by Chade-Meng Tan | May 16, 2024 | Buddhism.net Blog
Friends, Having learned the non-theistic nature of Buddhism (see Topic #13), it should not surprise you to also learn that Buddhism has an uncanny degree of comfort with science. The Dalai Lama calls Buddhism “The Science of Mind”, and goes so far as to call...
by Chade-Meng Tan | May 12, 2024 | Buddhism for All
I like to close the topic of gods and miracles in Buddhism with the story of Sāriputta’s final days.[1] Sāriputta was the Buddha’s top disciple. He passed into final nirvana a few months before the Buddha. One day, during the final year of the Buddha’s...
by Chade-Meng Tan | May 11, 2024 | Buddhism.net Blog
Mother’s Day is celebrated on the 12th of May 2024! We would like to wish all mother’s a Happy Mother’s Day! Buddha taught us to cherish and honor our parents. Possibly the most important thing the Buddha said about our parents is in AN 2.33. ...
by Chade-Meng Tan | May 9, 2024 | Buddhism for All
“I pray that we are not a religion.” Is Buddhism a religion? Is it, instead, a philosophy? First, let’s see what the Buddha himself has to say. It turns out, he has an answer for that question. He says emphatically, “What I teach is...
by Chade-Meng Tan | May 7, 2024 | Buddhism for All
(Context: In Buddhism, the gods are merely our friends.) The religion Brahmanism predates the Buddha. The Buddha was born into a culture in which a certain group of priests, the Brahmans, believed in and worshiped Brahmā as the Creator God, and they were in the...
