by Chade-Meng Tan | Oct 28, 2023 | Buddhism.net Blog
In Topic#2 of Buddhism for All, we got to meet the Buddha, the founder of Buddhism. The most important lesson in learning the life of the Buddha boils down to four points: He was a person. You are a person. He did it. You can do it. In the upcoming topics, we...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Oct 27, 2023 | Buddhism for All
The story of the Buddha is primarily useful for us as a template to guide us in how to move forward with our own lives. It is helpful to us in the same way that knowing admirable people is helpful to us: we see them live in good ways, watch them make decisions that...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Oct 26, 2023 | Buddhism for All
After his enlightenment, the Buddha spent seven weeks in Uruvela.[1] Some of the time was spent consolidating his teachings, specifically, the teachings on dependent origination (which we will explore in detail later in this series) was formulated during the...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Oct 25, 2023 | Buddhism for All
Students of religion may find one thing very peculiar about the Buddha’s enlightenment story: it does not involve any god at all. In the Bible, for example, God appeared directly in front of Abraham, and revealed Himself to Moses through a burning bush. In...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Oct 24, 2023 | Buddhism for All
(Continued from The Four Sights, Four Signs, and Four Sighs.) After shaving his head and beard, and exchanging his princely robes for rags, Siddhattha started his life as a penniless, homeless, wandering ascetic living off the charity of strangers. Pretty soon...
