Dharma sharing by Joey, Wan & Pastor Chia
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 speaking. Let me know which talk you found easy to absorb. Let them know how you feel. It’s good to get feedback. Take the time to give feedback. Thanks.
Tsem Rinpoche
Joey Wong
Wan
Pastor Chia (中文)
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Dharma sharing is not an easy task, as it has to be accurate and based on reliable sources. Especially when the sharing comes from the heart, it will resonate with the audience and leave an indelible mark, which is most valuable for Dharma seed to be planted and grow, in my opinion. As Dharma sharing without personal examples or reference are merely theories which we can read from books. Therefore, I rejoice to the three Dharma brothers and sister in this courageous sharing.
Everyday, so many things happen, we made promises to whoever that came along my way. The moment we realized, we have made too many promises. The problem starts when we cannot even fulfill half of the promises. Next thing that happen will be broken promises and disappointments. When we cannot do it, we just have to tell be straightforward. Do not have to be afraid of letting others down because you cannot make a promise to them. Anyhow, if you cannot fulfill what you promised, the damage will be even worst. No matter we make or fulfill the promise, if we made it out of love and care, you should be able or at least we tried. When you made your promise for the sake of making others to like you, that is one of the reasons for you to fail. At the end of the day, you might be lazy, do not like to do it, crash with other thing or just forgot, all sorts of excuses to not to
I like wan use herself
I like Wan using herself as an example to explain what is integrity. She speaks well and she has many points to share and these are things that we are facing everyday. Let’s start working on it now.
Thank you Rinpoche for sharing this video to us!!
Thank you sharing from Pastor Chia,Wan and Joey,I like all three of sharing sessions from them.They sharing the Dharma very clearly, confident, all of them are giving us very clear speech with own experiences.Wish they can help to spread the Dharma taught by Tsem Tulku Rinpoche to the whole world,can benefit more peoples!!
I like Wan’s sharing very much as she has a wealth of knowledge as she has been a close student of Rinpoche for 10 years now. And now she can share it with others together with her own personal experience. Everyone spoke well and it was easy to understand. However, felt that Wan’s message was clear and sincere. She spoke with confidence and I am very proud of her n surprised. It was easy to understand and digest as it was from honesty.
I also like Joey’s sharing and I’ve always known Joey to be very intelligent with a photographic kind of memory. He has great potential and we can see that clearly from his talk. It was honest and truthful and Dharmic.
Thank you all for this great sharing of Dharma that is not dry from a text book but with substance especially when it relates to one’s personal spiritual journey. It then becomes real. Thank you again and well done guys x
很开心也很欢喜见到Wan, Pastor Chia 和 Joey 给于佛法的开示。Wan 是我多年的佛教师姐。当年初接触克切拉，是她把我拉近佛教和仁波切，她会花很多的时间，耐心的解答对佛教的种种问题。她就如我姐姐一般。
Joey 变得成熟很多，他并不善于在公众面前讲说，可是看了他这一个佛法的分享，他跨越了内心的“惧怕”，将课题准备好，并和大家分享。Pastor Chia 是仁波切多年的学生，假若当年他没放开在新加坡的餐饮工作，相信今时今日他或许还在厨房宰杀上千条的鱼儿。在修行里，跨出第一步是非常重要的。
Wan and Joey have impressed me greatly by their well-prepared delivery of their Dharma sharing on Integrity. Joey had my full focus from the beginning to end. He spoke from the heart in a relational way(relating Integrity to his own spiritual journey). He was honest about himself and the rough patches of the past. I like his way of saying that though he had been a victim of environmental influence, yet there was a solution to his ‘problem’ and ‘failing’ of lack of integrity.He spelled out the solution clearly.
As he spoke about failing his Spiritual guide by his past persistent lack of integrity, I found that what he said struck at the core of my being. How much I myself have let my Spiritual Guide down and how much hurt I have caused him. Very powerful indeed was the effect of Joey’s delivery
Wan, of course being a veteran student of Rinpoche, well-seasoned in Rinpoche’s teachings cum a liason of KH, well equipped with an adequate knowledge of Dharma, will certainly be able to speak with much more confidence than many others. Whereas, Joey is more a scholarly type of speaker, with what he can deliver comes mainly from books/Rinpoche’s teachings, not leaving out the experiences from his daily living condition of life itself. Pastor Chia,s delivery in Mandarin may be extracted from his closed association with Rinpoche who had nutured him extensively through the years, very beneficially to PastorChia. Like the saying goes, “Whatever he said comes from real experience of Dharma itself direct from the Guru Himself!” Anyway, it was an impressive deliverance.
I was there at the talk given buy Pastor Chia. He delivered the Dharma very clearly, confident, friendly and attractive. Rejoice for him. The best part is Pastor Chia spoke very confident and with smiling face compare with last time.
Thank you guys for a wonderful talk. I like all of them although I didn’t understand the talk Pastor Chia gave as it was in Mandarin. I must say, I am proud of Joey Wong for having improved his public speaking skills. Looking at him, I am impressed because he doesn’t come across as someone who could speak well in public. But, I am glad I was wrong and that he has put in effort to improve himself.
I do hope that he would find more opportunities to speak in public because that will be a self-esteem boost and it would have many benefits for him on many levels. Joey Wong is very intelligent and has a tremendous memory especially for all things Dharma-related. I do hope he would have many more opportunities to share his Dharma knowledge with people.
On the other hand, I must say Wan spoke with a lot of authority and was crystal clear with her points. She is another highly intelligent student of Rinpoche that had been very quiet over the years. It is perhaps time that she share more with the younger people in the Dharma. We need older students of Rinpoche to share more of their knowledge and experience so they gain more faith and do more Dharma for themselves and others.
Joey and Wan spoke with courage and resolute. Obviously, both of them are new to public speaking, but I admired they strength to stand infront of the audience and gave their best. I learned something new from both of them while listening. One always does if one is listening.
thank you rinpoche for sharing this video and also pastor chia,joey,wan.I really really like this dharma talk and shared with us.
Thanks Pastor Chia, Joey and Wan sharing, all of u are giving us very clear speech with own experiences.
Wan relate her sharing on a mother side, this really can connect the audience that already have family.
Joey is very sincere sharing, he speak out most of the young people mistakes and thoughts. Hopefully he may inspire young peoples become a better person like him.
Pastor Chia always giving clear, soft and understanding speech. His experience give us a very good example of the benefits of transformation. And we should always be reminded that every effort u do sure u will get the result…
I enjoy the sharing by all 3 speakers. We conversed so often but sharing is 1st time 🙂
I fell Joey’s talk is easy to absorb. I like he structured it well (for example at the start, he immediately categorize into 2 part, secular and spiritual), and the way he gave a lot of examples.
I would recommend that both Joey and Wan to take a small piece of note so that all important points are covered. Or you can use your Galaxy, more “high tech” 🙂
Also, Joey has a lot of small gestures which if you can stop them, it would be good 🙂
Thank you all again!!!
Dear Joey
I have met you several times throughout the years, I met you in October 2007 when you have just started to work at IT division in Kechara, I met you in May 2008 when we were doing food distribution for KSK and ended up having dinner with a group of volunteers. Then I did not see you for sometime, I got news that you have decided to leave Kechara and worked somewhere else. Then in January 2012, I saw you again when I asked your help to carry some heavy offerings to the ladrang. You were grumbling and left the offerings near the front gate. Later that night, I saw you in the audience talking with Rinpoche.
But today, when I saw your video giving talk about integrity, I was impressed. You did not seem like the person that I thought you were. I like your honesty and the fact that you did not try to cover anything to save your face and told the audiences about why and how you have tried to improve. I am truly happy for you.
Please keep up the good work :-)!!!
Valentina
Thanks to everyone that shared! It’s always good to see the Dharma in action! For me, I think Joey’s talk resonated the most. His talk was very “real” and very easy to relate to.
Thank you Rinpoche for sharing this video to us and thank you to Joey, Wan and Pastor Chia for Dharma sharing..
I really like Wan Dharma sharing and his own experience that we can easily to understand it well. I hope you all will give more Dharma speech to benefits others people:)
I just finished watching all 3 videos. All of the speakers spoke well but personally I like Wan’s talk the most. It was easy to digest yet powerful and sincere.
I felt Wan was sincere and confident in her talk. She spoke very smoothly without any text, just based on her own experience. I’ve seen Wan talk before but this one really got me listening attentively.
Thank you all for sharing!
I like all three sharing sessions from Wan, Joey & Pastor Chia.
All three talked confidently and sincerely from their heart. They reasoned what made them neglect the important of integrity and after realizing how hurtful and damaging for not keeping promises, they are doing their best to be on track, not to slip again by keeping integrity in practice.
I experienced their sincerity and wanting to repay guru’s kindness through practicing integrity.
Among the three speakers, Joey’s talk I absorbed the most, he gave a very logical example WHY HE HAS NO INTEGRITY IN THE PAST?
Joey admitted that he was grown up in the environment that the parents never value promises hence he sees no value of integrity in his life before he met Rinpoche.
From Joey’s testimonial, may all parents value and practice integrity and set a good example to their kids before its too late.
Thank you guys for sharing your dharma knowledge.
I find that you all share sincerely from your heart on what you have learned honestly and openly. What you have all displayed here is your devotion to Rinpoche, which I strongly believe is the main and only way to achieve higher goals in dharma.
Joey and Pastor Chia’s talk are both focus on self-reflection, specifically on their practice, which many people can relate to. It shows how self-reflection, determination, patience and integrity lead people to. With Joey especially, he reminded me on an occasion about 13 years ago where I did not deliver my promise and the consequences I had to face then. This made me realised I do not always have integrity as I thought I have and there is nothing to be proud of.
Wan’s way of presentation is also done based on self-reflection. The difference is that she invites her listener into the picture of integrity she was portraying and got my involvement into reflecting on some points she made while listening to her. It was like listening to a story teller where you want to follow to make sure you get to the exciting part of a story, but in a soft and nice way. I felt relaxed listening to her. The part where she mentioned about her mom who kept promise got my attention most, and I understand that this should not be limited to mother and child relationship, but to any relationships if we want good things to happen. If simple thing like getting a partner, friends, good report card results (that mostly bring us no where) needed integrity, what more about spiritual achievement that will benefit other and ourselves ultimately?
I was there at the talks given by Wan and Joey, and both impressed me. They both gave talks that were very structured and given without any notes, which shows that they prepared well.
The talk of Joey got my full attention, because he was talking of real, direct experience of both having grown up and lived with people that lack integrity and also of having shown a lack of integrity himself. The talk was honest, it was open, there was no face-saving excuses or explanations, and it was not a “public confession” kind of display neither.
It was a grown up talk about integrity, taping into his own experience without drama or guilt, but with intelligent regret, analysis and ways forward.
While listening, I had my own failures in integrity coming back to the surface of my mind cracking through the weak layer of “justification make-up” I had built over it.
And I suddenly started to feel not so proud, I think I even blushed and I had to take a composed posture to not look too embarrassed.
This shows that Joey’s talk was good, at least for me, because it effected in me developing regrets too…
This is the first time i heard Wan speak in public. She has been a student of Rinpoche for almost 10 years hence she has vast knowledge of the dharma. All meetings with Rinpoche is 90% dharma and 10% of discussion laced with alot of wit. Where else can we find such precious knowledge and fun all in one session?!
Yesterday, Wan spoke with confidence. She has prepared well for this as her thoughts are organised and her examples are easy to relate to. I enjoyed the session very much. Hope Wan will have more of such sharing session so that all the knowledge that Rinpoche has given us can be shared with our new Kecharians.
Yes, Wan spoke with confidence. This is certainly from the years she’s been in dharma and being one of Rinpoche’s close students.
Joey was less confident but I find he sounded very sincere. Joey reads widely on his own and has a very good memory. I hope Joey will apply his knowledge in his daily life and not waste his freedom and endowments.