September 27, 2012 (By Pastor Loh Seng Piow) His Eminence Tsem Rinpoche may be a monk, but He can handle and nurture kids much better than many parents. Watch this video of how Tsem Rinpoche dealt with a kid who “misbehaved” by throwing tantrum because he could not win a game… Rinpoche knows how...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) What is Serkyem? What is its purpose? Why is it performed? The Serkyem or Golden Drink offering, is part of Dharma Protector’s practice like that of Setrap Chen’s practice. In Tibetan,Ser means ‘golden’ and Kyem means ‘beverage’. Serkyem remains largely a unique aspect of the Dharma Protector practice. Lamas...
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Being Rinpoche’s personal attendant means that I am able to witness real Dharma in action, both on and off the throne. I consider myself extremely fortunate, and at the same time it is also a great challenge to instil Dharma in my life 24/7. Over the years I have witnessed many cases of how Rinpoche helped many people in both worldly and supramundane ways, so I decided to have these stories told in comic form for the wider audience. It is my wish that through these stories many will be inspired to achieve the state of compassion and attai...
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Pastor Shin during a puja session Pastor Shin on Sin Chew Newspaper! Just recently, Pastor Shin Tan appeared in a local Chinese newspaper called Sin Chew Daily. I have known Pastor Shin since 2006, when she first attended a teaching I gave in Kechara House. She was very new to Buddhism at that...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche, June 17, 2011) Dear Elizabeth, I have recorded a message on video for you. Please see the above. I wish you well and tremendous success in your practice. As I stated in the video… Please contact Beng Kooi at bengkooi@gmail.com. I wish you luck, concern, prayers and supreme requests to go...
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Dear friends, There are many of you who have requested to meet His Eminence Tsem Rinpoche while he is here in America after 26 years. We understand and appreciate that you are excited to meet Rinpoche. Rinpoche says he is humbled. But we need to arrange a few things first. Do bear with us....
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Felix found out about Kechara from his wife’s colleague and they were talking about Wealth Vases in the year 2012. At that point, the discussion about Wealth Vases interested him as it was a way to become more wealthy. Later, when he joined Kechara Paradise, he realised that Wealth Vases not only benefited him...
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Caught on Tape: Watch how the waterfall feature collapsed (By Pastor Loh Seng Piow) This was the waterfall feature of the fish pond in Kechara Forest Retreat, it was being built to keep fishes, especially fishes that His Eminence Tsem Rinpoche always rescues from pet shops which kept the fishes in poor condition, and also for animal liberation(放生池). The fish pond consisted of three-part ponds and a waterfall feature. It was supposed to be completed within a short period of time as there was no heavy consturction involved, however the contractor...
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(By Tsem Rinpoche) Two weeks ago, I instructed one of my students over blog chat to do a write up on guru devotion as she understood very well what it is all about.
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On Thursday night, 31/05/2012, I took a group of 44 close students of mine to the theater to watch the Snow White and the Huntsman, later that night we had dinner in Kechara Oasis, Jaya One.
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(By Pastor Loh Seng Piow) Midnight, 8th Dec: H.E. Tsem Rinpoche was having headache and resting. Suddenly Rinpoche received news that a Singaporean student’s father had just passed away. Rinpoche immediately called Singapore and asked for the phone at the other side to be placed next to the father’s ear. Rinpoche then did prayers and...
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Being Rinpoche’s personal attendant means that I am able to witness real Dharma in action, both on and off the throne. I consider myself extremely fortunate, and at the same time it is also a great challenge to instil Dharma in my life 24/7. Over the years I have witnessed many cases of how Rinpoche helped many people in both worldly and supramundane ways, so I decided to have these stories told in comic form for the wider audience. It is my wish that through these stories many will be inspired to achieve the state of compassion and attai...
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Some very special requests I wanted to share with all of you here. Please send them your good wishes. They have already taken their vows on October 24, 2012. Tsem Rinpoche Dr Lanse Letter from Dr Lanse The letter reads: Dear Rinpoche, Hope Rinpoche...
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Dear Alysa and Daryl, Thank you for such a heart-warming, sincere and beautiful Birthday wish for me. I was very touched by your message and felt so much good energy from both of you. I thank you for asking Kuan Yin to bless me as we all need Her blessings daily....
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(By Pastor Loh Seng Piow) Today the grandmother of the security guard in Tsem Rinpoche’s residence unfortunately passed away, so Rinpoche personally picked out a Buddha statue and some Dharma books and incense as a gesture of condolences for the guard. These were to comfort him as he was distraught and was not able...
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(By Pastor Loh Seng Piow) Tsem Rinpoche personally setting up a computer for the Nepali boys in His residence, and showing them how to access Youtube to watch their favorite Hindi movies! Rinpoche cares for everyone around Him irregardless of nationality, race, status, background. Rinpoche says these boys have to leave their home country...
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(中文请往下看) Do you need to be rich to make offerings? To do practice or dharma? Is offerings only about money? Is giving just from money? Is giving only subjected by how much money you have? Is the collection of merits, positive energy only by money? Well read below to see the answer for yourself please…. Today I received a very powerful and sincere gift from June Tang. It was pure effort and pure practice combined with pure effort. I really appreciated her incredible offering of practice very much. I thank her so much for using her time in ...
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Today, the Kechara Forest Retreat (KFR) team held an event at KFR to celebrate the mooncake festival. I received many wonderful updates from a few of my students who attended the event.
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Photo of me and Sean taken a few years back..very sweet kid..Sean (far right) and some Kechara kids going to a movie with me a few weeks ago Me showing Sean a look-alike doll Sean healing my neck pains…hehe..thank you sean, you are a great physical therapist!! hehe Sean doing King of...
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(中文请往下看) (By Tsem Rinpoche) This Manjushri tsatsa just arrived today. It contains part of the ashes of my student and friend Mr Justin Ripley who passed away due to heart failure not too long ago. Part of his ashes were consecrated and mixed with clay and other holy objects and made into Manjushri tsatsas by monks. I composed this poem today because a deeper sense of faith in Manjushri grew stronger in me spontaneously just now and I was inspired to write. After composing the poem, I get a immediate message from Bryan Ho that this Manjushri tsa...
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