by Chade-Meng Tan | Apr 14, 2024 | Buddhism for All
(Useful reference: A hero’s story.) To break through to the Dharma means to arrive at stream-entry. The most important question is: how do we, normal people in the modern world, arrive at stream-entry? The standard answer, which is also the correct...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Apr 11, 2024 | Buddhism for All
Helena was the most talented warrior of her generation. She made a solemn vow to retrieve a mythical stone of immense power called the Storm Maker from a faraway island. The Storm Maker is said to endow its owner with the power to make rain, and that would...
by Soryu Forall | Apr 9, 2024 | Buddhism for All
To see the Dharma is enlightenment.Enlightenment is seeing through self.Seeing through self ends suffering.The Dharma is that which ends suffering. Have you seen the Dharma? Activities Reflect on this post with Angela: Questions arising as I reflect deeply on your...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Apr 7, 2024 | Buddhism for All
Here is a short story that illustrates the sheer power of the realization of non-selfness. Non-selfness is so powerful it can result even in full enlightenment. This famously happened to a man called Bāhiya, who was not even a disciple of the Buddha at the...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Apr 4, 2024 | Buddhism for All
(Context: Stream-Entry is Breaking Three Fetters.) The total abandonment of the first three fetters is only one definition of a stream-enterer. There is a complementary definition, perhaps a more important one: a stream-enterer is one who has clearly seen...
