We always have Rinpoche‘s support when we have an idea that helps people, no matter how outlandish it may be!

At the half-way point, AND it’s Throw Back Thursday so I thought I’d do something a little special. On the left is one of the first photos I ever took with Rinpoche; in the middle is Rinpoche at the height of his modelling career, and on the right is in the middle of my gap […]

Rinpoche saw this statue in Nepal and immediately wanted it for our Dharma centre. Back then, we only had Kechara House 1 and this Je Tse Zin Ma statue was a HUGE deal because it was expensive and our biggest one yet. 10 years later, we have Kechara Forest Retreat and so many larger Tsongkhapa […]

Rinpoche sent this to me today, when I was struggling to calm my mind down enough to write coherently. I know this is a repost but it wasn’t until I finished writing that piece that it dawned on me just how useful this quote had been.

Four years ago, Rinpoche asked my mother and I if my sister should join Kechara and how to bring her in. Four years on and thanks to Rinpoche’s guidance and nurturing, she’s blossomed into someone who is even more caring, kind and mature than she was before. Champion of the underdog and ready to forgive […]

Working closely with Rinpoche means that we always have to be prepared for a wide variety of situations. On any given day, we could be asked to do anything from rescuing animals to assisting Rinpoche in a funeral, to shopping for students to caring for sick people. No two days are ever the same and […]

I haven’t had the honour of being near Rinpoche in a while. Rinpoche has been in KL taking care of Mumu who is sick and as half the team moved to KL to assist Rinpoche, I stayed back in Kechara Forest Retreat (KFR) to help continue our work. Rinpoche has also been busy meeting different […]

Yes, that is a pile of rubbish! Many years ago, Rinpoche sent a group of us down to Melaka to help a senior student clear out her house. They’d been living alone for decades and had a bit of a hoarding problem, so Rinpoche kindly arrange for many of us to go down and help […]

This week’s selections are a little long because of an amazing photo series that I found but we’ll get on to that later. For now, let’s start with a little happy-happy, joy-joy 🙂 Because I’m a real sucker for all things feel-good, this video made me smile. I don’t really think this style of mashing […]

Rinpoche for putting that huge smile on my mother’s face 🙂