by Chade-Meng Tan | Oct 5, 2024 | Buddhism.net Blog, Dharma in a Minute-ish
My name is Meng, and I have a confession: I don’t like reading books. That was how I became an international bestselling author: I wrote books that even I was willing to read. So, for those of you who prefer to learn the Dharma by watching videos rather than by...
by Chade-Meng Tan | May 9, 2024 | Buddhism for All
“I pray that we are not a religion.” Is Buddhism a religion? Is it, instead, a philosophy? First, let’s see what the Buddha himself has to say. It turns out, he has an answer for that question. He says emphatically, “What I teach is...
by Soryu Forall | Mar 26, 2024 | Buddhism for All
Karma is power. You have power because your actions have consequences. You have the power to change the world, and you have the power to change your life. You use this power at all times. Even if you decide not to use it, that very decision is an exercise of your...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Mar 24, 2024 | Buddhism for All
(Context: Emptiness) Out of Nāgārjuna’s MMK comes another teaching that had a profound and long-lasting influence on Buddhism, that is the idea of the two levels of truths. The way Nāgārjuna puts it: The Buddha’s teaching of the Dharma is based on two...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Mar 21, 2024 | Buddhism for All
“The farmer’s carrot-and-stick approach will cease to work once you perceive the emptiness of both carrot and stick.” There is a very important teaching closely related to dependent origination and non-self that gained a position of preeminence in many schools of...
