Archive for 2012

  In You Manjushri   How much I have explored I find no repose, Pleasant always turns unpleasant revealing unfailingly the true nature of samsara, All attractions look infallible, but all that is infallible appears fallible, Where do I seek a place where my senses can rest, trust and rely? Nowhere have I searched...

A rabbinical court in Jerusalem recently sentenced a wandering dog to death by stoning, after they decided he was the reincarnation of a lawyer who offended the judges 20 years ago.

    I was on Facebook the other day and noticed a sharing by Susie Gugajew-Carton.  Thank you so much Susie! I didn’t pay much attention at first as the description of this video was very abbreviated so I didn’t understand at first. But there was nothing else on Facebook that caught my eye, so...

 Sunday, May 13, 2012     I like very much for students to give Dharma talks to other students. After all Dharma is to be learned, shared and realized by both teacher and student. So teaching dharma helps both the teacher and student. Take a look at these three who speaks are speaking. Let...

The other night I was with Paris, David and a few others and I gave them a talk on how when we have something now, we don’t have it later, but the imprints to desire for it are still there creating alot of trouble for us continuously. How does that work? What are the...

Dear friends, I was instructed by one of my teachers years ago to do a book on my biography. I didn’t want to do it. I thought that my life was nothing exceptional at all. My teacher insisted. I couldn’t  say “no” anymore although I am kind of embarrassed to talk about my life....

    Dear everyone, students, members and friends, I have been thinking of this for quite a while, and from all aspects. An initiation whether it is lower tantra or higher tantra, specifically plants the seed of enlightenment in the disciple’s mind-stream, so that when they do their practice, hold on to their vows,...

  Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 21:28:26 +0800Subject: A new journey begins…. Dearest Rinpoche,  I have just tendered my resignation in my company yesterday and will be joining *eDiv in June after serving one month’s notice. My HR, bosses and colleagues are all shocked to learn about the news as I have been performing...

Dear friends, I received a message from my assistant that the international magazine Esquire wanted to interview me… I said ok… the time was set and they came over. The interviewer was a pleasant, intelligent and nice young man. I enjoyed the interview. Well here it is. Thanks to everyone involved. Tsem Rinpoche     ESQUIRE...

    Dear blog friends, You must watch this video and be totally flabbergasted, amazed and inspired. I guess with anything in life you have to want it bad enough by remembering the benefits. What do you have to lose if you go all the way. But you have everything to lose if you...

I have extracted all the write ups, information, pictures, paintings from Mr.Ori Carino's website. I did this is because I would like more people to know of this wonderful 29 year old visionary artist in New York City...

Yesterday was Wesak Day. In celebration of the day when Buddha was born, gained enlightenment and entered clear light; many countries declared Wesak as a public holiday, and beautiful Malaysia is one of them.

Dear friends, This is wonderful and auspicious news for our beloved Justin Ripley. 1. As you know I have requested a beautiful Manjushri statue to be ordered, painted and filled with mantras and Justin's ashes and bones. This statue will be placed in the Monastic School where hundreds of young monks chant Manjushri prayers...

        Dear dear dear friends, I recommend everyone to turn off the phone, get a snack and tissues then watch this video. See how a degree-less individual without much money but armed with passion and commitment created a global movement. She just went and did it. This is not just another video to inspire you....

  Dear blog friends, you deserve this major CUTE ATTACK… take a look at this adorable pooch!! Must be very strong imprints from a previous existence… Tsem Rinpoche   

While she was at it, a group of my younger students decided to help her out...did they really help her out or mess things out? hehe watch the video below to find out!

Dear friends,  I was on blog chat the other day. I starting talking about stupas and Lord Atisha. Everyone was very interested.  Our chat became very busy, many inputs and many from around the world starting chatting. That day we used the chat box for learning purposes…So I asked the people online to please...

As you might know, we are now in the process of acquiring land and building the Kechara Forest Retreat (KFR), which is based about an hour away from the city center.

        Dear friends, I have spoken on this subject many times and I think it is time students talk, contemplate and share with others. Here we have Joy who has been with me for around 11 years sharing this text with Shin and Andrew. Shin has been with me around 8...

Below are the questions and answers for the 5th blog chat quiz. Joey Wong really did a good job answering 3 out of 7 questions correctly hence winning the quiz!! It is very exciting to see more and more people participating in the chat quizzes. For the 5th chat quiz, 27 people participated!...