(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear students and friends, As Buddhists, incense is a common item on our altar. We use it to purify offerings before we present it to the Buddhas or offer the incense directly to the Buddhas. When we offer incense to the Buddhas, we should not take it only as a physical...
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（译文请往下阅读） (By Tsem Rinpoche) Breaking samaya to the guru is very serious setback for our spiritual practice, for the growth of our mind and in general our overall peace. As the days pass by it will seem like nothing is happening, but we will see our attachments grow, anger grows and our distance to the dharma grows. We will be happy to engage in deeds that have no ultimate meaning and justify it and feel comfortable. We will fall back to the ways of how we were before meeting the dharma and feel comfortable. We will scourge our teachers and pra...
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（译文请往下阅读） Dear friends, I have some interesting things to share with you for some of the special spiritual features of Kechara Forest Retreat. The vegetables grown on Kechara Forest Retreat (KFR) land will be very blessed now and in the future. Dorje Shugden took full trance and blessed the whole of KFR. Also we have a sacred Vajra Yogini stupa on the land too which contains many blessed relics. So vegetables growing from KFR land will have a healing property. The vegetables when eaten will bless the body, channels, drops and winds of each pers...
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Wealth is nice. Wealth can be not nice. Wealth can be used to benefit others or it can be used to spoil others. Wealth can help us achieve some good works in this life, but it can also destroy us. Wealth is not the issue, but our state of mind and our attitude. These...
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Having to work in urban societies – in the city, among buildings, traffic, people, parking, congestion, smoke and smog really takes a toll on one’s body and mind. Sometimes we really need to go to a place of peace, healing and recovery. Because of this, I conceptualised and founded Kechara Forest Retreat with my...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear everyone, Cindy Bird went through hardship and confusion in her spiritual journey, just like many of us have and perhaps are experiencing right now. However, in her story she tells us how she searched beyond the “normal” options that life presented her and in her active pursuit of spiritual progress,...
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（译文请往下阅读） (Posted by Pastor Seng Piow) This is H.E. Tsem Rinpoche’s certificate of education, this is his HIGHEST education – Certificate of Proficiency conferred by the California State Department of Education when he was 18. He has no more formal education after that. After quitting school with this certificate in Los Angeles, he went on to work in Macdonald’s cooking fries, in a laundromat as a laundry boy, and in a photo booth collecting film negatives and returning developed pho…tos to drive-through customers. Then ...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) As the world evolves and advances, scientists are able to provide more and more physical evidence that certain spiritual practices such as meditation bring tremendous benefit to our minds. Although meditation is often associated with religion (as it was first practiced by the great Hindu adepts and later integrated into Buddhism),...
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One of the lamas who first recognised me as a tulku back in 1987 was His Eminence Kyabje Gangchen Rinpoche. His Eminence is a world renown healing lama from Sera Monastery who now resides in Italy thanks to the ban on Dorje Shugden. Despite the obstacles, Kyabje Gangchen Rinpoche has worked tirelessly for many...
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Dear friends, This is really beautiful and I want to share these with you. Take a few minutes out to enjoy and be blessed. Tsem Rinpoche Tsongkhapa in Denma Gonsa Monastery Who was Lama Tsongkhapa? Lama Tsongkhapa (1357-1419) was a Buddhist scholar and saint who lived in Tibet during a time when...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Never say “I CAN’T change”, never say “It’s TOO LATE to change”, because when you say it you are thinking it, when you are thinking it, you open up that karma that “you CANNOT change”. You CAN change, you CAN transform, you CAN improve, we can overcome it when we think...
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（译文请往下阅读） (By Tsem Rinpoche) What is hardship? Is there really a definitive way of classifying a certain situation as hardship? What may be difficult for you and I may not be a problem for another person. I have been a Dharma teacher for more than 25 years and during this time, I’ve encountered many people who face obstacles when they try to engage in spiritual practice. Many times, these obstacles are self created… and the answer is instant if they choose to view things differently. I recently read an article about a group of ascet...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dorje Shugden in our latest private 2nd trance in Kechara Forest Retreat said clearly that working for dharma is very good. Working for Kechara is very good. He mentioned in Tibetan that when we work for ‘this organization‘ (referring to Kechara), we will fulfill the needs of others and automatically fulfill...
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This is what was happening in one day in Kechara. I thought it would be interesting to share the updates and pictures. Our members are indeed very busy with all types of dharma works. Tsem Rinpoche ********* Dear Rinpoche, all Kecharians and friends, Today is a happening day for Kechara Forest Retreat...
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Dear friends, This article is very practical and helpful. I respectfully reproduced it here solely with the intent it will benefit others. I thank Ms. Patricia Seeley for her compassionate work and her writings. She makes the most important passage in our lives more easier to deal with for the ordinary lay person. Both...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear students and friends, In Buddhism, there are various practices that we can engage in to help remove obstacles and receive the conditions that we need in order to pursue our path to enlightenment. Being in samsara, we are subjected to and influenced by certain rules that are not within our...
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I lived in a family that was Mongolian and my Mongolian stepmother in Howell, New Jersey was very religious and at the same time, extremely superstitious. Every Mongolian household in Howell – and there were a couple of hundred of us – would have a Buddhist shrine room or shrine area in their homes. That means...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear students and friends, Many years ago, I spoke briefly about Wealth Vases and Wealth Boxes (Wealth Cabinets or Yangkham), and at that time I mentioned that we will create a Wealth Box in the future… Now, the time has come for us to make a Wealth Box in our beautiful...
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Dear BOD, Respected Pastors and Students, Be kind to each other. Work with each other. Do not ask for exceptions, special treatment for oneself or one’s family but be leaders that make policies in all our departments and facilities that benefit the organization and our future. Make policies that benefit the organization as a...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Everything in life has false dualistic views. If we choose to enter the door of dualism, then we get hurt, disappointed, and bitter in the end. If we choose a better doorway which is emptiness, then the door leads seemingly nowhere yet everywhere. Emptiness of dualism. Whatever we choose, everything ends in death...
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