May Ong’s offering to Ladrang kitchen
How nice our members consider what each dept might need, and generously offer. It gives the feeling that we are all one big spiritual family and care about eachother very much. That is a good feeling to nurture. Everyone would like to feel that belong to something and doing something of value.
Thank you May for being caring and loving towards Kechara as you belong here.
Tsem Rinpoche
Dear Ladrang,
May Ong and her son are in ladrang and May Ong bought a pasta maker, 2 pots and a sieve for ladrang kitchen.
Regards,
James
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May Ong’s offering of Kitchen utensils to Ladrang is different and unique in its own way. Although the main purpose of the offering is generosity. There is also a deeper meaning to it. I have contemplated and thought that whenever food that has been cooked for Rinpoche with the utensil is also an offering to Rinpoche. So everytime when kitchen cooks for Rinpoche is a new offering for Rinpoche again from May Ong. May has been in KH less than 2 years. She was impressed with KH and joined KH as fulltime staff. She is very active and also holds two portfolios. She works in Kechara Care and also as KH secretary.
May is really a great example of how getting involved in a Dharma centre with your whole heart makes such a huge difference from merely hopping in and out and never really making any commitment to your spiritual practice.
I second Yoke Fui in what she’s said. I remember that from the moment she met us at Wesak Fair last week, she really got stuck into the activities. She may not have liked everything, but she went in with an open mind and was willing to check out things for herself throughout the organisation. By the effort alone, she learnt so much and very quickly, and before she knew it, here she is full time now! (And getting her lovely son involved too, with the kids classes and volunteering around the centre).
It’s not often you find people who put so much effort into learning and getting involved and I’m happy for May that she is where she is now 🙂
Rinpoche has always encouraged his students to take responsibility and ownership of the entire kechara organisation. And not just to be stuck in our own departments. May Ong’s simple act of offering to ladrang is a wonderful example of her taking Rinpoche’s teachings to heart.
She put thought into her offering, giving something that would be useful to the organisation. I also see it as her way of saying thank you to the ladrang, which has been her office for the past few months, and to the ladrang staff (especially kitchen) which as fed her, cared for her and provided support whenever needed. Another of Rinpoche’s teachings absorbed and applied. Thank you May.
I absolutely concur with Rinpoche because I have never felt so comfortable and a sense of belonging in any “organization” before. It is really like one big spiritual family here in Kechara. Especially for someone “new” as myself, everyone has made the effort and has made me feel very welcome. Thank you!
However I also agree with Thierry wholeheartedly that we should really make some pasta. Hehehe. May has kindly and generously given us the tools, so lets help make some Dharma pasta!!! It would be indeed a waste if we didnt “use” this tool. This so aptly translates into every moment in life we go through. How we transform “everyday moments” into opportunities for doing Dharma.
This has always been stressed over and over again by Rinpoche how we are not sacrificing anything in doing Dharma but how we can incorporate it into our lives. Such is the amazing insight and wisdom of our guru that he uses methods that suit us in these distracting times!
And I am in complete agreement with Sharon that Rinpoche is indeed our inspiration through his incredible generousity from everything to his gifts of infinite Dharma right to thoughtful gifts of box of Gatorade, crisps and biscuits the moment Thierry and I arrived at the Ladrang straight from our flgiht back from Europe. Shining example! W cannot thank you enough!
May first came to Kechara through our Wesak Fair 2009. She found us different from other temples/Dharma centre. She also has an appetite for Dharma.
Soon , May is a regular participant at all the pujas and dharma classes. When she experienced the benefits, she wanted her family to share …. her son joined Manjushri Kids Class, her sister participated in KSK’s food distribution and her mother attended dharma classes with our Ipoh Study Group.
May certainly puts her dharma knowledge into practice by offering these kitchen utensils to the Ladrang’s Kitchen .
May your spiritual journey be joyful and fruitful, May !
Another kind gesture to the Ladrang kitchen from May Ong and her son. Being around Rinpoche and learning from his actions inspires us to do always the best we can to help other. Giving gifts is a wonderful expression of kindness and generosity. Giving to Rinpoche is a way to express gratitude and joy from our heart, deep in our heart for all the lessons, guidances and for the amazing teaching he is giving us all the time, everyday, all the time, through his way of living, doing, being and teaching. Rinpoche’s teaching is the most precious gift of all. With much gratitude,joy and discipline to practice the dharma.
That is so kind of May.. May Ong has joined Kechara full time only recently and i know it’s been not been an easy transition but she perseveres and tries very hard and that is fantastic. Thank you May for all you do for Kechara and lovely to see these gifts to Ladrang, the heart of Kechara.
One of my favourite features about Kechara is the spirit of generosity which pervades – of course inspired by the most generous of all, Tsem Tulku Rinpoche! Rinpoche always gives gifts of Dharma, time, love, care, advice.. the list is unending! Thank you as always Rinpoche!
Cool! Now that the kitchen has a pasta machine, let’s do some pasta!!! If one has the machine and all the ingredients and the opportunity but then nobody does pasta, it would not be honouring May and May son’s offering. It would be a waste to put it plain.
When you encounter the Dharma and then don’t do anything with it, it is a waste, worse than not using the pasta machine, because we can get some pasta at the next italian restaurant, but Dharma does not come about that easy!
By discarding the opportunity to do Dharma we create the causes for Dharma to be even more difficult to come across, let alone engage with later.
So let’s do some pasta and some Dharma, and Andrew and I would like to volunteer to make pasta at the ladrang, then we can offer it to the hard-working liaisons and Dharma staff and it becomes Dharma already lah… Dharma pasta! Yeaaah!
Way to go May ! You are too kind.
Where would we be without the kindness of others?
How nice to offer something that will be of use to people, to see a need and fill it, Dharma in action 🙂