by Chade-Meng Tan | Apr 14, 2024 | Buddhism for All
(Useful reference: A hero’s story.) To break through to the Dharma means to arrive at stream-entry. The most important question is: how do we, normal people in the modern world, arrive at stream-entry? The standard answer, which is also the correct...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Apr 11, 2024 | Buddhism for All
Helena was the most talented warrior of her generation. She made a solemn vow to retrieve a mythical stone of immense power called the Storm Maker from a faraway island. The Storm Maker is said to endow its owner with the power to make rain, and that would...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Apr 11, 2024 | Buddhism.net Blog
Friends, By now, you have learned all the Buddha’s core teachings (from Topic #1 to Topic #10). More importantly, you have learned how to put those teachings into practice (specifically, from Topic #6 to Topic #9). And perhaps even more important than...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Apr 10, 2024 | Buddhism.net Blog
Tom is a dear friend of mine, and here’s his story of learning Dharma and entering the gates of Buddhism. Read more about his recommendations of Buddhist communities in our Community Page. But first, here’s his story. Tom’s story I come from a...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Apr 7, 2024 | Buddhism for All
Here is a short story that illustrates the sheer power of the realization of non-selfness. Non-selfness is so powerful it can result even in full enlightenment. This famously happened to a man called Bāhiya, who was not even a disciple of the Buddha at the...
