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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
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"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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Tsem Rinpoche at Kechara Forest Retreat, Bentong, Malaysia
You guys are going to have a cute attack with these two super adorable videos of Tsem Rinpoche’s doggies Oser and Dharma.-
https://youtu.be/JX1UdH7IjQ8
And
https://youtu.be/YGD7CtNmnuI
The videos JUST came out!
Enjoy!
Mumu so adorable, and Mumu look smart and steady.. In previous life Mumu must be very talented and very smart.
Love : Eric kksiow
Wow! This picture of Mumu is so adorable. It makes me wanna cuddle with him. Mumu is so adorable. Mumu looks a little fatter in this picture. He is thinner now due to his exercise and companions. He is never sad and is always in a great mood. He is always there to cheer anyone up. He can brighten the darkest of days. Mumu is the best!
Mumu is really such a special doggie… he is not an ordinary doggie. When he first came to Rinpoche, he would cry every night afraid to sleep alone and Rinpoche would have to him beside Rinpoche to sleep with him. Rinpoche literally changed his entire sleep area and moved downstairs in the living room to actually sleep with mumu and personally look out and trained him. Mumu also loves it when we do pujas and prayers. Whenever Rinpoche does tsog, mumu would always come sit next to Rinpoche very quietly. Rinpoche have told us before that mumu could have been a monk who broke his vows but because he has some Dharma imprints and merits, hence he has been reborn near a Lama, which is very fortunate for mumu. And when Rinpoche says this story, mumu would give a long howl. Amazing!
Mumu is really the most sensitive, human like doggie I have ever met, he really is smart and knows what you are talking about. He also has many complications about his health, his skin, his diet and this has been a huge part of our training in caring and being kind to others or those that cannot talk back to us to say “Thank you”. Mumu is really a precious Ladrang team member and we love him so much. To see more of mumu in action playing with http://blog.tsemtulku.com/tsem-tulku-rinpoche/funnies/mumu-camper.html
and here is a video on Mumu care… http://blog.tsemtulku.com/tsem-tulku-rinpoche/videos/mumus-care.html
Mumu is so cute in this picture. He looks a bit tired. He really loss a lot of weight now comparing to this picture. He looks so much thinner now. I guess it is because he is on a vegetarian diet. Hehe.
Same here. I love my dog very much. It is funny that any movements that she makes can be so sweet in my eyes – be that she is snoring away or gobbling down her foods.
I am very afraid of the day when we have to part each other, that will be my very sad day. She in now in her 10th year and can have another 5 years or more, or perhaps less, depending on her health.
I give her the best that I can afford, I want her to be happy.
Now the best part is the I will blow mantra onto her after my daily prayer and then put my prayer book on her forehead hoping that she can reborn as a human in her next life and to have the chance to meet dharma as well. She is wearing the pet pendant from Kechara.
Beside those physical cares, I believe spiritual part is the best that I am now offering to her, for these are not only for her present but also future lives.
I hope all pet owners can take good care of their pets. They can all very sweet darlings.
When I first saw that Tsem Tulku Rinpoche had a schnautzer under his care, I was surprised, I actually did not expect that a high tibetan lama would have a dog, let alone a schnautzer…
Then I thought there was actually no reason why he souldn’t, and that I only made assumptions as to why a lama should or should not have a dog.
I had expectations, and I had assumed, perhaps this was one of Rinpoche’s first teaching to me, not to go towards something or someone with pre-conceived idea or with assumptions.
I recall a quotation from Rinpoche in “IF NOT NOW WHEN”, that says
“ASSUMPTION CREATES WAR, CLARIFICATION CREATES PEACE”
Wow, and I thought that my assumptions were “innocent”… How wrong I was.
Check out this link for more info on “IF NOT NOW WHEN”
http://www.kechara.com/publications/news/if-not-now-when-launches/
Aiyohhhhh look at his cute little face! How can you not want to give him a treat, or just let him get away with pure murder! Rinpoche has trained Mumu really well…I think with anyone else, the little monster would’ve turned into pure destruction – his cuteness will let him get away with anything! I remember Rinpoche saying that he put so much time and effort into training Mumu, so that when he grows up he is a good boy that everyone loves, and not scolds.
I think that’s another way we can show love to our animals, by training them properly. The problem is many people buy animals when they’re cute, and don’t train them properly. And when those animals grow older, they turn into absolute monsters so families give them away. With so many neglected and abandoned animals, it’s about time an animal sanctuary like Kechara Animal Sanctuary was established! ( http://www.kechara.com/animal-sanctuary/ )
Did you know that Mumu loves fruits and vegetables, and was on a long-term vegetarian diet BY CHOICE? He sure is one unique schnauzer. How many other dogs do you know who are Vegetarian?
Rinpoche has always encouraged others to adopt a vegetarian lifestyle and has even offered to make prayers and offerings for those who will commit to do so. Personally, I became a full vegetarian at the end of 2008 and have never looked back. It wasnt easy at the beginning because I still had cravings for some meat dishes. But its second nature now and I have no regrets.
Here’s a video to inspire you to become vegetarian too:
http://www.kechara.com/animal-sanctuary/video/shocking-must-watch/fine-dining-not-so-fine-after-all-find-out-why/