Kechara Soup Kitchen is in the press again
Kechara Soup Kitchen (KSK) is making waves upon waves by appearing in the newspapers/ magazines almost weekly this month. I am very proud of them because they work very...
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Kechara Soup Kitchen (KSK) is making waves upon waves by appearing in the newspapers/ magazines almost weekly this month. I am very proud of them because they work very...
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His Holiness the Dalai Lama is synonymous with Buddhism, Tibet and compassion. He has given his entire life over to making Buddhism into a global household name, and the...
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Dear Rinpoche, I’m now in KC meeting up with Carmen and her friend Jay who is interested in donating furnitures to us. Young boy and he is pleasantly surprise...
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The pictures below were taken by one of Kechara Soup Kitchen’s volunteers on their routine food distribution rounds. This is an extract of a message that I recently received...
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KECHARA SOUP KITCHEN (KSK) GETS OUR OWN BUILDING!!! The above message and pictures were from Ruby who is the president of Kechara soup Kitchen dept of Kechara House. We...
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Yoke Fui and David distributing photostat copies of various articles from Rinpoche’s blog for members to read and comment. There are 9 laptops here for about 25 members to...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) In Melaka, Kechara has a study group. They get together to discuss dharma and facilitators from KL will go to Melaka to conduct classes. There would...
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Dear Rinpoche, I hope Rinpoche is fine. I am always praying for Rinpoche’s long life and good health. Thank you Rinpoche for everything. I have sent Rinpoche lay out...
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“When I was younger, I had very little, next to no money. I know what it’s like to go to sleep with an empty stomach. I never forgot what...
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How nice our members consider what each dept might need, and generously offer. It gives the feeling that we are all one big spiritual family and care about eachother...
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Today I received a lovely doll from Kechara Discovery (KD) and Kechara Saraswati Arts (KSA). They went to Pavilion mall in town for their department outing and they got...
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When I arrived in Gaden I went straight to Zong Ladrang (house). ‘Ladrang’ is the Tibetan word for a lama’s household. I left USA for the last time in...
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Dear Rinpoche, Volunteers in ladrang commenting and busy posting away. So fun! I love it when ladrang is packed. Thank u, su ming Dear Rinpoche, Thank you for buying...
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Dear Rinpoche, this is martin’s blind dog. She is 7 yrs old. I’m going to get our pet pendant to put on her. Su Ming Very cute and lucky Martin...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) A wonderful prayer to do daily to help us remember reality. Anything by Kyabje Pabongka would be tremendously beneficial. He never existed for himself but only...
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“Being a Liaison entails a lot of responsibility and work as they need to make the Dharma grow and i do have tremendous respect for all the Liaisons in...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) In Kechara Saraswati Arts Dept or KSA, they are creating a beautiful clay Amitabha statue I’ve have placed an order for. This is the progress of...
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Shirley Tan sent me the above to cheer us up. It sure did. Thank you Shirley. I live stories like this. If you find more in the future, send...
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Lately I have been thinking about the canary in the aviary, and whether or not to get a friend for him. He is a very cute, spunky, lively, adorable...
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Dear Rinpoche, Jean Ai is giving a training session to some of the special project members on how to comment on Rinpoche’s blog, use facebook, and use twitter. She’s...
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Dear Rinpoche, These are offerings from Raymond Chu, Desmond and Caryn (Raymond’s friends, Chinese Setrap Puja attendees) Regards, James Offered by Desmond Chong: Vajrayogini Statue Vy Coffee table...
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Today I received this very nice email from Ms. Connie Bach, via my Liaison Su Ming. It is a very sincere letter and I wanted to share it with...
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Kechara Saraswati Arts (KSA) dept is really spectacular. Look what they did for this Vajra Yogini statue I had them prepare!! I am ordering more!! KSA painted her and...
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Dear Henry, As per our discussion, here r what we will doing for kpss2: The signboard is being cleaned by signboard workers now. They are supposed to come today...
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I received an email recently from a special friend and I would like to share with everyone. This email reminded me about a post on Kechara.com, A King of...
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Joshua is the good friend of Jj’s… Joshua is very talented it seems. He is making a statue of the Emaciated Buddha when Buddha engaged in an intense 6-year...
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Very sweet. I wanted to share this with everyone. Tsem Rinpoche
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I received an mms update about the monthly Animal Liberation activity we do in Kechara House. This activity is a good way to promote compassion towards all living beings...
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I am very happy to know that one of my oldest students, Anila (previously known as Mama Jenny as she is ordained now and the 1st nun in Kechara)...
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Ms. Chooi Sheem and Mr. Lam are active volunteers of the Ladrang and Kechara House. They have two very cute boys – Jutika and Pavara. Their family is a...
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Dear everyone, please share these pictures and captions with everyone. It is such a wonderful lesson for all of us to learn. It touched my heart so deeply. Thanks...
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Please everyone read this article and share it with as many people as you can to create awareness. Tweet and Facebook/ blog it please. Help animals by creating awareness...
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1. Picture from JJ- Double rainbow outside my room Dear Rinpoche, There’s another double rainbow outside of Rinpoche’s room. Tq jj 2. Picture taken from Tsem Ladrang by Monlam...
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Wow, I got these flowers from our own Kechara Saraswati Arts dept!! They are learning flower arranging and they arranged this arrangement you see here. Not bad for new...
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4:00 AM – SUNDAY JUNE 4, 2010 Chia is one of my oldest student and he is not the tech-savvy type as he says. I am very proud of...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) One of my long time friends and students, Margaret Lee is very talented. She is from Hong Kong and currently resides in Malaysia. Through the years,...
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Thank you so much!! Tsem Rinpoche
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) The current day incarnation line of Changkya Rolpe Dorje is His Holiness Kyabje Pabongka Rinpoche. Kyabje Pabongka is the undisputed incarnation of this Great Heruka Master....
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Dear Rinpoche, Today we have a special performance here at Kechara Care. The ‘wonder girls’ from Korea have arrived! They are twisting n swinging away!! Byran, Ethan, Joe Ang,...
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Dear Rinpoche, Today at Manjushri class, Kechara Paradise is giving a talk on their dept. May Woo is representing Kechara Paradise outlets to speak today. She explains how outlets...
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THANK YOU SO MUCH ELIZE, JOHNNY AND OSCAR!!!!!!! Thanks for helping us create awareness and gather help to continue our works!! Everyone should put a kechara soup kitchen donation...
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A lovely picture of Sharon who had dinner with a group together with superstar Michelle Yeoh’s mother Datin Janet Yeoh…. Sharon mentioned that Datin Janet Yeoh is a very friendly,...
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Press really like stories about others helping others. I thank BFM radio so much for highlighting KSK because it is giving out 800 packets of food per week now...
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Dear Rinpoche, Jace and I together with my boyfriend Teow are on the way to Ipoh. Raymond Chu and wife will be there to attend the puja too. Regards,...
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Margaret is one of my long time students who is very devoted and has contributed to much of Kechara’s growth with her skills. She is an artist who has...
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The Lin Dai of the west to me is Liz Taylor. She is one of my all time favorite actresses. Again she’s versatile but her dramatic roles are stunning....
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As a kid, I have always liked the old Chinese movies from Hong Kong especially from Run Run Shaw Studios. It is during the time when Hong Kong was...
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Dear Rinpoche, I have presented Rinpoche’s gifts to jess. She was very surprised but looked very calm. I will forward her sms to Rinpoche shortly. Have a safe trip...
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My student Paris, aka Jamie Khoo sent me these pictures and a short message of a recent dinner party with her parents and family friends, where guests included Lorraine...
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Dear Rinpoche, Tonite kh host an appreciation movie ‘Toy Story 3’ to 57 KH members and wesak fair volunteers. Popcorn and drink packs have been given to everyone. This...
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Keloksi Temple is the Largest Chinese Buddhist Monastery in Malaysia as far as I know. It is in the Northern State of Pinang which is five hours drive from...
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A week or so back, I finally visited Kechara Paradise Outlet in Pinang. I have not visited since it opened. The outlet is absolutely beautifully done and kept immaculately...
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Dear Rinpoche and Liaisons, Below pictures are update from Kuantan group regarding their first gathering in Mr Leonard Chia’s office. This office space has decorated by Mr Leonard Chia recently....
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Dear Rinpoche, Book reading session: Sharon is now giving a short explanation of who is Lama Tsongkhapa to about 8 people. Thank you, Patsy Rinpoche, There ended up being...
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I care about my friends, students and people very much. One of the ways I try to bring them some sunshine is by humour. Everyone enjoys humour. I certainly...
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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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Would you please send my best regards and appreciation to Tsem Rinponche on the advices me of reciting Medecine Buddha and blow on the creatures before releasing them.
This morning, ... Read More Dear Rinpoche,
You are so well-known as a Guru of Great Compassion and for very good reason. Anyone who comes across your path feels so happy and blessed. Just by looking ... Read More Mc on Feb 25, 2012 at 5:33 am
Now I cannot imagine life without this Rinpoche’s blog. Seng Piow, Justin and many others today provide this lifeline that keep so many ... Read More
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