{"id":6817,"date":"2016-02-22T11:54:13","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T03:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dharmafarer.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=6817"},"modified":"2016-02-22T12:35:41","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T04:35:41","slug":"interview-with-piya","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.themindingcentre.org\/dharmafarer\/piyatan\/dharma-talks-youtubemp3\/interview-with-piya","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Piya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Interview with Piya Tan by\u00a0Jan-Christoph Daniel<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/105212665\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Interview with Piya Tan, Singapore from Jan-Christoph Daniel on Vimeo.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Piya TAN<\/strong> is a well-known Buddhist scholar, Dharma teacher and meditation instructor to various executives and individuals at The Minding Centre (TMC) in Singapore. He is also a writer and translator of early Indian texts on meditation and psychology.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Questions asked by Jan to Piya:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Q1.<\/strong> Buddhism is said to be non-judgemental. What does that mean? (00:15)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2.<\/strong> Does Buddhism have a conception of good and evil? (01:34)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3.<\/strong> Is there an objective truth according to Buddhist thought? (05:31)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q4.<\/strong> Can you share the story of your near-death experience at Gunung Ledang in Malaysia? (08:36)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q5.<\/strong> Is this your earliest memory of a spiritual experience? (11:44)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q6.<\/strong> You have lived as a monk in Thailand for 20 years. What was it like? (12:54)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q7.<\/strong> Why is it important to have a monastic name? (18:22)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q8.<\/strong> What is Theravada Buddhism? (20:53)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q9.<\/strong> Theravada Buddhism gains popularity in the West (eg Germany) in recent years. What might be the reasons for this? (25:16)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q10.<\/strong> In which way is studying the early Buddhist texts helpful for meditation practice? (30:58)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q11.<\/strong>\u00a0 How can meditation lead to a happier, more wholesome life? (33:01)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q12.<\/strong>\u00a0You have learned forest meditation from Ajahn Brahm. Is insight meditation a logical progression of the forest tradition? (34:08)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q13.<\/strong> As you look back on your life, which events stand out? (38:12)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q14.<\/strong>\u00a0 Buddhism asks the fundamental question: What is life and what is the point of \u00a0existence? What are the answers you have found so far? (42:55)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q15.<\/strong> What does it mean to be a Buddhist? (46:16)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interview with Piya Tan by\u00a0Jan-Christoph Daniel &nbsp; Interview with Piya Tan, Singapore from Jan-Christoph Daniel on Vimeo. Piya TAN is a well-known Buddhist scholar, Dharma teacher and meditation instructor to various executives and individuals at The Minding Centre (TMC) in Singapore. He is also a writer and translator of early Indian texts on meditation and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2917,"featured_media":0,"parent":2567,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6817","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themindingcentre.org\/dharmafarer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themindingcentre.org\/dharmafarer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themindingcentre.org\/dharmafarer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themindingcentre.org\/dharmafarer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2917"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themindingcentre.org\/dharmafarer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6817"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.themindingcentre.org\/dharmafarer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6841,"href":"https:\/\/www.themindingcentre.org\/dharmafarer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6817\/revisions\/6841"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themindingcentre.org\/dharmafarer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themindingcentre.org\/dharmafarer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}