Guess what they got?
Dear friends,
When we want to do something we normally always have fear of the commitment, time, energy involved and even greater fear if we would be successful. We are worried about what others might think of us, if our work will be accepted by friends, family and peers. If we even have what it takes to do it is the question in our minds. That’s normal. Don’t wait though because time does run out. I think none of us have what it takes to do anything if we don’t start. We learn along the way. We explore, try, fail, get up and do it again till we master it. It’s like as kids when we first learned how to walk. How many times did we fall before we can walk as we do now. Fear based on lack of experience is normal. How will we get experience if we don’t start. How will we perfect our craft waiting for everything to fall into place. Nothing fall into place, we have to make that happen through sheer hard work.
Taking care of animals is no easy feat. It almost seems like a thankless job but luckily society is having different views on animals and their welfare now. It’s getting better. This is due to the brave souls who are activists for animal rights, the thousands of animals sanctuaries set up by compassionate people around the world and them educating the public. We have to let people know what we are doing by starting something and doing it. We have to ‘prove’ to people we are committed by starting and keeping at it. There is no failure, only not starting is the real failure. We have to let people know what we are doing and the help we need through social media and word of mouth. Embrace social media and don’t be resistant. Embrace begging for what we need. No dignity lost but confidence gained and our works fruitioning. Most important is that we do something. Our commitment and drive and sincerity will touch someone’s heart out there. We don’t need EVERYONE’S help if that is what we are afraid of, but just the few right persons that comes along to help and donate.
Please read this great article about Jeremy Wagner who donated his farm to an animal rescue/rehabilitation center! Wow! Kudos to Jeremy! Kudos to the animals rescue people who believed in themselves and the welfare of animals to start something up that a compassionate and generous person like Jeremy Wagner can donate to! If we start something and let people know what we need, we can find help. There are rejections, but ignore those and keep going. Life is full of rejections, so what! We can find like minded compassionate people to help eventually. If the animals rescue people never did anything or started anything, then there would be nothing to donate to. The moral of the story is to start and don’t be afraid. If we do, others will come and help. But we have to let them know. If we don’t start, then nothing happens.
Tsem Rinpoche
P.S. The second post below is about another wonderful person who shows so much love and concern to animals. I like the way she fundraises for the supplies. She list everything out very transparently and it’s easy for us to understand. Two great lessons to be learned here. Beautiful people who take care of animals.
Never hurt or damage or eat animals.
Broken Hope Guitarist Donates Farm to No Kill Animal Rescue
Jeremy Wagner, founding member and guitarist of the heavy metal band *Broken Hope, has decided to donate his whole rural Illinois farm, buildings and all, to an animal rescue and rehabilitation organization. The death metal guitarist made the following statement on his Facebook fan page:
“Today I made the biggest donation of my life. I signed off and gave away my entire farm to the animal rescue rehab group I’ve been working with since I purchased the property last summer. I’m too busy to manage and enjoy the place, but it does my heart & soul good knowing I have now given a refuge and paradise for many animals who will be given help and love and new homes for many years to come. My generosity and good will for the benefit of animals will never stop. Giving my farm away for free was a super-huge sacrifice, but it was an awesome one and it won’t be the last time I do it. In this life money doesn’t mean shit if you don’t do good with it. So I do as much good as I can before I leave this rock. Cheers!”
Wagner will still have a hand in helping the organization, when he has the chance to visit on occasion. Since last summer they have rescued 40 plus dogs, dozens of cats, rats, raccoons, and a rooster. With new stalls, new electric water and heat installed in the barn, horses, cows and other livestock that would have been destined to die will be saved.
Wagner definitely has a big heart, this animal rescue will go a long way to help countless dog, cats and animals live happy lives in a beautiful place they can enjoy. It goes to show that while Death Metal and Metal music might hold a dark stigma to outsiders, it proves that when you look outside of appearances there are kind and caring rockers too!
Source: http://3milliondogs.com/news/broken-hope-guitarist-donates-farm-to-no-kill-animal-rescue
*Broken hope is a Metal or Death Metal group which plays a genre of rock music.
Woman cooks a Sunday Roast Dinner for the stray and abandoned dogs every Sunday
Or view the video on the server at:
https://video.tsemtulku.com/videos/dogdinner.mp4
For most of 2014, Friends of the Dogs volunteer, Claire Nash, has been providing every homeless and abandoned dog in Cardiff Dogs Home with a full roast dinner, with all the trimmings. every Sunday.
Every week, Claire buys:
2 chickens – total £10.00
4 packs bacon, 4 packs sausage for pigs in blankies
£12.00
4 Cabbages £3.20
4 Cauli’s £4.00
5 Broccoli £2.50
5 bags carrots £4.50
4 Swedes £3.60
2 Packs Peas £4.00
Potatoes £6.00
4 packets of stuffing £4.00
Dripping for gravy £3.50
That’s a total of £57.30 per week to make approximately 50 dinners.
The pure joy and happiness it brings to the dogs is priceless.
Source:
http://3milliondogs.com/news/woman-cooks-a-sunday-roast-dinner-for-the-stray-and-abandoned-dogs-every-sunday?utm_source=3MD&utm_medium=article_suggestion_bottom&utm_campaign=Article%20Suggestion%20Bottom%20of%20Article
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Wow …That is inspiring of a compassionate man Jeremy Wagner giving away his entire properties to the animal rescue rehab group .With these big farm which he owns will definitely able to help every homeless and abandoned animals. He is just aguitarist of the heavy metal band and he realised joy and happiness through giving(.In this life money doesn’t mean shit if you don’t do good with it)……..well said by Wagner.
Hope there will be more compassionate and generous people be inspired by Wagner .
The happiest people in life are the givers …quoted.
Thank you Rinpoche for sharing this article.
Jeremy Wagner is a very compassion and generous man. It is a very inspiring act to donate his farm to be an animal rescue and rehabilitation organization. Many people would have just keep it to generate profit but he showed us that helping the animals and giving them freedom and chance to live is more important than anything else. We should not only think for the benefit of ourselves but extend it to all living beings. Something that we should remember and practise always.
Thank you Rinpoche for sharing this article.
“In this life money doesn’t mean shit if you don’t do good with it. So I do as much good as I can before I leave this rock.”
Jeremy Wagner’s words are wise and full of depth. He realises that to focus out on the welfare of others is the key to one’s happiness. Money can be a distraction that enhances our selfish pursuits, bringing us nowhere near peace and happiness.
Animals can’t voice out their sufferings and are often abused. Mr. Wagner’s generosity bring hope and a sense of relief to the animals. Hopefully more people will be inspired to do more for animals.
Much thanks to jeremy Wagner for going out of his way to help and save animals.
“None of us have what it takes to do anything if we don’t start.”
I like this statement/quote a lot. It is so true. Just start and do it. The worse that can ever happen is we fail, we make mistakes but we also learn from it. Start again and again. Try again and again. It’s better than staying stagnant and just sitting there doing nothing but let the world pass by until it’s our time for us to go.
Another celebrity who donate their wealth to a charitable humanitarian cause. We can change the world on many humanitarian and environmental issues, one step at a time and it begin by us starting.
I am so happy to read about this article, it was very kind of Jeremy to donate his entire farm away for a good cause. I am also very glad to know that there are still people out there who really care about the animals.
Most of the animals around the world are tormented to death, literally. We humans always have this kind of mindset where humans are the most superior and that animals are inferior to us. This is a very wrong thinking, every single living being should be treated with equality. Just because animals can’t talk it, it doesn’t mean they are in abide in the lower rank than us, we must also remember humans were once apes, we are considered as animals too.
I hope more people will come to realise that animals deserve respect too, we must stop taking advantage on them,
1) We have to start something in order to accomplish something else. It is important that we do not let our ideas remain as ideas, we must take a step forward so that we have a greater chance of accomplishing them. When we say what do we want to accomplish in life, we better do it or it will just be another lie. Do not fear to fail in life, we will fail somehow and somewhere in life and besides, we can do it all over once again. Keep striving for your goals and you will never have to regret doing it.
2) We must not let our ego, fear, jealousy, laziness, anger and hatred control us, never. Because when we let these negative emotions control us, we might hurt the people around us and we won’t be able to think logically. Why? Because when we are angry, all we want to do is hurt others or ourselves, but when we are calm, we are able to think positively and logically. So it is also important for us to stay calm all the time.
3) It is true that whenever I hear these words (heavy metal artists) I will automatically think of people who are high all the time, cold-blooded and people who take drugs. I never thought for one moment that a heavy metal artist would do something so compassionate that most people will not do it. I guess I should change my projections towards other things. Never judge a book by its cover.
Dear Rinpoche,
Posts like these give me hope for the world, reminding me that it’s not such the big cynical ball of gloom I sometimes think it is. 🙂
To think a heavy metal rocker would do such a generous act…. how cool is that?! The world is full of subtle, pleasant surprises. We just git to look in the right direction. 😉 Thank you, Jeremy and Claire for being such good people! The world would be lost without humans like you.
Thank you, Rinpoche, for sharing this post. 🙂
Your humble student,
Keng Hwa.
Rinpoche is totally right. Hard work into something you believe in and keeping your work consistant with commitment. Especially with animals, because they can’t say thank you. But they can show it so there is something there. With your work being shown to the world and how people can see you and how you work for what you believe in and how you set an example that shows you have beaten the fears that Rinpoche talked about. You created your own success.
I love it when those successes are in working with animals and helping and saving them. People that do that truly have a kind heart for those who have less rights and cannot speak. They understand life and how it is not just us. I kind of thought that it was kind of ironic on how a death metal guitarist can donate something so big to help life. Oh well thats life, full of suprises. So I say thank you to that man and how he has helped. Work with animals to help them truly makes me happy.
So that man’s work has been showed off because he is doing what he wants and it looks good because he has worked for it and like Rinpoche said if you don’t start at all that is the biggest loss. Both Jeremy and Claire are doing good work and it truly makes me happy to read these stories and articles about helping and spreading love to all life forms with people that understand that there is more than one type of life form that matters in the world.
Its always so nice to read articles about positive things. Especially when it comes to animals. I love animals and i only want the best for them.
Knowing that there are people like Jeremy and Claire in this world really puts a smile on my face because i know that this is the start to better animal welfare. When people help animals, others will follow. We all need to remember that.
I just want to say, i like what Jeremy said when he posted on facebook: ‘In this life money doesn’t mean shit if you don’t do good with it.’ I think this is very powerful as many people are selfish with the way they spend their money, and people like Jeremy shine out as very good icons to the world for many people to follow.
What Claire does reminds me of Kechara Soup Kitchen! Feeding the homeless is just as good as feeding dogs. Claire is so kind to take the time out of her personal life and weekends to help animals. She spends her own money to cook for the dogs. How inspiring is that? I want to be able to contribute to the world like that in the future.
These two posts show us that if we are sincere and if we really care about something and passionate about it, our family and friends will support us one way or another.
If we start something and it failed at least we know we have tried and we can try to to better the next time. It’s better to fail than not trying at all. It’s the fear of failing that keeps us from doing anything. Thinking about it won’t matter much, but doing it matters the most.
Thank you Rinpoche for always inspiring us.
Regards
Leonard Ooi
KPSG
Guitarist Jeremy Wagner, who donated a farm to an animal rescue and rehab organization, has this to say : ” It does my heart & soul good knowing I have now given a refuge and paradise for many animals who will be given help and love and new homes for many years to come.”
It is heart-warming to read about how some brave individuals, like Wagner and also Claire Nash( who cooks a special meal for each of the residents of a dogs’ home on Sundays),have taken the extra step to help beings who can’t speak up about their needs and suffering.
These stories inspire us to be committed enough to plunge in and do the necessary for a cause , like helping and rescuing stray and homeless animals and giving them a home and maintaining that home or shelter.In fact, it can be extended to any worthy cause, where we can make use of the social media to create awareness and support for what we want to do or are doing.Thinking of the happiness that will result from what we are going to do is good enough.
These two post just goes to show that if we are sincere and if we really care about something, people will feel our genuinity and people will donate and give. We definitely must do our part and keep trying. Thank you Rinpoche for your kind words of advice on starting something, a project, whatever we are passionate about, just start doing it and get it going because by procrastination due to fear and our insecurities is never gonna get us anywhere.
If we started something and it failed at least we know we tried better than not trying, not knowing, not learning anything. I will keep this words of wisdom to heart and apply it daily…”There is no failure, only not starting is the real failure.” Thank you Rinpoche for this inspiring post.
Thank you for sharing their inspirational stories. Animals do teach us how to be more human.
Thanks Rinpoche for sharing these wonderful blog post.
Both Jeremy and Claire are inspiring! It’s glad to know that there are getting more and more people around the world focusing out from themselves to others and animals, because that’s the way to live a meaningful human life.
A guy with a big heart. Jeremy showed selflessness as a model to society that compassion over animals
When I was reading this blog post, the name Jace Chong came into my mind. She is doing exactly what Claire has been doing, i.e asking for funds to take care of her dogs/cats/tortoises and as well as keep updating us about it through FB. It seems easy but actually it needs tremendous time and effort to do what what she has been doing for those animals who are under her care. A big round of applause to her and her partner Khoo too.
In essence, I think Rinpoche has made it clear that in order to have a successful KFR or success in any other projects under Kechara, we should join in forces to promote Kechara to others especially through social media, skillfully.I believe, it will be better if we can carry ourselves well too, as ‘action speaks louder than words’. Thank you Rinpoche for sharing Your thoughts on this.
Dear Jacinta,
Thank you for you for your kind words. Both Khoo and me still have a long way to go but like Rinpoche mentioned in the post, we must start something somewhere.
I have a lot more to learn to do better for the animals. Thanks Rinpoche for always giving practical guidance and sharing many inspiring story on this blog.
Thank you!
Jace