While she was at it, a group of my younger students decided to help her out...did they really help her out or mess things out? hehe watch the video below to find out!

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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear friends,  I was on blog chat the other day. I starting talking about stupas and Lord Atisha. Everyone was very interested.  Our chat became very busy, many inputs and many from around the world starting chatting. That day we used the chat box for learning purposes…So I asked the people...

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Dear friends, I have spoken on this subject many times and I think it is time students talk, contemplate and share with others. Here we have Joy who has been with me for around 11 years sharing this text with Shin and Andrew. Shin has been with me around 8 years and Andrew joined...

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Below are the questions and answers for the 5th blog chat quiz. Joey Wong really did a good job answering 3 out of 7 questions correctly hence winning the quiz!! It is very exciting to see more and more people participating in the chat quizzes. For the 5th chat quiz, 27 people participated!...

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Along with this card came a beautiful Medicine Buddha statue which I appreciated so much. This sincere card came from Ms Jace Chong of Kechara InMotion dept. This is the dept that produces shows and videos within Kechara. Jace is a young girl and works full time in Kechara. She is the type of person...

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Dear friends, I had Kwok Wai and Bonita give a talk last night May 3, 2012 on the “This Is Important To Know” post. I have been given giving teachings for decades. Some absorb, some understand, some partially understand, some apply it to themselves, some get nothing from it. Everyone is different… All is fine,...

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This is the latest ‘interesting’ video from our superstar Court Jester aka David Lai…Get ready to laugh until you collapse… A few of us and David were sitting around talking and guess what? David told us when he was much younger (he’s a single child) he would come home, bored and looking for something...

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How would you feel having a hole in your stomach? Ever since cows were fistulated, this issue has caused an uproar to many groups that are against animal cruelty and animal experimentation.

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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Hecelus wrote me a beautiful card stating that he wishes to do more for his next Retreat!

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I have never viewed animals as food, but as other beings living on our planet. For a long time now, I have been encouraging my students to take vegetarian vows and many have. Some have taken on vegetarian vows a few times a week, some once a week and some even once a month…...

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Ok, who is ready to see something super duper funny??? Yes, it is my personal Court Jester (宫廷小丑). He himself found the hat and brought it over… so now whenever he comes over, he is suppose to tell me stories to entertain me?? And give me new news… I like news… Hehe… what do you think… is he on the way to egolessness or what?? Do leave a nice comment to let him know if it cheered up your day and the video was funny?? Put a smile on your face?? Well who said Kechara doesn’t make dharma and spirituality fun??? We lik...

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  In our short lives we have trusted in so much that turned out to be short term results, no results, sad results or results that are disappointing. Top of the list are the chasing of money, paying off commitments, dragging ourselves to hell and back for relationships that end nowhere, fantasizing materialism brings...

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Dato' Ruby, my close student and President of Kechara Soup Kitchen (KSK) sent me interesting updates earlier today regarding an event organised by Sodexo along with KSK . The event, Sodexo Malaysia Servathon 2012 was a joint community effort by Sodexo and KSK to serve food to over 1000 people.

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（中文请往下看） This is very important for our well being of mind, body, relationships, emotions, work, family and spiritual… please read and contemplate deeply… I wrote it from experience, thoughts and talking to hundreds of people. I am no expert, but it might help… When we are given an assignment, we should FIND REASONS TO COMPLETE IT… never give reasons why we ‘couldn’t’ do it. In life being selective might be ok for vice, but when it comes to your spiritual path and you have taken refuge, being selective is not a good sign especially when y...

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I have just received an mms update from Beng Kooi regarding Kechara's Sunway Pyramid Wesak Fair and thought it would be great to share this wonderful event with all my blog readers.

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Ever since I was a child, I have been doing my daily prayers. I have compiled a book of prayers over the years that now makes up my daily sadhana...

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The larger vase contains special items and this will be buried into the entrance wall of our huge Chapel coming up in Kechara Forest Retreat. This vase has two functions. To protect those who enter the sacred chapel from magic/negative energy/negative spirits and second is to have magnetizing power to attract positive energy. Draw...

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I have always loved to make offerings of the most beautiful and extensive kind. I get offerings from people also and I want everyone to get the most out of it... so I think offering to the Three Jewels is the best...

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When we have been so fortunate to meet Buddha's teachings we should think what did I do to deserve this?...

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If you think killing animals against their will, skinning them, gutting them, chopping them up, cooking them up just to please your taste buds helps your spirituality in anyway, you are heavily deluded. Suffering of any kind you give others… that you are involved in directly and indirectly is the total opposite of all...

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