by Chade-Meng Tan | Feb 20, 2024 | Buddhism.net Blog
Friends, Lion’s Roar just gave a positive review of our book Buddhism for All in their March 2024 publication! “Chade-Meng Tan is a former software engineer who was employee 107 at Google, as well as the founder of the Search Inside Yourself Leadership...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Feb 20, 2024 | Buddhism.net Blog
Friends, We just spent 2 entire topics talking about meditation: Topic #7 on right mindfulness, and Topic #8 on right samadhi. Yes, meditation is extremely important in Buddhist practice, but if we ever give you the mistaken impression that virtue is merely the...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Feb 15, 2024 | Buddhism for All
Let us re-cap the Four Noble Truths. In short, the Four Noble Truths are: First noble truth: Birth, aging, illness, death, to be with what you do not want, to be separated from what you want, and to not get what you want, are suffering (dukkha). Specifically,...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Feb 13, 2024 | Buddhism for All
There is an important teaching regarding samadhi that enjoys consensus among all Buddhist masters across all schools of Buddhism, which is that meditative experience and realization are different things. In other words, no matter how sublime your jhāna...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Feb 13, 2024 | Buddhism.net Blog
As Valentine’s Day approaches, we are reminded of the joy of love – of giving and receiving love from people we cherish and hold dear. Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh (popularly known as Thay, Vietnamese for “teacher”) teaches that love begins with...
