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The first time I saw this I was in my ladrang in Nepal. I laughed so hard I had stomach aches. It is so funny. I love the little...
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The first time I saw this I was in my ladrang in Nepal. I laughed so hard I had stomach aches. It is so funny. I love the little...
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This is a powerful picture… and it is the source of strength because if we just follow it, we will be different… I like quotes that make us think...
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Be a lamp unto Yourself As the Buddha was dying, Ananda asked … who would be their teacher after death? He replied to his disciple – “Be lamps unto...
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Today I went to buy gifts. Took Ethan, Bryan, Pastor Loh Seng Piow, Paris, Su Ming, Jean Mei, William and Karen together to help me. They drove, parked, help me to...
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Though we may have the collective karma to get something, physically if we do nothing much and watch our lives waste by comfortably, then the open window could close...
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Dear blog friends, this is the total favorite song for me at the moment. I love Madonna..she has been my favorite for two decades now..watch the video and enjoy!!!...
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A few years back, when Kechara started to grow exponentially, I needed proper management from skilled and or dedicated individuals to get the organization to keep running smoothly.
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A wonderful person named Wendy Loh has decided to use her skills, accumulated from her years working within the film industry, to contribute what she can to Kechara Media...
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Dear everyone, CAN ANYONE GUESS WHO THIS IS???? This person in the picture tells me that he is a great athlete in school and his body is just as...
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I found this article very interesting… take a read. Tsem Rinpoche The Marketplace of Ideas The Statue of Liberty stands as a proclamation of Western, secular freedom...
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Very nice email from Ms Wendy Loh. I really appreciate this sharing. Thank you Wendy. Tsem Rinpoche Dear Rinpoche, Greetings! How are you? I hope that you...
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‘Suffering’ for others becomes easy when we realize the ‘real’ us doesn’t even exist. ~Tsem Rinpoche
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Generally stupas are the physical representations of a Buddha’s mind. They come in 8 main shapes. Each shape is equal to the representation of Buddha’s mind. They can contain:...
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Dear friends around the world, I found this beautiful picture that radiates warmth, love, spirituality and great gentle power. His Holiness Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche to me was a living...
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Malaysia saves endangered pygmy elephant on Borneo By Agence France-Presse, Updated: 1/24/2012 Malaysian wildlife authorities said they had rescued a pygmy elephant calf on Borneo island and expressed hope...
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My parents were 100% against me to follow dharma, study dharma or do dharma in any way. They told me I have to get a real job, real career...
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(中文请往下看) Dear friends, Many years ago I was in the car with one of my teachers. He told me I should write a book about my life story. I politely declined. I thought there is nothing much I would like to share about my life nor would it be of interest to anyone. He insisted. He talked f...
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Wow! The office of the President of Taiwan, His Excellency Mr Ma Ying-jeou is so efficient..they sent a letter to my dear student Li Kim, CEO of Kechara Media...
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I received an email about this yacht with a man made island built on it and thought it was rather amazing. The yacht was built to cater for billionaires...
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Dear blog friends, Look at these sincere gifts and the message that came along with it. I had to blog this and share with everyone. I appreciate what has...
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I have always encouraged people to become vegetarian. The reason is simple: I can't bear to let animals suffer or to be killed just to suit our taste buds...
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Dear Friends, I have uploaded here very precious audio and video teachings by His Holiness Kyabje Zong Rinpoche. They are very rare and even to hear the voice of...
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May 22, 2009 Around 30 researchers say they plan to brave the southeastern Oklahoma woods around Honobia this weekend looking for that infamous recluse Bigfoot. Folks around here believe...
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In the year 2002, a dog named Rocky made headlines for chasing down a burglar, and taking a bullet in the process. This year, another extraordinary dog amazed people...
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Dear friends, This was sent to a dharma student of mine. But when I read it through, I thought it might benefit more people. These 15 points I wrote...
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I wanted to share this amazing pictures from all around the world. It's really interesting to see how creative nature and modern architecture can be...
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On 13th October 2011, Qu Fei Fei brought her 2-year-old daughter to her husband's workshop. Little did she know that it would be the last time Fei Fei would...
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A research was recently done by the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, and they have found that eating 50 grams of processed meat a day can increase the risk...
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When Kechara Soup Kitchen (KSK) first started handing out food packets to the homeless in 2006, an average of 20 packets were given out and 8-9 people volunteered. Now,...
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Dear Körző Csaba, Thank you for your poem. I appreciate your thoughts and your talents. Much appreciated. Tsem Rinpoche Message: Dear Rinpoche! Sent this poem for your...
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Some of Kecharians made such nice postcards with pictures and my quotes. I like some of these and thought to share with everyone. They look fun. Kecharians really are...
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May the people of this country have peace, happiness and health. Tsem Rinpoche Myanmar says hundreds of political prisoners free. By Agence France-Presse, Updated: 1/14/2012 Myanmar has...
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Aung San Suu Kyi was born in Rangoon at 19 June 1945. Her father, Aung San was the founder of the modern Burmese army, whom was assasinated by rivals...
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Jason Wu always has "a connection" with the people he is designing clothes for. The tailor famously designed the dress Michelle Obama wore for her husband's inauguration as president,...
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The world's largest annual migration of people officially began in China on Sunday with millions of travellers boarding public transport to journey across the vast country for Lunar New...
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Hehe… this is just an ‘artistic’ post because I found the dialogue in the beginning real funny… hehehe… I like black people’s way of talking… This dialogue in the...
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How encouraging sometimes people and large organizations will take the right stand and go the right direction. If a stand is taken it will have a domino effect, sometimes...
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Dear friends, This is an interesting article. I find some people are so passionate about what they believe in. They can go through so much problems, hardships and pain...
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This morning at the Kechara Grand Festival of Wealth and Protection (GFWP), we had a colouring contest which started at 9.30 am. 30 people participated… both children and adults...
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For the next two days, Kechara is holding the 2012 Grand Festival of Wealth and Protection (GFWP)! Last year’s Grand Setrap Puja was such a successful event, that for...
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Dear friends, I was referred to this blogsite called imprints.com.my and I was very moved by this article posted by the author. So I extracted the article to share with you...
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Dear friends, I came across this Introduced by Lindsay Wagner, this method can help release strong negative emotions such as anger, jealousy, revenge, unwanted responses and stress. Energy psychology...
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I wanted to share some amusing pictures that I received in my email recently. Take a break, have some coffee, look at the pictures and laugh away. The pictures...
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This is really a hilarious video. Take a few minutes out from your day and watch. It is not in English, but just watch..the expressions and body language are...
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When this blog hit 1,000,000 views, Blog-Man found something to celebrate about! Watch him in his tight suit planking all over KL… perhaps we’ll see him again when the...
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Below is a chronicle of events of KSK Penang for the past 2 years. Since they gave their first food packet on the 28th of December 2009, they have...
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Three liaisons from Kechara went to participate in the Global Buddhist Congregation. Everyone from His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama to highly respected Sangha members to observers and pilgrims...
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Dear friends, Within this past month, 4 more people have decided to join Kechara full-time! I got the blog team to write a short bio on each of them…...
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See these heartwarming photos…they will brighten your day…captions are not necessary…share with your friends…put a smile on someone’s face… Tsem Rinpoche
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Farewell Soo, loyal companion and dear friend. THERE was great sadness in my home last week. Soolam, my senior service dog, was put down. He was 13. The decision...
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Valentina Suhendra is a beautiful Indonesian lady whom I had met in 2006. It was the year before that where she came to Malaysia for one of her business...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Swee Keong's altar in his home is so beautiful. In Gaden the monks always have a Je Tsongkapa set like this with Gyaltsab Rinpoche on the...
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Below is a message from a group of Kecharians who is currently doing a prostration retreat at our Kechara House gompa. Collectively they are aiming to complete 100,000 prostrations!...
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This is a special yearly event we are holding that attracts hundreds. Many Kecharians work very hard to organize this and there are many activities involved that would prove...
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On Friday, 23rd December 2011, I was in my room with Justin Ripley and one or two other people, and we were all having a conversation about work and...
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The past 12 months have seen a record number of large ivory seizures across the world, a leading wildlife watchdog said Thursday, saying it had been a "horrible year...
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(中文请往下看) When we don’t want to do a particular work or project we should do, then how do we expect a project to bear fruit or experience the results. To hope for results and do very little is wishful thinking only. After all we know for sure, results resemble the action. Results arise from act...
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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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