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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: Did the Buddha teach how one can fully know that he or she has a clear understanding of the 4nt?
Understanding the 4 nt's with our mind is only intellectual understanding. In Buddhim, true understanding far exceeds that of intellectual understanding. In psychology, they say that learning means a… (View Post)
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Re: A sick society
Society is and always has been "sick". But "sick" is not the proper Buddhist term ... "unenlightened" is the proper term. A traditional teaching method is this: We are a… (View Post)1 -
Re: How to expalin Dharma to a humanist friend of mine.
Demystify Buddhism for him. I adore this quote: The Buddhist “learns to watch changes occurring in all physical experiences, in feelings and in perceptions. He learns to study his own mental activiti… (View Post)
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Re: Celibacy
I do find that being married is a drain on my practice. Less time to meditate, less flexibility for things like diet, more drama and sensual desire, leading to hindrances in meditation... Your daily … (View Post)
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Re: Celibacy
You are asking for ways to try to repress that which IS. This is not a constructive way to deal with it. The whole drive of Buddhism is to ALLOW ourselves to feel our cravings, even those that remain… (View Post)1