by Chade-Meng Tan | Mar 7, 2012
My long-term philanthropic priorities have always been to promote peace, liberty and enlightenment worldwide. That hasn’t changed. Recently, however, I have clarified for myself my 3 shorter-term actionable priorities. They are: 1. Create the conditions for...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Nov 29, 2011
Not too long ago, I met with a bunch of nice people from Merrill Lynch. They said if I hired them as financial advisors, I’d get preferred treatment if I ever needed a loan. So I asked for a loan of $62 billion to buy Disney. They didn’t even bother to...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Nov 20, 2011
The Buddha said to Anathapindika: “In the past, householder, there was a brahmin named Velama. He gave such a great alms offering as this: eighty-four thousand bowls of gold filled with silver; eighty-four thousand bowls of silver filled with gold; eighty-four...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Nov 4, 2011
I remember going to a ridiculously expensive Japanese restaurant in Las Vegas. Usually, I only want to eat sushi at Japanese restaurants but we ended up also ordering noodles because the sushi was insanely expensive while the noodles dishes were merely ridiculously...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Oct 24, 2011
A couple of days ago, while I was drinking a glass of water in my kitchen, a powerful thought suddenly arose in my mind and refused to go away. That thought was: “At this moment, right here, right now, I am not suffering.” The thought that immediately...
