The Battle is a Good Sign

Dear friends,

I came across this wonderful quote and decided to give a short explanation on it. I hope it bring some clarity to our minds at a much needed time and daily. We all get confused or like to use the confusion to bow out of something really good for us and end up with tons of regrets. Let's not do that. Listen to the video and have another view. I wish you the best!

Tsem Rinpoche





Most people feel cozy enough in samsara. They do not really have the genuine aspiration to go beyond samsara; they just want samsara to be a little bit better. ......

The underlying motivation to go beyond samsara is very rare, even for people who go to Dharma centers.

There are many people who learn to meditate and so forth, but with the underlying motive that they hope to make themselves feel better.

And if it ends up making them feel worse, instead of realizing that this may be a good sign, they think there is something wrong with Dharma.

We are always looking to make ourselves comfortable in the prison house. We might think that if we get the cell wall painted a pretty shade of pale green, and put in a few pictures, it won't be a prison any more.

~Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo

Blessing Eye Problems - Opening Eye Chenrezig

Dear friends,

Due to the ultimate source of our karma ripening, we can experience many problems arising from environment, people, surroundings, food, sound, water, etc. They can afflict us and bring discomfort or problems, disturbing our quality of life. Within the Tantra taught by Buddha Shakyamuni, there are many practices that can avert many problems we may experience, some of the practices must be done with initiation, visualizing ourselves as the deity thereby purifying wrong perception. There are practices we do not need to visualize ourselves as the deity. And also both.



There are many hundreds of forms of Avalokiteshvara or Chenrezig. Chenrezig can manifest to help us heal, overcome obstacles, increase good qualities, gain wisdom, purify karma, and ultimately to reach full enlightenment. The great masters of Tibet, India, Nepal, Mongolia, Afghanistan, Kashmir, China, Korea and Japan have relied upon many forms of Chenrezig, and have obtain great benefits and blessings.

This form of Chenrezig I am sharing with all of you, is especially to heal the defects, problems, and disturbances specifically to our eyes. Out of the five senses, the eye is extremely important, therefore when it has problems, it can be worrying. This practice I am recommending here, you do not require initiation.

You may do this practice even if your eye is healthy or if they are afflicted. If your eyes are healthy, through this practice you can gain the special eye of wisdom that can penetrate Buddha's teachings deeply. And samsara's deception are seen by you clearly. You gain the eye of wisdom that penetrates the true existence of phenomena as elucidated by Tsongkhapa and Nagarjuna. You gain the eye of penetrative insight into ultimate mode of existence which is Emptiness. In fact this practice helps us to gain attainments to uncover "seeing" samsara for what it really is. Supreme wisdom.

If your eyes have illness, this can help to heal in conjunction with seeing the doctor and taking the medicine required. You can recite the mantra any time of the day or night daily, anywhere until healing is occurred. Sometimes you may receive dreams of your eyes being washed, cleaning your clothes, room, or a sangha washing an item, climbing a mountain, seeing the sun or moon rise, or vomiting. These are some indications in your dream that purification and healing are taken place. Even if you don't have these dreams, it is ok as this practice blesses your eyes, increases your wisdom, and ultimately leads to Enlightenment.

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Tsem Rinpoche

Essential Thoughts

Essential Thoughts



When we surrender what we fear,
Then the light shines through.

When we dissolve our past,
We can look into the future.

The future will become the past,
So make now count for the future.

When we think of ourselves as priority,
Then we can never find peace.

When we think of others spontaneously,
Then we find freedom now and here.

When we find pleasure in materialism,
Then our pleasure will end in pain.

When we find truth in pain,
Then we realize it was in our mind.

We are insecure because of our past,
Make amends and we can be secure because of the present.

When we enjoy nothing made into something,
Then something that is worthy becomes nothing.

Contemplate the lack of real control in our lives,
that is the truth of our situations to embrace.

Surrendering nothing for something,
Don't grasp at nothing thinking it's something.

Buddhas have shared thus,
It's up to us to capture our life's essence as shared.

Tsem Rinpoche
Kuala Lumpur
July 14, 2013

Meditation On Death

Tsem Tulku Rinpoche talks about death meditation and how it spurs us to realise the impermanence of things. With his trademark hilarious jokes, this is a talk not to be missed.

How we Meditate?! Another FUNNY Dharma talk!

Let the Neon Lama Tsem Tulku Rinpoche show you the way we all meditate!

Happy Family for Kalachakra

Deceiving Our Guru

When we deceive our guru, we will separate from our guru, or we will see our guru's actions as wrong, or we will illicit wrathful actions from our guru, or we will cause our guru to have short life.



The worst omen, is not trees falling on our houses, or accidents happening on our way to see our guru, or our pendants falling, or fire, or bad dreams, the worst omen a student can have, is when our guru needs to repeat his instruction to us.

Tsem Rinpoche on Malaysia National TV's Wesak Day program

H.E. Tsem Rinpoche appeared as the main guest speaker on the TV program "Buddhism's Holiest Day" on Malaysia's National TV, on Wesak Day 2013.

You Don't Own Your Body

We don't own our bodies, our bodies are vehicles, not properties.

What is GOD? What is BUDDHA? - Tsem Rinpoche

It's important to understand what our religious directions are. What we should expect out of religion and what we should be expected to do if we accept a religion.



There is nothing judgemental here or I am making criterias, but simply expressing how I feel we should apply our religious faiths for the benefit of ourselves, people around us and our planet. It is said religion can create heaven or hell within our world by some, but I think it's not the religion but our expression of it. Our expression of our religion is the potential happiness or havoc maker. Well without further ado, please listen to my thoughts in this 15 mins video extracted from the longer version.

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Not words by the admin of Religion is Man-Made