by Chade-Meng Tan | Feb 27, 2024 | Buddhism for All
I once walked into a beach house with a stunning panoramic view of the ocean, and I made a joke, “This house is very Buddhist: it possesses right view.” Jokes aside, right view is far more important to the Buddhist path than first meets the eye (yes, pun...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Feb 25, 2024 | Buddhism for All
(Context: The Awesome Power of Virtue) In earlier posts (for example, this one), I mentioned that the reason we practice virtue in Buddhism is that virtue is highly conducive to our own happiness. It gets even better. In addition to increasing your own...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Feb 22, 2024 | Buddhism.net Blog
Dear friends, This is Meng. Please help these Buddhist nuns take my money. See how below. Buddhist nuns generally have to work much harder than monks because they generally receive less financial support. This community of nuns in California has only one truck, which...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Feb 22, 2024 | Buddhism for All
If I ever give you the mistaken impression that virtue is merely the preparation for meditation, and that meditation is the “real Buddhism”, then you should scold me and call me funny names. In truth, virtue is a powerful and essential component in every step of...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Feb 20, 2024 | Buddhism for All
In a discourse called the Discourse of the Great Forty[1], the Buddha taught that you can think the first seven parts of the Noble Eightfold Path as being the “support and requisites” for the last one, right samadhi. He also suggested that there is some...
