The Pig and the Western Zodiac
The sun signs are better known as the Western zodiac sign, and they parallel the Chinese lunar signs. Many of us know what our Western zodiac sign is, take...
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The sun signs are better known as the Western zodiac sign, and they parallel the Chinese lunar signs. Many of us know what our Western zodiac sign is, take...
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Dear friends, I have a special request of my blog readers. You can change lives, change thinking, change attitudes and change outcomes if you try and all from the...
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Which Lunar Animal sign best suits the Rat, when it comes to relationships?
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Which Lunar Animal sign best suits the Ox, when it comes to relationships?
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Which Lunar Animal sign best suits the Tiger, when it comes to relationships?
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Which Lunar Animal sign best suits the Rabbit, when it comes to relationships?
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Which Lunar Animal sign best suits the Dragon, when it comes to relationships?
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Which Lunar Animal sign best suits the Snake, when it comes to relationships?
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Which Lunar Animal sign best suits the Horse, when it comes to relationships?
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Which Lunar Animal sign best suits the Sheep, when it comes to relationships?
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Which Lunar Animal sign best suits the Monkey, when it comes to relationships?
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Which Lunar Animal sign best suits the Rooster, when it comes to relationships?
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Which Lunar Animal sign best suits the Dog, when it comes to relationships?
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Yee Lisan of the Staronline.TV checks out Kechara Soup Kitchen and their journey to help the poor and homeless by keeping them off the streets. Featuring interviews with KSK...
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Nicholas is a nice guy with his supportive wife. They are very hard working and very nice people. Datuk May is a very caring, conscientious President. She doesn’t take...
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Which Lunar Animal sign best suits the Pig, when it comes to relationships?
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11:17pm June 14, 2010-Kuala Lumpur Our new Kechara E-division is hosting a meeting with the Liaisons present to discuss a few projects and updates. E-division office is finished with...
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Everyone getting together to help one of our Kechara Divisions in this case E-division manifest leaves a warm feeling in my heart. Helping eachother with a sincere heart is...
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Rinpoche and liaisons, 100 copies of the Tsongkhapa box set have just arrived. They are a huge improvement in quality and presentation. The stunning tsa tsa from Kechara discovery...
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Dear Lew, What a kind, generous and compassionate person you are deep inside of you. From external appearances, you just look like a normal guy. But I can see...
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Kechara Soup Kitchen or KSK has opened a booth for this weekend in the sprawling One Utama Shopping Mall. One Utama Shopping Mall is very kind and very engaged...
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Animal Lab Operating on The Quiet For Three Years By DERRICK VINESH and S.S. YOGA | Saturday June 12, 2010 | newsdesk@thestar.com.my BUKIT MERTAJAM: While animal lovers are up...
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There are 54 students in total in Kechara House completing the last of the pujas that has been happening for 3 weeks now in time for the renovations to...
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Friday June 11, 2010 at around 6:45pm… a spectacular rainbow appeared just outside my bedroom window. This was taken from my window. So clear and bright. I am blogging...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Beautiful car Buddhas done. These are made available so we can place on our dashboard to be blessed and protected when we drive. We spend so...
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Nice sms from Elaine forwarded to me: We finished the Lamrim readings at 8.30pm followed by Vajrasattvas and dedication. After we finished, ppl were still trickling in. With a...
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Wow!! Beautiful handmade rosary-mala bags from KSA (http://kechara.com/ksa/) (above). Below are a series of sms messages with mms pictures sent to me from Paul to update regarding the wonderful...
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Tsem Ladrang Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Tsem Ladrang in Kuala Lumpur is the heart of the organization, the headquarters of the ladrang operations and my main place of residence. The...
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Dear Rinpoche, as our weekly setrap puja attendees has grown to about 12 people, tonight we have set up our puja on the second floor above the outlet so...
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Dear Rinpoche, Sorry for sending my wedding pictures late to Rinpoche. With Rinpoche’s blessing, the wedding went very smooth and very fast. My wedding will not stop me from...
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58 attendees at tonight’s Setrap puja to accumulate 4524 kawang or confessionals to purify for obstacles to become clear. 1000 will be done by Chinese Setrap group tomorrow night...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) June 11, 2010 A personal message from myself to Datin Jennifer. Datin Jennifer is very devoted to Setrap. She has completed one million mantras already and daily...
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Tuesday June 8,2010 9:00PM at KH1!! We are going to start our new Prayer Hall renovations very soon. So Kh members are taking time away to come evenings after...
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Dear Everyone, I do not have an animal shelter yet. But I purchase foods and needs from Wow Wow Pet shop (read about A Visit to Wow Wow Pets Shop...
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Received this info below from Dino Goh…thank you Dino for bringing this to my attention. Please everyone do help…please help these poor animals. They don’t deserve this at all....
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On 25 April 2010, Rinpoche brought around 20 people including many newbies to Wow Wow Pets Shop at OUG, this is the shop where Rinpoche adopted Yogi/Mumu 6 years...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Last night we had a large group in Kechara reciting the holy Lam Rim texts. I was moved. So I did a surprise visit last night...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Two of my friends, Lili Ng and Thierry Janssens came out with a creative idea to summarise the Lamrim – in mind map form and offered...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) When I was very young in New Jersey, my step parents wouldn’t let me study dharma, do sadhanas, mantras or go to the Buddhist Church much...
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It’s very hard to make me laugh. Many stand up comedians are good, but it’s rare they can get me to laugh very hard. Maybe giggles here and there....
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Dear Rinpoche, We just completed preliminary setup for our booth in Read Malaysia at The Mines. Fang did the display and setup was with the help of Susan, Allan...
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This is a new book that Kechara Media & Publications just came out with. I had completely forgotten it was coming out and it was a nice surprise. In...
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Justin Ripley got on the net and found the recipe to make bagels. So he started making delicious bagels for me in Tsem Ladrang. He does wonderful cooking of...
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People are so generous and thoughtful. I’m always recieving gifts. I am embarrassed, but I deeply appreciate every single gift so much….I fold my hands and thank everyone past,...
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I love Indian food…The Tsem Ladrang Kitchen team do their best to come up with a variety of foods for me, staff and many guests daily..they work very hard...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) When we take Refuge in the Buddha, we take a pledge to start the incredible journey of realising the cause of all sufferings does not arise...
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Cute kids with gifts!! Tsem Rinpoche Offerings from Lily Goh’s two daughters (Angelina and Kimberley) to thank Rinpoche for giving them gifts.
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Today Wednesday June 2, 2010 10pm, at KH 2 taken in front of the Setrap shrine. Kechara House will be expanding our prayer hall to fit 700 hundred people....
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I’ve got a wonderful group of Nepalese boys and one girl who work in our arts dept. They are gentle, hardworking and very nice people. I wanted to share...
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Such incredibly cute cards handmade from kids to me. Amazing. I love the artwork, the imagination and creativity. So very touching. I love these cards and I wanted to...
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Dear everyone, Under liaison Suming and her great team of wonderful people which are Nicholas, May Ong and James a new Kechara Dept has taken birth!!! Located a few...
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Justin Cheah works in the Kechara Soup Kitchen (KSK) dept and he works super hard for the homeless and even finding jobs for them. Justin is a no nonsense...
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Chef Felix Schoener specializes in living food, food that is vegan and not cooked beyond 40 degree Celcius. This is to prevent the nutrients from being destroyed. It is...
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A wonderful video of the hardworking KMP head. Please watch this short video and see how interesting this person can be. Tsem Rinpoche Related Articles on Li...
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Two days before Wesak Day, the President of Kechara, Datuk May Phng had the great honour to escort the relic of Kyabje Lati Rinpoche from Tsem Ladrang to Kechara...
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Last night May 29, 2010, on the spur of the moment around 9pm I decided to go to kechara House and visit with two groups. I didn’t let anyone...
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When I was kid growing up in the US, I LOVED horror movies. I still love horror movies to relax. Elvira was a Horror movie hostess. She would introduce...
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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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ALL the hardships that Rinpoche been through makes who he is today. A person with steel determination , sharp thinking , perseverance and witty more like a street fighter. He ... Read More Thank You kindly Rinpoche. Also, this might not be the most appropriate place to mention this, but I must thank You for the Je Tsongkhapa box set You created. It ... Read More I grew up in a Missionary school, where we had Bible studies; I was in the hostel since my childhood days for almost 11 years of my school life. I ... Read More
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