by Soryu Forall | Apr 25, 2024 | Buddhism for All
Never give up!
by Chade-Meng Tan | Apr 23, 2024 | Buddhism for All
(Context: Susan’s excellent adventure, Part I, Part II, and Part III.) Steps 6 through 8 might jump out at you. Those steps best illustrate why it is important to work with a qualified teacher. This is a challenging path, and like all challenging...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Apr 21, 2024 | Buddhism for All
(Continued from Part II.) Step 7: Wrestling with profound resistance. Like Helena finding that her most powerful enemy was an even mightier duplicate of herself, and that her only solution was to charge at it without any hesitation, Susan would soon find no way...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Apr 18, 2024 | Buddhism for All
(Continued from Part I.) Step 4: Assembling a meditative toolset to enable eventual mastery. Susan’s practice had changed her life. And then, quite unexpectedly, her practice faced its first real test that almost totally derailed it. It came from a...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Apr 16, 2024 | Buddhism for All
(Context: A journey to nirvana.) Susan was a resident trainee, living and training with others full time, receiving teachings of the Dharma, living in a strict monastic routine, and meditating 5 to 15 hours per day depending on the schedule. Susan’s journey...
