There are many, many beautiful sites in Bolivia that the current President, Evo Morales, feels should all be legally protected. This is on top of any existing national and international law relating to nature...

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Most of us lead very busy lives. Some people even feel that their lives are so busy that the have little time for themselves, let alone friends and family. These days, it’s an easy trap to fall into due to the hectic nature of life. However, if you stop for a moment and imagine...

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I always have dried dog food packed in ziploc bags in my car. Whenever I go out and I see hungry dogs/cats, I stop the car and feed them. It is very satisfying to feed animals. It’s painful to see them hungry. It is painful to see them thin and weak. So while I...

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Sometimes it can be difficult to define or explain just exactly what compassion or loving kindness is. Sometimes all it takes is a simple, yet profound example to demonstrate compassion in a way far more powerful than even a thousand words. Lama Kunzang Dorjee, of Jangsa Gompa in Kalimpong, India, provides us with such...

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Research seems to point towards a plant based diet. The American Cancer Society is taking a “strong stand” as increasingly over the years, the research points towards the consumption of all meat, eggs, and dairy products as being a cause in the development of various cancers. It has also been said that the source...

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I have consulted a few doctors (Chinese and Western) and they have advised me to lose some weight, through both exercise and my diet. I have tried going on many diets before..

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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Soon Kechara House will be having a Lamrim retreat in our gompa. At my request, Liaison Yap Yoke Fui has very kindly brought together a committee to organise this retreat. The goal is for 8000 recitations of the Lamrim to be completed by the first quarter of 2012. The Lamrim is...

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List of Prayers A Short Daily Sadhana Eight Verses of Training The Mind Offering The Mandala Other Preliminary Prayers Taking Refuge and Generating Bodhicitta The Four Immeasurables The Nine Attitudes of Devotion to the Guru Advice from Atisha’s Heart Light Offering Prayer General Prayers 50 Verses of Guru Devotion Long-life Prayer by Kensur Konchok...

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Dear fellow friends, I like the attitude in Japan where you wouldn’t put an end to a family member’s life just because you were inconvenienced would you? Same for your pets. I like the 24 hour clinics for pets they have with state of the art equipment. I wish we had this here in...

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We are all going to live on this planet together. We will always all have our own foods, dance, music, clothes, culture, history, architecture, thinking and religions. We can sit for the rest of our lives and find differences within each other that we don’t agree on. We can find differences between Siamese twins...

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You know the old adage, hardship really pushes us to the top… Well in the case of this inspirational young man from Korea, it really is true. It is true for many. When you are left to your own and have no recourse, you either push, work, push, work and make it or the...

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I myself have gone for acupuncture treatment numerous times and I can truly see a massive difference in my previous health problems before and after treatment. Most of the needle points do not hurt at all, but just a few could feel some pain as the meridian line was not clear. Once cleared, if...

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Kb, Monlam and Pastor Loh Seng Piow work very well together and help me alot in my daily affairs… They are very harmonious… I like them plenty… Alot of the things I can accomplish is because of them. They live with me and stay in the same house with me. When I travel, two...

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Steamboat, or hotpot, is essentially a big pot that is kept at a constant hot temperature. The pot contains a soup stock that is prepared before-hand...

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After Dharma rested for one night in his new home with us, next day he went for full medical check up and he is ok!! Great. So that day I introduced him to Mumu and Oser…Dharma was so excited to see Mumu and Oser. Dharma kept chasing them to play. Mumu as usual very...

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News from www.kechara.com: Lim Boon Chai, 41 years old, never expected himself to have a son especially at his age, and his youngest daughter being 12 years old. However, the part that Lim least expected was that his son would be born prematurely, when he was only 30 weeks old. Already a father of...

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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear Rinpoche, I have a picture of tangka of the Medicine Buddha from your site and I’m very interested about any information about the wrathful forms of the Medicine Buddha depicted below Him. Can you tell me please their names and practices or any information about them? Can their practices or...

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Dear Rinpoche, The Grand Setrap obstacle removing retreat has concluded with the following final counts – Mantra : 2,331,336 Serkym : 225,368 Kawang : 224,495 Attached is pix of group photo of the happy retreatants. Regards, Yoke Fui (A nice photo and text message I recieved and thought I’d share here. This group just finsihed...

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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Our group just arrived back to Malaysia from a successful spiritual trip from Nepal today Saturday, June 4, 2011. Everyone felt the trip was too short and the time sped by too fast..hehe..Nepal will do that to you..it’s a very exciting place to be…. They visited many holy places, made offerings, did powerful aspirational...

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These are pictures of myself in Nepal in 2008, the place is by a river and right next to the river near me is the cave of the Great Mahasiddha Naropa and his Guru Tilopa. I had taken about sixty over people there on a pilgrimage with me, and we all visited that cave...

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