by Chade-Meng Tan | Jul 5, 2009
Mingyur Rinpoche’s honorific is the Very Venerable Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche. When I first heard of it, I thought to myself, “I wonder how it must be like to be the guy who is Only Slightly Venerable”. And then I realized, that guy is me. I got to...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Jun 22, 2009
One of the things I’m known for is my celebrity wall (“Meng’s Wall”) at the Googleplex. When people tell me I’ve got a great wall, I would joke (with an almost made-up Chinese accent), “I Chinese, I build great wall”. When I...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Jun 15, 2009
I figured out how to reach the moon. 1. Give fiddle to cat. 2. Ride on cow, get cow to jump, but a little lower than usual.
by Chade-Meng Tan | Jun 10, 2009
I should really be a vegetarian, for the good karma. But I enjoy the taste of meat too much, especially sashimi. What to do? I figured out a solution: Karma offsets. All I have to do is to pay a meat-eater to become a vegetarian, in order to offset my own bad...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Jun 6, 2009
One of the biggest surprises in the development of samadhi (concentration) is the insight that samadhi arises from letting go. Letting go gives rise to relaxation. Relaxation gives rise to calmness (of mind). Calmness gives rise to (mental) stability. And...
