I have consulted a few doctors (Chinese and Western) and they have advised me to lose some weight, through both exercise and my diet. I have tried going on many diets before..
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I have consulted a few doctors (Chinese and Western) and they have advised me to lose some weight, through both exercise and my diet. I have tried going on many diets before..
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Soon Kechara House will be having a Lamrim retreat in our gompa. At my request, Liaison Yap Yoke Fui has very kindly brought together a committee to organise this retreat. The goal is for 8000 recitations of the Lamrim to be completed by the first quarter of 2012. The Lamrim is...
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Posted in Buddhas, Dharma & Practice, Kechara - 13 Depts | 27 Comments »
List of Prayers A Short Daily Sadhana Eight Verses of Training The Mind Offering The Mandala Other Preliminary Prayers Taking Refuge and Generating Bodhicitta The Four Immeasurables The Nine Attitudes of Devotion to the Guru Advice from Atisha’s Heart Light Offering Prayer General Prayers 50 Verses of Guru Devotion Long-life Prayer by Kensur Konchok...
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Dear fellow friends, I like the attitude in Japan where you wouldn’t put an end to a family member’s life just because you were inconvenienced would you? Same for your pets. I like the 24 hour clinics for pets they have with state of the art equipment. I wish we had this here in...
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Stay pure living in this muddy sea in this dangerous and murky time… The richness that was gained and kept madly will lose its value and will turn into the special poison… Having studied the material life dispassionately, begin to practice “The Ten Good Deeds” today, without delay” – Hambo-Lama Ityghelov In the 20s...
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We are all going to live on this planet together. We will always all have our own foods, dance, music, clothes, culture, history, architecture, thinking and religions. We can sit for the rest of our lives and find differences within each other that we don’t agree on. We can find differences between Siamese twins...
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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 myself have gone for acupuncture treatment numerous times and I can truly see a massive difference in my previous health problems before and after treatment. Most of the needle points do not hurt at all, but just a few could feel some pain as the meridian line was not clear. Once cleared, if...
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Lucky, aka Lakshme, is a special old doggie from Taiwan. She was found by her rescuer, Mrs Wu, a pile of hairless akin and bones, dying of starvation on a Taiwan street. Taiwan is a terrible place to be a dog. In 1994, after a thorough investigation, The World Society for the Protection of...
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Kb, Monlam and Pastor Loh Seng Piow work very well together and help me alot in my daily affairs… They are very harmonious… I like them plenty… Alot of the things I can accomplish is because of them. They live with me and stay in the same house with me. When I travel, two...
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Steamboat, or hotpot, is essentially a big pot that is kept at a constant hot temperature. The pot contains a soup stock that is prepared before-hand...
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After Dharma rested for one night in his new home with us, next day he went for full medical check up and he is ok!! Great. So that day I introduced him to Mumu and Oser…Dharma was so excited to see Mumu and Oser. Dharma kept chasing them to play. Mumu as usual very...
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News from www.kechara.com: Lim Boon Chai, 41 years old, never expected himself to have a son especially at his age, and his youngest daughter being 12 years old. However, the part that Lim least expected was that his son would be born prematurely, when he was only 30 weeks old. Already a father of...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear Rinpoche, I have a picture of tangka of the Medicine Buddha from your site and I’m very interested about any information about the wrathful forms of the Medicine Buddha depicted below Him. Can you tell me please their names and practices or any information about them? Can their practices or...
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Posted in Buddhas, Dharma & Practice, Etc | 10 Comments »
Dear Rinpoche, The Grand Setrap obstacle removing retreat has concluded with the following final counts – Mantra : 2,331,336 Serkym : 225,368 Kawang : 224,495 Attached is pix of group photo of the happy retreatants. Regards, Yoke Fui (A nice photo and text message I recieved and thought I’d share here. This group just finsihed...
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Posted in Kechara - 13 Depts, Students & Friends | 9 Comments »
(By Tsem Rinpoche) Our group just arrived back to Malaysia from a successful spiritual trip from Nepal today Saturday, June 4, 2011. Everyone felt the trip was too short and the time sped by too fast..hehe..Nepal will do that to you..it’s a very exciting place to be…. They visited many holy places, made offerings, did powerful aspirational...
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Posted in Asia, Kechara - 13 Depts, Travel, Vajra Yogini | 32 Comments »
These are pictures of myself in Nepal in 2008, the place is by a river and right next to the river near me is the cave of the Great Mahasiddha Naropa and his Guru Tilopa. I had taken about sixty over people there on a pilgrimage with me, and we all visited that cave...
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My eyes became wet when reading this….I had to blog. Dear Anila, You are truly a wonderful Buddhist Nun. You may not choose to do many things for good reasons, but what you do choose to do, you do it all the way from your heart expecting nothing in return. You show all of...
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Guess What???? I couldn’t help myself… I could not hold back. I could not stop… I GOT ANOTHER PUPPY FOR MY HOUSE!! Dharma arrived today just a few hours ago!!! I was trying to ignore this dog and not look at him, but eventually I found my way to him and looked into his...
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Today while I was in Petaling Street area in downtown Kuala Lumpur, I came across three very sad cases of dogs that will most likely not be adopted. I had to take them and I did… I had Susan, Li Kim, Pastor Loh Seng Piow, KB and Beng Kooi today to help me. It was a...
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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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How nice to see a fellow youth spending time doing Dharma work.
By doing Dharma work, it not only benefit other people but also ourselves. It opens up our mind ... Read More I think Your Eminence is too humble, for me you are a very powerful Lama indeed. Read More Thanks everyone! I'm very grateful to Tsem Rinpoche. I've learned a lot from him and other Kechara students via twitter. I live in the US where it's hard to come ... Read More
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