There's No Way But Up

Huge Sale!!! Don't miss it at Kechara Paradise Bangsar It's a celebration! Celebrate history and take a special part of Kechara Paradise home with you in its biggest, best-ever sale!  Kechara Paradise Bangsar will be expanding and moving location to greater horizons, bigger crowds, and nearer the hip & happening city centre. Before the big,…

  The best anyone can do if not enlightenment for now, is to gain mastery over taking rebirth coupled with developing Three Principle Paths. Where you want to take rebirth can be determined by yourself if you practice the sacred Vajra Yogini Tantra thoroughly. * Start now before you are awarded the Vajra Yogini empowerment…

Check out the wonderful design!!!! It is so beautiful! Lama Tsongkhapa's sacred practice will now be disseminated through out the world in style! Lama Tsongkhapa's practice condenses the efficacy of 3 great Buddhas: -  Manjushri for wisdom & intelligence                              + Avalokiteshvara/…

Recently Kechara House has been engaging in a Lamrim recitation retreat to create the cause for the new Kechara House Gompa to arise. Just imagine KH1 and KH2 combined together to form into one massive temple in Sunwaymas! Yup, that’s whats going to happen in the near future. Such a massive project require certain pujas…

Prince Siddhartha’s renunciation is often interpreted as removing worldly clinging to his wife, family, inheritance, power and glory. He knew he couldn’t really help his wife and family from the ravages of sickness, old age and death. So, out of great compassion he has towards his wife and family that he went out to the world and sought a…

   It's time for another book reading session at MPH Midvalley. So instead of reading it to just a bunch of strange passerbys. I am asking all you folks out in cyberspace to come support me… Venue         :  Midvalley Megamall Date            :  Sunday, 30th May 2010…

These two rainbows appeared during the Wesak funfair last Saturday. When I first saw it, immediately I thought that the gods are very happy with what we were doing at the funfair.  Later, I heard that the main brighter rainbow seemed to be emanating somewhere above shop lot No.7. Datuk May Phng along with a…

(Just another one-of-a-kind piece that I wrote during creative writing class and it was inspired by a surrealistic picture of a girl rubbing lipstick all over her mouth) I think I am god-damn beautiful! I must be and I don’t believe what my mum tells me or any of my friends. They are just so…

I just had a wonderful dream last week and fortunately, I could still remember it. In my slumber, I was transported by the power of my dream to a strange place.  As I tried to orientate myself to the new location, I realised that I was in a sort of waiting lounge of an airport….

Yes! I was on TV last Monday morning on NTV7's breakfast show! I was a nervous wreak but it turn out not too bad. At least I didn't fall flat on my face while talking. 

I know I have been lazy and not been blogging for the longest time. But that doesn't mean that I have not been doing stuff. I just had my media launch of my book at MPH Bookstores in One Utama…well 2 weeks ago. Here are some nice photos that Fang, KMP's designer, photographer and singer…

Today is the 3rd week of my creative writing course with Sharon Bakar. I missed last week because I was just plain stupid – no made up excuses to give.  However, today's class was very interesting. We were to first write a word to describe a feeling and then write a word to match the…

Last weekend, Rinpoche gave an amazing talk and bestowed refuge upon a very fortunate bunch of refuge-seekers. It brought back some warm and fuzzy memories for me as I recalled my own refuge. It was many years ago and the funny thing was that I didn't receive refuge with Rinpoche first. That was because I…

The good you find in others, is in you too. The faults you find in others,  are your faults as well. After all, to recognise something You must know it The possibilities you see in others, Are possible for you as well. The beauty you see around you, is your beauty, The world around you…

I have just joined the creative writing course that was run by Sharon Bakar at a place called the Learning Room. Today is the first lesson and it is on Flow Writing. The trick is to just write whatever is in our heads without restricting it with grammar, spelling, punctuation or theme. All Sharon did was…

This is extracted from a fantastic teaching that H.E. Tsem Tulku Rinpoche gave in 2004 at a  Dzambala retreat. Dzambala was a yaksha, a type of being that existed before that is very fat, very short and very stout and very strong. They are celestial and they have the power of wealth. They are very, very…

My dad and I have a great relationship for many years. I have not always been the best son to him because when I was growing up, I allowed a gulf to grow between us. We hardly talked and I would often see him sitting alone in the kitchen drinking beer and wallowing in his…

Yup, its me and my book again….

I heard that many of my friends didn't like this movie. They told me that it was really just typical Hollywood crap. However, I decided to go ahead and watch it anyway. The allure of a movie with glorious Greek gods, mythical creatures and breathtaking special effects was just too much to resist.  Well, like…

The other death that I heard recently was of Kyabje Kensur Lati Rinpoche. I am not a direct student of this great master but he is amongst my lineage Lamas because he is one Rinpoche's great teachers.  I know very little of him except through the amazing stories I heard from Rinpoche's sharing and teachings….

I am greatly saddened with the recent news of two deaths over the weekend. It leaves a rather poignant reminder of how near death is to all of us.  The first heart-wrenching death is this cute white little Schnautzer whose name is Namse (I took this last picture of him in the pet hospital). He…

Last Saturday was historic because our (KH's) retreat center was unveiled in a public event to our members for the very first time. It was called Creating A Legacy Together and was held at Kechara Oasis (our vegetarian restaurant). Our retreat center initially dubbed TKL or Tsem Kacho Ling has been synonymous with Rinpoche's and Kechara's…

Tantra, that ubiquitous term is often used and misused in equal measures. Unfortunate for some, Tantra is not about sex per se. However, there is a lot of sensual, sexual and somewhat primal references and imagery in Tantra. This is particularly so in Buddhist Tantra and I am not going to go into Hindu Tantra because…

Look! This is Zamkar! We call him Zamky baby or sometimes Zamky monster or just monster. (when he poops indiscriminately) He is my fourth housemate in Heruka House. This housemate is unique because he runs on all fours and the whole house is like one big toilet for him. However, he is much better these…

From time to time, people would ask me what do I do with Rinpoche on those long sleepless nights I spend in the Ladrang. Well, first of all I would like to clarify that my time in the Ladrang is not one long Dharma talk after another. More often than not, it is really quite…

Such photos are truly precious! Rinpoche, our perennial Bodhisattva has done it again. His undying passion to spread the Dharma has found a new way of expression – Funky t-shirts with catchy phrases. Who would have thought of such a fun, contemporary phrase like that? – I belong to Buddha. It certainly beats all the…

I can't believe it! Rinpoche just gave me a new laptop as a gift! It is my dream machine! It took me a while to believe my eyes. It was not too long ago that I blogged about my dream machine. Rinpoche saw my blog post and decided that it would be a necessary tool…

Look at me! These great fantastic advertisements are making my book famous at MPH! Yes, my book is making me, Rinpoche and KH more and more famous! Everybody trawling the malls, please buy my book! The sensor panels are at :- MPH 1 Utama  MPH Midvalley Megamall  MPH Subang Parade  MPH Sunway Pyramid  MPH The…

I just did a book reading of, “There’s No Way But Up” yesterday at Kechara Paradise Bangsar. Here is a silly photo taken just before the reading with all the shiny balloons that were a gift from Rinpoche in celebration of this occasion. Since, i was in the spotlight, I figured I might as well…

On the eve of KMP's Bookclub reading (There's No Way But Up), I am having an insecurity fit! You see, I was pretty affected by some comments made by my kind fellow colleagues a couple of days ago regarding a previous book reading and I just couldn't get it out of my mind. So during…