by Chade-Meng Tan | Jan 11, 2024 | Buddhism for All
“Mindfully put your right foot in, take your right foot out,… (the rest of the song) … That’s what it’s all about.” Once upon a time, a talented student of meditation was granted an opportunity to meet a great Zen master. ...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Jan 11, 2024 | Buddhism.net Blog
Friends, In Topic#6, we learned about the Fourth Noble Truth, which contains the training program that enables all of us to arrive at liberation from suffering. That program comes in eight parts, which is why it’s named (drumroll…) the Noble Eightfold Path. Here...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Jan 7, 2024 | Buddhism for All
The Buddhist system of meditation training is based on two pillars: serenity (samatha) and insight (vipassanā¸ literally: “clear seeing”). The basic premise is simple: it’s good to have the right equipment for each task. If you need to see your own face,...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Jan 3, 2024 | Buddhism for All
In practicing right effort, one generates desire and makes an effort for four things: the non-arising of unarisen unwholesome states the abandoning of arisen unwholesome states the arising of unarisen wholesome states the maintenance and expansion of arisen wholesome...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Dec 31, 2023 | Buddhism for All
The inclusion of right livelihood in the Noble Eightfold Path was a surprise to me. After all, I didn’t think a great, world-transcending sage like the Buddha would give a bother about what people do for a living. In retrospect, however, it makes...
