Welcome home! Please contact lincoln@icrontic.com if you have any difficulty logging in or using the site. New registrations must be manually approved which may take several days. Can't log in? Try clearing your browser's cookies.
FoibleFull Veteran
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.
About
- Username
- FoibleFull
- Location
- Canada
- Joined
- Visits
- 312
- Last Active
- Roles
- Member
- Points
- 1,125
- Location
- Canada
- Affiliation
- Gelug / Tibetan
Reactions
-
Re: I am related to the Buddha?
"Buddha" is a state of being. We are ALL "Buddhas", according to the monks. We just don't know it. THE Buddha was just one enlightened being ... Siddhartha. (View Post)
1 -
Re: Mental illness and rebirth
I don't think you need to worry about it. My sister's teacher (a Buddhist monk) told her that addictions do not pass on, although the tendency to overdo something can pass on. The addiction itself is… (View Post)
5 -
Re: Confusion on how to meditate
If you have a qualified teacher in your city, in any of the 3 traditions (Zen, Theravadan, Vajrayana), take lessons from them and meditate as they instruct you. If you do not have access to a teacher… (View Post)
2 -
Re: What do you practice?
I practice what my teacher teaches us. He is a Tibetan Buddhist monk, born in Tibet, educate at Namgyal in Dharamshala and earned his Geshe degree. So I practice Vajrayana. Does it fit? Not exactly. … (View Post)
4 -
Re: The desire for power
The urge to have power is a natural response to the fact that life is unpredictable and uncertain. It is not an urge that can eliminate this fear about uncertainty, but just as alcoholics try to self… (View Post)4