55ft Snake
Below is a photograph of a 55ft (16.2 meter) snake found in China! So far, this is the only article about this incident that is available online. There aren’t...
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Below is a photograph of a 55ft (16.2 meter) snake found in China! So far, this is the only article about this incident that is available online. There aren’t...
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One of my heroes since the 80’s from when I was in Los Angeles is Mother Teresa. I saw a documentary film in LA on her in the cinema...
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KP staff releasing fish..beforehand doing Shantideva’s prayers… Fishes released!!! After releasing the fish, Kechara Paradise (KP) Dept staff, friends and family with KC Nicholas do dedication prayers…. It’s Tibetan...
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She has very quickly been branded "kitten killer" by the press. But this 21 year old said she didn't realize that she had killed the kitten, until she watched...
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Wow… I don’t really enjoy life by the sea, but a big lake is ok. In this case, I would make an exception. Look at this scene. Wow. I...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) I do not remember nor recall what I did or who I was in my previous lives. I was told I am a reincarnation of the...
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Fact: About 4 pigs are slaughtered every second in the USA. Fact: In Malaysia, the pig population numbers up to 1.8 million. What do these numbers indicate? It means...
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There is a special relationship that can be forged between man and dog, seen so many times in cases such as “Spot” in America, and “Hachiko” in Japan. I...
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Descriptions: Greenish color and semi-transparent 2-3mm in size Swims in water very fast Multiple legs (looks similar to the land tic except color/transparent bodies) Attaches themselves to tropical fish...
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Here is another one of those stories that opens your heart. Previously, it was Tara and Bella, the elephant and labrador who were fast friends. This is about a...
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The awareness of the importance of protecting life and the living environment has been increasing in recent times. However, people still continue to misuse their power, and have selfishly...
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A lot of people nowadays complain about not being able to sleep, blaming it on their stressful work place and having too much on their minds. But what people...
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Misconceptions are so easy to form but so difficult to get rid of. They can happen anywhere, any time, and to anyone, especially when people speak from lack of...
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The Republic of Seychelles is a 115-island archipelago in the Indian Ocean. It is a paradise of spectacular nature, white beaches with crystal clear waters, and unusual flora and...
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Karl Rabeder grew up poor and thought that life would be wonderful if he had money. But when he got rich, Karl discovered that he was unhappy, so he...
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I wrote on my blog if anyone has any information about how to make my outdoor fish pond clear as it is cloudy..and look, Shirley sends this to me....
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Whenever we think about the octopus, we don’t feel very threatened. We are fascinated by how exotic they are… by their flexibility and their intelligence. If we see them...
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Far in the interior of the Chinese mainland, the rugged mountainous countryside, thousands of kilometres south of Beijing is home to a Buddhist temple that has stood for almost...
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In June 2010, Wayne Giroux, a lawn mower shop owner, was in a car accident and was killed by a drunk driver. He had lived in Texas with his...
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Below are the photos and description of the two Vajra Yogini statues. Do take a look at the care and fine details KSA made on these statues… ( A)Vajra Yogini...
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In this episode of “The Haunted”, a family is terrorized by a malicious presence that wreaks havoc on the well-being of their animals. An unidentified creature is frightening them...
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Most people who are interested in paranormal activity know that young children are more prone to being able to see things that the adult eye cannot. As we grow...
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It’s great to want love, demand love, get love, expect love and just have it..but what do you do when you get it? Just relax, not do your part...
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We often speak about animal cruelty, but how universal is your love for animals in general? Would you go the extra mile to save these animals? Try looking beyond...
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In this 4-part documentary, a family moves into a new home. Little do they know, various horrors have taken place there. With no one to turn to, they call...
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Save Alice A.K.A. The Dog In The Box Targeting: Doug Eaves (County Manager) | Started by: Nina Ancharski On Saturday January 29, 2011, an animal advocate was in an...
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This is very disturbing on many many many levels, in so many ways it’s so wrong and so unnecessary… but please create awareness of this… please say something… Tsem...
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I am seriously considering a new category here on my blog which is on the PARANORMAL. I am a Buddhist monk/teacher, but I have other interests also. I have...
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You know I am a monk and what I do is teach. Not very good at teaching, but gotta do it anyway. Yet ppl still comment on the style,...
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Whenever we come across something comfortable, run. Whenever we encounter something pleasant, offer it. Whenever we see something beautiful, appreciate and move on. Whenever we feel cosy, remember it...
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I am angry because I want to be. I am unhappy because I choose it. I am not in control because I’ve controlled the wrong causes. I am not...
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I just saw this on my facebook and had to post it…you leave your comments and TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK PLEASE. I really want to know. Tsem Rinpoche...
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It’s easy to get caught up with a lot of complicated terminology in books about religion – but somehow we (sadly) forget to realize that what we have for...
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If your angersome, it means you are spoiled. If you want things to be given to you, then you want others to do your work. If you complain without...
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Nicole Lee is the 8 year old daughter of Any Loke and Bean Lee. She’s a very active girl whose parents are themselves active members of Kechara House. She...
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When I visit Singapore, I like to just stop by Shangrila Hotel not far from Orchard Rd, the main shopping street… Grab a cuppa at the coffee house and...
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I have been blogging a lot about animal cruelty lately, and I thought it would be nice to show you the possible human-animal interaction most of us don’t expect...
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There is one opposite Mustafa Centre, Serangoon (Little India). Whenever I visit Singapore, I visit Mustafa’s. You can find almost anything inside and open 24 hours. Can you imagine...
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Around 8 years ago in Singapore (Geylang), I happened across this Monastery by chance…I stopped the taxi and went inside to look…it was under massive renovations…but it had this...
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Since I left home at 16, most holidays I am alone. Every Lunar New Year, ppl go home to their families, and I don’t really have family to go...
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People sometimes wonder how I choose or select individuals to go for these expeditions or spontaneous good works with me from time to time….well it depends on you…If...
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I went to the fish store looking for some small parrot fishes/goldfishes. Then a 22 inch golden Koi caught my eye among many Kois. He is very friendly, he...
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This MMS was sent to me yesterday: Dearest Rinpoche… Fishes have all been released: 300 kg of catfish dedicated to Ladrang – requested by Rinpoche (this is for every...
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It is heartbreaking to see this video. This dog is sad, lost and disorientated. His owner died. Yet he stays nearby laying next to his beloved owner. I sincerely...
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Two videos of my beloved fish pond. The first video is when there was no fish and we thought there was chlorine. The second video is after...
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The video above shows the President of America, Barack Obama, bowing down as he shakes hands with the Japanese Emperor Mr Akihito in Tokyo in 2009. For the US,...
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This is a Japanese monk named Kansho Tagai, also known as Mr. Happiness (or MC Happiness). Kansho Tagai heads a 400-year-old Kyoouji Temple in central Tokyo (Japan) and over...
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One of my students found this and sent it to me…it is of an island that is known to be the most alien-looking place on Earth. Socotra is a...
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When I was younger, I didn’t appreciate nor like Led Zeppelin, but I sure do now… I love Robert Plant’s electrifying tenor voice and octaves… do listen and get...
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Some songs I like to share with you and listen in between whatever you are doing… enjoy… Tsem Rinpoche Fleetwood Mac – The Chain Lyrics: Listen to...
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Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty Stop Dragging My Heart Around Lyrics: Baby you’ll come knocking on my front door Same old line you used to use before I said...
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While spring cleaning through my personal items, the Ladrang staff and I sorted through several cards (greeting cards, birthday cards etc). One of them had a beautiful photo of...
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If you ever see any videos of animals being crushed…they are not isolated incidents. It is all part of a market called Crush Fetish. Crush Fetish is something that...
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See my adorable and much loved cuties playing and playing…running…getting sun and exercise…I love you both so much. Tsem Rinpoche
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(click to enlarge) Kechara Soup Kitchen (KSK) came out on the national papers again! It’s a very well-written and beautiful article on the work that KSK does for...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) My students and friends have been in Kathmandu (Nepal) on a pilgrimage. JP (Head liaison of Tsem Ladrang) is leading a group of 7 people, where...
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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
'The Promise' book launch featured on NTV7 Primetime
"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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Tashi Delek Rinpoche!
I am emailing about the vegetarian pledge. I am currently a vegan, and I am committed to keeping it up for not only this life, but all of ... Read More Good morning Rinpoche! Please accept my deepest gratitude for all teachings you have given on the blog. Through your blog, I have learned so much and discovered I have even ... Read More Your Eminence,
My big bow to you.
I had been to Boudha this morning to see your returnable goods to Malaysia. With surprise and happiness thank you so much for ... Read More
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