Mooncake festival at KFR!
Today, the Kechara Forest Retreat (KFR) team held an event at KFR to celebrate the mooncake festival. I received many wonderful updates from a few of my students who...
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Today, the Kechara Forest Retreat (KFR) team held an event at KFR to celebrate the mooncake festival. I received many wonderful updates from a few of my students who...
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Photo of me and Sean taken a few years back..very sweet kid..Sean (far right) and some Kechara kids going to a movie with me a few weeks ago ...
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One of my students, Liaison Jamie Khoo was approached by Malaysian Airlines to write two articles on the hidden treasures of Nepal.
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I think I was around 12 years old back in Howell, New Jersey on a lazy Saturday afternoon when I flicked on channel 9 and this ‘strange’ 1967 Italian...
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A few weeks ago, I had a spontaneous idea to make a new postcard series that features our own beautiful Kechara people.
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I would like to share with you yet another wonderful news. One of my student, whom has been volunteering in the blog team for the past 1.5 years has...
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A small group of young Kecharians were invited to my house at Tsem Ladrang to have some fun there with the Ladrang staff! These kids are so fortunate to...
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Last night, our Kechara Forest Retreat (KFR) team organized another exciting event at our retreat land in Chamang. The day started with a morning durian party attended by Datin...
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Here is Levi, Rajendra, William and KB playing some pool together. We went grocery shopping that day and were walking around in the late afternoon and when I saw...
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I would like to share some joyful news with everyone. Two of my students have taken a step towards pursuing Dharma full time in Kechara!
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Another wonderful and successful lady has decided to join Kechara full time. Wei Theng, a very devoted student of mine has given up her blossoming career to work alongside...
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Mama Mooi Lan On the evening of May 19, I sadly went to perform funeral rites for Mama Mooi Lan… Mama Mooi Lan is my long-time Dharma friend who...
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May 13, 2012 (By Tsem Rinpoche) I like very much for students to give Dharma talks to other students. After all Dharma is to be learned, shared and realized by both teacher and student. So teaching dharma helps both the teacher and student. Take a look at these three who speaks are spe...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear friends, This is wonderful and auspicious news for our beloved Justin Ripley. 1. As you know I have requested a beautiful Manjushri statue to be...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Last Sunday I visited Kuantan Study group at afternoon. I brought Frederick Law with me in this trip. We arrived at Kuantan around 1230pm...
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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...
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(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...
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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...
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(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 frie...
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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...
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A few students of mine gave me some letters and gifts that is very meaningful and sincere. I thought I'll put it up in my blog to share it...
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Dato Ruby Khong have been one of my closest students for almost 18 years now. She is a very strong woman, dedicated and kind... she never gives excuses, works...
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Dear friends, I went up to the mountains with 19 of my students to enjoy a picnic, dharma talk and puja in the mountains today March 11, 2012....
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Several months back, I painted a Dzambala for my long time student Girlie Ooi as a special gift for all her hard work and devotion towards...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear Serious Spiritual Aspirants, For those of you in Dharma who wishes to move ahead and eventually practice the higher teachings (Tantra and Vajra Yogini, Yamantaka,...
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I am very happy for this blog post…do take a read. I like anything that creates harmony and understanding. Every year, the United Peace Federation (in Kuala Lumpur)...
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Dear friends, Last week I went with a small group to visit some mountains and a waterfall around 1.5 hours drive from Kuala Lumpur. I love outdoors and nature....
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Dear everyone, Vincent Cheng posted the following on my chat on the blog… Wow… some people like Vincent really post with great substance, honesty, meaning..and self realizations… I wanted...
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A few years back, when Kechara started to grow exponentially, I needed proper management from skilled and or dedicated individuals to get the organization to keep running smoothly.
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A wonderful person named Wendy Loh has decided to use her skills, accumulated from her years working within the film industry, to contribute what she can to Kechara Media...
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Dear blog friends, Look at these sincere gifts and the message that came along with it. I had to blog this and share with everyone. I appreciate what has...
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This morning at the Kechara Grand Festival of Wealth and Protection (GFWP), we had a colouring contest which started at 9.30 am. 30 people participated… both children and adults...
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For the next two days, Kechara is holding the 2012 Grand Festival of Wealth and Protection (GFWP)! Last year’s Grand Setrap Puja was such a successful event, that for...
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Three liaisons from Kechara went to participate in the Global Buddhist Congregation. Everyone from His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama to highly respected Sangha members to observers and pilgrims...
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Dear friends, Within this past month, 4 more people have decided to join Kechara full-time! I got the blog team to write a short bio on each of them…...
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Valentina Suhendra is a beautiful Indonesian lady whom I had met in 2006. It was the year before that where she came to Malaysia for one of her business...
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On Friday, 23rd December 2011, I was in my room with Justin Ripley and one or two other people, and we were all having a conversation about work and...
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The Kalmyk community recently celebrated 60 years in the United States at a gala dinner event in Atlantic City, hosted by the Kalmyk American Culture and Arts Foundation. More...
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Hope Rinpoche is well and that everything is going very smoothly in Singapore. This is just to update Rinpoche that our teenaged Kechara member, Hecelus Tan, has finished his...
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A few months ago, Jill Carroll contacted me. During that time, she was dealing with the loss of her beloved dog, and just like everyone else who has lost...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Last week, on the 21st to the 25th of November, a group of my students (Kecharians) went to Nepal on a pilgrimage trip. Hardworking and kind Su...
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One thing I like about Kecharians is they know when to work hard and they also know when to play hard. They are really dedicated to the Dharma so...
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A Monash University graduate, a degree holder in Commerce and Statistics, 9 years of experience in the Insurance industry, General Manager of Hong Bee, founder of Oui Man… and...
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While most 12 year old boy’s celebrate their birthday to be able to get lots of presents and to play with their friends, Edward Ooi chose to do it...
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Lai has just been hired as a freelance compositor/ editor for our Paranormal blog section!...
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Below is a competition that the blog team has come up with. It’s fun and everyone will love the prize! If you are coming to this post as a...
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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
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Good morning Rinpoche! Please accept my deepest gratitude for all teachings you have given on the blog. Through your blog, I have learned so much and discovered I have even ... Read More Rinpoche - You are truly an inspiration! Your example is itself a Dharma teaching that we should all follow! Read More
Would you please send my best regards and appreciation to Tsem Rinponche on the advices me of reciting Medecine Buddha and blow on the creatures before releasing them.
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