and they do know they are going to die. You can see how this one ox just doesn’t want to go in there because he knows death awaits him. How heartbreaking. How totally frightened he is. Aren’t you going to end up on a hospital bed one day waiting death? It’s inevitable you’ll be waiting for death. Aren’t you scared? If you’re not scared, your bluffing.

Please go vegetarian. Reduce this unnecessary horror and suffering that is completely unnecessary.

I will do whatever I can to reduce cruelty to animals and create less suffering for them in the world. I have encouraged all my students to go vegetarian and I will continue to do so.

Please make a vegetarian pledge now. I will make offerings and prayers for all who commit. Even going vegetarian one day a week makes a difference to the lives of animals around the world. You could have saved this ox.

Don’t just feel bad, or turn away from this video..DO SOMETHING REAL AND CONSTRUCTIVE. GO VEGETARIAN NOW.

Each time you go to a fast food place, restaurant or hawker and just order an burger, fried chicken, steak or pork, SOME ANIMAL WAS SLAUGHTERED FOR YOU. No animals jumped into the frying pan and waited to be fried so you can eat them like another animal. If you believe in karma and eat meat, then you are not real. Not genuine.

Every time you eat meat, it’s similar to YOU HAVING KILLED THE ANIMAL YOU ARE EATING! STOP!!
Tsem Rinpoche

 

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One of my students, Jean Mei, sent me this video to watch. It is extremely heartbreaking and sad to watch.
 

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  1. Aldan Chan on Dec 28, 2015 at 6:18 pm

    I feel sad for the ox. animals have the right to live too. The 2nd ox saw what was happening he was scared he knew that he was gonna die.i feel gulti

  2. Edward Ooi on Apr 23, 2014 at 11:21 pm

    You can see that when the first cow got slaughtered, the second one was very very afraid that it tried to run away but because the space was too small, it couldn’t turn back. And even if it did turn back, it also could not get out. I feel so sad for them. But just feeling sad for them isn’t enough, I want to become a veterinarian but I’m afraid that I might accidentally killed the animals through the process of studying veterinarian.

  3. SHY on Apr 12, 2011 at 1:47 pm

    i made a small dedication to my baby girl last year during her 1 year old birthday.
    i decided from that day onwards i will be vegetarian minimum one day per week just with the mind of saving our planet earth for our future generation.
    after reading this, i felt we should have give more compassion to all sentient being.
    i yet to make any vow, but i have been vegan for a week. and wish i can keep this motivation on.

  4. anne on Jan 19, 2011 at 6:28 pm

    I have decided to become a vegan starting today after i watched the Earthlings documentary. I could never eat any meat ever again without feeling the pain of the animals that were being brutally killed. Thank you Tsem Tulku. I never ever thought that i will decide to become a vegetarian, but after reading your blog and finding out the pain of the animals being killed to become our food, i find it very easy to turn to vegies for comfort…
    Thank you

  5. ata on Oct 10, 2010 at 2:21 pm

    But then there is also very strong evidence that plants also have feelings. That plants are able to know when they are about to be carved up or pulled straight out of the ground.

    When a person walks up to a tree to pick an apple, this is equivalent to walking up to a cow and cutting a chunk of meat off of its body and eating it.

    Obviously we need to eat. There is no need to argue about what we are eating, just that it is in moderation.

    • tsemtulku on Oct 10, 2010 at 2:27 pm

      Plants do not have consiousness. They do not create karma. Their reactions are not that of a conscious being that feels pain or wish to avoid pain. Plant consciousness do not create karma or reincarnate. So eating plants is definitely not the same as animals.
      There’s also established evidence that if you talk to plants and ask them ‘permission’ to partake of their vegetables, they grow bigger and ‘allow’ you to take their parts such as tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce, pumpkins, etc. They grow bigger vegetables to for you to sustain. For example the beautiful community of Findhorn is based on that philosophy. Google Findhorn. They grow forty pound cabbages, roses in the snow bloom for examples because they nurture and grow the plants for eating/use through care… They give back to the plants by manure, water, care and attention. But they don’t believe the plants have consciousness.

      It is definitely established no cow will allow you to take a part of their bodies to eat no matter how much care you give them. Any animal for that matter.
      Tsem Tulku

      • Tom on May 2, 2011 at 10:16 am

        Well that is your belief. I don’t particularly enjoy eating meat. For one thing it jades your palate. All these strong flavors, all that fat and oil.. those can’t be good for you. So yea eat bread, with a multitude of seeds and grains, you can actually make bread flavorful if you know how.

        It would be great to have a clean living center, where people learn to live with less, to strove to a point where you consume minimal resources, to reach a point where you are nothing and not dependent on any sort of drug (like caffeine) and live on very little.

        Is that right?

        And with water, water can taste good if it’s clean, there’s really no need for anything else other than it, what does anyone benefit from any other drink? it’s mostly drugs (Eg. caffeine,) color and sugar and flavor. In the long term, all this will ruin your health.

        Am I right in thinking this?

  6. lhamo on Sep 10, 2010 at 6:19 pm

    ooh my gosh! I want to become vegetarian. But i haven’t any idea for that. What should i do?

  7. ngeowchin on Aug 25, 2010 at 12:24 pm

    Dear Woofus,
    I respect your right to choose what you want to do with your life and body. If you think having a set of teeth is for eating meat, that is up to you. A lot of Buddhists also share the same view in the beginning. However, with more learning, we realize its not about what we eat, but whether our choice is at the expense of others or lead to other’s suffering. If we defend the right to have choice, do we respect other beings’ right to have choice too? The video ‘s message is not only about killing – it is about us denying other living beings a choice to live. It is clear the cows were not given a choice to live.
    I think my teeth is for eating anything , meat including human’s.But I don’t go for you because I don’t think you want to be eaten or chopped up to be displayed in the local butchers shop.I don’t chew and eat books and swallow glass because it is bad for my health.

    The first instance is about moral discipline and compassion and the second is about wisdom.This is what I learn from Buddhism. It is what make us human.
    When humans are not mindful to develop the above qualities, we become more and more like animals and just appease our senses without concern for other’s welfare.

    If you really believe plants deserved to be spared also, all the more you should spare animals like cows as they are much higher on the ‘ sacredness ‘ scale. I am a Buddhist but will respectfully prostrate to you or anyone who have such hihg rspect for living things.Please mean what you say.

    BTW no vegans ever died of hunger and many live much longer, happier and healthier than meat eaters, perhaps because they know they will not have to deal with their conscience when they leave this world.

  8. Anila on Aug 21, 2010 at 5:01 pm

    Two oxen were waiting in line outside the abbatoir to be pushed in and slaughtered one by one. When the door opened you can see the oxen retracting backwards. One will be pushed in first . You can feel the 2nd ox was scared when heard the cries of his friend being slaughtered. I notice the ox waiting outside in the narrow passageway leading to the slaughter house tried to turn his head and run but he couldn’t as the passageway was too narrow. I have heard people tell me that they have seen cows crying before they are being slaughtered. And they cannot express themselves are scared and don’t want to die. If most of the people in the world are vegeterians in their daily meals. The animals will not have to die an unnatural death like being slaughtered for your dining table.

  9. Uncle Eddie on Aug 15, 2010 at 12:05 am

    In the collective words of our Guru regarding the above blog:
    ” Animals are sentient beings and they do know they are going to die,
    you can see how this one Ox just doesn’t want to go in there because he knows death awaits him….
    Every time you eat meat, it’s similar to you having killed the animals you are eating!
    STOP!!!! DO SOMETHING REAL AND CONSTRUCTIVE, GO VEGETARIAN NOW.”

    For these who have compassion in their hearts and interested in becoming a Vegetarian to create the cause for our animal shelter to manifest can adhere to the guidelines kindly provided by Tsem Tulku Rinpoche in one of his teachings”-

    – we can take vegetarian vows, with no consumption of meat, eggs, milk, garlic and onions are
    permissible.
    – Vows can be taken for short periods of time eg. 3 or 5 days a week, a month or at a time.
    – After each session, you can take the vows again and again.
    – Taking vows is more powerful as it creates the causes through our commitment.

    Even our David La in his comment about Vegetarianism, advocated that one can go on a gradual vegetarian diet and not go cold turkey and work towards being a full Vegetarian.

    SO WHAT ARE WE WAITING FOR?

    Uncle Eddie

  10. Helen on Aug 12, 2010 at 3:36 am

    In my country a calf swam to save his life 25 km. can you believe this? I didn’t know a calf can swim before I saw this.
    He was taken with a boat to a slaughter house and he jump off and swam about 20 km back to the shore and finally was saved.
    What kind of heart can you have to eat such an animal?
    http://www.bucharestherald.ro/dailyevents/41-dailyevents/13999–calf-claudiu-saved-by-lifeguards-at-the-black-sea-after-swimming-28-hours

  11. Roselyn on Aug 11, 2010 at 11:52 am

    When I let my kids watch these kind of videos, I was being ticked off by some as they said the kids are not of an appropriate age to watch this freaky, bloody, brutality. However, my 7 yr old girl now has grown more aware of what she eats as compared to me. At times, she would remind me of the poor animal that was killed to be on our dining plate. Frankly, I ate my words sometimes. I realise that it is really due to our conditioning of how we are being raised from a child to adulthood. The thinking that its ok to eat everything dats edible isn’t really the correct view. Watching these kind of videos again and again will slowly change my mode of thinking and I shall take a lil step at a time to change my family’s culture of eating. Thanks Rinpoche for sharing the video.

  12. Lim Han Nee on Aug 6, 2010 at 2:20 pm

    Dear Rinpoche,
    If I were a meat-lover and have an obsessed craving for beef, then watching this video would have only given me a heart-wrenching moment as I look into the tormented eyes of the ox about to be led to slaughter. But afterwards my craving would have deleted this emotion from my mind as it takes control over me once more.
    Obsessive craving for food can reach very alarming proportions.My friend tells me that when she’s dying, she wants only a pot of assam laksa soup by her side and she’d go off in absolute bliss.She was in the midst of relishing a bowl of assam laksa when she said these words.I felt my heart stop as I pictured her dying with her consciousness grasping at the pot of laksa.
    Going vegetarian has helped me cut off an excessive craving for food.Now, more than ever, I remember the wise words of my primary school teacher, an Irish nun: ‘Eat to live, not live to eat’.

  13. Luize on Aug 2, 2010 at 7:02 pm

    Maybe some high lamas do benefit the animals they are eating, but I don’t know if I can say that about anyone. Eating meat is not necessarily healthier, unless there is some health problem and some meat would help. I don’t think is quite right to think that if I’m a chicken I’m no good because I can’t accomplish anything. Every sentient being must be respected and loved and cared for as mush as possible. If I was to act on your idea then I would go around killing all animals and doing Vajrasattva practice for them thinking I am their savior. And while I’m at it I would go around killing some people who I think are not acting accordingly to my principles of what’s good, and pray their next reincarnation would do better. If you are not on the Dharma path and are only interested in your little human life, then ok, eat meat and be happy with your meat eating teeth, but people who try to practice Dharma should try to go beyond their animalistic instincts. People who practice Dharma should praise more the life of a chicken than satisfying their taste buds. I know that our mere existence harms beings around us, we don’t even have to make an effort for that. I know suffering cannot be avoided and in order for us to live things must die, is the law of nature ( animals, plants, air we breathe…anything you wanna put on the list). But if you just find excuses for yourself to not make an effort to go beyond your limited human ignorant views, then you remain stuck here with all the poor ignorant chickens. Humans are no better than chickens, they only have an opportunity to rise above the human condition and go beyond samsara. I don’t judge people who eat meat and don’t practice any spiritual path, just as I don’t judge a chicken for being a chicken. But people who try to better themselves should be more aware. And people who are more aware should be responsible to make everyone aware, not to judge, just make them aware!

  14. Woofus on Aug 2, 2010 at 5:49 pm

    Like the Dalai Lama and 99 % of Tibetan lamas, I make the CHOICE to eat meat because it is healthier and tastier. Besides, killing animals is not so bad. You can always do Vajrasattva practice or something. That way, by eating meat, you actually benefit the animal.
    If I am reborn as a chicken, then you are welcome to eat me. (I mean, what else could I accomplish as a chicken?) If there is reincarnation, then the chicken is only inconvenienced. And if there is no reincarnation, then well, it would have died eventually anyway!
    Meat-eating is natural for us–just look at our teeth! My brother tried to be vegetarian, until he smelled someone cooking chicken. Then he couldn’t resist eating some of it.
    Anyway, why be prejudiced against plants? There’s no firm dividing line between them, despite what Buddhists think. Maybe your cabbage doesn’t want to be killed either! Are we all going to starve as vegans?

    • Andrew James Boon on Aug 5, 2010 at 9:18 am

      Please do allow me to correct your misconception of our teeth and share with you the functionality of our body as a whole. Here are some facts I gathered from various credible sources, my memory from biology classes and my own very experience of the realignment of my body since being a vegetarian:

      1.A carnivore’s teeth are long, sharp and pointed. These are tools that are useful for the task of piercing into flesh. Omnivore’s (meat and plant eaters) teeth are similar to that of carnivores. Our’s, as well as other herbivore’s teeth are not pointed, but flat edged. These are useful tools for biting, crushing and grinding.

      2.A carnivore’s jaws move up and down with minimal sideways motion. The jaw motion of an omnivore is similar. These are tools that are useful for the tasks of shearing, ripping and tearing flesh and swallowing it whole. Omnivores swallow their food whole and/or with simple crushing. Our’s, as well as other herbivore’s jaws cannot shear, but have good side to side and back to front motion. These are tools that are useful for extensive chewing, crushing and grinding of grains and other high fiber foods. Animal flesh cannot be crushed, ground and chewed with the teeth we have without some degenerating process such as cooking or frying.

      3.A carnivore or omnivore’s saliva does not contain digestive enzymes. Our’s, as well as other herbivore’s saliva is alkaline, containing carbohydrate digestive enzymes.

      4.A carnivore’s stomach secretes powerful digestive enzymes with about 10 times the amount of hydrochloric acid than a human or herbivore. The pH is less than or equal to “1” with food in the stomach, for a carnivore or omnivore. For us or other herbivores, the pH ranges from 4 to 5 with food in the stomach. Hence, man must prepare his meats with laborious cooking or frying methods. E.g. Coli bacteria, salmonella, campylobacter, trichina worms [parasites] or other pathogens would not survive in the stomach of a lion.

      5.A carnivore’s or omnivore’s small intestine is three to six times the length of its trunk. This is a tool designed for rapid elimination of food that rots quickly. Our’s, as well as other herbivore’s small intestines are 10 to 12 times the length of their body, and winds itself back and forth in random directions. This is a tool designed for keeping food in it for long enough periods of time so that all the valuable nutrients and minerals can be extracted from it before it enters the large intestine.

      6.A carnivore’s or omnivore’s large intestine is relatively short and simple, like a pipe. This passage is also relatively smooth and runs fairly straight so that fatty wastes high in cholesterol can easily slide out before they start to putrefy. Our’s, as well as other herbivore’s large intestines, or colons, are puckered and pouched, an apparatus that runs in three directions (ascending, traversing and descending), designed to hold wastes that originally were foods high in water content. This is so that the fluids can be extracted from these wastes, now that all the useful nutrients and minerals have been extracted and the long journey through the small intestine is over. Substances high in fat and cholesterol that have been putrefying for hours during their long stay in the small intestine tend to get stuck in the pockets that line the large intestine.

      7.Animal flesh, composed of the most highly complex type of protein that exists, requires vast amounts of uric acid to process. Uric acid is released into the system in amounts necessary to break proteins down into amino acids. Uric acid is a toxic substance responsible for the aging process and must be flushed out and dealt with. That is one of the jobs of the liver. In relative terms, a carnivore’s liver is a tool designed with the capacity to eliminate ten times as much uric acid as the liver of man or other plant eater.

      8.A predator has a gait, large paws and claws, which enable him to hunt, chase and trap his prey. These are tools meant to kill. Our gait, as well as other herbivore’s is designed only for mobility. Examine your hand, fingers and fingernails. Is this an apparatus properly designed for catching, trapping, killing and ripping apart cattle, hogs, chicken and fish? How does this work for picking fruit from trees or harvesting vegetables? The foods your hands were meant to gather are typically, high in water content, high also in fiber to sweep the wastes out of those intestines, and collectively contain every vitamin and mineral necessary to sustain human life.

      9.A carnivore’s frame of mind is totally geared for hunting and killing. Our frame of mind is compassionate, friendly and reveres life (in most cases… :P). When the lion spots another furry animal, something might instinctively click in his head that tells him to hurry up and get dinner. When man spots a furry animal, rather than show his children how to take its life and eat it, a more likely instinct is to pull over, get the camera out and take a picture. Put a young baby chick and an apple in a crib with a six-month-old baby. What will he instinctively attempt to eat and play with?

      10. We are not a natural hunters. Every predator, in order to go hunting, MUST be hungry. We cannot go hunting if we ARE hungry! We must have a meal first. Hunger must precede a predator to go hunting. Hunger must follow our desire to go hunting, it cannot precede it.

      Surely this makes one think no? Science and Biology explains explicitely what we still would like to delude ourselves into thinking, that we are meant to eat meat. I personally feel we eat meat because we WANT to. Its a want and NOT a need! Hence on that very basis, we all can make the choice. I welcome a healthy debate on this matter should anyone disagree!

      Much love… Andrew

    • Mic on Aug 23, 2010 at 1:42 am

      We were brought up since young that we must eat balance meal to stay healthy. Food pyramid system shows that stable food followed by vegetables and fruits are our main source of diet. Meat and milk based food are somewhere at the classified at the middle of the food pyramid, this means meat and protein are not our main source of diet. I can agree meat form a small portion of our diet. However, I don’t agree that human can get healthier by eating meat. It is just the western media trying to improve their livestock business. You can actually check from the web that meat could actually do more harm than good.
      Chimpanzees split from human evolution about 6 million years ago and the two chimpanzee species are the closest living relatives to humans. Scientists found 94% identical DNA between human beings and chimpanzees. Why did Chimp eat meat? Try to watch Discovery Channel, Chimp started to eat meat was because of famine.
      I admitted that I used to think that meat can keep you healthy, but this was the wrong perception given by our naive parents. We are in the era that there is no shortage of greens and we do not need meat to substitute the shortage of green. Hence, we can do away with meat from our diet to spare love and kindness to the animals. I’m not a full vegetarian yet, but I do understand that Rinpoche is trying to promote kindness toward animals. Animals do have feeling. Have you watch Temple Grandin? She was an autistic child with the ability to read animals’ feeling. One of her most important essays about animal welfare is “Animals are not Things”.
      If you were Eskimos, then I think it is not fair to request you to be vegetarian as greens are scarce over there. Eskimos have shorter life span too. If eating meat is healthier, then why can’t Eskimos have longer live span than those who eat more greens? If you check yourself correctly, you are actually craving for meat like many of us. Stop giving excuse (eating meat is healthier) to justify your craving for meat. I have to admit that it is difficult to change our diet habit. I am trying very hard to consume less meat.
      My family was dealing in chicken business and my parents killed many many chicken. If you said it was ok to kill, why did my family face a lot of problems, i.e. we hardly have peace in our family, we faced a lot of problems, not only financially, mentally but physically too. Why don’t you try to change your profession in livestock business to test whether it is ok to kill? I have questioned this for more than 15 years and I even found excuses to cover their wrong doings like you that it was ok to kill because my parents need to support us. Yes, it is ok to kill and be prepare to face the payback time. My parents have stopped the killing business and changed their profession, but we suffered a lot especially my parents, problems never stop like sea waves. It was actually physically and mentally torture.

  15. Jean Mei on Aug 2, 2010 at 5:31 am

    Oh no 🙁 Your Gogu experience sounds similar to an incident in the book “Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter”. In one of the chapters, the little girls father feeds her pet frog to the house dog, right in front of her. I cried reading that!
    I agree though, that people shouldn’t judge those that do eat meat, it’s their own prerogative. If they are aware of the torture/abused and slaughter of animals but still eat meat, then there’s nothing much else that you can do, eh?
    A lot of my friends who watch the video, say that they can’t even stand the sight of meat without thinking about the video, but they feel(and in their case, I agree) that it’s just a recency effect.
    Come hunger and the smell of KFC, and it’ll just be *gobble, gobble, gobble*!

  16. Luize on Aug 1, 2010 at 12:24 pm

    When i was a kid my parents would buy chickens in spring and in the winter they would cut their heads off and put them to fridge to have food for winter. Was traumatic for me because all the summer i played with the chikens, named them and considered them my pets. The last drop was whan they cut off Gogu`s head, my favorite rooster and then 2 pigs. Our house looked like a slaughter house. I stoped eating meat and i induced myself some sort of nausea only when i saw meat. It was easy to give it up, even if i loved the taste before. So if you wanna quit meat, is easier to think that meat is a dead body just like a dead human, even if is cooked and might look and smell tasty…is just a cadaver that once was inhabited by someone who just wanted to live and be happy. Like my Gogu :(( I dont think people should necesarily be judged for eating meat, but they should be aware of what they are doing, and those people who never saw a live cicken in their lives, they should kill animals themselves and then eat them! I may be ignorant on this, but i dont agree with the monks that eat meat and are ok with the fact that someone else killed it. No, is better to kill it yourself , so you are more aware of what you are doing. Is more noble to be responsable than coward. And not just that, also before killing the poor animal say `thank you for the meat you give us and may u have a better rebirth`…or something like that. The native americans had a lot of respect for all forms of life and they never killed animals without thanking them for the meat and help their souls. They considered even the animals as beeing brothers and sisters. We live in a painfully ignorant `civilised` society.

  17. Andrew James Boon on Aug 1, 2010 at 12:04 pm

    How unnescessary cause of anguish, suffering and pain. We all have the choice to be able to eleviate and eventually eradicate these senseless and selfish acts.
    It is truly mind-boggling that we as humans choose NOT to “see” this and hide behind a want and a need to “survive”. Do we really need that slab of meat (carcass even) in front of us to consume? Tasty is it? Why do we then disguise the meats we eat with seasoning, sauces, etc? Surely if we were to truly like this so called carcass, we can eat it as it is, like man before us who hunted them down for survival. Now that was truly to survive and we hunted to nourish ourselves and not sit in cosy restaurants ordering “delicacies” which have been “prepared” under the guise of a civilized soceity?
    I reckon we are the barbaric ones! We dont even bat an eyelid as to where the source of our so call delicacy comes from. We just know how to pick from the menu and order it purely from our deluded and selfish “tastebuds”. And we complain not about how the animal we had just had a hand in brutally murdering, but at the inefficeincy of the waiter in delivering our orders or the wine that is not quite the temperature we want it to be. Shame on us!
    I say this not to mock or to insult anyone in particular. I say this because I too was guilty of this act and perhaps more so than others. However, I made THE CHOICE to go vegetarian and am loving it. Why cant YOU? It is not difficult if one weighs the pros and cons. If you really are honest with yourself, there is NO pros but ONLY cons. The pros are just selfish delusions, truly!
    So let us as Buddhist and as students of our kind, generous and compassionate Guru, walk the talk and show by example what Rinpoche and his teachings are all truly about… Compassion!

  18. Sean on Aug 1, 2010 at 11:06 am

    Animals are already hurt in every way. We cherish ourselves so much that we love this frequent mass slaughter.
    I would like to cut down my meat after watching these videos and eventually go fully vegetarian.

  19. Jean Mei on Aug 1, 2010 at 9:47 am

    To be honest, what you have commented really does echo what most people think. So, thank you for bringing it up.
    A lot of things that we want to eat, can be made to taste good, if we want it to. If you’re hungry, whatever you eat will taste a lot more delicious than if you eat it when you’re full.
    As compared to the Paleolithic Era (think ‘cavemen’), we, as homo sapiens, had no choice but to eat meat. We didn’t have fancy restaurants where we could pick from an extensive menu or grow our own little cabbage patch in our backyard. It was either: kill to eat or starve to death.
    Now, in “modern times”, with fast-food restaurants, fancy fine-dining and quick pop-into-the-oven dinner meals, we don’t think about where our food as come from.
    Where has the piece of steak that we stick our forks in come from? Where has that drumstick that has been battered and fried come from?
    We ignore the origins of our deboned and de-feathered meat, and seek to satiate the pleasures of our tastes buds.
    Akin to not being able to stomach eating your own pet, be it a dog or a cat, doesn’t the same apply for a pig and a cow?
    We have CHOICES and ALTERNATIVES nowadays.
    Unless you enjoy being ignorant to the millions of animals being SLAUGHTERED, ABUSED and TORTURED to be on your plate and to ‘taste so good’, then perhaps you wouldn’t quiver in your seat watching this documentary (with Joaquin Phoenix), called Earthlings http://bit.ly/Ndwb5.
    Grab your popcorn and give the movie a little peek. We can’t always keep our eyes closed to reality.

  20. Jean Mei on Aug 1, 2010 at 9:08 am

    I’m pretty sure that eating our own meat (with a sprinkle of salt & pepper, and on good days, with a bit of Cajun) would taste just as good as eating chicken.
    You should try it, and then tell me: Why did God make humans so delicious?

    • anne on Jan 19, 2011 at 6:51 pm

      Well said 🙂

  21. Yoke Fui on Jul 30, 2010 at 5:20 pm

    Hm…. probably human flesh is even more delicious. Does that give another being the right to eat human flesh?

  22. momolog on Jul 29, 2010 at 2:33 pm

    he made them delicious so that he could have a reason to give you cancer and all the other diseases…

  23. Woofus on Jul 29, 2010 at 2:08 pm

    If God didn’t want us to eat animals, then why did he make them so delicious?

  24. firefly on Jul 28, 2010 at 9:34 pm

    share with all of you an excellent documentary. It isn’t just food, you know…
    http://veg-tv.info/Earthlings

  25. patsy on Jul 28, 2010 at 2:25 pm

    Animals feared death as much as we do. I remembered once, when a vegetarian friend told me “Our bodies are filled with dead corpses”. It dawned on me that we are actually killing lives to satisfy our taste buds. I have cut down on meat and will keep on taking meatless meal and dedicate to the long life of Rinpoche and the manifestation of Kechara Animal Care. After cutting off meat, I find that I have no cravings for it and find the smell and taste disgusting now.

  26. Susan Lim on Jul 27, 2010 at 5:15 pm

    Thank you Rinpoche for this post, to be reminded again of the REALITY of what’s behind a well decorated plate of meat dish! It’s quite often that I come across friends who are curious to know how i became a vegetarian. Quite often, my friends will voice their wish to also be a vegetarian but admits to the strong attachment of eating meat.
    What Rinpoche said about going vegetarian one day a week will make a difference is such a sound advice. I hope the many people who read this blog post will consider pledging to being a vegetarian…start with what you can do and I’m sure one day a week is doable.

  27. Josh Akers on Jul 27, 2010 at 2:32 pm

    I have been working in a cannery. Mostly sorting different berries. In one week of working I have seen a dead baby bird, countless numbers of small caterpillars, bees, earwigs ect… Everything we consume results in some suffering. It frightens me greatly to think of the karma involved for the person working in the meat “cannery”.
    I’m not sure- how do we value one sentient being properly over another? We definitely have a hierarchy, but it remains mostly common sense and isn’t defined.
    I remain vegetarian 4 days a week.. Hopefully I can just cut it off… I’m gonna miss the social events of things like a BBQ, I can hear friends and parents saying “why wont you eat this, just have one.”. Or maybe I’m just overly attached to fitting in at the expense of other beings… That is not who I want to be reflected as.

  28. martin on Jul 27, 2010 at 11:20 am

    I guess this is the samsaric world we live in. Even as we feel for the animals, and even as we condemn the cruel acts, we should remember that said “cruel people” “..know not what they are doing”. To most of them, they are just earning a livelihood to sustain their families. Think of where they are heading.
    I gave it a lot of thought before commenting on this post. Why? Up until i encountered Kechara, and had the good fortune to meet Kecharians who helped me see that ALL lives are precious, i too was “shashimi loving, finger-licking, tender-loin chomping” partaker of this cruelty. That was less than 3 months ago.
    I am no longer eating meat…the only difference between then and now is that now i have better understanding and appreciation of all lives and liveforms. (Not to mention a much lower BP)
    Were we not (almost) all meat eaters once? Until we met Compassion personified in a Guru who taught us patiently and opened our eyes to a bigger picture?
    These cruel acts we see on the videos are just sympthoms of a greater disease i.e IGNORANCE, a very potent poison. And it is so pervasive.
    And that is why KWPC must take place very quickly…to attract people on a large scale and to spread the Dharma on a large scale and to heal on a large scale.

  29. Koh Hee Peng on Jul 27, 2010 at 11:09 am

    Immediately after seeing the video I copy the doclink and paste it on my msn messenger and skype and even asked my friends to watch the video. Mostly likely most of them would think I’m nuts to ask them to watch this video but I don’t care. I just don’t give a damn and I just want to create awareness among them that these animals that we have taken for granted are not stupid. These animals have the same feelings as we humans do. Upon facing death these animals do experience tremendous trauma and fear, just like any humans do. Only by cutting down the demand for their meat that these animals can be liberated from such sufferings.
    Only by understanding the sufferings that other beings have to endure that we can only elevate our compassionate heart to those beings.
    Say No to Animal Cruelty, be VEGETARIAN!

  30. Ham Khai on Jul 27, 2010 at 8:16 am

    I started going vegetarian twice a month. Been doing that for the past 2 years. Once a year I will go 2 weeks on vegetarian to dedicate the merits to my parent.
    Best is to commit one or two days a month then slowly grow as Rinpoche suggested.
    I also discovered I am less aggressive after eliminating beef from my diet completely.

  31. benji on Jul 27, 2010 at 4:55 am

    Thank you very much, ‘kam-sia che-che’ Rinpoche, for another truly-needed- reminder for us to live compassionately. Eating is such an important daily ritual – and we could make it meaningful by not harming other beings in the process; truly sad if we have to make another being to lose its happiness, its life, just to sustain ours; especially sadder, since we could avoid doing that to them! I must try to eat less meat!

  32. Paris on Jul 27, 2010 at 3:58 am

    ugh disgusting.
    I remember Rinpoche gave us an exercise once to think about how many chickens/ lambs/ pigs we might have eaten in our lifetime. The numbers were really quite shocking. To think: even if you ate just a part of a chicken, like one chicken wing, a whole chicken was killed for it. Same for a lamb chop, or a piece of bacon. So for every day that we ate a piece fried chicken or even one thin little slice of ham, some animal died for it. I’m ashamed at myself just thinking of this.
    Many people think it won’t make much of a difference if they, just one person, stop eating meat. When Rinpoche asked us that question and we each thought about how many animals we could have saved from all those years of not eating meat – the numbers really add up… which does make a huge difference when it comes to individual lives that we are destroying, killing and torturing.
    Now that I’ve been vegetarian for almost 2 years, I have to say I don’t really get what the big fat deal is about becoming vegetarian. people get such big hang-ups and attachments about it. what is the big deal?! food is still food – and there is plenty of it here where we live in Malaysia. There will always be something you can eat! It’s all the same anyway, after awhile – it’s just something to keep you full! So elementary. Satisfying your tastebuds lasts only a few seconds – so not worth killing a life for and making it go through such tremendous suffering.

  33. thierryfornow on Jul 27, 2010 at 2:23 am

    Why, why, why?
    Why is it near to impossible to make so many people make the link between their action of eating meat and the fact that many animal beings must live miserable lifes and die a fearful death for it?
    It is so plain, so logical…
    And this would be the easiest way to start saving lifes, it does not require for us to do anything, go anywhere or even fight, it requires from us NOT to do something, to abstain…
    It is really sad and depressing.
    Of course, the cow is not killed in front of us in the restaurant, I have seen restaurants where smily cows and smilly pigs are portrayed on the walls as we EAT them?!?!!! This is PLAIN delusional, it is actually the definition of delusional, an illusion or wrong view so strong that even the facing of the true facts cannot sway our minds from the illusion, that is a delusion, an illusion that resists the exposition to the truth.
    Just the other day I saw a full animal leg on the counter of a supermarket, SERANO ham -an expensive speciality, and with my friend Andrew, we could not help but to see suffering being exposed right there on the counter, we actually had the same thought: the leg almost looks human!
    It is not that we get disgusted looking at corpses being exposed in places where we bring our mothers and children, or even that people rejoyce in eating them, it is the suffering that is unbearable.
    A corpse might be dead already, but it must have been killed in order to be dead.
    Who killed this animal?
    And for whom was the animal killed?
    brrbrbrrrrr…. I don’t want to be involved there… as much as I can in this world that is…. And I pray that more people will feel like me, as for as long as they don’t many animals will continue to suffer.

  34. Shirley Tan on Jul 27, 2010 at 2:18 am

    I know a lot of people will argue that humans have to eat to survive so it is natural. Some may even say that the animals kill and eat themselves, so humans eating them is no different.
    I believe there is a big difference.
    Animals do not have any choice. They rely on their instincts to hunt and kill since no one is going to be taking care of them.
    Humans have intelligence. Well, most humans do anyways. We always have choice, far more choice than animals.
    When we don’t exercise our choices well and compassionately, I guess, then we are really acting like animals and are no longer humans.
    Every time someone eats meat, they have assisted in killing that animal. The blood is very much also in their hands.
    It may not be something that most people want to acknowledge, but it is the truth.

  35. keng tan on Jul 27, 2010 at 1:19 am

    Sob..Sob…

  36. mitra on Jul 26, 2010 at 9:27 pm

    i think they dont have heart.i m so scared to wack this video.they have hebit to kill animal so that for them no problem to kill.we gess one day how much animal die.ple we must save animal .we must open animal save please.first we need to become vegiterin.then only can save animal.sory my english poor.thanks rinpoche for this video.this video our all member have to see.my heart cry and scared.take care rinpoche.i miss you

  37. Irene Lim on Jul 26, 2010 at 9:04 pm

    Cherish lives, cherish animals, all lives are precious. If only animals could speak our language, they would say I am like you people, I want happiness like you, I have fear and anxiety like you, I am afraid to die, same like you, please don’t eat me!
    When animals are slaughtered their fear and anxiety trigger toxin in their body and when we consume their meat over time this toxin accumulated in our body causes us sickness and diseases like cancer, heart problems, diabetes, high cholesterol, liver problems, etc.
    When we abstain from meat and become vegetarian, we are cherishing lives and at the same time we are adopting a healthy lifestyle.

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  • Samfoonheei
    Friday, Mar 15. 2024 07:31 PM
    Venerable Ajahn Chah was a Thai Buddhist teacher of the Buddhadhamma and a founder of two major monasteries in the Thai Forest Tradition. Well respected and loved as a man of great wisdom, he was also instrumental in establishing Theravada Buddhism in the West. Interesting life story, how he chose to leave the settled monastic life and became a wandering ascetic. Walking across Thailand, lived in forests, caves and cremation grounds while learning from the meditation monks of the Forest of various monasteries. He wandered through the countryside in quest of quiet and secluded places for developing meditation. He even lived in tiger and cobra infested jungles, using reflections on death to penetrate to the true meaning of life. After years of wandering, Venerable Ajahn Chah established a monastery where he taught simple, practice-based form of meditation, and attracted a numerous of students including western foreigners. He was one of the greatest Dhamma teachers of the modern era. His wise teachings have continued to guide thousands of people along the path of Dharma. Venerable Ajahn Chah’s teachings of the Thai Forest Tradition gradually spread across all over the world. Several of Ajahn Chah’s Western students have since established monasteries throughout the world. Just in Thailand itself, there are more than 300 branch monasteries in Ajahn Chah’s tradition. Ven erable Ajahn Chah used his ill health as a teaching point, emphasizing that it was a living example of the impermanence of all things and reminded people to endeavour to find a true refuge within themselves. The legacy of Venerable Ajahn Chah’s teachings and legacy continues into the modern age.
    Thank you Rinpoche for this great sharing.

    https://www.tsemrinpoche.com/tsem-tulku-rinpoche/great-lamas-masters/venerable-ajahn-chah-the-forest-monk.html
  • Samfoonheei
    Friday, Mar 15. 2024 07:30 PM
    Wonderful blog written on the practice of Kalarupa for us to understand better. As an emanation of Manjushri, Kalarupa’s practice helps us to destroy ignorance and to develop wisdom overcoming our anger and suffering . Awesome Kalarupa manifested in multiple forms to help sentient beings who personifies enlightenment by the conquest of anger. Kalarupa also regard as one of the three main Dharma protectors of the Gelugpa is extremely fierce and ugly, and tames all kinds of spiritual ugliness. The fierceness of his iconography teaches us to remind ourselves that all the causes and effects of anger arising from ignorance are dreadful and distorted.
    Thank you Rinpoche and Pastor Antionette for this detailed sharing,

    https://www.tsemrinpoche.com/tsem-tulku-rinpoche/buddhas-dharma/kalarupa.html
  • Samfoonheei
    Friday, Mar 15. 2024 07:27 PM
    Nepal is a very spiritual country, having a huge Dorje Shugden mural in Kathmandu, is indeed a big achievement for Kechara. Located on Charkhal Road in Dilli Bazaar, the mural can be found midway between our two Dorje Shugden chapels which are in Putalisadak and Chabahil. It is also very close to one of Kathmandu’s largest shopping malls. Many locals , tourist will be able to connect them to a powerful deity that is so closely associated with their culture. Well the mural not only beautiful but also full of symbolism and everyone merely by seeing it is blessed. Thanks to those talented artists and generous sponsors making it a success.
    Thank you Rinpoche for this sharing.

    https://www.tsemrinpoche.com/tsem-tulku-rinpoche/travel/spectacular-dorje-shugden-mural-in-kathmandu-nepal.html
  • Samfoonheei
    Friday, Mar 15. 2024 07:24 PM
    All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. Letting go helps us to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore our balance. A reminder for us all to go of attachment and meditating on impermanence and emptiness. We are to relinquish the domination of our ego and its habits to transform ourselves. A great reminder not to waste our previous life.
    Quoted Ceasing to do evil, Cultivating the good, Purifying the heart .
    Thank you Rinpoche for sharing such a meaningful teachings with folded hands.

    https://www.tsemrinpoche.com/tsem-tulku-rinpoche/buddhas-dharma/pointing-the-staff-at-the-old-man.html
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    Friday, Mar 8. 2024 09:43 PM
    Winning the lottery was part of my dreams, I tried so hard to win big but all to no avail, until I came across Dr Lucas online who made my dreams come through and made me win 10 million dollars. I was a logistics manager who lives in Lancaster, S.C. and works about an hour’s drive away, in Charlotte, N.C., I stopped at a store to buy a scratch-off lottery ticket during my lunch break, because Dr Lucas gave me all the assurance that the numbers are not going to fail after I did all he asked me to do. Dr lucas is a powerful Dr that is on a mission to eradicate poverty from people’s lives and i have confirmed that by winning $10 million with the numbers he provided for me, it is my promise to tell the world about my experience with Dr Lucas and that’s what I’m doing now, you can win the lottery fast with the help of Dr Lucas he is tested and trusted Email: Drlucasspelltemple@gmail. com or WhatsApp +234 904 794 3567 he will help you.
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    Friday, Mar 8. 2024 09:42 PM
    Winning the lottery was part of my dreams, I tried so hard to win big but all to no avail, until I came across Dr Lucas online who made my dreams come through and made me win 10 million dollars. I was a logistics manager who lives in Lancaster, S.C. and works about an hour’s drive away, in Charlotte, N.C., I stopped at a store to buy a scratch-off lottery ticket during my lunch break, because Dr Lucas gave me all the assurance that the numbers are not going to fail after I did all he asked me to do. Dr lucas is a powerful Dr that is on a mission to eradicate poverty from people’s lives and i have confirmed that by winning $10 million with the numbers he provided for me, it is my promise to tell the world about my experience with Dr Lucas and that’s what I’m doing now, you can win the lottery fast with the help of Dr Lucas he is tested and trusted Email: Drlucasspelltemple@gmail.com or WhatsApp +234 904 794 3567 he will help you.
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    Thursday, Mar 7. 2024 07:06 PM
    We are members of the Buddhist Temple in Taman Desa Jaya, Kepong, Kuala Lumpur and we have been issued membership by the president (DATUK YIP KUM FOOK), we are very sad because we are the foundation of this Temple

    Now we can know who is always messing with people, and he always cheats money and women, he even uses Buddhism to find money.

    Also, need to be careful with his brother-in-law (Simon Low Kok Meng) because he is a spy (CID) for DATUK YIP KUM FOOK and we will write some letters to AGONG SULTAN IBRAHIM IBN ALMARHUM SULTAN ISKANDAR as soon as possible.

    From Jesmond Yap, Kepong Baru…Kuala Lumpur
  • Phoenix the Shaman Elder
    Thursday, Mar 7. 2024 01:40 AM
    The matriarchal cultures of the grandmothers have specific symbolism of animism shamanism, such as the horse, especially the blue horse, and the deer. These are two main symbols of a shaman woman and you can find them in many cultural folk lore, especially the Russian, Slavic, Siberian, Nordic, Finland, and Norway. It’s nice to see the Matriarchal Shaman Animism diety represented in Chinese.
  • Samfoonheei
    Monday, Mar 4. 2024 06:59 PM
    An inspiring act of a selfless Lama feeding strays whether its night or day. Truly an example for us all to feed those lonely strays . Yes I do agree compassion starts with feeding strays. Reading this blog again to refresh myself to do more. Strays animals generally lead a life of poor welfare on the street. Feeding strays is a compassionate act.
    Thank you Rinpoche and Anila for this sharing.


    https://www.tsemrinpoche.com/tsem-tulku-rinpoche/one-minute-story/rinpoche-through-my-eyes-compassion-starts-with-feeding-strays
  • Samfoonheei
    Monday, Mar 4. 2024 06:56 PM
    nteresting revisit this blog again as truly inspiring reading over and over again . There’s so many inspiring nuns and female practitioner coming from different back ground, leading a more spiritual life. They are practitioners dedicated their life to religious observance and their path is illuminated by the light of compassion. Going against all odds to become one. Their devotion radiates like a thousand stars in the night sky. Here at Kechara Forest Retreat, Bentong Pahang we too have inspiring practitioners .
    Thank you Rinpoche for this great sharing.

    https://www.tsemrinpoche.com/tsem-tulku-rinpoche/buddhas-dharma/inspiring-nuns-and-female-practitioners.html
  • Samfoonheei
    Monday, Mar 4. 2024 06:55 PM
    H E Tsem Rinpoche’s Sungbum project aim to preserve the teachings and practices that have been passed from teacher to disciple in an unbroken line beginning with Lama Tsongkhapa himself . History has taught us the importance of preserving Buddha’s stainless teachings. Its important to preserve and safeguard the Buddhist tradition for future generations.
    Tsem Rinpoche is a clear and effective teacher where his stories and teachings are endlessly entertaining and inspiring. The preservation is very much needed. We are so fortunate given a chance to be involved in such a meritorious project .
    Thank you.

    https://www.tsemrinpoche.com/tsem-tulku-rinpoche/current-affairs/the-tsem-rinpoche-sungbum-project.html
  • Samfoonheei
    Monday, Mar 4. 2024 06:55 PM
    Demons are disembodied spirits, supernatural being or spirit and unseen beings. We know they do exist and I believe they do. They have no physical form to them whatsoever. Demons do definitely exist. They are intelligent beings who are evil malicious spirits and are all dangerous entities. Valak is not to be summoned capriciously by anyone as they are dangerous beings when we invoke them having to face a heavy consequence. There are spiritual practices that we can ask for help a ritual of the wrathful Manjushri in the form of Trakze. Having a doing the practice daily without fail, consistently, as this Trakze practice has been proven to be efficacious to break the hold the Valak and other spirits. All thanks to our Guru bringing this practice to Kechara Forest Retreat, Bentong Malaysia.
    Thank you Rinpoche for this wonderful sharing for us to understand better.

    https://www.tsemrinpoche.com/tsem-tulku-rinpoche/science-mysteries/valak-the-conjuring-2-demon.html
  • Samfoonheei
    Monday, Mar 4. 2024 06:53 PM
    Wow ,reading all these powerful quotes had me realised much better of giving even I have little. May H E Tsem Rinpoche’s sincere advice to reach the far shore of liberation to everyone reading this blog. The most truly generous people are those who give silently without asking any in return. There is no exercise better than reaching and lifting people up. A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal. Well creating and lighting for others we naturally light our own way. Helping others especially those unfortunate ones, make us feel more positive about our own circumstances.
    Thank you Rinpoche for sharing all these powerful quotes.

    https://www.tsemrinpoche.com/tsem-tulku-rinpoche/inspiration-worthy-words/the-power-of-giving-18-quotes-from-tsem-rinpoche.html
  • Aarati Bhatt
    Wednesday, Feb 28. 2024 12:47 AM
    I have tried mine and my friend’s horoscope and it results same in both of our case, and not just that I have tried this on various friends and this horoscope is showing same for maximum date of birth, I think this is a bug.
  • Samfoonheei
    Thursday, Jan 4. 2024 04:11 PM
    Lama Tsongkhapa was an influential Tibetan Buddhist monk, philosopher and tantric yogi, whose activities led to the formation of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism . Lama Tsongkhapa was hailed as the second Buddha by contemporary Buddhist masters of his time. Famous for reviving Buddhism in Tibet and revered for elevating the Dharma to all its present glory. Hence having a 12 ft Lama Tsongkhapa Statue at new Kechara Gompa (Prayer Hall) is indeed a blessing. Its truly beautiful. Merely by looking at it is a blessing .
    Thank you Rinpoche and team effort making it possible.

    https://www.tsemrinpoche.com/tsem-tulku-rinpoche/kechara-13-depts/10-ft-tsongkapa-here.html

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Third picture-Standing Manjushri Statue at Chowar, Kirtipur, Nepal. Height: 33ft (10m)
Second picture-Standing Manjushri Statue at Chowar, Kirtipur, Nepal.
Height: 33ft (10m)
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Second picture-Standing Manjushri Statue at Chowar, Kirtipur, Nepal. Height: 33ft (10m)
First picture-Standing Manjushri Statue at Chowar, Kirtipur, Nepal.
Height: 33ft (10m)
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First picture-Standing Manjushri Statue at Chowar, Kirtipur, Nepal. Height: 33ft (10m)
The first title published by Kechara Comics is Karuna Finds A Way. It tells the tale of high-school sweethearts Karuna and Adam who had what some would call the dream life. Everything was going great for them until one day when reality came knocking on their door. Caught in a surprise swindle, this loving family who never harmed anyone found themselves out of luck and down on their fortune. Determined to save her family, Karuna goes all out to find a solution. See what she does- https://bit.ly/2LSKuWo
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The first title published by Kechara Comics is Karuna Finds A Way. It tells the tale of high-school sweethearts Karuna and Adam who had what some would call the dream life. Everything was going great for them until one day when reality came knocking on their door. Caught in a surprise swindle, this loving family who never harmed anyone found themselves out of luck and down on their fortune. Determined to save her family, Karuna goes all out to find a solution. See what she does- https://bit.ly/2LSKuWo
Very powerful story! Tibetan Resistance group Chushi Gangdruk reveals how Dalai Lama escaped in 1959- https://bit.ly/2S9VMGX
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Very powerful story! Tibetan Resistance group Chushi Gangdruk reveals how Dalai Lama escaped in 1959- https://bit.ly/2S9VMGX
At Kechara Forest Retreat land we have nice fresh spinach growing free of chemicals and pesticides. Yes!
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At Kechara Forest Retreat land we have nice fresh spinach growing free of chemicals and pesticides. Yes!
See beautiful pictures of Manjushri Guest House here- https://bit.ly/2WGo0ti
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See beautiful pictures of Manjushri Guest House here- https://bit.ly/2WGo0ti
Beginner’s Introduction to Dorje Shugden~Very good overview https://bit.ly/2QQNfYv
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Beginner’s Introduction to Dorje Shugden~Very good overview https://bit.ly/2QQNfYv
Fresh eggplants grown on Kechara Forest Retreat\'s land here in Malaysia
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Fresh eggplants grown on Kechara Forest Retreat's land here in Malaysia
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Most Venerable Uppalavanna – The Chief Female Disciple of Buddha Shakyamuni - She exhibited many supernatural abilities gained from meditation and proved to the world females and males are equal in spirituality- https://bit.ly/31d9Rat
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Thailand’s ‘Renegade’ Yet Powerful Buddhist Nuns~ https://bit.ly/2Z1C02m
Mahapajapati Gotami – the first Buddhist nun ordained by Lord Buddha- https://bit.ly/2IjD8ru
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Mahapajapati Gotami – the first Buddhist nun ordained by Lord Buddha- https://bit.ly/2IjD8ru
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The Largest Buddha Shakyamuni in Russia | 俄罗斯最大的释迦牟尼佛画像- https://bit.ly/2Wpclni
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Dorje Shugden works & archives - a labour of commitment - https://bit.ly/30Tp2p8
Mahapajapati Gotami, who was the first nun ordained by Lord Buddha.
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Mahapajapati Gotami, who was the first nun ordained by Lord Buddha.
Mahapajapati Gotami, who was the first nun ordained by Lord Buddha. She was his step-mother and aunt. Buddha\'s mother had passed away at his birth so he was raised by Gotami.
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Mahapajapati Gotami, who was the first nun ordained by Lord Buddha. She was his step-mother and aunt. Buddha's mother had passed away at his birth so he was raised by Gotami.
Another nun disciple of Lord Buddha\'s. She had achieved great spiritual abilities and high attainments. She would be a proper object of refuge. This image of the eminent bhikkhuni (nun) disciple of the Buddha, Uppalavanna Theri.
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Another nun disciple of Lord Buddha's. She had achieved great spiritual abilities and high attainments. She would be a proper object of refuge. This image of the eminent bhikkhuni (nun) disciple of the Buddha, Uppalavanna Theri.
Wandering Ascetic Painting by Nirdesha Munasinghe
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Wandering Ascetic Painting by Nirdesha Munasinghe
High Sri Lankan monks visit Kechara to bless our land, temple, Buddha and Dorje Shugden images. They were very kind-see pictures- https://bit.ly/2HQie2M
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High Sri Lankan monks visit Kechara to bless our land, temple, Buddha and Dorje Shugden images. They were very kind-see pictures- https://bit.ly/2HQie2M
This is pretty amazing!

First Sri Lankan Buddhist temple opened in Dubai!!!
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This is pretty amazing! First Sri Lankan Buddhist temple opened in Dubai!!!
My Dharma boy (left) and Oser girl loves to laze around on the veranda in the mornings. They enjoy all the trees, grass and relaxing under the hot sun. Sunbathing is a favorite daily activity. I care about these two doggies of mine very much and I enjoy seeing them happy. They are with me always. Tsem Rinpoche

Always be kind to animals and eat vegetarian- https://bit.ly/2Psp8h2
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My Dharma boy (left) and Oser girl loves to laze around on the veranda in the mornings. They enjoy all the trees, grass and relaxing under the hot sun. Sunbathing is a favorite daily activity. I care about these two doggies of mine very much and I enjoy seeing them happy. They are with me always. Tsem Rinpoche Always be kind to animals and eat vegetarian- https://bit.ly/2Psp8h2
After you left me Mumu, I was alone. I have no family or kin. You were my family. I can\'t stop thinking of you and I can\'t forget you. My bond and connection with you is so strong. I wish you were by my side. Tsem Rinpoche
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After you left me Mumu, I was alone. I have no family or kin. You were my family. I can't stop thinking of you and I can't forget you. My bond and connection with you is so strong. I wish you were by my side. Tsem Rinpoche
This story is a life-changer. Learn about the incredible Forest Man of India | 印度“森林之子”- https://bit.ly/2Eh4vRS
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This story is a life-changer. Learn about the incredible Forest Man of India | 印度“森林之子”- https://bit.ly/2Eh4vRS
Part 2-Beautiful billboard in Malaysia of a powerful Tibetan hero whose life serves as a great inspiration- https://bit.ly/2UltNE4
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Part 2-Beautiful billboard in Malaysia of a powerful Tibetan hero whose life serves as a great inspiration- https://bit.ly/2UltNE4
Part 1-Beautiful billboard in Malaysia of a powerful Tibetan hero whose life serves as a great inspiration- https://bit.ly/2UltNE4
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Part 1-Beautiful billboard in Malaysia of a powerful Tibetan hero whose life serves as a great inspiration- https://bit.ly/2UltNE4
The great Protector Manjushri Dorje Shugden depicted in the beautiful Mongolian style. To download a high resolution file: https://bit.ly/2Nt3FHz
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The great Protector Manjushri Dorje Shugden depicted in the beautiful Mongolian style. To download a high resolution file: https://bit.ly/2Nt3FHz
The Mystical land of Shambhala is finally ready for everyone to feast their eyes and be blessed. A beautiful post with information, art work, history, spirituality and a beautiful book composed by His Holiness the 6th Panchen Rinpoche. ~ https://bit.ly/309MHBi
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The Mystical land of Shambhala is finally ready for everyone to feast their eyes and be blessed. A beautiful post with information, art work, history, spirituality and a beautiful book composed by His Holiness the 6th Panchen Rinpoche. ~ https://bit.ly/309MHBi
Beautiful pictures of the huge Buddha in Longkou Nanshan- https://bit.ly/2LsBxVb
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Beautiful pictures of the huge Buddha in Longkou Nanshan- https://bit.ly/2LsBxVb
The reason-Very interesting thought- https://bit.ly/2V7VT5r
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The reason-Very interesting thought- https://bit.ly/2V7VT5r
NEW Bigfoot cafe in Malaysia! Food is delicious!- https://bit.ly/2VxdGau
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NEW Bigfoot cafe in Malaysia! Food is delicious!- https://bit.ly/2VxdGau
DON\'T MISS THIS!~How brave Bonnie survived by living with a herd of deer~ https://bit.ly/2Lre2eY
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DON'T MISS THIS!~How brave Bonnie survived by living with a herd of deer~ https://bit.ly/2Lre2eY
Global Superpower China Will Cut Meat Consumption by 50%! Very interesting, find out more- https://bit.ly/2V1sJFh
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Global Superpower China Will Cut Meat Consumption by 50%! Very interesting, find out more- https://bit.ly/2V1sJFh
You can download this beautiful Egyptian style Dorje Shugden Free- https://bit.ly/2Nt3FHz
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You can download this beautiful Egyptian style Dorje Shugden Free- https://bit.ly/2Nt3FHz
Beautiful high file for print of Lord Manjushri. May you be blessed- https://bit.ly/2V8mwZe
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Beautiful high file for print of Lord Manjushri. May you be blessed- https://bit.ly/2V8mwZe
Mongolian (Oymiakon) Shaman in Siberia, Russia. That is his real outfit he wears. Very unique. TR
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Mongolian (Oymiakon) Shaman in Siberia, Russia. That is his real outfit he wears. Very unique. TR
Find one of the most beautiful temples in the world in Nara, Japan. It is the 1,267 year old Todai-ji temple that houses a 15 meter Buddha Vairocana statue who is a cosmic and timeless Buddha. Emperor Shomu who sponsored this beautiful temple eventually abdicated and ordained as a Buddhist monk. Very interesting history and story. One of the places everyone should visit- https://bit.ly/2VgsHhK
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Find one of the most beautiful temples in the world in Nara, Japan. It is the 1,267 year old Todai-ji temple that houses a 15 meter Buddha Vairocana statue who is a cosmic and timeless Buddha. Emperor Shomu who sponsored this beautiful temple eventually abdicated and ordained as a Buddhist monk. Very interesting history and story. One of the places everyone should visit- https://bit.ly/2VgsHhK
Manjusri Kumara (bodhisattva of wisdom), India, Pala dynesty, 9th century, stone, Honolulu Academy of Arts
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Manjusri Kumara (bodhisattva of wisdom), India, Pala dynesty, 9th century, stone, Honolulu Academy of Arts
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And here's Mr Wong of KSK Ipoh who dropped by to pray and offered some donation to the Chapel. Kechara Penang Study Group. Pic by Siew Hong & uploaded by Jacinta.
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Abundance altar! Fruits, flowers, Mee Koo (traditional Penang buns), Bee Hoon, sourdoughs and snacks are some of the offerings to Rinpoche, Buddhas & Bodhisattvas. Kechara Penang Dorje Shugden Retreat 9-10th March, 2024 by Jacinta.
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Seen here, Pastor Seng Piow set off firecrackers - welcoming of the upcoming year with enthusiasm and positive energy. Kechara Penang Study Group by Jacinta
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Mr. Dared Lim was offering water bowls on behalf of Kechara Ipoh Study Group. (Kin Hoe)
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Jun from Ipoh was offering mandarin oranges to Mother Tara and The Three Jewels. (Kin Hoe)
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Prior to our puja in Ipoh, Mr. & Mrs. Cheah Fook Wan were preparing for the offerings to the Buddhas. (Kin Hoe)
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On Sunday afternoon, Kechara Ipoh Study Group has carried out Mother Tara prayer recitations in Ipoh. (Kin Hoe)
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Some of the best shots taken during Thaipusam in Penang. Swee Bee, Huey, Tang KS, Nathan, Choong SH and Jacinta volunteered. Wai Meng came all the way from KL to help out. Kechara Penang Study Group by Jacinta
Simple yet powerful ally ~ Bhagawan Dorje Shuden. Kechara Penang Study Group consists of Chien Seong, Hue, Choong SH, Tang KS, Swee Bee and Jacinta. Wai Meng came all the way from KL to help out. Uploaded by Jacinta.
2 months ago
Simple yet powerful ally ~ Bhagawan Dorje Shuden. Kechara Penang Study Group consists of Chien Seong, Hue, Choong SH, Tang KS, Swee Bee and Jacinta. Wai Meng came all the way from KL to help out. Uploaded by Jacinta.
Thaipusam in Penang. Some of the best shots. Kechara Penang Study Group by Jacinta
2 months ago
Thaipusam in Penang. Some of the best shots. Kechara Penang Study Group by Jacinta
Nothing beats having a sacred audience with our lineage lamas. It's not selfie or wefie, but we have the best 'groufie'!!! 20th Jan 2024, Kechara Penang Study Group by Jacinta.
2 months ago
Nothing beats having a sacred audience with our lineage lamas. It's not selfie or wefie, but we have the best 'groufie'!!! 20th Jan 2024, Kechara Penang Study Group by Jacinta.
Welcoming our lineage Gurus to our Penang Chapel today! Pastor Seng Piow explained the significance of having Guru Tree and introduced to us our lineage lamas, Buddhas, deities, protectors and etc.
2 months ago
Welcoming our lineage Gurus to our Penang Chapel today! Pastor Seng Piow explained the significance of having Guru Tree and introduced to us our lineage lamas, Buddhas, deities, protectors and etc.
Umze for the day was Siew Hong. She's just been with us for slightly more than a year now but she's proven her capability in leading the puja. Our Penang group members are so proud of her and her commitment in attending the weekly puja. Despite being eloquence and smart, she has beautiful chant as well. When she leads, make sure you are there to hear her chant for yourself! Kechara Penang Study Group by Jacinta.
2 months ago
Umze for the day was Siew Hong. She's just been with us for slightly more than a year now but she's proven her capability in leading the puja. Our Penang group members are so proud of her and her commitment in attending the weekly puja. Despite being eloquence and smart, she has beautiful chant as well. When she leads, make sure you are there to hear her chant for yourself! Kechara Penang Study Group by Jacinta.
Umze for the day was Siew Hong. She's just been with us for slightly more than a year now but she's proven her capability in leading the puja. Our Penang group members are so proud of her and her commitment in attending the weekly puja. Despite being eloquence and smart, she has beautiful chant as well. When she leads, make sure you are there to hear her chant for yourself! Kechara Penang Study Group by Jacinta.
2 months ago
Umze for the day was Siew Hong. She's just been with us for slightly more than a year now but she's proven her capability in leading the puja. Our Penang group members are so proud of her and her commitment in attending the weekly puja. Despite being eloquence and smart, she has beautiful chant as well. When she leads, make sure you are there to hear her chant for yourself! Kechara Penang Study Group by Jacinta.
Tara Recitation is on now at KISG - Wai Meng
3 months ago
Tara Recitation is on now at KISG - Wai Meng
Photo from Wan Wai Meng
3 months ago
Photo from Wan Wai Meng
A sea of yellow ~usually in Tibetan Buddhism yellow represents growth. We prayed that our Penang group will grow in terms of people, wealth and attainments too. _/\_ Kechara Penang Study Group by Jacinta.
3 months ago
A sea of yellow ~usually in Tibetan Buddhism yellow represents growth. We prayed that our Penang group will grow in terms of people, wealth and attainments too. _/_ Kechara Penang Study Group by Jacinta.
After Dorje Shugden puja @3pm, we had Rinpoche's Swift Return puja too. We laughed as Sis Swee Bee was commenting that Tang should smile ~ here's the reason why we laughed.  Kechara Penang Study Group by Jacinta Goh
3 months ago
After Dorje Shugden puja @3pm, we had Rinpoche's Swift Return puja too. We laughed as Sis Swee Bee was commenting that Tang should smile ~ here's the reason why we laughed. Kechara Penang Study Group by Jacinta Goh
3 months ago
Today's (9/12/2023)Dorje Shugden puja led by Gordon. Kechara Penang Study Group by Jacinta.
3 months ago
Today's (9/12/2023)Dorje Shugden puja led by Gordon. Kechara Penang Study Group by Jacinta.
3 months ago
3 months ago
Dharma sharing by Hue before we proceeded with DS puja & Rinpoche Swift Return puja. Hue is one of the long time Kechara Penang members and he comes to puja regularly. He shared that he truly believes that Dorje Shugden and Rinpoche always there guiding him. He shared how sometimes DS will give him hints to avert troubles ahead or to alert him when he 'misbehaved'. Hope many will come to know more about this powerful Dharma Protector, Dorje Shugden aka DS. Having Dorje Shugden is like having a powerful ally that will protect us day and night. Just trust Him and have faith. Kechara Penang Study Group, 25/11/2023 by Jacinta.
4 months ago
Dharma sharing by Hue before we proceeded with DS puja & Rinpoche Swift Return puja. Hue is one of the long time Kechara Penang members and he comes to puja regularly. He shared that he truly believes that Dorje Shugden and Rinpoche always there guiding him. He shared how sometimes DS will give him hints to avert troubles ahead or to alert him when he 'misbehaved'. Hope many will come to know more about this powerful Dharma Protector, Dorje Shugden aka DS. Having Dorje Shugden is like having a powerful ally that will protect us day and night. Just trust Him and have faith. Kechara Penang Study Group, 25/11/2023 by Jacinta.
Kechara Penang Study Group had our weekly DS puja , led by our beloved sis Swee Bee and serkym by Mr. Lee. After that, we completed Swift Return puja also. 18th Nov 2023. By Jacinta
4 months ago
Kechara Penang Study Group had our weekly DS puja , led by our beloved sis Swee Bee and serkym by Mr. Lee. After that, we completed Swift Return puja also. 18th Nov 2023. By Jacinta
#Back2back 11th Nov 2023 Dorje Shugden puja & Rinpoche's Swift Return puja @Penang Chapel, 49 Jalan Seang Tek, Georgetown, Pulau Pinang. Every Saturday @3pm/5pm. Kechara Penang Study Group by Jacinta.
4 months ago
#Back2back 11th Nov 2023 Dorje Shugden puja & Rinpoche's Swift Return puja @Penang Chapel, 49 Jalan Seang Tek, Georgetown, Pulau Pinang. Every Saturday @3pm/5pm. Kechara Penang Study Group by Jacinta.
Pic: Rinpoche Swift Return puja ~ 21/10/23 Kechara Penang Study Group by Jacinta.
5 months ago
Pic: Rinpoche Swift Return puja ~ 21/10/23 Kechara Penang Study Group by Jacinta.
#Backtoback A few months back, Kechara Penang Study Group started to have two pujas consecutively on Saturday. Dorje Shugden puja @3pm and thereafter Rinpoche Swift Return puja. This can only be achieved due to the committed members from Penang. A big round of applause...... Pic : DS puja on 21/10/2023 Kechara Penang Study Group by Jacinta
5 months ago
#Backtoback A few months back, Kechara Penang Study Group started to have two pujas consecutively on Saturday. Dorje Shugden puja @3pm and thereafter Rinpoche Swift Return puja. This can only be achieved due to the committed members from Penang. A big round of applause...... Pic : DS puja on 21/10/2023 Kechara Penang Study Group by Jacinta
More pictures of the day! Kechara Penang Chapel & public blessings 3rd Oct 2023 by Jacinta.
5 months ago
More pictures of the day! Kechara Penang Chapel & public blessings 3rd Oct 2023 by Jacinta.
Some pictures of the public blessings taken right after the puja was completed by the monks. Kechara Penang Study Group by Jacinta. 3rd Oct 2023.
5 months ago
Some pictures of the public blessings taken right after the puja was completed by the monks. Kechara Penang Study Group by Jacinta. 3rd Oct 2023.
3rd Oct 2023, Tibetan monks came to Kechara Penang for chapel & public blessing, in conjunction with the arrival of H. E Tsem Rinpoche's holy statue. Thanks to Pastor Henry & Pastor Seng Piow, who guided us throughout the event. Kechara Penang Study Group by Jacinta
5 months ago
3rd Oct 2023, Tibetan monks came to Kechara Penang for chapel & public blessing, in conjunction with the arrival of H. E Tsem Rinpoche's holy statue. Thanks to Pastor Henry & Pastor Seng Piow, who guided us throughout the event. Kechara Penang Study Group by Jacinta
Tsem Rinpoche's holy statue is here! 3rd Oct 2023. Kechara Penang Study Group by Jacinta.
5 months ago
Tsem Rinpoche's holy statue is here! 3rd Oct 2023. Kechara Penang Study Group by Jacinta.
29th Sept 2023. Kechara Penang Dorje Shugden puja adjourned at 4.30pm with 9 attendees. Thereafter, a Rinpoche Swift Return puja was completed too. Kechara Penang Study Group by Jacinta
5 months ago
29th Sept 2023. Kechara Penang Dorje Shugden puja adjourned at 4.30pm with 9 attendees. Thereafter, a Rinpoche Swift Return puja was completed too. Kechara Penang Study Group by Jacinta
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