China’s Social Entrepreneur Wu Shihong One of my students, Pastor Shin sent me this article about this powerful lady, Juliet Wu Shi Hong… someone with no strong family background, no tertiary education, and on top of that, a woman, which in some parts of China is considered an inferior gender within the Chinese...
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On 13 April 2014, Kechara House organised a special prayer session to pray for the recent disappearance of flight MH370. Over 300 people attended the prayer to give their spiritual support to the families and friends of the passengers on MH370. Amongst them was YB Dato’ Sri Liow Tiong Lai (President of MCA), Tan...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear friends, Below is a very good article that asks a list of questions for other fellow senior Buddhists to reflect on. It is primarily based around the topic of whether Malaysian Buddhist organizations are reaching out to the youths of today in the best possible way. The article first seeks...
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I just read the news and found out that Singapore's best actor has taken ordination vows! Wow! I am so amazed!
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) We drove two hours from Bangkok to the world famous Damnoen Saduak Floating Market. There are many floating markets not far from Bangkok, but this one is the original...
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Last year when we started Kechara Forest Retreat, we had nothing on our land except for two slabs of cement on the ground. I wanted to live in KFR to personally oversee the construction work, so I decided to live in a container as it can be brought over to the land quickly and...
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Dear friends, I am not very familiar with Mingyur Rinpoche and today I came across all these letters on the internet by accident. I read through them and thought I must share these with a wider audience. The letters are very self explanatory. In this day and age to do what he has done...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Brief and simple practices for Buddhists to engage in to dispel black magic, spirits and unnatural disturbances. Homage to His Holiness the Dalai Lama and all my great Gurus who have kindly guided me for years. I’ve been visiting this wonderful country of Malaysia for over eight years now (this was...
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I would like to share with you a talk about wealth vases which I gave a few years ago. It was recently transcribed by one of my students. Wealth vases are very auspicious to have. They are powerful in attracting energies of wealth and increase... and are especially effective if you want to increase...
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Dear friends, This is a powerful book with powerful messages. Please share with your friends. Appreciating what we have and to not find excuses to fail is so important. This can be instilled in us now and better yet from a young age. When people understand what they have and don’t have, it helps them...
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Dear blog friends around the world, I have just purchased ten of these books to give away as gift because the message is very powerful. Whatever circumstances we want to believe that put these people in their predicaments is up to us but the fact remains we need to know their story. Perhaps to do...
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Dear Friends, You have to view this video. It is fantastic. It is inspiring and very necessary to watch and learn as part of our spiritual journey. We all need good examples and powerful inspirations to help us along the way...
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Devotion to the Buddha and Three Jewels is accomplished through useful activity towards society, that is responsible, consistent and completed. This devotion facilitates the perfection of the individual. Otherwise work towards the perfection will not be accomplished. ~Tsem Rinpoche (Explanation: Devotion is faith, trust, understanding that arises from study and observation. Perhaps from a guru. Useful activity towards society can...
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Wow! I LOVE this. I am always surprised by your upbeat way to deliver Buddha to everyone, and your innovation, of course! Thanks for keeping us all in the dharma. Thanks to you and your blog, which I was so attracted to, I found my teacher, Namnang Mingjo Dorje Rinpoche, I am so...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear Rinpoche, I come across dead animals on the road everyday, cats and dogs mainly. These animals are dead already when I see them and sometimes I see their bodies decompose day after day. Whenever I come across these animals, I do the Medecine Budhha mantra (7 x) and Namgyalma mantra...
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I can’t say I am an expert on depression clinically or otherwise because I’m not and I am not offering a medical solution. It is my advice based on meeting people and observing the same issues for the last 20 years countless times. This A.R. has written (I didn’t include the email) and I am...
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(译文请往下阅读) Dear Friends, Although I am currently in the USA, I always get good news about many people back in Kechara. I very much welcome and very happy to get good news. Today I was inspired to write something on a wonderful and very kind soul in our midst. Kechara Buddhist Pastor Yek Yee is a hero to me and inspiration also. She works hard and sometimes has no rest because she has so many house calls to request her to do blessings, funerals or purifications of negative energies on behalf of Kechara. She even blesses cars and counsels people w...
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Afternoon sky at Kechara Forest Retreat after the rain For those who seek true spirituality, The reason we find a teacher or spiritual mentor, join a dharma centre or study dharma is solely to incorporate the methods of Lord Buddha’s teachings into our mind streams. We do so by applying the dharma and the results gained will definitely benefit...
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Dear friends, Be warned. Some of the views here are very controversial and I don’t agree at all. I am placing this article here so people can understand how part of the ‘leadership’ here where I live think. Be it right or wrong is for you to decide and do leave me a comment. For...
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Do not miss this blog post dear friends around the world! Do not lose hope. Others have much more difficult situations than us. But if we keep doing what we do consistently, there is hope that one day we can achieve. Being complacent, lazy, moody, selfish and self absorbed will never get us to what...
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