My Dear Kechara Media & Publications,

I have received the Chinese If Not Now When? book and it is FABULOUS! I am very happy for the KMP team that this has come out. Our first ever Chinese coffee table book!!!!!!!!!! Very big CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!

KMP has many books out now and WE MUST GO ALL THE WAY WITH THEM. With respect earned from commitment, work and RESULTS, we can go a long way! Commitment, putting in the time, working for the right motivation/goals and getting RESULTS… THE CRITICAL KEY IS GETTING RESULTS. Talk, name-dropping or compliments will get us nowhere. Pure and simple results. KMP as a group is showing results now!!!! Congratulations.

Our books will change many people’s lives FOR SURE. Somebody will find themselves and become better people because of our work. WHAT A REASON TO WORK FOR!!!! WHAT A WONDERFUL REASON TO WAKE UP IN THE MORNING AND GO TO KMP OR ANY OF OUR DEPARTMENTS!!!!! I live for that! WHAT A WONDERFUL REASON TO GIVE UP OUR SECULAR ATTACHMENTS FOR.

It is painful to give up on endless repetitive secular attachments not because the Dharma is hard, but because our insecurities and fears are not used to a better method. That is for sure. Dharma, our teachers, and our Dharma peers do not infringe or make our lives difficult; it is our own insecurities hidden deep away behind our so-called ‘beneficial’ secular works. Our attachment to them, not letting go and always saying “I AM NOT READY” IS THE CAUSE OF THE PAIN. Think please. Do good work in the Dharma because Dharma offers real genuine long term solutions, heals pain and is the best method to eradicating self-hatred, doubt, depression, fears, insecurities and all the other neuroses. Working for others is the real healer and working for ourselves is the real pain-maker.

When we become big, we can benefit SO MANY MORE PEOPLE AND CHANGE THEIR LIVES. That is the ONLY REASON TO GET BIG. Getting big to rub shoulders with the Who’s Who and to have a great name is A TOTAL WASTE OF TIME, A DRAIN ON YOUR BODY, stressful, depletes your health, creates more negative karma, never satisfies the insecurities and fears, and in the end leaves you empty-handed. It is a lot of work that ends in nothing, just like the god realms. Instead of getting respect, people will eventually see through your empty gestures and reputation-grabbing motivation. We in KMP, in KH and any of the 12 departments must never get big for that. It is such a contradiction to the teachings of the Sage Buddha.

I am very happy with what KMP has done. Your books are coming out, beautiful, timely, and majestic. I am VERY PROUD OF KMP AND VERY PROUD OF OUR BOOKS. We are nobodies. I am a nobody. But I am happy to be a nobody. Because somebodies are short-lived and illusory. But the work we are producing from the departments are forcing us to be seen as a somebody. And this will grow for fortunate and unfortunate reasons. No reason to be proud, we must be even more humble. The humble will win everyone over including your own self-respect.

Much care,

Tsem Tulku Rinpoche
Spiritual Guide
Kechara House & KWPC Retreat Centre
www.tsemtulku.com
www.kechara.com
‘Never say you can’t do, because that is not the real you speaking’