by Chade-Meng Tan | Jun 30, 2024 | Buddhism for All
Sumi Loundon We usually close each topic with an Abbot’s Commentary, but this time, we have a special treat for you. We invited the Abbot’s first meditation teacher, Sumi Loundon, to share her commentary on the different schools that she and Soryu learned...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Jun 27, 2024 | Buddhism for All
It has been said that there exists in the world at least 31 flavors of ice-cream (I aspire to someday verify that claim empirically myself)[1]. The many schools of Buddhism are like all those different flavors of ice-cream: they all taste different, but they are...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Jun 25, 2024 | Buddhism for All
Soryu often points out one type of debate that modern Buddhists tend to get into, a new type of argument: disagreements about whether certain Buddhist texts are historical. Modern people often think that if something is not historical, it cannot be true...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Jun 23, 2024 | Buddhism for All
“Look Master, I’m focusing on the core!” With all that diversity within Buddhism, and all that potential for nasty conflicts, how is it that we are so frequently able to treat each other like we are from the same family? There are at least two...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Jun 20, 2024 | Buddhism for All
“Say samadhi!” (Context: The history of sectarian Buddhism.) My own experience as a Buddhist was cross-sectarian. I consider my “home base” to be Zen. Zen was my first real encounter with Buddhism as a teenager, and even though I did not...
