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The only Buddhist chaplains I have ever heard of was a Tibetan monk who first got his 20-year Geshe degree from the Dalai Lama and were assigned to act as chaplain to a Tibetan regiment in the Indian army. The only comment the made was that the tent he lived in was very very hot.
In the Buddhist tradition, it takes years of learning how to do the practicings, mastering our mind, under the guidance of a teacher. And it is considered wrong to teach until our teacher has assessed us as being ready TO teach. Teaching before we have developes some firm ego-mastery only increases our ego and we create negative karma for ourselves. And it is considered negative karma to teach before we have the inner wisdom TO teach. Buddhism is learning from doing the practices, and this takes decades ... no book or spoken words will teach us Buddhism, because is about inner insight and experience, and words are merely intellectual concepts that cannot convey experience adequately.
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Re: A life of worthwhile pursuit?
Enlightenment is only a personal ambition if you are not making the Boddhisattva Vow (which is found in both Zen and Vajrayana Buddhism). Time in THIS lifetime is limited, but according to Buddhism y… (View Post)
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Re: our anger is really wisdom?
Mr. McLeod starts out his article, first sentence, with "If you know how to use it". That is a pretty big "if" and it would apply to someone who is total in mastery over their emo… (View Post)
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Re: Moving from acknowledgment of impermanence to acceptance of it
This is a deep question that you ask, and I do not know if I can answer in any helpful way. I can only answer in terms of how I try to work with it. Impermanence ... last night I was in the bathroom … (View Post)
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Re: Literal or figurative?
One way we seek security is to label things, and this includes our beliefs. The path of Buddhism is supposed to take us away from seeking security .. instead into being fully IN the moment and relaxi… (View Post)
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Re: The use of rituals
(Quote) The rituals are taught by teachers, not in the books. And my teacher is a Tibetan Lama, so that tradition is FULL of rituals. OMG, too many. But that is the only kind of Buddhist teacher in m… (View Post)
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