Thanks for sharing Rinpoche!!!! This is really cool!!!

My Dear Patricia,
Your questions require complex answers, but I will be brief and sincerely hope it helps you.
1. Generally there are many types of hungry ghosts or just ghosts. They travel at the speed of thought and also can live hundreds of years almost like some sort of mini titan. So it is possible for people of many generations to see the same being after many generations. Even seven or eight generations and so on.
2. The amount of beings existing in the realm of spirits/ghost far far far exceeds that of humans. Their population is huge.
3. Spirits have various personalities just like animals and humans. You can generalize them. Like people from the North will be generally taller than of the South. That is very general with many exceptions of course.
You have the bitter, nasty, harmless, weak, powerful, quiet, noisy, dysfunctional, sneaky, kind, helpful ghosts and with many more personalities. Because ghosts have the ability to travel superfast they have a sort of clairvoyance. They can reak havoc with their clairvoyance because it is limited and hence can give advice that turns out wrong in the long run. But seemingly the advice is ok in the short run with or without knowing it from their side.
The ghosts can change shapes and forms to appear to you in the form you find comfortable to communicate with you or to frighten you. They wish to communicate for many reasons such as lonliness, anger, expressing their sorrows, or some wish to assist in their own way for something in return.
Some spirits can even appear to the untrained as Tara!!! Zong Rinpoche told us, some appear as Tara to people!!! So we have to be extremely careful when dealing with them. Better not to deal with them but be aware of their presence.
4. To elicit favours from them like asking for lottery number, eliminating an enemy, or getting information from them could be dangerous in the long run depending on their characters. Should be avoided. Being careful to not simply do binding rituals or order them here or there. They can get you back in a way you least suspect. Better to leave them alone.
5. Basically if they are in this form, it does not arise from positive karma. So the results cannot be generally positive.
6. If they are in the ghost realm, something definitely went wrong. To take rebirth in that realm generally requires one’s mind to have extreme great attachment to a place, person, thing, idea or the such. That attachment is what binds them to their situation until karma is ‘finished’. When they go into the light, it could be another realm, or rebirth. It is not going into a ‘heaven’ as we know it.
7. If there are psychics or people who can perceive these beings it is important to do protection and blessing prayers daily if we have to contact or see them. If seeing them is beyond our control, then daily protection would be good. It would bless the person seeing them and bless the ghosts also. Ghosts are moved by altruism or great compassion emanating from a being. Some Practices good to do daily are any of the below:
a. Tsongkapa
b. Singdongma
c. Protectors such as Setrap, Four Faced Mahakala, Pelden Hlamo
d. Ekazati
e. Vajrapani
f. Black Manjushri
These practices would bless the person, bless the environment and bless the spirits contacted/seen.
I hope the above helps you.
For further questions re the practices you may contact Bengkooi.
I wish you well,
Tsem Tulku

Dear Sunita,
You and anyone else may share anything on this blog with anyone anytime. It is a public blog site.
I am very happy that my post could bring you some help and assistance. I am very glad I can enrich your life alittle. It brings great pleasure for me to know this.
I wish you lightness, freedom, happiness, peace, prosperity, spiritual awakening,
Tsem Tulku

Just wondering if i can ask a question here…
How can we deal with psychic attacks, like if some people try to steal your energy or positive vibes…. it seems that it also harms our dharma practice when these people steal our energies cos reciting mantras collects energy and these energy is being siphoned off, so we can’t gain attainments because of these thefts…

Dear Venerable Rinpoche ,
Wishing you a good day. An interesting story on The Star today. For your reading.
Sunday June 27, 2010
Close encounter with spirits and a headless woman
THE older the structure, the more likely it is to be haunted. Given the chequered history of Pudu Prison – which dates back to 1895 – you can be sure it has more than its fair share of ghostly tales.
Abu Bakar Juah says it was common to hear things at night – footsteps where no one was supposed to be, chains rattling, and even hearing someone or something taking a bath when everyone is locked in.
“We normally shout out loud that we are merely trying to make a living and tell whatever that’s out there to leave us alone,” he says.
Haji Aziz Haji Idris tells of an encounter while on duty at one of the guard towers when he was still a young officer.
“It was shortly after midnight and I was on night duty with another person when I saw an officer approaching. As we had been trained, I banged my rifle on the floor and shouted out ‘Everything all right, sir!”
Aziz says the figure said nothing but raised his hand, and then suddenly disappeared.
He also remembers one particular bunk in the warder’s dormitory which everyone tried to avoid.
“Anyone who slept there would be sure to feel an unseen force pressing down on his chest. They may try to shout or move but will be helpless to do anything,” he says, adding that some would rather sleep on the floor than use the bunk.
Abu Bakar also recalls a weird phenomenon – a ball of fire the size of a football that suddenly appeared and rolled out of sight.
“It happened every once in a while, and in cycles. Everyone would be talking about it for a while,” he says.
But the scariest tale is that of a recurring apparition of a woman. Aziz believes it was the ghost of a woman who was hanged there.
“She had tried to kill herself previously by slitting her throat. She survived but before she was fully recovered, the execution order came,” he says.
“She was brought to the execution chamber and hanged – but because of the injury, her head was literally torn off. It was a gruesome death and that is the ghost that many people have seen.”
He recalls an encounter with this apparition.
“I was on duty at Block D, where death row is located, and directly above the execution chamber is a huge anchor stone.
“Out of the corner of my eye I saw a figure sitting on this stone. Malays believe ghosts’ feet do not touch the ground, and when I bent over to look, the figure disappeared,” he says.
But a fellow officer’s encounter was even more shocking.
“Once, a police officer was interviewing prisoners and it was getting late. However, he said that he could interview one more, and I went down to bring another one.
“As he was filling in some forms he saw a figure sitting down. Thinking it was another prisoner he looked up, only to see a headless woman with blood flowing down her chest. The officer ran down the stairs as fast as he could,” he says.
Aziz believes Pudu Prison is a very “dirty” place and in some places is a giant graveyard.
“During World War II, the British buried Japanese soldiers there, and when the Japanese took over, they buried the British there.
“The ghosts here are real,” says Aziz.
Yours Sincerely ,
Liew Chee Khoi.
(the above was emailed to me, I thought I’d share it)

Confession: I am a real scary cat when it comes to these paranormal phenomena. However, from the video teachings of Tsem Rinpoche, I learnt to accept that spirits exist. More importantly, I learn from Rinpoche to not fear them but treat them with compassion.
Off course this is easier said than done. Once, while I was praying alone, I remembered a recent teaching where Rinpoche talked about spirits’ inclination to “visit” places of Dharma worship because they too seek liberation from the hungry ghost realm through Dharma. That recollection brought immediate panic and fear (very silly, I know)…I started imagining spirits standing behind me etc. The only help I could offer myself was to bring to mind Rinpoche’s advise that we should be kind to the spirits and dedicate the merits to them so that they can leave the ghost realm sooner. Although I managed to prevent an unnecessary freak out, I did not feel completely at ease. Since then, I work on being more at ease with the knowledge that spirits exist in our world. So far, I made slight progress as I have not had a fear as intense and I thank the Dharma for it.

Most children do not know normally how to lie especially below the age of 5. Their minds are as pure as it comes before they start going to school, mixing with other kids as they learn about the big wide world outside and its problems. These children shared openly what they dreamt. They may not know what their dreams are about but these dreams keep on repeating itself, it is only logical that something else is going on here. We cannot ignore that fact.
In ancient times, people interpret dreams as tell tale signs of some kind of warning or something good. Sometimes we get the feeling that we have been at a certain place before. Like we have met with this person and they seemed to be very familiar and we feel so comfortable with. Strange to feel it but it does happen so do we ignore these signs?

My favorite TV show as a child was “In Search Of” too!

Dear Rinpoche, this is a very nice sharing of you..i do believes 100% in UFOs, lochness, bigfoot, Shambala, Nature Spirits all the way as i was always told by my late mother when she was still alive,i was always having a good time hearing stories frm her but it is because i never seen in my own eyes so i thought it never really exist until i experience it.
I always think it will be cool if we have a Psychic school for the psychic kids, so they can learn from each other and they don’t feel they are weird and different, so that they can grow up in a healthier way.
This video is great, it was a great retreat for the kids to encounter their fear and put it in their daily practice.