
I would like to share with everyone about Terrance whom has worked in Burger King for 8 years, yet finds it so difficult to make ends meet for his 3 daughters and fiance.
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I would like to share with everyone about Terrance whom has worked in Burger King for 8 years, yet finds it so difficult to make ends meet for his 3 daughters and fiance.
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Dear friends, I found this article very applicable to questions we do really need to ask ourselves. Questions that perhaps only we can answer for ourselves. You should really read this article twice and be totally realistic in what it says. Does it apply to ourselves and if so how? When we face the truth,...
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Dear blog friends, You must watch this video and be totally flabbergasted, amazed and inspired. I guess with anything in life you have to want it bad enough by remembering the benefits. What do you have to lose if you go all the way. But you have everything to lose if you...
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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 ordered, painted and filled with mantras and Justin's ashes and bones. This statue will be placed in the Monastic School where hundreds of young monks...
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My parents were 100% against me to follow dharma, study dharma or do dharma in any way. They told me I have to get a real job, real career and make myself respectable. They told me if I did dharma or become a monk, they would lose face and disown me. I didn’t want...
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(中文请往下看) Dear friends, Many years ago I was in the car with one of my teachers. He told me I should write a book about my life story. I politely declined. I thought there is nothing much I would like to share about my life nor would it be of interest to anyone. He insisted. He talked for quite a while telling me that I may not be interested or find my life interesting, but others may. It would inspire others. I was flabbergasted thinking I CAN INSPIRE OTHERS???? I really from the depths of my heart never thought I can inspire othe...
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Dear friends, This was sent to a dharma student of mine. But when I read it through, I thought it might benefit more people. These 15 points I wrote for someone doing Dharma work, but it applies just as easily for secular work. Of course all the points I wrote are generalizations, but see...
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Dear friends, I came across this Introduced by Lindsay Wagner, this method can help release strong negative emotions such as anger, jealousy, revenge, unwanted responses and stress. Energy psychology uses acupuncture tapping to release the negative emotions via the body directly, bypassing the mind so that the emotions need not be processed mentally. This...
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People who say they wish to do Dharma work full time must show results. You don’t just do Dharma work when you join Dharma work full time. But evenings and weekends can be spent doing Dharma work if you are sincere immediately now. You don’t have to have the perfect circumstances to do dharma...
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“Find What You Love” Steve Jobs’ at Stanford University Steve Jobs, who stepped down as CEO of Apple Wednesday after having been on medical leave, reflected on his life, career and mortality in a well-known commencement address at Stanford University in 2005. Here, read the text of that address: I am honored to...
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How to Climb the Corporate Ladder by Josh Goh, assistant director of corporate services, The GMP Group While being well-qualified may give you a foot in the door, it may not necessarily guarantee that cushy job at the top. You need a smart plan and not just petty schemes. Have a career plan. Job...
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You know, it’s strange, I’ve been saying this most of my life… and the good thing is, it’s applicable in whatever situation and to whatever background we come from religious or not. But I am so glad Steve Jobs says the same thing… he has wisdom. In the end, it is what we have...
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When we need to drink porridge* for now during the difficulties with everyone together, we should. Then later when we can share rice** with eachother, we do it proudly that we didn’t give up and supported eachother through the difficulties. ~Tsem Rinpoche Stick it out. Never allow yourself to give up. Be loyal with...
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I saw this picture and some information on a FB post..it was intriguing…I wanted to blog this inspiration…People like Eric are so powerful that they succeed in their chosen field, but they don’t stop where they are…they go further and push themselves to think and do more. Powerful people who inspire others to be...
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“I was not Dharmically-inclined at all” That was an interesting statement coming from a young lady, whom at the age of 22, decided to make Dharma the main focus in her life. Carmen’s first exposure to Kechara was way back in 2007, when she and her best friend Jean Mei decided to go for...
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When I first arrived in Gaden in 1987, I had very little money. I had no financial support. I needed only US$50 a month to buy basic needs, some foods and items. The monastery provides one bowl of rice and a large spoon of lentils once a day at the time and sometimes (1x...
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While thinking earlier, I came to some more understanding. However other people act towards me or anyone, should not affect me much as it was never between them and me but between me and karma. What I need to watch out for is my mind and the reactions. When I am unhappy then the...
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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 cannot comment on other religions, but before we conclude so easily on karma, its effects, how it comes, goes and latent karma, dormant karma, you study first. Study the texts on karma and how Buddha describes it for us. It will be much easier to apply to this situation and every situation in...
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Dear Everyone, Plse Remember: To be a leader, an example, or a good person we have to always give the credit to others SINCERELY who work with us. Because they make us who we are. Without them we are nothing.. Always take the blame when we are wrong n never put our mistakes onto...
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