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His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama 2011 South East Asia Teaching. Shantideva's A Guide To The Bodhisattva's Way Of Life
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His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama 2011 South East Asia Teaching. Shantideva's A Guide To The Bodhisattva's Way Of Life
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I’ve always admired Master Cheng Yen for her true Buddhist spirit that translates into action. She is like the “Mother Teresa of the East” and her work has always...
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Question asked by Claire S Rinpoche, I have 3 teenage children who are really growing up way too fast. Children today are exposed to so much information through media,...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) A question from my blog: Rinpoche, why did you choose Setrap for kechara House to practice? I heard that when you were young, you really...
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The Buddha described three kinds of laziness. First there is the kind of laziness we all know: we don’t want to do anything, and we’d rather stay in bed...
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Arya Tara (or Jetsun Dolma) means ‘rescuer’. She is aptly called Tara as she rescues us from the 8 personal obstacles that binds us to samsara: pride, ignorance, anger,...
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Dear Everyone, This is a good question from CK Liew. Can you all please share your opinions. I’ve talked about this before a few times, and I would like...
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May 28, 2009 A group of Bigfoot hunters claim to have found footprints and heard calls of the legendary creature in Oklahoma. About 30 people spent Memorial Day weekend...
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(Built 1960) This house is extra-ordinary. It was built on a very steep land that nobody wanted because it would have been very expensive to build on. So a...
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“Widely considered Frank Llyod Wright’s greatest masterpiece, Fallingwater hangs over a waterfall and its cantilevered design echoes its surroundings. The house was built near the community of Ohiopyle for...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Tonight, in part of my talk at Kechara House’s Setrap Retreat, I explained about Setrap and why we make wrathful offerings to Dharma Protectors. Setrap is...
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A HEARTWARMING VIDEO TO SHARE WITH FAMILY, FRIENDS AND ALL…. As the only species on Earth who hunts other beings for entertainment… it’s refreshing for us, when we see...
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Overview Kura first opened it’s doors in July 2007. Located in One World Hotel, Bandar Utama, every aspect of Kura definitely meets the standards of a Five...
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Dear friends, When you practice generosity at first, it is about you and the recipient. How the recipient responds greatly affect your motivation to do more or less…in the...
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Beng Kooi and Jean Ai just got a camera that we can film and upload directly onto youtube. No rendering necessary…easier.. You film, plug in and upload to youtube...
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Dear Ashlee, Thank you for doing a mantra retreat on Tara. I am so happy to hear about this. It is a wonderful way to spend our free time....
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) I will be glad to mail out a poster of Tsongkapa to anyone who wishes. I will send by normal mail. If you are interested to...
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Take a few moments to absorb what you see in the video here. It’s not a long video, but it is a video sure to have very strong...
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Narayanan Krishnan, a talented award-winning chef in a 5 star hotel group, was short listed for a prestigious job in Switzerland. Little did he know that a short family...
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When we think of Global Warming, our thoughts might turn to emissions produced by cars and other vehicles, factory plants, how we use our gas and electric supplies at...
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On 16/03/11, a near-dead starving 1 year old pit bull cross was found dumped in the garbage at the Garden Spires apartment complex in Newark, New Jersey, after apparently...
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Watch this short clip of an emotional and touching reunion of the Dog “Ban” with her owner. For 3 long weeks, Ban had been drifting on a roof 1.8km...
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I bought this pictorial book on nice Malaysian homes and architecture just a few days ago. There are some very nice and interesting architectural examples that I found to...
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Isn’t it amazing that on the one hand, we have people engaging in the dog meat trade, yet on the other hand, there are people who are willing to pay...
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It was less than a month ago, on the 11th of March, when a 9.0 earthquake hit Japan. It was very very devastating for many people, and even more...
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We all feel sad when we read stories about dogs, cats, and bears etc that have been locked in cages for 30 years. We can imagine the suffering that...
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Located in Batu 9, Cheras; Lavazza is the only cafe that stand out in this small, lazy part of Cheras. Chic and modern, Lavazza has a lively and inviting...
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Our Kechara is so blessed with powerful potent female, wisdom, Vajra Yogini, queen, ying, ladies, dakinis, feminine, flowery, night, moon, goddess, femme fatale energy. How fortunate we are to...
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In the past few months, many full-time staff have joined Kechara, and I rejoice for this. I got the blog team to interview them, and I hope their stories...
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Below is an article sent by one of my students. It shows a pig being killed in Moldavia. It’s not the typical way that Moldavian’s kill their pigs, but...
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Most of us know what it’s like to lose a loved one, or someone that we really care about. We get upset, angry, confused, frustrated, we feel unbearable sadness,...
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It's hard to imagine that when we pour ourselves a glass of milk, in a lot of cases, it has come to us via tremendous suffering endured by dairy...
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George Eliot was an English novelist, journalist and translator and one of the leading writers of the 19th Century Victorian era. He was particularly famous for writing the popular...
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Most of us work only to support ourselves or our families. The money that we make is usually spent more on our own wants rather than to support others…...
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The recent earthquake that caused a devastating tsunami in Japan has brought awakening in many of us. Humans and animals are both suffering from the aftereffects of the earthquake...
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This is ‘Doggie’. She’s the resident dog in Tsem Ladrang, Nepal. The last time I saw her, she was a small little puppy… but look at her now! She’s...
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Those who wish to not be involved in animal cruelties and who are vegetarians/vegans show greater empathy towards animal suffering. But if we think about it, it’s quite simple… if...
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Since 1st of February, 2011, Liaison Kok Yek Yee has officially transferred departments: from Kechara Media & Publications (KMP) to Kechara Care (KC)! As chief Chinese editor for KMP,...
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Merino sheep are specifically bred in order to produce more wool per sheep. As a result of the unnatural amount and weight of the wool, many sheep collapse and...
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28th March 2011 was an extremely significant date in Kechara history – it was the official opening of Kechara Soup Kitchen! Y.A.Bhg Datin Paduka Seri Rosmah Mansor, the First...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) By Chatral Rinpoche I bow down before the Lama, Buddha Amitayus, And the bodhisattvas in training. I shall now in brief describe the benefits Of freeing...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) (译文请往下阅读) Suffering is my Protector How many years have gone by, pursuing this and that empty of tangibility, Yet all I have is a sense of voidness dancing in the peripherals of my thoughts, In the past I always had a warm lover by my side, now my companion is exchanged for sickne...
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On Wednesday, Dato’ Ruby Khong, the President of Kechara Soup Kitchen, was invited to speak at an open talk hosted by “Live and Inspire”. This was held at Starbucks,...
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Last year, the sharks fishing industry in Japan killed 31,000 tons of sharks, half of these sharks will be sold to China’s Shanghai, Hong Kong etc. Hong Kong photographer...
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Liaison Beng Kooi of Tsem Ladrang is very sincere and hardworking member of Kechara. She goes out of the way for anyone all the time, easy to get along...
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Below is a list of 10 superstar athletes who are vegetarian/vegan. They all excel in their own field of sport, while cutting meat out of their diet...
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A few years back I approached one student to open a restaurant for KECHARA. But the student declined citing various reasons. There are people who find reasons to win...
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About 2 hours ago, at 1355GMT, an earthquake hit Myanmar. So far the number of casualties is unknown, but according to the video below, the earthquake hit a rather...
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Uncle Lai joined Kechara a few years back. He had many spiritual questions and many went unanswered for years. When his son joined Kechara, his son would share the...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear Sherry, Everyone has different approaches and methods to do dharma work. If someone is detrimental in their approach then you must think, HOW CAN I...
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When we look at our own lives, we see lots of problems that we have. We don’t have enough money, we can’t go on holiday this year, our spouses...
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There is a chance, and maybe even a good one, that you’ll walk into work one Monday morning and find out your job is being moved to China or...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) A few years back I approached one student to open a restaurant for KECHARA. But the student declined citing various reasons. There are people who find...
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Pain and suffering does not necessary lead to failure. It’s just how we want to use it and how we want to move on from it. People who had...
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I was asked today how a skeptic like me can be so easily “hooked” by Kechara? I have a number of reasons: It seems to me that on any...
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I received the good news of the opening of Kechara Vegetarian Express today at our hub in Sunwaymas. Kechara Vegetarian Express (KVE) is a new express lunch take-away stall...
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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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Dear Rinpoche,
This post strongly reflects upon my life and I couldn't agree more of what you've said.
Years ago, when I left home to study abroad, I suffered tremendously because life ... Read More I'm rejoicing in your benevolent, kind works you did. I dedicate that for the sake of the teachings and of all sentient beings and for the essential teachings of Losang ... Read More RInpochela, I just wanted to drop by and thank you for you youtube videos. They keep my ego in check and help me understand what it really is I am ... Read More
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