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I am riding on a self peddle raft on a lake in the Lost World. Nice….lots of fishes follow you as you paddle around the lake. Take food with you which you get as you get your raft ticket….nice to peddle and feed the fishes…they are not afraid and very hungry..cute. Ipoh is around...
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6-Year-Old AIDS Orphan A-Long Lives Alone In Guangxi by Fauna Guangxi 6-year-old AIDS orphan lives alone, eats rice and vegetables without oil or salt yet still eats with relish In your childhood, what were you doing? Begging daddy to buy a toy, being pressed by mommy to learn a foreign language, taking the pocket...
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Below are gifts given by Michele Marie. The gifts came in a little red bag and each item was packed so nicely. It’s very clear that Michele put a lot of care in the gifts, there was a reason behind each present and she presented it so nicely! Even in her letters, she shows...
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When my Mumu was small and being trained, I would come back to the Kitchen area EVERY SINGLE DAY AND IT WOULD LOOK LIKE THIS. He was hyper, tore up everything and pooped everywhere. I was paranoid to come home into the the kitchen area as I knew what was waiting for me…. Sometimes...
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While visiting the Buddhist Caves and Ipoh in general, I realized why should I be afraid of taking loans for a good cause and within my means…. What is the fear? Why have these fears for so many years? I decided to let go…when I did, I decided to express it all with the...
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1,000 Pigs Starve To Death On Abandoned PA Farm Posted by: Desirai Thompson On Monday, up to 1,000 dead pigs were discovered on an abandoned Fulton County, Pa., farm. The owner left the farm in August, leaving the hundreds of hogs to slowly die of starvation. Among these decayed bodies were also what appeared...
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Interesting: “We must be the change we wish to see in the world.” -Gandhi “Thank you to the people who have walked into my life and made it great – but also thank you to those who walked out of it and made it even better!” ~Anonymous “I have found out that there ain’t...
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Ipoh bans shooting of strays By IVAN LOH IPOH: The Ipoh City Council will implement a ban on the shooting of stray animals with immediate effect. Speaking to reporters Tuesday after meeting council secretary Datuk Abdul Md Ariff yesterday, Petpositive president T. Anthony Siva Balan said the council had agreed to stop shooting strays...
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Recently, I was sent this forwarded email of a very special pig. The pig is a two-legged pig called Zhu Jianqiang (朱堅強), meaning “Strong-willed Pig” in Mandarin Chinese! As the only pig out of the 9 piglets born, Zhu Jianqiang was the only one born with only 2 front legs. Now at 10 months old, the wife of the owner (Wang Xihai) advised her husband to kill the pig… but he refused saying that he deserved a chance to live, especially since Zhu Jianqiang was considered healthy. So, the training started hehe Several days after Zhu’s birth, Wang trai...
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The Cave of Ultimate Bliss. How could you not want to visit a place with a name as beautiful as this? Caves have an innately mysterious aura. Most are only found some distance away from civilisation, and their yawning mouths seem to call out to visitors… or warn them to stay away. You can...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) DAY ONE – THE ARRIVAL OF THE NEW GOMPA STATUES (8 ft Vajrayogini, 8 ft Setrap and 12 ft Lama Tsongkhapa) 2-11-2010 3-11-2010 4-11-2010 5-11-2010 6-11-2010 7-11-2010 8-11-2010 21-11-2010 FROM 7-11-2010 TO 12-11-2010 THE NEW...
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Dear Rinpoche, a. We have just started the road show at the Mines. b. The exhibition starts from 11am-10pm, from 19/11 till 28/11 c. The organiser expecting 550,000 of people visiting the Book fair this year previous year statistic:- 2008 – 426,000 visitors 2009 – 470,000 visitors d. The staff and volunteers on duty...
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This poor dog was found outside KSA (Kechara Saraswati Arts) by Matthew Leung (a 12 y/o Kecharian). Upon seeing the poor female dog who was bleeding, he called Khong Jean Mei (personal blogging assistant to me), who alerted her sister Khong Jean Ai of Tsem Ladrang E-Division. Jean Ai quickly drove to KSA and...
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Today Kechara Oasis Vegetarian restaurant under Irene Lim is doing their 16th wedding booking. We have 200 guests today. And the decor in Kechara Oasis is all done in house. We are gaining a reputation for good food, nice ambiance and high class Vegetarian healthy way to celebrate a special event. More and more...
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Lots of hard work and dedication here. Beautiful for those who are sincere enough to be here and contribute. Tsem Rinpoche
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My student and one of the liaisons Susan Lim came to know about Uncle Lim and the 18 puppies via Datin Jennifer Khoo. Uncle Lim (in Petaling Jaya SS2 area) and his neighbour’s maid set up the temporary shelter and have been taking care of puppies and mother. Their concern is too many people...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) The thousands of sacred mantras rolled, sealed and ready for insertion into our sacred statues for New Kechara Gompa. We roll these mantras ourselves in Kechara Saraswati Arts Dept. Filling the in between spaces with fragrant potpourri. Choi Sheem in the red and Patsy Lee on the right. ...
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In a late but very strong contender for the title of most curious animal story of 2006, two dolphins in a Chinese aquarium have been saved thanks to the personal attentions of Bao Xishun, all 7 ft 8.95 inches of him. Bao Xishun, the world’s tallest man, reaches in to retrieve objects from the...
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Porpoises rescue Dick Van Dyke Thursday 11 November 2010 10.04 GMT Mary Poppins star feared death after apparently falling asleep on his surfboard but friendly sea creatures pushed him to shore. On screen, Dick Van Dyke has been rescued from untimely death by flying cars and magical nannies. Off screen, the veteran star of...
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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.
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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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I have the pleasure and privilege of receiving 2 sets of the greeting cards as gifts from a wonderful person with a beautiful soul (and she's beautiful too!) who introduced ... Read More Feb 26, 2012 at 6:33 am
Congrats Vincent. It was fun to play online dharma games together. Rinpoche sure is super creative and you were super fast in finding the ... Read More Dearest Rinpoche,
Thank you for the audio file of Black Manjushri’s mantra. It has been forwarded to members of Wenshu House. I am certain everyone, especially Christine and Betty, is ... Read More
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