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Thomas Canada
Cove Fort,Utah / USA
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I wish I could be with you! Please embrace my presence and allow me Blessings.
Huge Dzambala Retreat Starting April 23rd...get involved!!!!!
The holy 27 inches Dzambala Statue with many crystals offered onto his body. The beautiful workmanship done by Datin Ng. This Dzambala has specialy prepared for this upcoming retreat and many more in the future. The main shrine in Kechara House (KH) with Lord Tsongkapa and the Dzambal...
Y'all are very fortunate to have a lama that is really a hands on kind of Guy!
I share in your Joys and it makes me smile all the way to the top of the mountains overlooking the deserts down to the Pacific and across to your Sangha!
KH Members Practicing Tara Puja Today
I have requested monks from Gaden to teach a whole series of very important pujas that our members here can do for the public. These pujas have been done for the last 600 years in Gaden! I wanted the pujas to be authentic and have a lineage from Gaden. So that our members and the public will be...
Key to sucess is never carry anger into tomorrows.
Ingredients for a successful relationship
Suzan and her husband during the wedding ceremony. Chinese have a unique custom. The bride should wear red during the wedding as red denotes weath, prospertiy, good luck, and growth. I was requested to perform a Wedding Ceremony. It was for a long time student, Suzan. She was getting marri...
Shimmering Tears!
His Eminence Kyabje Lati Rinpoche Enters Clear Light
His Eminence Kyabje Lati Rinpoche of Gaden Shartse Monastery I've recieved many teachings, audiences, divination results, and persoanl advice from this incredibly eminent master. He was one of the greatest living Buddhist treasures left in this century. He was tulku (reincarnated master) and...
Oops! I keep slipping on the Bodichitta!
Compassion is a priority
Compassion is not for others. It is not something to read about or admire. It is not something to praise. It is not a philosophy alone. It is not a dry ideal state beyond us.... Compassion is a priority and a way of life we have to embody daily. It can be hard or easy, depending on how much w...
Birds of a Feather,Flock together!
Cream rises to the top
Congradulations
Thom
A letter from His Majesty the King of Thailand to KMP
His Royal Majesty Bhumibol Adulyadej King & Queen & Royal Family of Thailand Our KMP or Kechara Media & Publications dept have been working so hard to produce high quality books. Our Kechara House has twelve depts of which all books, videos, literature are produced from the very dedicated t...
It is easy to see why you and Zong Rinpoche love one another so much.
It is in the eyes!
I'd know that mischieious look anywhere![lol]
Hey Everyone, I AM A DESIGNER!! Move over Versace and LV!!
I like designing dharma items into something modern. I have been designing the special pendants we have available for years. I've made Tsongkapa, Shakyamuni, Tara, Buddha, Setrap, Dukkar, Manjushri, Dzambala into something very wearable in both pure silver and gold pieces. Many people like them ...
Quite a Line Up! Are you Walking the Runway for Dharma?
Too Cute! Maybe an Ewok might be next? Oh! That is you!
Hey Everyone, I AM A DESIGNER!! Move over Versace and LV!!
I like designing dharma items into something modern. I have been designing the special pendants we have available for years. I've made Tsongkapa, Shakyamuni, Tara, Buddha, Setrap, Dukkar, Manjushri, Dzambala into something very wearable in both pure silver and gold pieces. Many people like them ...
Healing the Wounded Healer,
One Day at a Time !
Vows we remember
In Our Everyday Life
The Ones We Forget
As We Pass by an Unhappy Face
Forgetting to Mirror In Our Smiles
The Secret That Buddha Shared
and Je T'Song Khapa Clarified!
The Love We Give
Is Given In That Moment
With Buddha's Smile
The One All Knowing
of Human Possibilities
and Human Frailities
Accepting with Breathing
In and Breathing Out
It is abstract in the describing
So Simple, the Solution
As to evade the Monkey Mind
Never quite satisfied
We approach the Pearl
With Sticks and Stones
Blinded by the Efferverscent Rainbow Lights
True Lama need no Certificates
True Lamas Guide by their Constantly
Practicing the Dharma
Keeping the Light Bright
For us in the Twilight Zone
What we see
Is where we go
Follow the Bright Light
The Warm One
That Surrounds Us!
The Lamas,
Who Care For Us!
The Bigger Picture
Is What They Keep In Mind
We, Well we can barely see them move through the room.
Setrap Gives Another Sign
April 1, 2010 Last night while in the car going to Kechara House for a dharma talk, I openly requested Dharmaphala Setrap to give me the blessings so my talk can sink into the minds of the listeners, have people become more committed to KWPC/KH Depts, show more help to the people who are doi...
Thank you for the Inspiration
Self Motivating and Self Generating
Alone most of the time
Sometimes lacks the lustre of your Altars
The Altar of Inspiring and Motivational Words!
Across Time and Space
The Dharma like Tara
Is Lightening Fast
For Those of Us
Lost In Samsara
Showing The Light
Guiding Us Safely to Blissful Shores!
I'll keep in Mind
What you've said.
YOU ALWAYS HAVE A CHOICE...make the right one.
You may be bigger, stronger, and more faster now....but there's this thing called karma and impermanence. All situations will end one day. Nothing is permanent. Hence you may be strong and powerful today, but at a later date it might be the reversed. Never take refuge in power or having the...
Happy People are caring for those in despair and despondent with care and love.
Why I conceived of Kechara Soup Kitchen or KSK
I chose to be poor when I left my step parents' home when I was 16 years old so that was 1981. I crossed the US on my own from New Jersey to California. I had no choice. When I stayed home, I couldn't pursue what I wanted to pursue. That created alot of friction. I ran away from home...
I once built an Oyster Mushroom Greenhouse. Where we grew 600,000 pounds of drided mushrooms in our first six months. Mushroom are like fairy beings as they sprout and grow. Oyster Mushrooms can sustain a human being with all one needs for nourishment, minus the elements of Vitamin C.
I have overseered the building of a geothermal power plant,a one acre greenhous. I have restored a Carnegie Library,a Vaudevill Theater, a City Court House into an Art Center. I built my Underground home with all passive heating and cooling elements wit 50 tons of steel and a thousand yards of concrete. I know about foundations and eco friendly systems. I built a Stupa and Monastery twice over. I am excited to see your plans and hope the foundation is put in proper. I know Volcanic soils and their properties when constructing. If you need any advice or strong backs. Jst let me know. I also built a three acre Japanese Rock Garden under the guidance of Sacred Treasure, Dr Kenneth Yasuda. He was gifted a parcel in the Kyoto Gardens for creating a garden there.
Anyway, Creating is lots of fun, maintaining is another choice.
Setrap Gives Another Sign
April 1, 2010 Last night while in the car going to Kechara House for a dharma talk, I openly requested Dharmaphala Setrap to give me the blessings so my talk can sink into the minds of the listeners, have people become more committed to KWPC/KH Depts, show more help to the people who are doi...
Truth is the Truth
No matter what path one takes
Do unto Others as you would have Other do unto you!
Golden Rule
As a rule,
A Man is a Fool
When it is hot,
he want it cool
When it cool,
he wants it hot
What it is,
he wants it not!
Some of us suffered in Southern Baptist Churches
Does not mean we did not learn anything
The merging of Christian and Buddhist Principles is Inevitable
The Dharma is not a dogma
It is the Course, the Current of Life!
I once lived in the alleyways of Tangiers for six months as a street urchin
My hand out for few pennies!
Gave me a loaf of bread for about five cents, to eat and watch the night in the Kasba.I think I lost about 45 pounds by the time I found home again. At least I avoided the draft.What a nightmare that period was to my mind.
Reading the "Way of the White Cloud", about Tromo Geshe Rinpoche gave me company in a world full of wonder far from my home in Indiana, I kept going until I met the Sahara.
Why I conceived of Kechara Soup Kitchen or KSK
I chose to be poor when I left my step parents' home when I was 16 years old so that was 1981. I crossed the US on my own from New Jersey to California. I had no choice. When I stayed home, I couldn't pursue what I wanted to pursue. That created alot of friction. I ran away from home...
There is a scene is 'Kundun', where the entire screen is filled for about 15 seconds with the smiling face of Jamyang Lama. One of the monks I secured visas and brought to house in Kyabje Trijang Dorje Chang Choktrul Rinpoche's First Monastery in the United States.
Jamyang Lama is a dwarf, but very powerful with his love for the Dharma. The Kunten Lama was installed as the Lama of Dagom Geden Tensung Ling Monastery and still resides with about 15 others monks. They have spread the Dharma to the four other cities in the Midwestern United States in a few brief years. It was foretold that this Monastery would benefit millions and millons of people over the next few hundred years. H.H.Kyabje Zong Rinpoche visited and gave us his Blessings. I enjoyed his company immensely and he left a lasting impression on me forever. We went swimming and I threw him up in the air over my head and threw him to splash down with laughter and giggling, smiling a big grin he would ask for it again and again. Water is such a joyful element. I love it!
The Dharma knows no boundaries, neither political or theological will ever shake the Foundation to Practice the Dharma given to us by Our Supreme Lord Buddha.
I really am enjoying witnessing the creations y'all are making in Malaysia, Nepal and the Whole World. As the Little Locomotive said aproaching the moutainous grades, 'I think I can, I think I can, I think I can! Chugchug!
THIS IS ME IN HOLLYWOOD IN THE 80'S
This is a picture of me taken in the 80's in Hollywood, California where I lived. I don't even remember who took the photo now. My step-parents didn't allow me to do Dharma or get involved with the centre. I ran away like three times and on the third time I was successful. My step-parents di...
I got a small part in a Spanish Horror Movie back in 1969. I worked an old 18th century morgue from Sunset to Sunrise. I went to school with a Anthony Pizzo, who wrote the movies, "Breaking Away" & "Rudi", all shot in Indiana and Bloomington, my hometown. I was in birth class with Bruce Rubin, who wrote, "Ghost" & "Jacobs Ladder".
Andy's movies are rated in the Top All Time Best Family Movies. Check them out! The bikeriding in Bloomington, setting the stage for building a Tibetan Cultural Center and a Monastery. The Higlands of Southern Indiana are so mellow and scenic with the Heartland of Hardwoods on the hills and slopes, The Indians thought this area only suitable for Shamans and Visions.
Los Angles the City Of Angels[lol]. You were lucky to get out of there with the skin on your bones.{hoho]
Love Your Books
Love Your Style
Dharma will Flourish
Like never Before
Thom Canada
THIS IS ME IN HOLLYWOOD IN THE 80'S
This is a picture of me taken in the 80's in Hollywood, California where I lived. I don't even remember who took the photo now. My step-parents didn't allow me to do Dharma or get involved with the centre. I ran away like three times and on the third time I was successful. My step-parents di...
I am pleased that you are implementing the internet to conduct classes. You reach out to those who are without a local Sangha and help us to feel connected to others.
Thank you for Flourishing the Dharma!
metta
Thom
ps I am enjoying your book, "If Not Now-When?"
Compassion is a priority
Compassion is not for others. It is not something to read about or admire. It is not something to praise. It is not a philosophy alone. It is not a dry ideal state beyond us.... Compassion is a priority and a way of life we have to embody daily. It can be hard or easy, depending on how much w...
Dysfunctional familes are a global tragedy.Your candidness compels me to not be so shy about sharing personal issues that ironically enough has brought me to this spot.
Thank you Tsem Rinpoche, I hear you and forgiveness the ultimate elixir to soothe the soul, keeping it untarnished and free to pursue the dharma without ghostly maras.
Why I conceived of Kechara Soup Kitchen or KSK
I chose to be poor when I left my step parents' home when I was 16 years old so that was 1981. I crossed the US on my own from New Jersey to California. I had no choice. When I stayed home, I couldn't pursue what I wanted to pursue. That created alot of friction. I ran away from home...
I look foward to the day, when I might meet H.H.Kyabje Zong Rinpoche again with his grins and smiles.
Compassion is a priority
Compassion is not for others. It is not something to read about or admire. It is not something to praise. It is not a philosophy alone. It is not a dry ideal state beyond us.... Compassion is a priority and a way of life we have to embody daily. It can be hard or easy, depending on how much w...
Compassion is like the tides that sweep and retreat, like our hearts that flow in and out. How to keep the Inner Peace is why we need our Lamas.
Love & Hugs To All
Thom
Compassion is a priority
Compassion is not for others. It is not something to read about or admire. It is not something to praise. It is not a philosophy alone. It is not a dry ideal state beyond us.... Compassion is a priority and a way of life we have to embody daily. It can be hard or easy, depending on how much w...
I recently received a statue of H.H.Zong Rinpoche and all the memories or previous years cascade across my mind.This I see similarly to the 'Sprout' that manifested as if by a miracle.
I wished to also share that the way you Teach resounds in my heart and mind. Therefore I thank you for your presence, even though you are half way around the world. Time and Space are meaningless.
With Folded Hands, I rejoice in the clarity of your words!
Many Thanks
ps I too have a connection with Mongolia
Small Plant Growing on Zong Rinpoche's Statue
Dear everyone, A few days ago in my audience room in Kechara House 1, there was a leakage on the ceiling, and water fell directly onto Zong Rinpoche's statue on the altar, not anywhere else. So I was quite concerned and worried. Without asking me, Monlam, who was very concerned and caring...
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