by Chade-Meng Tan | Jan 5, 2014
I love going on cruises. You visit exotic places, you get to eat like a pig, and occasionally, you run into one of your heroes. I was on a holiday cruise in December 2013. On day 10 of the 15 days cruise, I saw Stan Lee in the dining room just a few feet away from...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Dec 15, 2013
Last year (2012), Search Inside Yourself was named by San Francisco Magazine as one of the Best Bay Area Books of 2012 (link). This year (2013), Search Inside Yourself was named by Bloomberg as one of the Best Books of 2013 (link). I don’t really know what to...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Oct 31, 2013
I have just been informed that the Traditional Chinese edition of Search Inside Yourself was the #1 bestseller in Taiwan! (It was #1 back in August, but I just found out today.) I am really grateful to my Taiwanese editor Juliette Ting (丁慧瑋). I know she worked...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Oct 27, 2013
Having spent 3 days with the great Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh (known affectionately as “Thay”) this week, I realized there is a big blind spot in my practice: I haven’t really learned to suffer. My spiritual practice over the past 22 years has been the practice of...
by Chade-Meng Tan | Oct 8, 2013
A 2-page spread on NTU’s HEY! Magazine. A web-readable version here: http://www.hey.ntu.edu.sg/12_features_meng.html
by Chade-Meng Tan | Oct 1, 2013
Dear Readers, Back in April, I told you that the release date of the paperback edition of my book has been postponed to 5 November 2013 (see post). Well, my editor Gideon has just informed me that information has now become a lie: the release date has now been moved...