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...