I first met Winnie Lim last year when she requested for a divination. This was over a year ago, and ever since then she has been attending Kechara House's Setrap puja CONSISTENTLY for over six months now...

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Dear Rinpoche, Below are the questions and answers for the 4th blog chat quiz! What an amazing win for Ethan Hoo! He won the 2nd quiz and he won again today! Definitely a well deserved win for Ethan as he spends a lot of time reading up the blog. Thank you Rinpoche for the...

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At the end of last year, I blogged about a hunting service that was specifically catered to women who had a passion for hunting. Women, who usually brought along their daughters, would travel all over the United States to kill exotic animals...

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I’m not talking about that old cliche that everyone must love their mother. Some mothers are real bitches, so I’d forgive those people if they didn’t feel they could write an adoring blog post and host big parties in honour of Mommy Dearest. But My Mummy is the best Mummy in the world and...

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Dear blog friends, For the longest time since I was a young child, I always visualized, imagined and wished I lived in a large cave in the mountains. This cave would be very spacious. At the entrance of the cave would be my kitchen with a wood burning stove or any stove. Then as...

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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear everyone, I have loved beautiful art both spiritual and secular since I was very young. I really like Tibetan Buddhist iconography. It is so meaningful and has tremendous blessings. Every part of their holy body, color, gesture, stance, expression of any Buddha statue represents a facet of the Enlightened mind…so viewing...

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Dear friends,   Without discipline when growing up, as adults we give up easy. Find responsibility foreign. Take advantage of others and generally find it hard to bring plans to successful completion. A cheeky spoiled kid might seems cute at 9 but not at 19 or 29 or 39 or 49!! We all need...

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Apr 27, 2011 Many years ago I conceived the idea of Dharma Houses, where Dharma students can live together, share and support one another in their practice and Dharma work. It all began when a few students wanted to find a place to stay. So they shared a house together and I started naming...

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The best thing we can do for others is when we see so much suffering and feel compassion for them and want to do something is: Be an excellent nun or a monk. If cannot, then next best thing, practice the 8 verses combined with Lord Tsongkapa’s practice and dedicate to them. If we...

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    We always pray for long life. When we get longer life, then we have more samsaric activities to engage in. We always pray for more money. When we get it, we have more things to buy, more places to visit, more dinners to go, more acquisitions to obtain. We always pray for...

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Dear Rinpoche, Tonight’s quiz was undeniably tough!! But we all had fun for sure. I am very very happy for Jean Mei for winning the precious VY statue! We should not just treat this quizzes as just a quiz to win prizes. These quizzes actually helps all of us gain more knowledge simply by...

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Tuesday, February 28, 2012 Today I had to accomplish something that has been pending for a few years as there were many obstacles until now. I am not going to mention what it is here at this time, but it was something very good and very necessary. It will help me and Kechara to...

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I was associated with another centre which I pulled out of 12 years ago. When I left them, they said I would never make it. I would flop..hehe..I didn’t care they didn’t think I would make it or not, because I am not doing a business. I am practicing dharma. They said I was...

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Dear everyone, This was our second chat quiz on my blog and Ethan Hoo was the big winner!!!! Congratulations. It is fun… Tsem Rinpoche     Dear Rinpoche, What an exciting second quiz today! Everyone thought they could just google the answers, but in the end all of us were scrambling when that did...

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I was observing everyone on my blog chat space and I thought why don’t I make it a learning experience. So I decided to ask questions then and there with whoever was on chat which was quite many and have some fun. It was fun. I thought I asked 7 questions but it turned...

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Pastor Loh Seng Piow and Justin looked like they stayed up the whole night with no sleep in this picture… in fact they did. They were working with me on my blog that whole night. They both got along very well and respected each other alot. It was nice to see how they worked...

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Dear Rinpoche, Thank you for this video. I enjoyed it very very much. This one is definitely better in video, not audio! I find these teachings to be extremely clear, concise and very useful for beginners to tantra and even those who are not so new. But what struck me the most from the...

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Ok get ready and DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME OR ANYWHERE EVER….would you allow this? Would you feel safe? Would you not be worried…could you let this go on?? I read somewhere snakes have no loyalty. They can turn on the person feeding them even after years of care…..Would you do this?? Everything...

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My tastes totally vary and I have a very wide field of interest. I like creative, edgy, not run of the mill, abnormal, arty, expressive, open and accepting forms of art, music, movies, pictures, stills, houses, ideas AND PEOPLE…… Everyday and normal ideas can really bore me. I feel whatever we do WE MUST...

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The sounds of nature are very relaxing when you need to unwind. What I usually do after blogging or a long day is to play one of these videos in the background...

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