Rinpoche got us this amazing Family Rules board to hang outside our office as a reminder for why we are here, and how we ought to behave and love one another. Agree with everything on the board? Then you agree with Buddhism and Dharma 🙂

Rinpoche sponsored me to go on this trip of a lifetime when I was a 16 year old spring chicken who knew next to nothing about Buddhism (I still don’t!). In this bag are khatas and blessing strings from the most eminent Tibetan lamas of our time!

Two years ago, Rinpoche was travelling around Malaysia. On a “whim” (which, you should understand, is never as “spontaneous” as it appears!), Rinpoche decided to go to Ipoh. While in Ipoh, Rinpoche surpised me with this Oeding-Erdel bracelet. Rinpoche said I should wear it to remind myself of impermanence and Vajrayogini, both symbolised by the […]

Thank you Rinpoche for an awesome, entertaining, loving group of people to work with! All different, all strange but all together for a good purpose!

A kindly reminder from Rinpoche for myself and how I relate to people around me…wouldn’t mind the Lambo though 😉

This is the Medicine Buddha Rinpoche gave me during the very first tsog on Kechara Forest Retreat. May Vajrayogini’s tantra grow from here!

I had to post this, I just had to. My two-desktop set-up (with touch screens!) at Kechara Forest Retreat, both sponsored by H.E. Tsem Rinpoche!

So far I’ve only featured “small” gifts from H.E. Tsem Rinpoche…so here’s a BIG one. My future home, Dukkar Apartments at Kechara Forest Retreat, with the roof almost ready!

We were with H.E. Tsem Rinpoche in the midst of picking gifts for friends in Malaysia and abroad, when Rinpoche picked up this puppet, pressed him against me and said, “Here! Because you find him attractive!” LOL never put expectations on a lama, because he is there to break every single one of them!

My Ah Kong and Ah Ma, taken 13 years ago at her 60th birthday. A few years later, she passed away in her sleep, taking rebirth in a good family. Her happy smile here belies six decades of difficulties and tough living, yet this is how I remember her – happy, jolly and always warm […]