Dear friends, When you practice generosity at first, it is about you and the recipient. How the recipient responds greatly affect your motivation to do more or less…in the beginning I stress. Everyone likes to be appreciated of course. But as you progress, it is not so much about the recipient. It is about...
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Beng Kooi and Jean Ai just got a camera that we can film and upload directly onto youtube. No rendering necessary…easier.. You film, plug in and upload to youtube directly…yes it is that easy…So this is my first attempt with the camera without reading any instructions. We are going to open a new category...
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Dear Ashlee, Thank you for doing a mantra retreat on Tara. I am so happy to hear about this. It is a wonderful way to spend our free time. Tara’s practice will take us very far. You are also sending the right message to your children. I am happy for them…. Shin and Shirley,...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) I will be glad to mail out a poster of Tsongkapa to anyone who wishes. I will send by normal mail. If you are interested to receive it...this is what you have to do...
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Take a few moments to absorb what you see in the video here. It’s not a long video, but it is a video sure to have very strong impact on you. Take a closer look at the dishes on offer, and consider how satisfying our palate has become a game rather than a necessity. Put...
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Narayanan Krishnan, a talented award-winning chef in a 5 star hotel group, was short listed for a prestigious job in Switzerland. Little did he know that a short family visit before leaving for Europe would change everything. What he saw in his hometown shocked him enough to rethink his course of life. “I saw...
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When we think of Global Warming, our thoughts might turn to emissions produced by cars and other vehicles, factory plants, how we use our gas and electric supplies at home, even right down to the small things like how many times we boil a kettle in a day. These are some of the common...
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On 16/03/11, a near-dead starving 1 year old pit bull cross was found dumped in the garbage at the Garden Spires apartment complex in Newark, New Jersey, after apparently having been put in a plastic bag and thrown down a trash chute in the 22-story building. Maintenance workers pulling out garbage from the chute...
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Watch this short clip of an emotional and touching reunion of the Dog “Ban” with her owner. For 3 long weeks, Ban had been drifting on a roof 1.8km out to sea along one of the worst hit areas of Japanese coastline. Fortunately, the owner recognised the dog from a TV news report. At...
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I bought this pictorial book on nice Malaysian homes and architecture just a few days ago. There are some very nice and interesting architectural examples that I found to my interest. Here are some of my favorites. Tsem Rinpoche Title: The New Malaysia House By Robert Powell Photographs by Albert Lim Ks Published by...
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Isn’t it amazing that on the one hand, we have people engaging in the dog meat trade, yet on the other hand, there are people who are willing to pay one million for a dog which they think will bring them good luck and prosperity. And all this is because a concept of its value...
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It was less than a month ago, on the 11th of March, when a 9.0 earthquake hit Japan. It was very very devastating for many people, and even more so when a tsunami came shortly after. That earthquake hit a rural area, and destroyed many people’s livestock, homes, property, assets etc. The tsunami just...
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We all feel sad when we read stories about dogs, cats, and bears etc that have been locked in cages for 30 years. We can imagine the suffering that they go through… imagining the tight space, the metal bars, inability to sit, inability to be comfortable, the claustrophobia, the sense of insanity, we understand...
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Located in Batu 9, Cheras; Lavazza is the only cafe that stand out in this small, lazy part of Cheras. Chic and modern, Lavazza has a lively and inviting atmosphere for their patrons comfort...
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Our Kechara is so blessed with powerful potent female, wisdom, Vajra Yogini, queen, ying, ladies, dakinis, feminine, flowery, night, moon, goddess, femme fatale energy. How fortunate we are to worship feminine energy..and to journey to enlightenment through this volcanic universal mother creator force. We have so many dedicated, committed, educated, hard working, intelligent, compassionate,...
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In the past few months, many full-time staff have joined Kechara, and I rejoice for this. I got the blog team to interview them, and I hope their stories will inspire you too. The 9 who have joined full-time are: Darren Leong (Kechara Paradise 1-Utama, Retail Assistant) Dawa Wu (to be based in KP...
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Below is an article sent by one of my students. It shows a pig being killed in Moldavia. It’s not the typical way that Moldavian’s kill their pigs, but killing is killing… or is it? When on the subject of vegetarianism, there are many times when people respond, “Well, I think it’s okay to...
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Most of us know what it’s like to lose a loved one, or someone that we really care about. We get upset, angry, confused, frustrated, we feel unbearable sadness, we lose our appetite, lose interest in things we normally find interesting … some of us even go into deep depression. We feel so much...
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It's hard to imagine that when we pour ourselves a glass of milk, in a lot of cases, it has come to us via tremendous suffering endured by dairy cows who spend a huge chunk of their lives traumatized, terrified and in a great deal of pain...
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