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...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Feb 8, 2024 | Buddhism for All
The Buddha is the greatest genius in the history of the world. One of his most important innovations, which is surprisingly less than prominent on the radars of many Buddhist teachers and scholars, is the central role of joy. The path to enlightenment can...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Feb 6, 2024 | Buddhism for All
The Noble Five-Factored Right Samadhi Right samadhi refers to the four jhānas. The word jhāna literally means “meditation”, but when the Buddha uses that word, he is referring to a specific collection of four increasingly refined states of meditative...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Feb 4, 2024 | Buddhism for All
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. Source: Wikipedia. In the 1600s, there was a Dutch draper by the name of Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. Antonie cared a lot about the quality of his textile. He wanted to see the quality of the thread better than anyone else could, so he...
by Soryu Forall | Feb 1, 2024 | Buddhism for All
Mindfulness is said to be useful everywhere. That means that we can always do it. We can practice it in every circumstance. Too often, people think that they need to hold a specific focus, such as the breath, in order to practice mindfulness. But we can experience...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Jan 30, 2024 | Buddhism for All
(Context: Establishing right mindfulness) Yes, it turns out there is such a thing as wrong mindfulness. Every part of the Noble Eightfold Path has its “wrong” counterpart. For example, there is wrong view (versus right view), and wrong intention (versus...
