(By Tsem Rinpoche) We drove two hours from Bangkok to the world famous Damnoen Saduak Floating Market. There are many floating markets not far from Bangkok, but this one is the original...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) We drove two hours from Bangkok to the world famous Damnoen Saduak Floating Market. There are many floating markets not far from Bangkok, but this one is the original...
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Last year when we started Kechara Forest Retreat, we had nothing on our land except for two slabs of cement on the ground. I wanted to live in KFR to personally oversee the construction work, so I decided to live in a container as it can be brought over to the land quickly and...
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Dear friends, I am not very familiar with Mingyur Rinpoche and today I came across all these letters on the internet by accident. I read through them and thought I must share these with a wider audience. The letters are very self explanatory. In this day and age to do what he has done...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Brief and simple practices for Buddhists to engage in to dispel black magic, spirits and unnatural disturbances. Homage to His Holiness the Dalai Lama and all my great Gurus who have kindly guided me for years. I’ve been visiting this wonderful country of Malaysia for over eight years now (this was...
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I would like to share with you a talk about wealth vases which I gave a few years ago. It was recently transcribed by one of my students. Wealth vases are very auspicious to have. They are powerful in attracting energies of wealth and increase... and are especially effective if you want to increase...
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Dear friends, This is a powerful book with powerful messages. Please share with your friends. Appreciating what we have and to not find excuses to fail is so important. This can be instilled in us now and better yet from a young age. When people understand what they have and don’t have, it helps them...
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Dear blog friends around the world, I have just purchased ten of these books to give away as gift because the message is very powerful. Whatever circumstances we want to believe that put these people in their predicaments is up to us but the fact remains we need to know their story. Perhaps to do...
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Dear Friends, You have to view this video. It is fantastic. It is inspiring and very necessary to watch and learn as part of our spiritual journey. We all need good examples and powerful inspirations to help us along the way...
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Devotion to the Buddha and Three Jewels is accomplished through useful activity towards society, that is responsible, consistent and completed. This devotion facilitates the perfection of the individual. Otherwise work towards the perfection will not be accomplished. ~Tsem Rinpoche (Explanation: Devotion is faith, trust, understanding that arises from study and observation. Perhaps from a guru. Useful activity towards society can...
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Wow! I LOVE this. I am always surprised by your upbeat way to deliver Buddha to everyone, and your innovation, of course! Thanks for keeping us all in the dharma. Thanks to you and your blog, which I was so attracted to, I found my teacher, Namnang Mingjo Dorje Rinpoche, I am so...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear Rinpoche, I come across dead animals on the road everyday, cats and dogs mainly. These animals are dead already when I see them and sometimes I see their bodies decompose day after day. Whenever I come across these animals, I do the Medecine Budhha mantra (7 x) and Namgyalma mantra...
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I can’t say I am an expert on depression clinically or otherwise because I’m not and I am not offering a medical solution. It is my advice based on meeting people and observing the same issues for the last 20 years countless times. This A.R. has written (I didn’t include the email) and I am...
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(译文请往下阅读) Dear Friends, Although I am currently in the USA, I always get good news about many people back in Kechara. I very much welcome and very happy to get good news. Today I was inspired to write something on a wonderful and very kind soul in our midst. Kechara Buddhist Pastor Yek Yee is a hero to me and inspiration also. She works hard and sometimes has no rest because she has so many house calls to request her to do blessings, funerals or purifications of negative energies on behalf of Kechara. She even blesses cars and counsels people w...
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Afternoon sky at Kechara Forest Retreat after the rain For those who seek true spirituality, The reason we find a teacher or spiritual mentor, join a dharma centre or study dharma is solely to incorporate the methods of Lord Buddha’s teachings into our mind streams. We do so by applying the dharma and the results gained will definitely benefit...
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Dear friends, Be warned. Some of the views here are very controversial and I don’t agree at all. I am placing this article here so people can understand how part of the ‘leadership’ here where I live think. Be it right or wrong is for you to decide and do leave me a comment. For...
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Do not miss this blog post dear friends around the world! Do not lose hope. Others have much more difficult situations than us. But if we keep doing what we do consistently, there is hope that one day we can achieve. Being complacent, lazy, moody, selfish and self absorbed will never get us to what...
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Map of Russia where you can see the Kalmyk Republic in the Western part of the country. It is in Europe. The other two republics are also Mongolian and they are Tuva and Buryatia. Dear Friends, This is something cultural and rich that you must see and enjoy. I wanted to share...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) The original teachings of the Eight Verses of Thought Transformation originated from Buddha Shakyamuni. Buddha Shakyamuni gave teachings on great compassion which were passed down to the great panditas Arya Asanga and Nagarjuna...
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Community Vows I vow to view my fellow sangha as the disciples of Buddha Shakyamuni and Je Tsongkhapa and their retinue worthy of enlightened potential and respect. I vow to study the teachings of Buddha in order to gain great mind transformations to benefit others continuously. I vow to consistently and joyfully practice awareness and...
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Dear friends, I saw something on my facebook newsfeed. It caught my eye and rightly so. After so much destruction and bad news that comes out of Afghanistan, finally, something that gives hope. As I watched the first part of the video I was very sad to see so much unnecessary destruction that accomplished...
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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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Tsem, your consistency and determination to help people all over the world with Buddhas teaching is something incredible and so rare. Thank you for consistency and motivational drive that comes ... Read More Dear Rinpoche, I wanted to post here to thank you for all of your teachings! They have helped me tremendously! :) I have been learning from the blog and video ... Read More Mc on Feb 25, 2012 at 5:33 am
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