I received this email recently and thought of sharing it with all of you because it is very inspiring. Do take a look at the pictures and leave your comments.

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(By Tsem Rinpoche) （译文请往下阅读） November 9, 2010 Turkey Swamp was a large park with huge lake around 3 hours bicycle ride from my childhood home in New Jersey. If you went by car it’s around 45 mins or more. One of my relatives took me there once and I loved it as a kid. I asked my childhood friend Marc Reed to bicycle there with me. He was very agreeable. He is a very outdoor type of person, strong, energetic and game to try any physical activity. So off Marc and I went…it was a real LONG bike ride and physically gruelling 2-3 hours&#...

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Dear friends, As you know I went on a Dharma picnic a few weeks back with students. During our break I looked at Paris and was inspired to tell a twisted story with her as the Wild Woman character..ehehehe. The story turned out pretty good I might say..so I asked her to write it...

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（中文请往下看） I had just completed giving *Gabriel an Amityus initiation in the hospital in his room. He has been in a coma. After finishing, I left his room and in the room next to me, I saw in the halls around 15 people very distressed as I was walking towards the lifts… I wanted to stop but didn’t because I am a stranger and didn’t want to disturb this family. I didn’t want to stare… But I can see something was seriously wrong… I found out they were just given the news that 13 year old Tamedran Raj has blood in...

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    Kechara has a study group called KSJC in the southern most city of Malaysia in Johor Bahru. The group there who are my students started their own place and have classes under the guidance of our main Kechara House here in Kuala Lumpur. Every year KSJC engage in a Lord Tsongkapa’s retreat of...

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A few months ago, one of my close student's father had a medical condition that was quite life threatening. Sharon, a loving mother, daughter and one of my loyal student... loves her parents very much. When she heard of her father's condition, she selflessly put all her feelings aside and thought only on how...

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When I am healthy, I can do more Dharma to serve others. By cutting down on meat, we will also be able to save many animals from being slaughtered every day.

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Kechara Soup Kitchen was first registered as an NGO in the year 2006. At that time, KSK really was running small scale, with only 20 packets of food distributed in the weekends.

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A few students of mine gave me some letters and gifts that is very meaningful and sincere. I thought I'll put it up in my blog to share it with everyone, the beautiful and sincere gifts they offered.

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Dato Ruby Khong have been one of my closest students for almost 18 years now. She is a very strong woman, dedicated and kind... she never gives excuses, works very hard and always produces results because in everything she does, it is always for the Dharma.

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Last Monday, Dato’ Ruby, JP, Adrian, Bonita, Kwok Wai, Pastor Loh Seng Piow, Monlam, Susan, Wee Liang and I drove ½ hr away from KL to Kuala Kubu Baru (KKB). At KKB, there is an animal sanctuary on a 7-acre piece of land. It houses 60 dogs! The person behind it all is a...

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Dear friends,   I went up to the mountains with 19 of my students to enjoy a picnic, dharma talk and puja in the mountains today March 11, 2012. We went to an area that is around 1.2 hours drive from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.. I live in Kuala Lumpur. Some of my students started preparing...

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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Several months back, I painted a Dzambala for my long time student Girlie Ooi as a special gift for all her hard work and devotion towards taking care of her late mother and late aunt.

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I first met Winnie Lim last year when she requested for a divination. This was over a year ago, and ever since then she has been attending Kechara House's Setrap puja CONSISTENTLY for over six months now...

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Dear Rinpoche, Below are the questions and answers for the 4th blog chat quiz! What an amazing win for Ethan Hoo! He won the 2nd quiz and he won again today! Definitely a well deserved win for Ethan as he spends a lot of time reading up the blog. Thank you Rinpoche for the...

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At the end of last year, I blogged about a hunting service that was specifically catered to women who had a passion for hunting. Women, who usually brought along their daughters, would travel all over the United States to kill exotic animals...

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I’m not talking about that old cliche that everyone must love their mother. Some mothers are real bitches, so I’d forgive those people if they didn’t feel they could write an adoring blog post and host big parties in honour of Mommy Dearest. But My Mummy is the best Mummy in the world and...

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Dear blog friends, For the longest time since I was a young child, I always visualized, imagined and wished I lived in a large cave in the mountains. This cave would be very spacious. At the entrance of the cave would be my kitchen with a wood burning stove or any stove. Then as...

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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear everyone, I have loved beautiful art both spiritual and secular since I was very young. I really like Tibetan Buddhist iconography. It is so meaningful and has tremendous blessings. Every part of their holy body, color, gesture, stance, expression of any Buddha statue represents a facet of the Enlightened mind…so viewing...

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Dear friends,   Without discipline when growing up, as adults we give up easy. Find responsibility foreign. Take advantage of others and generally find it hard to bring plans to successful completion. A cheeky spoiled kid might seems cute at 9 but not at 19 or 29 or 39 or 49!! We all need...

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