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Rinpoche is constantly giving gifts away, and teaching me the REAL meaning of gratitude…you give more than you take from the people you!

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Rinpoche gave me this pendant when I moved into my new #house. Rinpoche said the Shakyamuni Buddha represents the core of my life which is my Dharma practice. My practice is supported by the ruby, which represents my mother Dato Ruby’s support for me. Everything is surrounded by the masculine rectangle, representing my father’s hard […]

Day 57: Holding on to us

August 2, 2013 0

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According to Buddhist scriptures, this lifetime is not the first in which I’ve met Rinpoche and he has been my teacher. After some of the things I’ve seen and heard today, today more than ever I am grateful that Rinpoche kept his bodhisattva vows of compassion lifetime after lifetime, holding on to me from my […]

Day 56: Final passage

August 1, 2013 0

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“The reason I was with Rinpoche the night your grandmother died is this statue. We went down to Singapore to get it.” My mother explaining why Rinpoche will never give this statue away 🙂 the next day, Rinpoche was in Penang conducting my grandmother’s funeral.

Day 55: Gift of healing

July 31, 2013 0

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Rinpoche, Jean Mei and I at the Chamang waterfall at the beginning of 2012, when Kechara Forest Retreat was still all-jungle and totally wild. I’d just come out of the hospital after spending nearly two months there, and this was my first outing with Rinpoche after I’d been discharged. Who knew a “routine” laparoscopic appendisectomy […]

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Rinpoche treated 16 people to a screening of Wolverine and lunch…thank you Rinpoche! Everyone enjoyed themselves!

It’s just coffee (aka how we dress up our attachments)

It’s been a few days since I completed my write-up on emptiness for Rinpoche’s blog. I’ve been thinking about the teachings since and something I saw online today prompted further thoughts. It was a blog post about a girl who frequents coffee shops, and she was discussing the perfect outfit for a coffee shop. It […]

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Rinpoche brought this team together to give hundreds of thousands of people a different kind of future. Thanks to Rinpoche’s unending care, and this team who are building Kechara Forest Retreat, I have a nice place to grow old in 🙂

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There’s been so much fantastic stuff on the web this week, I don’t know where to start! First, this meme popped up on my newsfeed: In a time when talk about numbers is more often than not a body count / report on how much money we’ve lost since the start of the financial crisis, […]

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Knowing Bentong is pretty limited food-wise and wanting us to have at least one good meal everyday, Rinpoche arranged for the Ladrang to provide us monsters in Manjushri Hill with one home-cooked meal everyday. Few days ago we had aloo gobi 🙂