
Last Sunday I visited Kuantan Study group at afternoon. I brought Frederick Law with me in this trip. We arrived at Kuantan around 1230pm...
Read more » | ![]() |
Last Sunday I visited Kuantan Study group at afternoon. I brought Frederick Law with me in this trip. We arrived at Kuantan around 1230pm...
Read more » | ![]() |
Posted in Kechara - 13 Depts, Students & Friends, Study Groups | 32 Comments »
On the 29th December 2011, I received a very nice letter along with a beautiful card and unique gifts from Ms Veronika Tupayachi, via my liaison Beng Kooi...
Read more » |
Posted in Letters, Cards & Gifts, Students & Friends | 13 Comments »
April 1, 2012 I have three super cute doggies. They are Mumu, Oser and Dharma. Zamkar is Paul’s dog and he is dropped off here in the morning and usually goes back home with Paul after work in the evenings. Zamkar spends his days here with my three dogs to play, eat, nap and...
Read more » |
Posted in Mumu & Pets | 26 Comments »
Dear Soror, Thank you so much for this. It makes me very happy to hear this. I never go anywhere without lots of dried foods in my car to stop for dogs. I will do this for the rest of my life. And I am so touched you will do this for animals also....
Read more » |
Posted in Animals, Vegetarianism & Environment | 16 Comments »
Congratulations to our SNAP, PRAY, LOVE Competition lucky March winner, Jerome Raphalen! Jerome's photo of a shrine has gained our celebrity judges attention, meeting the criteria of both promoting a diversity in shrine/altar presentation while achieving a sense of inner peace...
Read more » |
Posted in Kechara - 13 Depts | 10 Comments »
(By Tsem Rinpoche) Yesterday, a long time student of mine Irene informed me she was hosting a group of Sangha members for dinner at Kechara Oasis (KO), Jaya One as a Dana offering.
Read more » |
Posted in Buddhas, Dharma & Practice, Great Lamas & Masters, Liaisons, Students & Friends | 26 Comments »
Not only does KSK provide 1,800 packets of food to the homeless every week, laundry services, job placement services, light medical services… but from yesterday onwards, Kechara Soup Kitchen (KSK) will also be collaborating with the National Anti-Drug Agency of Malaysia! Known as PERSADA (Persatuan Rakan Anti Dadah Malaysia), officers from the National Anti-Drug...
Read more » |
Posted in Kechara Soup Kitchen (KSK) | 30 Comments »
Dear Rinpoche, We brought a group of kids to KWPC land today. They are 18 kids and 12 adults. Most of them are first time and they were very happy. We gathered at Kechara Care and move on at 2pm. When we reached there we liberated 130 birds. 100 sponsored by Angel and another 30...
Read more » |
Posted in Students & Friends | 16 Comments »
(By Tsem Rinpoche) Tan Sri has 3 children and the shocking news is his only son is a monk!
Read more » |
Posted in Buddhas, Dharma & Practice, Celebrities & People, Current Affairs & News | 63 Comments »
(By Tsem Rinpoche) Ajahn Siripanno (Ajahn Siripanno gives an enthralling Dhamma talk on the timeless teachings of Ajahn Chah. The talk was given at the Ajahn Chah Remembrance Day on 16 January 2010 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.~by sampajanna ) I was forwarded this video of Ajahn Siripanno by a friend and watched. I...
Read more » |
Posted in Buddhas, Dharma & Practice, Videos | 36 Comments »
Our mother is the one person that has shown us pure kindness from the day we are conceived. She cares, feed and go through many difficulties and challenges just to make sure her child is well...
Read more » |
Posted in Animals, Vegetarianism & Environment, Inspiration & Worthy Words | 35 Comments »
Kindness is the way to clarity. Clarity leads to calmness. Calmness opens the door to wisdom. Wisdom transforms our habits. Our habits transform into eventual attainments. Attainments allow us freedom. Freedom allows us freedom for others. That is the goal of the sacred Buddha who has no rival in all of existence. That is...
Read more » |
Posted in Inspiration & Worthy Words | 32 Comments »
Our hardworking group of Li Kim, Sharon, Ms Han and Wendy Loh are at the Hong Kong Filmart (March 19-22). They are going there to promote TSEM PARANORMAL ZONE with Li Kim as our talented celebrity host. I’ve shared some pictures from Sharon Saw and Wendy Loh’s Facebook. Also I am sharing some...
Read more » |
Posted in Celebrities & People, Current Affairs & News | 26 Comments »
I received this email recently and thought of sharing it with all of you because it is very inspiring. Do take a look at the pictures and leave your comments.
Read more » |
Posted in Current Affairs & News, Inspiration & Worthy Words | 51 Comments »
(By Tsem Rinpoche) (译文请往下阅读) November 9, 2010 Turkey Swamp was a large park with huge lake around 3 hours bicycle ride from my childhood home in New Jersey. If you went by car it’s around 45 mins or more. One of my relatives took me there once and I loved it as a kid. I asked my childhood friend Marc Reed to bicycle there with me. He was very agreeable. He is a very outdoor type of person, strong, energetic and game to try any physical activity. So off Marc and I went…it was a real LONG bike ride and physically gruelling 2-3 hours...
Read more » |
Posted in Autobiography, Buddhas, Dharma & Practice, Me, Students & Friends, Travel, 中文 | 66 Comments »
Dear friends, As you know I went on a Dharma picnic a few weeks back with students. During our break I looked at Paris and was inspired to tell a twisted story with her as the Wild Woman character..ehehehe. The story turned out pretty good I might say..so I asked her to write it...
Read more » |
Posted in Etc | 31 Comments »
(中文请往下看) I had just completed giving *Gabriel an Amityus initiation in the hospital in his room. He has been in a coma. After finishing, I left his room and in the room next to me, I saw in the halls around 15 people very distressed as I was walking towards the lifts… I wanted to stop but didn’t because I am a stranger and didn’t want to disturb this family. I didn’t want to stare… But I can see something was seriously wrong… I found out they were just given the news that 13 year old Tamedran Raj has blood in...
Read more » |
Posted in Etc, 中文 | 98 Comments »
Kechara has a study group called KSJC in the southern most city of Malaysia in Johor Bahru. The group there who are my students started their own place and have classes under the guidance of our main Kechara House here in Kuala Lumpur. Every year KSJC engage in a Lord Tsongkapa’s retreat of...
Read more » |
Posted in Kechara - 13 Depts | 6 Comments »
A few months ago, one of my close student's father had a medical condition that was quite life threatening. Sharon, a loving mother, daughter and one of my loyal student... loves her parents very much. When she heard of her father's condition, she selflessly put all her feelings aside and thought only on how...
Read more » |
Posted in Art, Architecture & Culture, Asia, Students & Friends, Travel | 23 Comments »
When I am healthy, I can do more Dharma to serve others. By cutting down on meat, we will also be able to save many animals from being slaughtered every day.
Read more » |
Posted in Animals, Vegetarianism & Environment, Food & Recipes | 33 Comments »
Dear blog friends,
I’ve created this section for all of you to share your opinions, thoughts and feelings about whatever interests you.
Everyone has a different perspective, so this section is for you.
Tsem Rinpoche
Please come and join in the chat for a fun time and support. See you all there.
These are some simple guidelines to make the blog chat room a positive, enjoyable and enlightening experience for everyone. Please note that as this is a chat room, we chat! Do not flood the chat room, or post without interacting with others.
EXPANDRemember that these are real people you are chatting with. They may have different opinions to you and come from different cultures. Treat them as you would face to face, and respect their opinions, and they will treat you the same.
Give the room a chance to answer you. Patience is a virtue. And if after awhile, people don't respond, perhaps they don't know the answer or they did not see your question. Do ask again or address someone directly. Do not be offended if people do not or are unable to respond to you.
This is the blog of H.E. Tsem Rinpoche. Please respect this space. We request that all participants here are respectful of H.E. Tsem Rinpoche and his organisation, Kechara.
Avoid the use of language or attitudes which may be offensive to others. If someone is disrespectful to you, ignore them instead of arguing with them.
Please be advised that anyone who contravenes these guidelines may be banned from the chatroom. Banning is at the complete discretion of the administrator of this blog. Should anyone wish to make an appeal or complaint about the behaviour of someone in the chatroom, please copy paste the relevant chat in an email to us at care@kechara.com and state the date and time of the respective conversation.
Please let this be a conducive space for discussions, both light and profound.
Name: | Email: | ||
For: | ![]() |
||
Mail will not be published
|
Concept: Tsem Rinpoche
Technical: Lew Kwan Leng, Justin Ripley, Yong Swee Keong
Design: Justin Ripley, Cynthia Lee
Content: Tsem Rinpoche, Justin Ripley, Pastor Shin Tan, Sarah Yap
Admin: Pastor Loh Seng Piow, Beng Kooi
I must thank my dharma blog team who are great assets to me, Kechara and growth of dharma in this wonderful region. I am honoured and thrilled to work with them. I really am. Maybe I don't say it enough to them, but I am saying it now. I APPRECIATE THESE GUYS VERY MUCH!
Tsem Rinpoche
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
A section for you to clarify your Dharma questions with Kechara’s esteemed pastors.
Just post your name and your question below and one of our pastors will provide you with an answer.
Scroll down and click on "View All Questions" to view archived questions.
Dear blog friends, you can submit your photos to this section by sending an email to tblogpics@gmail.com. Include your message in the "Subject" field (up to 250 characters only). Be sure to include your name in the subject field too!
We are continuously improving this blog, and a major upgrade will be coming in the near future. We invite all users to share your feedback with us, so that the next version of the blog will be even better. Just enter your comments in the space below.
Page Views By Country | ||
---|---|---|
United States | 6,917,378 | |
Malaysia | 5,192,507 | |
India | 2,714,797 | |
Bhutan | 996,913 | |
Singapore | 996,197 | |
United Kingdom | 978,740 | |
Nepal | 973,323 | |
Canada | 850,334 | |
Australia | 679,309 | |
Philippines | 571,298 | |
Indonesia | 491,842 | |
Germany | 397,168 | |
France | 327,813 | |
Brazil | 277,632 | |
Vietnam | 254,089 | |
Thailand | 232,737 | |
Taiwan | 220,637 | |
Italy | 193,267 | |
Spain | 174,272 | |
Netherlands | 170,848 | |
Mongolia | 156,741 | |
South Africa | 146,252 | |
Portugal | 142,817 | |
Sri Lanka | 138,865 | |
Türkiye | 138,825 | |
Hong Kong | 137,765 | |
Japan | 133,585 | |
United Arab Emirates | 126,180 | |
Russia | 123,515 | |
China | 115,965 | |
Romania | 110,801 | |
Mexico | 105,744 | |
New Zealand | 99,208 | |
Switzerland | 98,251 | |
Myanmar (Burma) | 93,017 | |
Sweden | 85,863 | |
Pakistan | 84,840 | |
South Korea | 82,104 | |
Cambodia | 72,674 | |
Poland | 8,007 |
Total Pageviews: | 27,788,239 |
---|
![]() |
Comments I like from
Giles Adeline Chan Tenchee
|
![]() |
I think Your Eminence is too humble, for me you are a very powerful Lama indeed. Read More I have been frequenting the website on a fairly regular basis as I found the extensive quality contents there not only impressive but also immensely illuminating and life enriching ... Read More I have been listening to his Dharma talks on Podcasts, youtube and recently in this blog. He really explains everything is such simple manner, its very hard not to comprehend ... Read More
|