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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: Supporting Sports Teams
In Buddhism we do take the Five Precepts vows .. we try to give up lying, stealing, harming others, getting intoxicated .. and we use the discomfort of avoiding these actions as a way to become more … (View Post)
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Re: The happiness of a non-toothache
(Quote) Childbirth is moderated with mindfulness. The greatest threat to most normal labors is our fear and resistance to the process. Fear and resistance always increases the pain and our perception… (View Post)1 -
Re: Different kinds of mindfulness practice
Actually, mindfulness is not a cognitive process. Cognitive processes occur in the left hemisphere of our brain. Mindfulness occurs in the right hemisphere of our brain, and is beyond the scope of co… (View Post)1 -
Re: Bare attention vs Self
Turn your attention to ALL ,,, not just to what is going on inside of you, but to external things as well. How other beings see to be feeling, the quality of light coming in through your window, etc.… (View Post)1 -
Re: Different kinds of mindfulness practice
I think the first (being aware without judgement) is mindfulness. And I think that the other two ways are not mndfulness but are instead the imposition of cognitive processes and thinking substitutin… (View Post)
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