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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: Meditation on the body’s decay
I am familiar with the body's decay. I am 69 and see it coming on within myself. As for lust, ah well, that is like any attachment. Just as with the Five Precepts, we practice mindfulness and relax i… (View Post)
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Re: Buddhist modernism on wikipedia
Buddhism has a history of shaping it to the culture it moves into, yet without losing its essence or effectiveness. (View Post)
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Re: Bare attention vs Self
Buddhism is not about "becoming". Buddhism is about "being". And yes, most of the time we are NOT "being" .. we are running here and there distracted by thoughts, emotio… (View Post)
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Re: Attachment and moving house
I always found it exciting, and for most of my youth and my adult life there was much travel and relocating. Wherever we are, our true home is inside us, and new experiences bring out freshness in ou… (View Post)
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Re: How do you like to meditate? Why? Any advice for a newb?
A live local qualified teacher (in ANY tradtion) is always the best. But not always available. Lacking a teacher, the BEST source I have found is a book: "Mindfulness in Plain English" by B… (View Post)2