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...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Feb 11, 2024 | Buddhism for All
(Context: The Buddhist Path is Filled With Joy) The inner joy of the jhānas plays a very important role in the joyful path. In fact, the joy of the jhānas is one place where the genius of the Buddha shows up. See, since those states of right samadhi are...
