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...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Oct 23, 2023 | Buddhism for All
(Continued from The Buddha Formerly Known As Prince.) One glorious day, Siddhattha went into town with his charioteer Channa, and came into direct contact with the stark realities of real life outside his pampered existence. It shocked him to his core. On...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Oct 22, 2023 | Buddhism for All
The baby prince being presented to the sage Asita. (For context, see: His Friends Call Him Bud.) The story of the Buddha begins with the birth of an Indian prince by the name of Siddhattha (also commonly spelled as Siddhārtha).[1] Siddhattha was son of King...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Oct 21, 2023 | Buddhism for All
Once upon a time, there was an immensely powerful being born with colossal god-like superpowers who destroyed all suffering for all time, and he lived happily ever after. That was not the story of the Buddha. The Buddha was born a human being. It is remarkable...
by Soryu Forall | Oct 21, 2023 | Buddhism for All
Even when I was ten, I worried constantly about the suffering in the world, but other people didn’t seem worried, and they told me to stop worrying so much. That’s why Buddhism fascinates me. It was the one thing I encountered that didn’t tell me that someone else...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Oct 20, 2023 | Buddhism for All
Now that you have learned briefly about Dharma and many features of Buddhism, let us now undertake a joyful exploration of Buddhism. In Topic 2, we start with the story of the Buddha, the person who discovered the Dharma and founded Buddhism. Besides getting to...
