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...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Apr 4, 2024 | Buddhism for All
(Context: Stream-Entry is Breaking Three Fetters.) The total abandonment of the first three fetters is only one definition of a stream-enterer. There is a complementary definition, perhaps a more important one: a stream-enterer is one who has clearly seen...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Apr 2, 2024 | Buddhism for All
The most technical definition of stream-entry is the total abandonment of the first three lower fetters: identity view, doubt, and the distorted grasp of rules and vows. The first fetter, identity view[1], means identifying the self with any of the five aggregates...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Mar 31, 2024 | Buddhism for All
We learned earlier that the Buddhist path to enlightenment is defined in four stages. It is no accident that the first stage is called stream-entry. Ancient Buddhist texts poetically compare the journey towards full enlightenment as a gentle flow from the...
