by Chade-Meng Tan | Apr 11, 2024 | Buddhism.net Blog
Friends, By now, you have learned all the Buddha’s core teachings (from Topic #1 to Topic #10). More importantly, you have learned how to put those teachings into practice (specifically, from Topic #6 to Topic #9). And perhaps even more important than...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Mar 3, 2024 | Buddhism.net Blog
Friends, We have completed our exploration of the Four Noble Truths, which we wrapped up with a close look into right mindfulness (Topic #7), right samadhi (Topic #8), and virtue (Topic #9). What’s next? Well. we need to go deeper.The Four Noble Truths are...
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 4, 2024 | Buddhism.net Blog
Friends, Mindfulness is the main pillar of the meditative practice taught by the Buddha. It is also the first of the seven factors of enlightenment, the balancing factor of the five spiritual faculties, and so on. The Buddha declared that mindfulness is...
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...
