Mewa 5: The Mirror of the War God (Yellow)
Born with The Mirror of the War God as your birth Mewa, you have a very strong instinct for self-preservation and as such may be seen as selfish by...
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Born with The Mirror of the War God as your birth Mewa, you have a very strong instinct for self-preservation and as such may be seen as selfish by...
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Born with The Mirror of the King as your birth Mewa, you have the innate qualities of a leader. You have a very strong drive in life, have high...
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Born with The Mirror of Nagas as your birth Mewa, you are a conventional character and are very obedient to your parents and elders. You have good common sense...
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Born with The Mirror of Ocean Medicine as your birth Mewa, you are sociable, talkative, optimistic and independent. You have a very positive and ambitious mind, but can be...
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Born with The Mirror of the Mountain Spirit as your birth Mewa, you are quick minded and attentive to detail. You are optimistic in your outlook but have manipulative...
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Born with The Mirror of the Country God as your birth Mewa, you usually have a mild appearance but your true strength lies inside. You have a strong mind,...
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Born with The Mirror of Prosperity as your birth Mewa, you are typically sensitive and emotional but also an extrovert. You often have a very good life but place...
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Born with The Mirror of Medicine as your birth Mewa, you are generally pessimistic in your outlook on life. You may appear to be very open and friendly, but...
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Born with The Mirror of Dreams as your birth Mewa, you have a pleasant character and are generally not an angry person. You have a lot of love and...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) This is my sweet friend Anila Thupten Chonyid in Howell, New Jersey, USA. She has been a nun for over two decades. She use to attend...
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Such and Immaculate incarnation of Lokeshvara, Physical, tangible, humble and yet exalted, How fortunate that we live in the same world as He. In this life, and all lives,...
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Introduction Chenrezig (Tib: spyan ras gzigs; སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས།) or Avalokiteshvara (Skt), is the Buddha of Compassion. Possibly the most famous and well-loved deity across all schools of Buddhism, Chenrezig manifested in various forms to benefit sentient beings. For example, within the Mahayana school...
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I’ve never really taken the 8 glasses a day seriously. I only drink when I am thirsty. This new information is very interesting. Take a read. Tsem Rinpoche ...
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Carbon pollution and over-use of Earth’s natural resources have become so critical that, on current trends, we will need a second planet to meet our needs by 2030, the...
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This picture was taken last night (Oct 11, 2010) by Monlam. It’s my two dogs Mumu (left) and Oser. My doors all are made with special entrances for them to...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear Friends, Our New Kechara Gompa (Hall) will have three images. Centre and main piece will be Lord Tsongkapa (12ft). The left side Vajra Yogini(8ft) and...
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Dear Nicholas, Thank you for sharing this. I decided to share it with everyone. Very interesting. Thank you. Tsem Rinpoche Dear Rinpoche, I hope you are well....
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Kechara is doing a book and creating a movie on my life story. Actually I’m not anyone special, but my teacher in the past around 8 years back (2002)...
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Here are a series of pictures/text messages I received. I decided to post it here and it tells a nice story of how Holy Lama Tsongkapa has arrived at...
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From Thierry , update from Melaka. Now centre has two floors. Rgds ngeow) (We have a Kechara Melaka Study Group now and the premises is expanding….they are like the...
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I have established Dharma houses where a group of students will rent a house together and have their own rooms. The reason is to boost support and care for...
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I am as big as a house already and my lovely students still get me more cakes/pastries….they are like Rinpoche “You have to watch your health” and then they...
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Ms. Jean Mei and Mr. Wee Liang are two young ppl who work for the various depts to the best of their abilities… and the other day they surprised...
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These are offerings from Beatrice Lau, whose Aunt passed away and I did prayers for the Aunt. I have kept the picture of the Aunt on my shrine for...
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We have three wonderful hardworking men from Nepal here in our depts. They are experts in their field of work that we cannot find locally. One is a traditional...
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May this great master get well and strong very soon. I offer my prayers to The Three Jewels. Tsem Rinpoche Thich Nhat Hanh in Hospital with Pneumonia...
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I like Black female singers so much. They have incredible voices, very wide range, so much charisma and sing in such a way it touches you deeply. One of...
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Dear all, Please do support, see this good link that attempts to do things for animals with much success rate. How beautiful. Go to: http://www.scaashanghai.org/ I wish SCAA the...
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I generally like flowers. I like exotic and unusual lasting flowers. But one ‘normal’ flower I like are roses. I like the big type. That’s fragrant. I really like...
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I had a request several months back already that world-knowned healer and Author Anne Jones & friends wanted to visit me. So my kind and hardworking assistant JP arranged...
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Dear Friends, Here are 48 videos and four written recipes for your vegan/vegetarian palates. I have done this research, put effort into all of this to help give you...
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Choi Sheem has officially joined KSA as a full-time staff! She has decided to work from 2-8pm, as she home-schools her two sons in the morning. Choi Sheem and...
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Liaison Sharon Saw, sent me the photos below of a temple made out of beer bottles! It’s located about 400 miles North-East of Bangkok (Thailand) in the city of...
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On Saturday night, my two students Khong Jean Ai and Phng Wee Liang celebrated their birthday! They both rented out Kechara Care and themed the night “Geeks & Nerds”....
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Internet-based TV viewing, the arrival of Apple’s iPad and the proliferation of smartphones are set to ring in a new era of connected entertainment, industry experts predict. TV industry...
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Everyone has seen the famous picture that has been duplicated into hundreds of thousands of posters…the infamous “Lunch Atop a Skyscraper”. The photo was taken on the 69th floor...
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Thirty people liberated 100kg of catfish at Kepong Metropolitan Park this morning today Sunday October 3, 2010. I started this program last year. We found a large park with...
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Little 14 year old Sean sent me a sweet gift and a card. Take a look below. I had THE FATALITY scanned in as it’s the cover of the...
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After many weeks of exhaustive search, the Tsem Ladrang team found a beautiful house in the hills of Naranthan in Kathmandu, Nepal. It is TSEM LADRANG, NEPAL. Along with...
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This is a home-made organic loaf of bread by Lili Ng. Ingredients include: Extra virgin olive oil Organic bread flour cunbleach Organic wholemeal flour Organic yellow flaxseed Organic sunflower...
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I was with Liaison Paul Yap yesterday and he gave me some excellent news which I want to share with everyone. His department, Kechara Discovery (http://www.kechara.com/discovery) has a new...
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Dear Rinpoche, Good afternoon. Update from Kuantan Group by Leonard Chia. Today is their first kids class. Below are some pictures of the kids class conducted. Thank you, Sincerely,...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Mt. Putuo lies to the east of Zhoushan City. Zhoushan City is situated on Zhoushan Island that in turn gives its name to a group of...
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On July 15, 2010 I visited Suming’s grandmother. I wanted to say some prayers and just see her. We went in the evening and the visit took around 1...
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This is a wonderful article sent to me by Sharon that I would like to share with everyone. Thanks Sharon for a wonderful and inspiring piece. Tsem Rinpoche ...
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He is 35 year old Animal Behaviourist who shares a very unique bond with big cats that he can spend the night curled up next to them without the...
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When Jamie Khoo (aka Paris!) wrote her biography at my insistence, “Call me Paris!” little did she know that she would be endorsed by an international talk show host,...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) It was during the Kechara Charity Golf Tournament where Mr Hang Phoo and his wife Cheng Kee first saw the antique Tsongkhapa statue. Due to powerful...
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On the 24th of August, Kechara held a charity golf tournament at the prestigious KLGCC (Kuala Lumpur Golf & Country Club). Many people turned up for the event, whether...
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I do twitter. I’ve posted quite alot on twitter. So Kechara Media and Publications Dept combined my twitter posts and made it into a book. This book is designed...
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Last week, the cheque for the balance payment of land purchasing was signed. This 2.6-acre piece of land in Kelana Jaya is where Menara Kechara will be built! We...
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Thank you everyone for such wonderful gifts. Tsem Rinpoche Lili Ng 1. Organic Pasta Sauce x 2 2. Organic Pomegranate x 2 3. Organic Cherry tomatoes 4....
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Dear David Michie, Thank you for sending me this book that you wrote and published. I am very happy for it and the many people it will benefit. The...
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Greece Seeks Chinese Investment as PM Visits Cash-strapped Greece played host on Saturday to China’s Premier Wen Jiabao, hoping to drum up sorely needed investment as Athens battles to...
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I love the moon coming through the night clouds silhouetted by the mountains. It reminds me that although our lives are sometimes dark and full of apprehension, somehow we...
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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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Dearest Rinpoche. Words cannot describe the thanks I have in my heart to you and your Gurus. As well all of those at Kechara. Since finding your teachings on youtube ... Read More Dear Kind and Compassionate Tsem Tulku Rinpoche,
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