Staged????
I just received this mms/sms message 10 minutes ago. Hehe
“Yes, Rinpoche. We are trying to do what we can to help with the blogging retreat. Keng Nam and I are both sitting in our sunny garden doing this!” -Lily Tan
Lily and Keng Nam may be all the way in a faraway, distant galaxy called UK, but they are with us in spirit. They are writing comments as many of my students and friends are on this blog as to learn more. There is loads of information for you to share and that is the whole purpose of this blogging retreat-to learn more… When your tired, a video to perk you up also. I’ve uploaded many on my blog.
One thing I find suspicious in this photo making me think it might be staged…hmmmmm…heheheh. Why? Well I see no food and drinks under the hot sun on their table!!! And Lily is like me, where I go snacks follow!!! eheheheh…Relax lily…just playing with you.
Send my regards to the boys and of course to the both of you.
Tsem Rinpoche
Ooooops!!! After I posted this above photo/comment, 15 minutes later Lily sent me another picture below of Keng Nam & son eating. It could still be staged though… Hehe. Perhaps, after reading the above she must of ran into the kitchen and grabbed some eats and brought it out…hmmm….
Ok ok ok…your reading the blog and particpating in the blogging retreat also…hehehe. Should we believe them? Leave your comments..LOL. Tsem Rinpoche
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Found this old post interesting.
Lovely couple Lily and Keng Nam even though living in UK, they are very devoted to Dharma and have been with Kechara long time. Looking at the pictures tells all, they are serious in the blogging retreat. Distance does not stopped them connected to Kechara with all means. Where there is Dharma and where Rinpoche is, distance doesn’t matter to them. I have seen them a number of occasions where they will travelled back to be with Kechara attaining important events. That’s wonderful.
Thank you Rinpoche for this sharing.
Reading and making comments on this amazing blog has been a habit for me that hard to kick off.
Sometimes I giggle to myself reading back comments that I’ve put. Other times, I feel proud for being brave to reveal the truth of what I’ve done or realised. Thank you Rinpoche for pushing us this far. I hope (just like Rinpoche has mentioned before) it will benefit others somehow.
Lily and Keng Nam is such a cute couple. They stay in UK and come back a few times a year to do dharma work in Kechara. What a great way to study in their sunny garden. I think this is a very good way to study dharma. This is the main idea of Rinpoche started this Blog. So that no matter where we are, what we need are inter net connection and a smart phone or laptop. I love to have snack and drink around me too when I am on Rinpoche’s blog reading and writing comments.
Like the saying goes, have computer will travel. It makes no difference where you are – from one end of the earth to the other end, we still can communicate, communicate and communicate all the way to UK through the whiff of a wireless second. Yes Lily and Keng Nam, Rinpoche won’t want to miss you both out for anything, because you are his longtime students of proven loyalty. And of course, you would not also want to miss rinpoche’s important event for anything in the world! But not to worry, whatever our guru assigns us things to do will always be for our beneficial interest. Like that of his gurus, Rinpoche never existed for himself but for others only. It must be due to the
eons of blessings showered on us that we can have the merit to be with him today….!
[…] 我们还搬来救兵—不在这个圈子里的朋友，也可以过来帮忙写评论。我很高兴贤安也帮我一把。他彻夜未眠也不埋怨，我想美味的食物供应起了不小的作用。我们还把远在伦敦的陈月丽及陈进南都拉进来！ […]
Rinpoche has posted on his blog of pictures of Lily and keng nam sitting out in their garden commenting on Rinpoche’s blog. They have also join in the blogging retreat all the way from their home in U.K. Since they are not physically here with us in Malaysia but only by MMS photos Rinpoche has made a little humour out of them by saying that what they are doing in their garden is staged. I don’t think so. Lily and keng nam needs lots of information re activities of Kechara to tell the study group in U.K as they are supposed to be representing the study group in U.K.
Oh it does look like they posed for the photos! See, how does one read an LCD screen with dark glasses on, I wonder!?? No I think they were enjoying the warm sunshine on a lazy afternoon. If they install a CCTV at that spot and leave it on for us to monitor how long they have been at it and then to be tallied with their output via the blogs, then would it be believable. Nah, I think it’s staged.
Second thoughts, I give you the benefit of the doubt, he he. Blog on, keep ‘em coming. Love to read them.
This goes to show how amazing technology is helping us all. And why we are so resistant to using it for our benefit and for others is inexcusable. How else can we be “communicating” in real time manner.
Example: Just a few minutes ago, I noticed I posted a comment on Rinpoche’s blog on the exact time as Thierry who is working from home whilst I am in E-Division working with Cynthia on some designs for the KSK/KWPC Charity and Auction Dinner. For the curious or for those who have not gotten their tickets (smack in the head! Hehehe), here is the link:-
http://kechara.com/cn/dinnerauction
I love it as Rinpoche was blogging, it was obvious that Lily and Keng Nam were indeed on their terrace blogging or they would not be sending you more pictures via mms to prove they were!!!.. hehehe funny indeed!
Hi Lily and Keng Nam, looks like you folks are having sun and knowledge as well- unbeatable combo. Lama Tsongkapa’s teachings is powerful like the sun. Good to see you are having a fair share of the warming via Rinpoche’s blogs.In Englande you really need it more than we do here.
It had been an amazing week of learning for all KH members. I think one of the many benefits this retreat had spawned is that it has brought us all closer to our Lama and Guru and also fostering 1Kechara spirit!
Hope to read yr comments in the blog often.
Lily And Keng Nam,
Hope to see you guys soon in KL where there is lots of action going on. July 18th I’m going to be a black swan wooohoooo for the KWPC/KSK fund raising auction!
Anyways the blogging retreat helped me personally to uncover a lot of gems from the blog, that I never noticed before. I will start to use the blog for my sharing sessions in IPOH.
Sometime you think you don’t have that many things to comment on about the same things, but if you dig deep enough sometimes it can surprise you what angle you can come up with at 4.00am in the morning 🙂 hehe
Its great to see people are connected over cyberspace 🙂 Staged?? Not likely la.. I would give them the credit even if it was staged — at least they took the trouble to do it..
It’s pretty hot here in Salem, Oregon. US. like 95 for 3 days is a lot for us, but probably not for Malaysia? Both are rain forests though I think only Malaysia is tropical rainforest and Oregon is a temperate rainforest. also when It’s 11am on the west coast, It’s 2am in Malaysia. Have a nice day blogging everyone.
1st pic above:
Keng Nam: “Holy cow!” We have blown our grocery budget for last month.
Lily: “So, am I the ONLY one to be blamed?”
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2nd pic:
Keng Nam: “Aiya son, fruits for me this month only.”
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Lily was not in pic coz she was at the grocer’s buying fruits and more fruits….
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Hehehe!I’m not taking a swipe at you guys. Aiyoooo….Just cud not contain my bitchiness lah! 🙂 Very good pics. Thanks!
It’s good that we are connected through modern gizmo. See you guys back in PJ soon.
Thierry and I were just in London and it was HOT HOT HOT. Dry heat heat and was I dare say “hotter” than KL. We were running around london before our flight looking for tights and leotards for our Swan Leggers!!!! hehehe. So much fun being in Kechara. I never would have thought we would be in London looking for that and I never even once went into a Paul Smith store!!!! hehehehe
Yes I do. Wishing you well and all the best to your dad as well.
I think its believable as UK Sun might not be as hot as Malaysia sun… hehehehe so they dont need drinks. Just joking , Lily’s wouldnt lie at all never. Its just sooooooo… nice eventhough she is so far far away both of them still participate in this retreat. Wherever we are we should never give up and abandon our practice and continuation learning of the Dharma , of the promise we make to our Guru. We should keep it with all & everything we have as the Guru show us the path to self liberation , free from all Samsara. Dont delay , dont wait or else in a blink of an eye everything will be too late. Never live your life to regret !
Hi Lily , hope you remembers me – liew chee khoi.
This is a proof to show that no matter where we are, once we put our heart into it, we will be connected one way or another. Lily and Keng Nam shows their commitment to join us in this wonderful blogging retreat and it seems like this blogging session is getting hotter and hotter. We are now commenting all the way to England! 😀
Salute to Keng Nam, Lily and son for spending time in your lovely garden to do this blogging retreat.
This started off with me being clueless on what is this all about, but as I go along, I started to understand more and more what the whole blog is about and started to see things beyond what I see in the blog because it is not about reading and watching the blog. But it actually makes one think about what is the content and the moral behind each topic
Thank you Rinpoche for sharing with us great information and helping us think further.
No Sharon, we should be the ones thanking Rinpoche and all of you good and wonderful people in Kechara that gave us this platform to connect with Kechara and Rinpoche’s teachings in whichever way or form. As I said in an earlier post, today, we don’t exactly need to be reborn in a first world to practice. A ‘whiff’ of the wireless transmission, no matter how weak, and wherever we are is enough for us to receive the teachings. We are of course very blessed to be doing this blogging retreat whilst relaxing in the garden. Unlike some practioners who have to travel to the ‘wilderness’ to do retreats. I can only attribute this to the good fortune of meeting my Lama when it counts and the guidance we received and the condusive methods of retreats he allows us to do.
This is such a cute post of Lily and Keng Nam… although they are physically far away, they are always only a phone call or email away. When we visited UK last year, they were very hospitable and we were invited to visit their home and see their lovely chapel.
It’s lovely to see them blogging on their laptops in the garden… it just goes to show that Rinpoche’s teachings are accessible anytime, anywhere!
Thanks Lily and Keng Nam for joining us on this most innovative of all retreats!!
It is heartening to have people like Lily and Keng Nam who always respond to our calls for help. Although far away, they are with us in spirit. Yes, come to think of it. This is a blogging retreat and many students and friends of Rinpoche are involved. I’ve never heard of a blogging retreat before. Now we have one. Rinpoche has asked some of us the following questions. What have you learned from reading my blogs? What do you feel? What stuck out in reading so many posts in my blog? Are you different after reading? These are very pertinent questions and I think each one of us will answer acording to our own level and our own understanding. Some answers will be common, like learning more about Rinpoche, KH departments and members, gaining more dharma knowledge, etc. Personally, I have gained tremendous faith in Rinpoche’s skillful methods in bringing the dharma to people.
Yes Rinpoche, NO SNACKS! I have been put on this low – carb diet to make me lose 200 kgs but the good thing is I can eat 6 times a day!! That is the carrot! He..he..
Lily and Keng Nam are two very very loyal students of Rinpoche. They reside in UK. But there is no distance between them and Rinpoche and Kechara. Sometimes, Lily would just take a flight back to KL to attend a Kechara event,or attend Rinpoche’s dharma talk. They are indeed very devoted students!
Look!As I am typing this, I received an SMS update on the news of them blogging in UK under the sun and the news is already on Tsem Rinpoche’s blog. Talking about “HOT” Press, Kechara sure got a first hand on anything!